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HomeExaminationsLearning Khachaturian’s Toccata

Learning Khachaturian’s Toccata

By Graham Fitch, 2021-01-21 Posted in: Examinations, Learning Pieces

Aram Khachaturian’s Toccata is one of the most effective showpieces for the advancing pianist. Although it looks and sounds very difficult, it is actually much more approachable than you might think, with patterns that are always highly pianistic and often surprisingly simple to memorise. There is plenty of scope for narrative and imagery in this piece, the pedal bringing textures together to create a soundscape that is at times savage and barbaric, then scintillating and brooding.

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Aram Khachaturian, 1971

In this excerpt from my video walk-throughs for the piece, I demonstrate an approach to learning bar 74 which looks daunting due to numerous accidentals:

The full video walk-through of Khachaturian’s Toccata featuring over an hour of detailed information on learning, memorising and performing it is available on the Online Academy here.

Other walk-throughs of pieces from the 2021 – 2022 ABRSM Piano Examination Syllabus are available here.

Guide to the ABRSM 2021 & 2022 Piano Examination Syllabus

We have published a comprehensive collection of resources for the 2021 & 2022 syllabus. The full set of over seventy video walk-throughs is included with a subscription to the Online academy. Please click here to subscribe or click here to find out more about the Online Academy.

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