Organ Toccatas

"Toccata" translated from Latin means "touch". Each touch of the organist to the keys gives birth to music, capable of deeply affecting human souls. Lightness, speed, improvisation, fatigue, alternation of melodies in the left and right hands, like the echoes of birds are characteristic features of this genre. During the baroque period, the shifts become longer and more virtuous, reaching the heights of extravagance and attention to detail. The top of it is Johann Sebastian Bach, and his Toccata and Fugue d-moll are still the most popular piece for the organ.

We invite you to hear toccatas from different times and countries in the concert of Olena Matselyukh!

Olena Matselyukh - organ

C. Pardini - "Amazing Grace"

J. Podbielsky - Toccata Preambulum

W. Byrd - Toссata "Bells"

A. Guilmant - Toccata from Sonata No. 1

B. Kotyuk - "Blessed"

A. Mai - Toccata "Christmas Bells"

P. Mans - "Song of the Night"

L. Boellmann - Toccata from "Gothic Suite"

P. Eben - "Moto ostinato"

J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue d-moll