Sorabji / Sanchez-Aguilera: Toccata Seconda Per Pianoforte
Sorabji / Sanchez-Aguilera: Toccata Seconda Per Pianoforte
Format: CD
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Artist: Sorabji / Sanchez-Aguilera
Label: Piano Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5029365102056
Genre: Classical Artists
The Toccata seconda for piano (1933-34) belongs to an extraordinarily fertile decade in Sorabji's creative life that saw the composition of a series of gigantic works, from Opus Clavicembalisticum to the Symphonic Variations and Tantrik Symphony for solo piano. At 'merely' two and half hours in duration, the Toccata is more modestly scaled than these works, but still a composition of ambitious scope, which has had to wait for a new generation of Sorabji performers - the Spanish Abel Sánchez-Aguilera foremost among them - to be introduced to audiences beyond the coterie of Sorabji devotees. Reflecting in both it's title and it's style the composer's enduring love of Bach, the Toccata seconda consists of nine movements taking inspiration from several Baroque genres: not only the toccata itself but also chorale prelude, passacaglia, fugue, free fantasies and fast sections in perpetual motion style, which are braided with Sorabji's idiosyncratic slow movements - in this case, a 'tropical' nocturne and polyphonic aria. In fact the Toccata is an admirable synthesis of Sorabji's style, distilled into a relatively compact format. The balanced alternation of contrasting movements of moderate length, the variety of mood and form, the emphasis on melody and lyricism, the transparent textures in spite of the great pianistic challenges, all make this work particularly approachable to the listener and an excellent introduction to Sorabji's large-scale works. A distinguished biochemist turned pianist, Abel Sánchez-Aguilera has given performances of Scriabin's complete sonatas, the Spanish première of Sorabji's Toccata seconda and the first performance of this work in the UK since it's prèmiere in 1936. This album joins Jonathan Powell's recent recording of the monumental Sequentia Cyclica (PCL10206) and Lukas Huisman in the Symphonic Nocturne (PCLD0119) as significant contributions to the Sorabji discography on Piano Classics.
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