Algernon Ashton and Stephen Dodgson: A Brief Introduction to Two English Composers

I run the CD label Toccata Classics and publish books on classical music as Toccata Press; I also write a bit about music in various publications in Britain and abroad. My degree (from the University of St Andrews, in 1977 – I’m a Scot) was in mediaeval French and German, and thereafter I worked in economics for twenty years, in London and Paris; I’ve been back in London since 1997. The main thrust of the postings in this blog will be in classical music, but since I am a secular liberal and free-marketeer with a healthy contempt for politics (economics is the study of the creation of wealth, and politics is the process by which it is wastefully dispersed) and a guarded resentment of religion, please don’t be surprised if I occasionally thump the tub on issues other than forgotten composers and other aspects of the musical world.