"Toccata" (2010)
by Richard Cornell (USA)
Jessie Wenchieh Lo, piano
Performed live at Boston University's Tsai Performance Center
685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
on February 1, 2012
During the ALEA III concert:
"BU Composers Conduct their Own Works".
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This is a live archival recording.
Copyright ©: 2012 by ALEA III, Inc. and Richard Cornell
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"Toccata" was written as the compulsory piece for the Richmond Piano Competition. Such pieces face the problem of demonstrating various styles of playing, including advanced virtuosity, within a short form, and without losing coherence. Within an etude-like continuity in nearly constant rhythmic values, technique and register combine to affect radical changes in character.
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