It is very exciting for me, as Stephen Dodgson’s widow, to report that Toccata Classics will be releasing a series of recordings of his chamber…
THE FINNISH COMPOSER TALKS TO MARTIN ANDERSON In the light of the death of the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, on 27 July 2016, in a…
Welcome to the first posting on my new blog. Quick introduction for those who don’t know me: I run the CD label Toccata Classics and…
Professional involvement in an activity has its dangers: you can become so pre-occupied with the detail of the building you’re examining that you fail to…
We are delighted to announce that Toccata Classics has a new patron, the distinguished American conductor John Mauceri. He joins a panel of esteemed names:…
News has come through of the death this morning, 23 February 2014, of Alice Herz-Sommer, at the age of 110. Alice had become an icon,…
Explore Toccata artist Robert Crowe has penned a guest-blog for the site, The Opera Stage. Read the excerpt below, and continue reading on TheOperaStage.com and…
In April 2013, Toccata Classics released a recording entitled Bohuslav Martinů – Early Orchestral Works, Volume 1, launching what is hoped will be a series…
Women Composers Bundle Time for a little controversy on this blog – but that’s not my aim, which is to try to understand why, when…
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 ‘Music after Midnight’. 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, ‘Oh not another piano recording’! 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…
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