Toccata/ Various - ToccataFor this first recording, Andrea Buccarella explores the history of the most emblematic form of Baroque music, from it's appearance in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century right up to it's apotheosis in Johann Sebastian Bach: the toccata. With it's inventiveness, it's formal freedom, it's contrasting effects of virtuosity and emotion, the Italian toccata whose name probably comes from the verb toccare (to touch play) opened the way for the stylus

With a booklet containing a detailed

Edna Alburquerque

This spectacular performance took place at the legendary Degollado Opera House

Jamaican dancehall and 8-bit techno

10 selected tracks form the well-chosen cross-section through all his creative phases

or total isolation

Billy Ward and His Dominoes

they are vital components in the construction as a whole

While Paul's lyricism was missed

a milkmaid's pail

the 'Killer'

the extraordinary never seems out of the ordinary