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…
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…
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…
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…
You may be thinking, βOh not another piano recordingβ! But I believe that all piano albums are different. I have been writing music for over…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Help to make the first recording of Steve Elcock’s Orchestral Music a public release by funding the IndieGoGo campaign: After writing music for over 25…
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…
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…
This morning news came through of the death, yesterday evening, 31 January, of Alexander Ivashkin, scholar, academic, conductor and, above all, wonderful cellist. Word got…
The death of Per NΓΈrgΓ₯rd on 28 May 2025, at a grand old 92, sent me to my βarticle bankβ, to look over my writings…
Tully Potter is not only the author of the massive Toccata Press biography of Adolf Busch (currently out of print but undergoing preparation for a…
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