Hi all,
I can't help but keep thinking that my left hand is considerably weaker than my RH, however instead of correcting it I seem to have avoided this problem the whole time by deliberately choosing repertoire with a less taxing LH compared to the RH.
I'm about to start learning the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Les Adieux, and that has a very tough left hand part from what I've seen from scores/synthesia/performances.
So I'm wondering if I should jump straight into the Les Adieux 3rd to deal with the LH problem, or should I build up a better foundation for my LH first? If so, what suggestions do you have, other than the Revolutionary Etude? I'm particularly interested in those with lots of scales, but preferable not Hanon/Czerny style pieces please.
My sig has most of the repertoire I've done but here's some of the recent works I've done. As you can probably tell, other than the Bach, these works take considerably more skill in the right hand compared to the left.
Bach prelude and fugue in C minor (not too bad of a LH, except for the presto section as all fingers were tested)
Pathetique 1st (a big endurance exercise, but otherwise the non octave tremolos sections were easy)
Moonlight 3rd (relatively easy LH in my opinion, only alberti bass, tremolos and repeated single notes)
Tempest sonata-Ironically the hardest LH part was in the 2nd movement, the 1st and 3rd movement LH parts were a joke.
Mozart K284 -this one tripped me up slightly. It's always a hit or miss at the section in the 1st movement where the hands do the turning scale in similar motion.
Mozart K331 (again more alberti bass and staccato parts, nothing undoable)