Toccata septima oder sibendtes musicalisches Blumen-Feld

The seventh installment of this little series, in D major, is presented here. This time I felt like the person walking through the field of flowers was on a journey and saw several different things.

For the introduction, I used only flutes and an articulated approach. The walker is at the edge of the meadows and there are only a few flowers at the moment, all very spaced from each other.

The contrapuntal section, really the only fully realized section of this toccata, is in three voices, and it consists of repeated notes and scalar runs. Here, the flowers are many, and the visitor is frolicking through them. I used a small principal chorus on the great.

For the adagio close, I beefed up the prior chorus with the principals from the positive and added the aliquots. I also provided some gravitas with 16' in the pedal. Here, I picture the person happily exhausted after the prior frolic, laying down, awash in the smells, colors, and textures of the flowers--a true feast for the senses.

Technical items:

This piece sounded great in the organ's native church when playing and practicing through my speakers at home. But when I went to record it over headphones, it was incredibly dry and direct. I didn't like it.
So I reloaded the entire organ as a semi-dry sample and placed in church no. 8 of Hauptwerk VIII. It has less than a 3 second reverb time and is very clear. Over the headphones, now, it sounds much closer to what I was hearing over my speakers before. This is what I present to you here.