Had the inclusion of the D major Toccata allowed sufficient room in my Dip' programme for other things, I would have chosen to study it, in preference to the other toccata on the list, in e minor. As it is, I've gone for the P&F in D instead.

I've tackled several of the toccatas in the past, my favourite being the one in c minor. That in d minor seems to vie with the one in G major for the easiest of the set.

The trouble is, I'm now returning to them having had piano lessons for a year and a half and I notice how poor my renditions used to be. I didn't observe fingering, articulation, you name it, in fact I think the notes were the only thing I might have got right! The downside of being so much more musically observant happens simultaneously to be the upside for future attempts.

Is my favourite harpsichord toccata in fact the most difficult of the set?

I would have thought the E Minor was the least demanding, certainly I have tried a few of them. I think there was a thread a couple of years ago on this very subject but Im only using my IPhone at the moment so it's a bit fiddley to do searches

I did a search after reading your reply but couldn't find anything but a cursary mention. In the meantime I looked at the scores again and now agree with you that the e minor toccata is the least demanding.

I was getting a little muddled up because when I was vacillating in my choice between two of them, I thought I'd have more trouble making something of the sectional treatment of one of the slow movements. Off the top of my head I thought it had been that of the e minor, hence my elevation of its degree of difficulty.

For what it is worth, No 6 (in E minor) features most often in recitals by well known international recitalists. Perhaps they also think it is the "easiest".

It is certainly the best-known, and obviously it is going to stay that way.

I have done the e minor one which is approachable it is listed on the also in the DipABRSM syllabus