toccata

"'While you sat and played toccatas stately, at the clavichord,"' Sophie hummed, and, head on one; side, nodded to where the perfect mirror should hang:

'Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha,' another special poem on music, is unparalleled for ingenuity of technical interpretation: 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' is as rare a rendering as can anywhere be found of the impressions and sensations caused by a musical piece; but 'Abt Vogler' is a very glimpse into the heaven where music is born."

8 and 9 (both toccatas), pose greater challenges; nothing short of recomposition could eliminate all the questions that they raise.

elegant bridges And bopped toccatas Where Coleman Hawkins And Charlie

Slonimsky and Mushel's colourful twentieth century toccatas (showy but fun) rounded off the concert nicely.

Yesterday, more than 100 extra seats had to be put out, delaying the start of an ultra-populist programme featuring some of the most famous toccatas (i.e.

The study centers on keyboard preludes and toccatas, their application of Kircher's and other theorist's definitions, and how their style changed from one century to the next; it analyzes the music of Italians Frescobaldi, Merulo, and Rossi, and Froberger, Buxtehude, and other German organists.

I prefer the old man doing the slower Bach items, Stokowski displaying a marvelous sensitivity and eloquence in the gentler music, although there is no denying that the big moments in the Toccatas come across with an excitement that is quite inspiring, too.

We begin with De Macque's Intrada d'organo, a piece which strongly prefigures Frescobaldi's organ toccatas, especially those from the second book `sopra i pedali, e senza', even in minute details of its melodic figuration.

In a generous recording of almost seventy-five minutes, we have fourteen canzons, four toccatas, two sonatas and one intonazione.