This one-of-kind volume of pieces includes advanced works for either left or right hand alone. Featured are a variety of fascinating pieces from short etudes by Hermann Berens to longer works such as Fantasy in Ab, Op. 76, No. 1 by Charles Valentin Alkan. The amusing and highly-informative preface by the editor, Raymond Lewenthal, offers short essays including a brief survey of one-hand repertoire; the education of the left hand; and practice and performance of one-hand pieces.
Four-Voiced Fugue (Kalkbrenner) Exercise in Arpeggio (Kohler) Melody from Weber's Freischutz (Kohler) Rhythmic Studies (Kohler) Three Folk Songs for the Left Hand (Kohler) Hungary's God (Liszt) La Ricordanza (Marzsen) Etude, Op. 92, No. 4 (Moskowski) Four Special Studies (Reger) Finale (from Sonata for the Left Hand, Op. 179) (Reinecke) Moto Perpetuo, Op. 135, No. 3 (Saint-Saens) Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 (Scriabin) Prelude, Op. 9, No. 1 (Scriabin) 2 Exercises (Nos. 22 & 45 from 48 Exercises for the Left Hand) (Tappert) Viennese Pranks (Zichy) Etude for Left Hand (from Etudes de Salon, Op. 19) (Greulich) Meditation (Godowsky) Elegy (Godowsky) Capriccio in E-Flat, Op. 26, No. 2 (Ganz) Etude for One Hand (Czerny) Etude in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10, No. 6 (Chopin) Etude No. 3, Op. 273 (Bonimici) Etude, Op. 36 (Blumenfeld) Etude for the Left Hand, Op. 12, No. 9 (Berger) 9 Etudes (from The Training of the Left Hand, Op. 89) (Berens) Etude for the Left Hand (Bartok) Gavotte in E (J.S. Bach) Klavierstuck Solfeggietto (C.P.E. Bach) Fantasy in A-Flat, Op. 76, No. 1 (Alkan)