Marc-André Hamelin's Toccata takes Texas

“It is pianist-friendly and audience-friendly,” Mari Kodama said not far from the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, where the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition concluded last week. “It is the perfect encore.”
Kodama was speaking not about an Impromptu by Schubert or a Prelude by Chopin but the Toccata on “L’homme armé” by her fellow juror Marc-André Hamelin, who supplied the commissioned work (“imposed piece”