Toccatas and Arias for Piano (Fine, Vivian)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	5 movements Toccata I (Allegro) Aria I (Passionato) Toccata II (Allegretto) Aria II (Andante) Toccata III (Presto leggiero)
Composition Year	1987
Genre Categories	Toccatas; Airs; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player

1 Performances
- 1.1 Recordings
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Scores
3 General Information
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- 4.1 Review

Performances

Recordings

1. Toccata I
*#173642 - 0.60MB - 1:18 - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 316×⇩ - MP3 - Peggy Karp

MP3 file (audio)
Peggy Karp (2013/6/5)

2. Aria I
*#283650 - 4.04MB - 2:12 - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 189×⇩ - MP3 - Peggy Karp

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Peggy Karp (2012/1/26)

5. Toccata III
*#283651 - 1.82MB - 1:00 - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 124×⇩ - MP3 - Peggy Karp

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Peggy Karp (2013/6/5)

Publisher Info.	Americans from Moscow Moscow: Melodiya CD - used with permission
Performers	Veda Zuponcic
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Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
*#173639 - 2.00MB, 15 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 755×⇩ - Peggy Karp

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Peggy Karp (2012/1/26)

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General Information

Work Title	Toccatas and Arias for Piano
Alternative. Title
Composer	Fine, Vivian
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IVF 75
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	5 movements Toccata I (Allegro) Aria I (Passionato) Toccata II (Allegretto) Aria II (Andante) Toccata III (Presto leggiero)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1987
First Performance.	1989 - January in New York. Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. Veda Zuponcic, pianist
Average DurationAvg. Duration	8 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Modern
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	piano
External Links	Vivian Fine website

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Commissioned by Veda Zuponcic

Toccatas and Arias is a culmination of the qualities of balance and symmetry in Fine’s writing—contrasting consonance and dissonance, contrapuntal techniques and homophony, unrelenting drive and lyrical beauty, forte and piano dynamics, and subject and retrograde—the ultimate creation of formal balance and symmetry. Fine achieved in Toccatas and Arias a composer’s ideal goal: to preserve one’s inherent compositional characteristics, to develop one’s style through study, experimentation, and craftsmanship, and to express one’s musical intentions.

—Leslie Jones, “The Solo Piano Music of Vivian Fine,” Doctor of musical arts thesis, University of Cincinnatti, 1994

The overall effect of Toccatas and Arias is alternating impressions of driving force and lyricism. There is skillful use of counterpoint and masterful control of the varying impacts of consonance and dissonance. It is a spectacular recreation of the Baroque toccata.

—liner notes, "Americans from Moscow" Melodiya CD

Review

The work required finger power and concentration. Miss Zuponcic sailed through its thunderous explorations of the keyboard’s full range with clarity and apparent ease.

—Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, February 1, 1989