Shipwreck approaching...
This is the first bar of the third line. The 'rock' is the fourth beat, where people with large hands merely stretch the interval of a ninth, from the A with the thumb to the B with the fifth finger.
If you peer closely at the music you will see that A marked with the letters l. h. and fingered 2. The cunning dodge is to take that note with a slick, well- practised move of the lh, abandoning the minim bass note. The lh then nips back to play the E octave at the beginning of the next bar. Try it out a few times until it is inserted into your memory and you ard watching your hand, not the music. Don't panic. Sloth speed.
Practice the rh notes following the fingerings and just leaving a gap where the lh is going to come and help out. Ideally you want to be able to play that without being fixated on the page.
Now gently, carefully, combine the two hands. When it is happening without panic or tears, go back to the beginning of the bar a few times, then a whole bar further back.
The pedal is your friend! It will hold the notes that you have to let go.
This type of rock appears a number of times. I mark them in my music, every single one. If it's the original copy I use pencil so I can erase it later. I like using a photocopy to learn from too, so I can go crazy with coloured pencils and highlighters.
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