Author Archive for Martin Anderson – Page 2
Martin’s Sponsored Slim Progress Report: October 13, 2016
I’ve been meaning to report back on the progress of the Sponsored Slim for a couple of weeks but hadn’t managed to get near a…
Sponsored Slim Check-In: Week One
Well, I’ve reached the end of the first week of my sponsored slim – my attempt to turn my capacious belly into music. That was…
Support Martin’s Sponsored Slim
My mum has been nagging me for years about losing weight, and I promised my partner Yodit, just before she died last year, that I…
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Symphonist
THE FINNISH COMPOSER TALKS TO MARTIN ANDERSON In the light of the death of the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, on 27 July 2016, in a…
Where are the Women Composers?
Women Composers Bundle Time for a little controversy on this blog – but that’s not my aim, which is to try to understand why, when…
Leif Solberg Dies at 101
The death of the Norwegian composer, organist and choirmaster Leif Solberg – in Lillehammer, during the evening of 25 January – has just been announced.…
Podcast: Gabriel Fauré: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano
Martin Anderson, Mary Dibbern, Roy Howat and Jared Schwartz discuss new Toccata release Gabriel Fauré: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano: http://feed.toccataclassics.com/media/2015-08-27_fauresongsandvoicespodcast.mp3 Click to listen…
Einar Englund, Symphonist and Drinking Companion
Today, 17 June, would have been the 99th birthday of the Finnish composer, Einar Englund, who, with his second wife, Maynie, was a friend of…
Gary Brain Remembered
It has not been a good week. On Friday Yodit, my beloved fiancée, partner of the past seven years and mother of our five-year-old Alex,…
John McCabe in his Own Words
John’s death on 13 February was not unexpected – indeed, he had given his brain tumour a good fight and long outlived his doctors’ prognoses.…
Teenage Truths
Professional involvement in an activity has its dangers: you can become so pre-occupied with the detail of the building you’re examining that you fail to…
John Mauceri, New Patron of Toccata Classics
We are delighted to announce that Toccata Classics has a new patron, the distinguished American conductor John Mauceri. He joins a panel of esteemed names:…
Toccata Podcast: Norbert Meyn talks about C. P. E. Bach’s ‘Spiritual Songs’
Tenor Norbert Meyn talks about his new Toccata Classics release, C.P.E. Bach: Spiritual Songs, in the latest Toccata Podcast. Listen here, or subscribe in iTunes.…
A Visit to Elsa Respighi: Rome, May 1984
In May 1984 I was invited on holiday with some friends who had rented a villa in the hills outside Viareggio in Tuscany, were…
Remembering Alice Herz-Sommer
News has come through of the death this morning, 23 February 2014, of Alice Herz-Sommer, at the age of 110. Alice had become an icon,…
Steven Elcock, symphonist
UPDATE – STEVE ELCOCK: ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, VOLUME ONE IS OUT NOW! You can imagine that, running a recording label, I get approaches from all sorts…