List of works for piano left-hand and orchestra

This is a list of concertos and concertante works for piano left-hand and orchestra.

Paul Wittgenstein at the piano

The French composer-pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan composed the first original solo left-hand piece, Fantasie in A-Flat for the left hand, Op. 76 no. 1 (from Trois grandes études) in 1838.

The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann. More recently, Gary Graffman has commissioned a number of left-hand concertos.

List

ComposerWorkYear
Hans AbrahamsenLeft, alone2015
Mario AlfagüellFirst Concerto for piano left hand and small orchestra, Op. 1452003
Mario AlfagüellSecond Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra, Op. 1852007
Josef BartovskýPiano Concerto No. 2 for left hand (written for Hollmann)1952
Arnold BaxConcertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra1948
William BolcomGaea for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Graffman for him to play with Leon Fleisher)1996
Sergei BortkiewiczPiano Concerto No. 2 for the Left Hand, Op. 28 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1924
Johannes BrahmsBach-Brahms: Chaconne in D minor for the Left Hand BWV 10041878
Rudolf BraunPiano Concerto in A minor (written for Wittgenstein)1927
Benjamin BrittenDiversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1940
C. Curtis-SmithConcerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra (commissioned by Leon Fleisher)1991
Richard DanielpourPiano Concerto No. 3 Zodiac Variations2002
Norman DemuthPiano Concerto for the left hand (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1947
Norman DemuthLegend for piano left hand and orchestra (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1949
Lukas FossPiano Concerto for the Left Hand1993
Alberto GinasteraSecond movement of the Piano concerto no. 2 (Scherzo per la mano sinistra)1972
Daron HagenSeven Last Words: Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Graffman)2002
David HaynesConcerto No. 1 for Left Hand and orchestra1999
Paul HindemithKlaviermusik mit Orchester, Op. 29 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1923
Shin’ichirō IkebePiano Concerto No. 32013
Igor IvanekINRI, Concerto for piano left hand alone and orchestra[1]2006
Leoš JanáčekCapriccio for piano left hand and chamber ensemble (suggested by Otakar Hollmann but not written for him specifically)1926
Erich Wolfgang KorngoldPiano Concerto in C-sharp for the left hand, Op. 17 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1923
Josef LaborConcert piece in the form of variations for piano left-hand and orchestra (composed for Wittgenstein)[2]1916
Josef LaborConcert Piece in F minor (commissioned by Wittgenstein, who premiered it in 1936)[2]1917
Josef LaborConcert Piece in B-flat minor (E flat major?)[2]1923
Kurt LeimerPiano Concerto No. 2 (in one movement)[2]1944–48
Bohuslav MartinůConcertino (later renamed Divertimento) for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, H. 173 (commissioned by Hollmann)1926
Pehr Henrik NordgrenConcerto for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, Op. 1292004
Dieter NowkaPiano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op. 711971
Luis PradoPiano Concerto for the left hand (Concierto de piano para la mano izquierda, written for Gary Graffman, 2001 and premiered by him in 2002)2001
Sergei ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand, Op. 53 (commissioned by Wittgenstein but never played by him; premiered in 1956 by Siegfried Rapp)1931
Maurice RavelPiano Concerto for the Left Hand in D (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1929–30
Ned RoremPiano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand (commissioned by Gary Graffman)1993
Franz SchmidtConcertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1923
Franz SchmidtPiano Concerto No. 2, for the Left Hand (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1934
Gunther SchullerConcerto for 3 Hands (written for Lorin Hollander and Leon Fleisher)[2]1990
Eduard SchüttParaphrase for piano and orchestra (written for Wittgenstein)1929
Alexander ScriabinPrélude and Nocturne for the left hand, Op. 91894
Lucijan Marija ŠkerjancConcerto for piano left hand and orchestra1963
Stanisław SkrowaczewskiConcerto Niccolò for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra2003
Raoul SosaConcerto for piano left hand with string orchestra1989
Richard StraussParergon zur "Sinfonia Domestica" for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1927
Richard StraussPanathenäenzug: Sinfonische Etüden in Form einer Passacaglia for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 74 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1925
Alexandre TansmanConcert Piece for Piano and Orchestra1943
Johannes Paul ThilmanConcertino for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 651954
Karl WeiglConcerto for the left hand[2]1924
Takashi YoshimatsuConcerto for Piano Left Hand and Chamber Orchestra "Cepheus Note", Op. 1022007
Géza ZichyPiano Concerto in E-flat for the left hand (written for himself to play)1895
Ján ZimmerPiano Concerto No. 5 for the Left Hand, Op. 501961

Works for the right hand only

Works for piano right-hand only also exist, but there are far fewer of them than for left-hand only.

Concertante works involving piano right-hand include:

  • Henri Cliquet-Pleyel (1894–1963) – Concerto for Piano Right Hand and Orchestra[2]
  • Arthur Bliss – Concerto for Two Pianos (3 Hands) and Orchestra, Op. 17 (1968; originally for tenor, piano, strings and percussion; then arranged for 2 pianos and orchestra for Phyllis Sellick and Cyril Smith; then arranged by Bliss and Clifford Phillips for 2 pianos 3 hands and orchestra)[2]
  • Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Two Pianos Three Hands and Orchestra (also known as Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril), 1969. One pianist plays with both hands, the other with the right hand only.
  • Gordon Jacob – Concerto for Three Hands on One Piano, 1969 (written for Sellick and Smith).[2]

References

  1. Catalogue – Letter I, Hans Brofeldt, "Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone"
  2. One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand by Donald L. Patterson, Greenwood Publishing 1999 ISBN 9780313311796
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