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The brass music of Wilfred Heaton has always been forward looking, and it was not really until the 1970's that the band world was ready to accept his exciting and uncompromising language. His earlier pieces are now being re-discovered, and the true genius evaluated. Toccata was first conceived as a brass sextet in the 1940's and later adapted for full band. It is full of wit and humour of Rossini, and is really a showcase for brass - the absence of percussion being an express intention f the composer. The work is based on the Salvationist hymn " Oh the Blessed Lord" which is in turn adapted from J. Bland's "Oh dem Golden Slippers". duration 6.16
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