Toccatas and Diverse Pieces for Organ

This volume includes nine pieces ranging in duration from 11/2 to 41/2 minutes and in difficulty from sight-readable to challenging.

Three Celebratory Toccatas, composed in the centuries-long tradition as playful and flamboyant demonstrations of performance agility, can serve variously as striking overture, bold interlude or exuberant recessional.

Presage and Anachronous Fugue are melodramatic impressions of texts from John Donne's Meditation XVII and Charles Baudelaire's Danse Macabre, respectively.

Four Friendly Pieces were compiled for four fellow organists, first performed in a 2007 recital by the composer.

All can be played with satisfying effect on a typical 2-manual church organ, but scale well to larger organs for enhanced drama and dynamism.