The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering, the much-anticipated companion to Joseph Banowetz's The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling,
provides practical fingering solutions for technical musical passages.
Banowetz contends that fingering choices require much thought and
consideration and that too often these choices are influenced by
historical traditions and ideas rather than by actual performance
conditions. By returning to the unedited original compositions, he
strives to help the advanced pianist think through the composer's
musical intent and the actual performance tempo and dynamics when
selecting the fingering. Banowetz also includes valuable contributions
by Philip Fowke, who examines redistributions by Benno Moiseiwitsch in
Rachmaninoff's compositions, and Nancy Lee Harper, who explores the
often very different approaches to fingering found in keyboard music of
the Baroque era.
The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering will be useful to the advanced pianist and to instructors looking to guide students in improving this important art.