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Duration: 7:30
Jory Vinkour, harpsichord
Commissioned by Philip M. Cucchiara for Jory Vinikour
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(program notes written in 2004)
The toccata is a short, but unrelenting, display of virtuosity. Deriving its inertia in part from juxtaposing thick, dissonant sonorities with bright, consonant harmonies, the toccata uses a distinctive, but accessible, harmonic language. Pulsating ostinati in the lowest register of the instrument further define the bold, driving character of the toccata.
The fugue departs from the dark and dissonant qualities of the toccata by adhering (more or less) to the traditional form and harmonic language of a tonal fugue. The bouncing quality of the subject recalls the energetic leaping of chords in the toccata. A highly chromatic development leads into a final stretto, which superimposes the same subject in three voices, played at three different speeds simultaneously.
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