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…
Is there really music after midnight? At Classical:NEXT in Rotterdam at the end of May I attended a panel discussion entitled βMusic after Midnightβ. I…
One of my favorite things to do is go into libraries, find my way to the orchestral scores and lose myself in there for untold…
Women Composers Bundle Time for a little controversy on this blog β but thatβs not my aim, which is to try to understand why, when…
Iβm just back from a thrilling two days in Liverpool conducting the first-ever recording of the music of David Hackbridge Johnson. Indeed, these were not…
Order Now Andrew McGregor and Kirsten Gibson talking on Record Review, BBC Radio 3, broadcast Saturday 18 March 2017: Kirsten Gibson reviews a collection of…
My contact with Philipp Scharwenkaβs music came from my in-depth study of the great Portuguese pianist JosΓ© Vianna da Motta (1868β1948), who, at the age…
It has given me so much pleasure to read the wonderful reviews of the Rosner Requiem recording, where discerning critics have enthusiastically endorsed the great…
I started making up melodies, harmonies, rhythms and colours on the piano before I could read and write. But my real love affair with the…
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…
Today (well, I guess it depends on when you read this) β 8 January 2016 β marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the…
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As the Bulgarian-born Viktor Valkov picks up the baton of Leo Ornsteinβs piano music from Arsentiy Kharitonov with a third volume from Toccata Classics, the…
After I posted a recipe on one of the social networks, two composer friends suggested, jokingly, that I should come up with a recipe for…
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…
There are now five volumes of the music of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (1945β2013) on Toccata Classics: three of orchestral music, one of chamber…
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