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Biljana wrote:Here is Berkovich Toccata ,
enjoy
Biljana

Dear Biljana,

thank you very much for this Berkovich toccata !!
I didn't know this piece exists. It is great !!

Dear Biljana,

thank you, thank you very much!!!

Ferruccio wrote:

Biljana wrote:Here is Berkovich Toccata ,
enjoy
Biljana

Dear Biljana,

thank you very much for this Berkovich toccata !!
I didn't know this piece exists. It is great !!

JovanDi wrote:Dear Biljana,

thank you, thank you very much!!!

Hello friends,
you are welcome, I am glad I could contribute with this Toccata.
Regards to you all

Biljana

Igor Shamo Toccata

I just noticed that no-one's mentioned the wonderful Toccata (op 6) by Casella, which has more than a few passing and surely coincidental harmonic resemblances to the equally wonderful one by Moeran, already posted. The music is on ISMLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Casella,_Alfredo ) and there's a free recording of the whole piece available to listen to on the wonderful Classical.com website (http://www.classical.com/album/CD+DCA+1023) along with a recording of the Casella piece I most want to get the music for: A Notte Alta. I know it's been asked for before. If no-one has an electronic copy, I'll do the right thing and order a copy, as I think it's still available from Ricordi.
Back on the subject of Toccatas, the very fine Toccata from Pour le Piano by Debussy (probably one of Debussy's most technically exacting pieces) seems to have fallen through the net so far; it's freely available on the Net and in hard copy from zillions of sources, of course....

Dimitri Kabalevsky: "Toccatina" a colorful and extraordinary exercise, it is more a pleasant study (nms).

Richard0428 wrote:I just noticed that no-one's mentioned the wonderful Toccata (op 6) by Casella, which has more than a few passing and surely coincidental harmonic resemblances to the equally wonderful one by Moeran, already posted. The music is on ISMLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Casella,_Alfredo ) and there's a free recording of the whole piece available to listen to on the wonderful Classical.com website (http://www.classical.com/album/CD+DCA+1023) along with a recording of the Casella piece I most want to get the music for: A Notte Alta. I know it's been asked for before. If no-one has an electronic copy, I'll do the right thing and order a copy, as I think it's still available from Ricordi.
Back on the subject of Toccatas, the very fine Toccata from Pour le Piano by Debussy (probably one of Debussy's most technically exacting pieces) seems to have fallen through the net so far; it's freely available on the Net and in hard copy from zillions of sources, of course....

Hello Richard,
I have a hard copy of the Casella A Notte Alta which is on my pile to scan soon, so unless someone has it already done I will do it shortly. It is too large for my scanner so first I have to reduce the size a bit, so bear with me.
regards
Brian

Admin Note
See The Music of Italy thread for the Casella continuation

Marvellous, Brian, thank you so much! Looking forward to trying it out!

Bush Geoffrey-Toccata
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Geoffrey Bush

Born: 1920 Died: 1998

Born in 1920, Geoffrey Bush was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, and later educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford. He jointed the staff of the Extra-mural Department of Oxford University in 1947, moving to London University in 1952. Elected Chairman for the year of the Composers Guild of Great Britain, in 1964 Geoffrey Bush visited the USSR as delegate of the Guild. From 1952-1987 Geoffrey Bush was the Staff Tutor in Music at the Extra-Mural Department of London University. An ardent champion of English music, he wrote widely on the subject, also contributing regularly to BBC Radio 3 programmes, including Music Magazine and Music Weekly.

Geoffrey Bush's catalogue of works is far-ranging in scope and content, including 2 symphonies, many smaller scale orchestral pieces, and music for chamber ensemble. Bush's music is as varied as his tastes and interests. His Symphony 1 (1954) was first performed at the Cheltenham Festival in July 1954 by the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Schwarz. This symphony, as with the structures used in much of his work, has its roots in neo-classicism. It was performed at the Proms in 1958 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Miles. Symphony 2 ("The Guildford") was commissioned for the 700th anniversary of the City of Guildford in 1957. Among the most popular titles from Geoffrey Bush's catalogue are the Concerto for Light Orchestra (1958), and his two choral works A Christmas Cantata (1947), and In Praise of Mary (1955). His music for theatre is often witty, as shown in the scintillating one-act opera Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1972).

Perhaps Geoffrey Bush's most characteristic music is for voices: stage-works, choral pieces and solo songs. With a natural affinity for a wide range of texts (from Chaucer to Stevie Smith via Jonson, Wilde and Virginia Woolf) - his music always serves to embellish and illuminate the given word.

Here's John Vallier's Toccatina, which Marc-Andre Hamelin included (at hummingbird wing speed) on his Kaleidoscope CD. It was posted a while back on the old PP, but I don't think thelink is active anymore. It sounds like a soundtrack to a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

By the way, does anyone know of anything else that Vallier wrote? This is all I could ever find of his music.