toccatas in English
Most people will agree that J S Bach composed the greatest keyboard toccatas precisely because he, more than any composer, was master of maximal emotional intensity, countered by acute intellectual lucidity.
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1. Crossley is as effective in the searching ruminations of the slow movements as in the steely toccatas.
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4. ‘D minor was traditionally regarded as a key both ‘obscure’ and a shade perilous, as was the Dorian mode it derived from; the piece falls, with the impetuosity of youth, into more Contrarious sections than does any of the later toccatas.’