SKU: PR.110406720
UPC: 680160001316.
I have always been fond of writing works for specific people or organizations. It has been my good fortune during most of my creative career to be asked to compose for many extraordinary performers. The Sonata for Harpsichord Solo is such a case in point: it was written in 1982 for Barbara Harbach, a superb performer, close friend, and collaborator on many musical projects. The Sonata was premiered on March 2, 1984, in a recital given by Dr. Harbach at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. During my formative years as a composer, one seldom heard of the harpsichord as a modern instrument, though while I attended undergraduate school at Boston University, some of us banded together to construct a small harpsichord from one of the first do-it-yourself kits which began to appear in the late '40s. It was also during this time that I heard the Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord by my teacher Walter Piston and consequently specified that the accompanying instrument for my second violin sonata could either be a piano or a harpsichord. It was not until recently, however, that my interest in the harpsichord as a solo instrument for new music was aroused. This was because of the emergence of so many young virtuosi, such as Barbara Harbach, who are interested in the performance of new music besides the great harpsichord music of the Classical, Baroque, and pre-Baroque eras. The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti has always intrigued and fascinated me. The brevity, excitement, and clarity of this sparkling music is charming as well as exhilarating. It is this type of Baroque sonata that inspired the conception and form of my harpsichord sonata. The entire work is loosely based on the musical translation of Barabara Harbach's name, especially the conflict of the B (B-flat) and H (B-natural in German notation). This secondo rub or dissonance especially pervades the first movement, which is in a modified sonata form, pitting jagged and tense melodic elements against most lyrical and smooth lines. This second movement is a song-like melody accompanied by rolled chords which may be played on the lute stop of the instrument if this sonata is performed on a two-manual harpsichord. The final movement is an ever-driving joyous toccata which brings the work to an exciting close with a coda made up of accelerating repeated chords. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: HL.50484136
ISBN 9780634035074. UPC: 073999841367. 8.25x11.75x0.045 inches.
Contents: Oriental Dance * Toccata.
SKU: HL.48182091
Jacques Charpentier: Toccata (Piano solo).
SKU: HL.48182372
UPC: 888680839345. 10.5x13.5x0.06 inches.
For harpsichord or piano.
SKU: SU.27040390
Composed during the summer of 2019, the Toccata for Solo Piano was influenced to some extent by the seven early Bach pieces known under the collective title Toccaten. It consists of several contrasting sections juxtaposing running rhapsodic material with recitative and fugal sections. There are two distinct themes that abound throughout: a seven-note aeolian-mode tune that is juxtaposed with a more chromatic one. The latter serves as a countersubject for the former in the Ricercare section before morphing into a double fugue, employing each as a subject, more or less equally. The two aforementioned themes are introduced individually in the opening section of the work.Piano Duration: 18' Composed: 2019 Published by: Hutter Music.
SKU: HL.48188862
UPC: 888680872847. 9.0x12.0x0.251 inches.
Alessandro Pietro Gaspare Scarlatti: 9 Toccatas (LP72) (Harpsichord solo).
SKU: HL.48182261
UPC: 888680836627. 10.5x13.5x0.071 inches.
For piano or harpsichord.
SKU: PR.110418350
ISBN 9781491134597. UPC: 680160685141.
Altho ugh TOCCATA was originally conceived for harpsichord, the 6½-minute showpiece is notably pianistic. It is full of pedaling, surging and swelling hairpin dynamics, and dramatic effects in the extreme registers. As with baroque toccatas, Ewazen’s main theme is an energetic perpetual motion with repeated and stable “anchoring” notes. However the overall work is a dramatic argument between that central theme and opposing harmonic styles, long notes interrupting the rapid fire, and a tug-of-war between triplets and sixteenths.
SKU: FJ.JS2001
UPC: 241444394724. English.
In the opening section Presto sostenuto, the toccata utilizes a sharp and piercing harmonic vocabulary. The middle Larghetto section is a moment of reflection. The final Risoluto section provides a closing to the toccata using the same dissonant devices found earlier in the work. The entire piece lasts about 4 minutes.
SKU: HL.49015213
ISBN 9790230100014. 8.25x11.75x0.11 inches.
SKU: SU.12800018
BachScholar Edition Vol. 18 – Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 (10 pages) presents Bach’s famous organ work in a highly idiomatic piano transcription. More of a literal transcription than an arrangement, this version remains true to Bach’s original organ score, which makes it accessible to the average pianist. (In contrast, the Busoni and Tausig arrangements are too difficult for most pianists.) Ideal for pianists from the late-intermediate levels and higher as well as concert artists and teachers who seek an exciting and authentic transcription of Bach for the concert hall or teaching studio. Includes tempo indications and fingering. Published by: BachScholar Publishing, LLC.
