Toccata arrangement of the J.S. Bach Toccata, BWV 565, on their album Sky 2, featuring keyboardist Francis Monkman. Robert Browning used the motif or concept of a toccata by Baldassare Galuppi to evoke thoughts of human transience in his poem "A Toccata of Galuppi's" (although Galuppi did not actually write any piece with the name 'Toccata'). Toccata Toccata (from Italian "toccare", literally, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the
Toccata Classics Prior, Phillip Ramey, Günter Raphael, Igor Raykhelson, Reicha, Julius Röntgen, Shebalin, Percy Sherwood, Shostakovich, Leone Sinigaglia, John Stafford Smith, Arthur Somervell, Philip Spratley, Sir John Stainer, Peeter Süda, Marko Tajčević, Matthew Taylor, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Boris Tchaikovsky, Alexander Tcherepnin, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Telemann, Ferdinand Thieriot, Veljo Tormis, Sir Donald Francis Tovey, Sergei Vassilenko, Gareth Walters, Mieczysław Weinberg, Hans Winterberg, Charles Wood, Hugh Wood, Felix Woyrsch and others. Toccata Classics Toccata Classics is an independent British classic music label founded in 2005. The founder of Toccata Classics is Martin Anderson, a music journalist. The label was founded primarily to promote unrecorded works