Word: toccatas
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Gyorgy Sandor should be first rate as he conquers Beethoven (Hammerklavier), Bartok (Bundles of international dances from all sorts of risque places), and Bach (Toccata and Fugue in D minor). Sunday at 3:00, in Sanders...
...Chavez: Toccata for Percussion (M-G-M). A startlingly faithful recording...
Folia: Harpsichord Concerto (Sylvia Marlowe; Concert Arts Players; Capitol). An uncompromising concert work (1926) by the composer of the ballet Three-Cornered Hat. The style varies between a toccata motion of unceasing activity, and arpeggios opposed by ponderous chords. The small orchestra sounds smooth through the sometimes ripping dissonances; the harpsichord sounds like somebody jumping on the bedsprings...
...Bach: Toccata in D Minor (E. Power Biggs; Columbia). An organ tour of Europe in which- Organist Biggs plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...
...Toccata for Percussion (conducted by Izler Solomon; M-G-M). Probably the most recent (1953) of its genre, this is a taut and restrained composition for six players and 18 instruments. Partly because of a recording job of rare fidelity and superior performance, partly because it is a master-crafted composition, this is a stunning record...