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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…
The Re-Emergence of Leo Zeitlin
The story of Leo Zeitlin and his music’s re-emergence is so remarkable that it has already been duly reported in several online and printed articles.…
Tadeusz Majerski Remembered: An Interview With Andrzej Nikodemowicz
A December release from Toccata Classics (TOCC0344) presents the first-ever recording of works by the Polish composer Tadeusz Majerski (1888–1963), whose music incorporates elements of…
Exploring Stephen Dodgson’s Chamber Music
It is very exciting for me, as Stephen Dodgson’s widow, to report that Toccata Classics will be releasing a series of recordings of his chamber…
Hans Gál’s Chamber Music for Clarinet : A Joyful and Important Discovery
Read More For us in the Ensemble Burletta, a chamber-music group exploring chamber music for clarinet in various combinations, the music of Hans Gál is…
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…
Toccata e due CD: Rediscovering Early Martinů – Part III
Volume One of the Martinů Early Orchestral Works series brought much satisfaction to all involved. Martin Anderson was delighted by the quality of the new…
Toccata e due CD: Rediscovering Early Martinů – Part II
The publication of Martinů and the Symphony in 2010 brought a few unexpected opportunities my way. Even before the book appeared, I had taken part…
Toccata e due CD: Rediscovering Early Martinů – Part I
In April 2013, Toccata Classics released a recording entitled Bohuslav Martinů – Early Orchestral Works, Volume 1, launching what is hoped will be a series…
Svetik, My Hair and I
My contribution to Svetik – the opening section, ‘Three Sisters’ – deals with Sviatoslav Richter’s relationship to his mother and her sister (Dagmar von Reincke,…
Coming in from the Unknown
English composer Steve Elcock describes his emergence from total obscurity At the age of seventeen, I sat the entrance examination to go to Oxford to…
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.…