The pianist Jean Dube provides a wide selection of Toccatas in his eponymous CD "Toccatas" and I really loved it.
I was wondering if you had one or more favourite Toccatas.
I'm currently working on Khachaturian's Toccata :
My favourites also include Schumann's, Massenet's and Ravel's.
The Bach toccatas, of course, are marvellous pieces of music.
I am also a great admirer of Ravel's (from Le tombeau), although I dislike the heavy attention it gets at the expense of all the other movements, which are equally excellent.
Prokofiev's is fantastic too, of course. I am not a great lover of those by Khachaturian, Schumann (as much as I adore Schuman, it sounds like an etude), or Poulenc.
I may be missing other famous ones but those are the ones that I can remember right now.
If we're talking about the perpetual mobile style of Toccata, I go with Schumann's. Still the hardest I've come across (I played both Prokofiev and Ravel's decently, but the Schumann is on another level).
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