Author Archive for Martin Anderson
Darren Craig, Colleague – And Friend
Almost every word you’ll have read on a Toccata Classics/Toccata Next release or in a Toccata Press book over the past decade or so was…
Raising Rosner’s Profile: More Music on the Way
There are now five volumes of the music of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (1945–2013) on Toccata Classics: three of orchestral music, one of chamber…
Noah Max in Conversation with Martin Anderson
In March 2022 Toccata Classics released an album of music by Noah Max (b. 1998) – painter, poet and conductor as well as composer. Since…
Obit Nikolai Kapustin
The news of the death of Nikolai Kapustin – on 2 July 2020, at the age of 82 – has sent me scurrying to my…
Hans Gál In Conversation
This conversation, first published in the Journal of the British Music Society (Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 33–44), was recorded at Dr Gál’s Edinburgh home in…
Some Modest Memories of André Previn
It seems that the entire musical world has some memory of the gentle, warm and kindly man – and fabulous musician – who was André…
Announcing Toccata Next
Toccata Classics was born out of a desire to present the music of unjustly neglected composers, and to give them a chance to present themselves…
Zuzana Růžičková, Doyenne of the Harpsichord – And Mrs Viktor Kalabis
The death of Zuzana Růžičková – peacefully, in her sleep, in the early afternoon on 27 September 2017 – brings to an end one of…
An Estonian Excursion for the Heino Eller Award
Toccata Classics has now released five albums of the piano music of the Estonian composer Heino Eller – enough for Toccata founder Martin Anderson to…
A Tribute To Pascal Bentoiu
This Friday, 7 April, the Romanian Cultural Institute in London plays host to the first of two events paying homage to Pascal Bentoiu, one of…
John Gardner, Symphonist
This interview was published in Fanfare, Vol. 24, No. 1 (September/October 2000) to mark the release of an ASV CD of John Gardner’s orchestral music.…
Algernon Ashton and Stephen Dodgson: A Brief Introduction to Two English Composers
A brief introduction to the music of Algernon Ashton and a discussion with Jane Clark Dodgson about her late husband, Stephen Dodgson, in St Margaret…
‘We Should Know Who We Are’: Veljo Tormis in Conversation
Learn More I am much saddened by the news of the death of Veljo Tormis on Saturday, 21 January. Tormis was as significant a figure…
Martin’s Final Sponsored Slim Check-In
Well, the end of the year also saw the end of my four-month sponsored slim, and I’m pleased to relate that when I got weighed…
December Sponsored Slim Update
Well, the end of November brought me three-quarters of the way through my sponsored slim and so I am pleased to report that when I…
Sponsored Slim Update
Two weeks ago brought the end of October and thus the mid-point of my sponsored slim. The good news for your wallets is that I…