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Offline mishamalchik

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Preferably between the 4-6 Henle range for a student to develop more command in the left hand.
   Could anyone suggest something in between the difficulty of Chopin's Prelude op 28 no 6 and Chopin's Etude op 25 no 7 ?

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Re: Suggestions for pieces with a predominant left hand part?
Reply #1 on: November 07, 2016, 05:07:05 PM
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Offline pianoville

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Re: Suggestions for pieces with a predominant left hand part?
Reply #2 on: November 07, 2016, 08:50:42 PM
Hmm, what about Liebestraum 3 by Liszt? A little cliché perhaps but it really helps!
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Re: Suggestions for pieces with a predominant left hand part?
Reply #3 on: November 07, 2016, 09:05:56 PM

No, not those overplayed Chopin exercises  :P

-Try Scriabin op 11 no 11  :D

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Re: Suggestions for pieces with a predominant left hand part?
Reply #4 on: November 08, 2016, 02:00:08 AM
Scriabin opus 11 no 11 is so beautiful!

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rh and lh play back and forth but lh really has the part that shines/gives this piece so much beauty.
Kenneth Leighton's 5 Studies, Op. 22, the 4th one, No. 4 is the one I'm talking about here (though the whole is awesome)
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Re: Suggestions for pieces with a predominant left hand part?
Reply #6 on: November 08, 2016, 04:05:49 PM
If you wish to do a Chopin etude, Op. 10/6 (E flat minor) is a great one and is very approachable, technically speaking.

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Re: Suggestions for pieces with a predominant left hand part?
Reply #7 on: November 15, 2016, 10:46:00 PM
Bach is surely a must: two-part and three-part inventions are equal for both hands and fit the level-4 bill.
A lot of baroque music can be useful: Telemann Fantasies feature agility passages for the LH (but never virtuoso textures) being cast very often in two-part texture. The first two are particularly apt:


Cramer Etudes are not easy but very short. In IMSLP you can find the Bulow compilation of 60 Etudes, a good deal of which feature material for the LH. And they are beautiful pieces
Currently on:
Bach - WTK Book 1 n. 5-6
Beethoven - Sonate Pathétique
Rachmaninov - Polichinelle op. 3
Studies from Clementi and Moscheles
Telemann - Fantasias 1-2 in D
Haydn - b minor Sonata
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