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…
Clare Hammond introduces her album of Robert Saxton’s piano music, in preparation for release in March 2018 In August I travelled to SJE Arts in…
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…
I’m 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…
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…
English composer Steve Elcock describes his emergence from total obscurity At the age of seventeen, I sat the entrance examination to go to Oxford to…
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…
See the full article in the July/August 2023 (46:6) Issue of Fanfare or online for subscribers at fanfarearchive.com All photos by Xiao Wei
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…
It may come as a surprise to many that Mischa Spoliansky, the composer of the sly and witty cabaret songs that helped to launch the…
Sometime in the 1950s, when John Barbirolli famously said ‘there are too many symphonies this year, or any year’, he might have been weary after…
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…
For better or worse, I have always been highly (some would say provocatively) inquisitive, and not always content to accept, without question, received narratives of…
‘Long Memories’ – the original idea for a book of interviews with senior composers came as the result of meeting and working with two very…
Well, I’ve reached the end of the first week of my sponsored slim – my attempt to turn my capacious belly into music. That was…
On Monday, 4 August, one hundred years to the day after the start of the first World War, I found myself flying via Frankfurt on…
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