Toccata/ Various - Toccata Release:Toccata Ricercar THE OLD CORRAL

THE OLD CORRAL

Glinka/ Loguinova - Treasures for the Pianoforte

All the big names including Eli Tomac

Along Came Jones and Little Egypt

Toccata/ Various - Toccata Release:Toccata Ricercar THE OLD CORRALFor 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