Archive for Guest Editorial – Page 2
Remembering Taryn Fiebig
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…
All the Keys in Kent
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…
Discovering Robert Fürstenthal and his ‘Lost Lieder’
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…
The ‘Yodit’ Pieces Begin to Take on a Life of Their Own — A Report from Orlando Jacinto García
Orlando García is one of the composers who has contributed to Martin Anderson’s ‘Music For My Love’ project of pieces in memory of his partner.…
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.…
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…
A Birthday Present for Ronald Stevenson — by James Reid Baxter
This Friday, 6 March, Ronald Stevenson will celebrate his 87th birthday. In a different world, or even just a different country, one where human life…
Tim Collins Reporting from Lillehammer: Celebrating Leif Solberg’s 100th Birthday
If the name of the small town of Lillehammer in Norway rings any bells for you, it is probably as the site of the 1994…
John Kinsella: A Tale of Two Symphonies
My Symphonies Nos. 5 and 10 were premiered eighteen years and a millennium divide apart, in 1994 and 2012. They were also written in very…
Orlando Jacinto García — A Project Realized: Three Orchestral Works on Toccata Classics
My new Toccata Classics CD is a labor of love and, as with many such projects, came together through the support of a number of…
Stefan Koch: Why Richard Stöhr Has Nearly Taken Over My Musical Life
Greetings to fans of Toccata Classics. If you are reading this blog posting, hopefully you are either listening to my new recording of Richard Stöhr’s…