Toccata/ Various - Toccata Release:Toccata Ricercar alternating between icy high notes

alternating between icy high notes and lower

Along Came Jones and Little Egypt

but also made to make you smile

All the big names including Eli Tomac

Toccata/ Various - Toccata Release:Toccata Ricercar alternating between icy high notesFor this first recording, Andrea Buccarella explores the history of the most emblematic form of Baroque music, from it's appearance in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century right up to it's apotheosis in Johann Sebastian Bach: the toccata. With it's inventiveness, it's formal freedom, it's contrasting effects of virtuosity and emotion, the Italian toccata whose name probably comes from the verb toccare (to touch play) opened the way for the stylus