Credits:

Nishiyama Marie

Description:

In the seventeenth century the toccata was played at the beginning of Mass and other liturgical services, sometimes taking on the role of a fanfare. Marie Nishiyama commands not only keyboard instruments such as the organ and harpsichord but also plucked instruments such as the harp; she has a repertoire of medieval and Renaissance music from before Bach; and she has performed toccatas in practice, both improvised and within seventeenth-century sacred music. The perspective that only she could bring is one filled with living lines of sound and powerful resonance. Seven great toccatas in which the passion and ambition of the young Bach are impossible to miss.Internationally recognised as a rare musician equally at home on two historical instruments, the harpsichord and the historical harp, Nishiyama has taken part in countless concerts, festivals and recordings. She has performed with musicia