Sometimes one has the impression of having been forced by fate to write a book, to start a research, to accept a commission or venture…
There are always some coincidences when the significant events of history happen. Most people can probably remember the moment when they heard the news of…
It all began with a strange thought: what if a piece of music should suddenly forget all about itself, with only its name left behind…
It all began with Noel Malcolm’s book, George Enescu: His Life and Music, published by none other than Toccata Press in 1990, which had been…
The release of Wagner by Arrangement, Volume Three (TOCC 0673), is the first part in a personal masterplan of Wagnerianism that has been going on for the…
My concert and recording project, Cloches et Carillons, impressed on me how much basic acoustic characteristics have influenced my most recent artistic interests and inclinations.…
I am so happy to be able to participate in the Toccata blog and tell you a little about the two albums that have been…
Article in the University of Denver Magazine (magazine.du.edu)by Tamara Chapman, 31 January 2022; reproduced with permission Compared with its siblings in the violin family –…
The urge to compose music arose after I joined a rock group in my teenage years. Although I was later classically trained, I continued to…
One of the most rewarding aspects of my activities as a musicologist has been following the life and works of living composers – be they…
It may come as a surprise to many that Mischa Spoliansky, the composer of the sly and witty cabaret songs that helped to launch the…
It is something of a myth that composers tend to die after completing their ninth symphony, based on the relatively few that did so and…
Having traversed the symphonies of Robert Keeley in Part One of this brief survey (Too Many Symphonies – Part One – posted on 9 March…
It is with tremendous sadness that I write today about the passing of the Australian soprano, Taryn Fiebig, on 20 March 2021. Taryn was a…
One of the Toccata Classics releases later this summer will be a recording of a sequence of piano preludes commissioned from me in 2014 by…
It was while I was working as music curator at the Jewish Museum in Vienna that someone told me about Robert Fürstenthal. It must have…
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