Posted by Martin Anderson, Producer, Toccata Classics (MA), Karen Bentley Pollick, violinist (KBP), and John McLaughlin Williams, conductor (JMW): MA: Let me start with the…
The death of Per Nørgård on 28 May 2025, at a grand old 92, sent me to my ‘article bank’, to look over my writings…
In the film project ‘VISUALS’ Paul van Gastel, grandson of the Hungarian cellist and composer Pál Hermann, charts his personal journey of discovery of his…
Learn More I am much saddened by the news of the death of Veljo Tormis on Saturday, 21 January. Tormis was as significant a figure…
Virko Baley of Las Vegas NV is winner of the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, 2024, in the professional division, for “Music for Emily Dickinson“. Virko Baley was selected from applications…
There are now five volumes of the music of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (1945–2013) on Toccata Classics: three of orchestral music, one of chamber…
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…
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.…
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…
The death of Helmut Rilling, on 11 February 2026, reminded me that we had had a thoroughly enjoyable conversation 28 years earlier, as the basis…
As the Bulgarian-born Viktor Valkov picks up the baton of Leo Ornstein’s piano music from Arsentiy Kharitonov with a third volume from Toccata Classics, the…
I had long harboured the desire to present a radio programme. Years of growing up with radio in the 1950s had exposed me to mostly…
This conversation, first published in the Journal of the British Music Society (Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 33–44), was recorded at Dr Gál’s Edinburgh home in…
A new Toccata Classics release restores to circulation the music of a composer who was both a cutting-edge modernist and an enthusiast for Romantic figures…
I often play a kind of party game with friends: each participant will offer a recording of a piece of music by a less-well-known composer,…
The Waldegrave Ensemble established itself in 2009 as a flexible ensemble of wind, strings, piano, harp and brass, with a wind quintet at its core.…
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