I was much saddened to learn of the death, on 9 July 2023, of the pianist Margaret Singer. As recently as late October 2022 she…
It all began with Noel Malcolm’s book, George Enescu: His Life and Music, published by none other than Toccata Press in 1990, which had been…
Article in the University of Denver Magazine (magazine.du.edu)by Tamara Chapman, 31 January 2022; reproduced with permission Compared with its siblings in the violin family –…
Songs of Loneliness was recorded in the autumn of 2020; the oldest music on the disc dates back to 2016. Here is a selection of…
Greetings to fans of Toccata Classics. If you are reading this blog posting, hopefully you are either listening to my new recording of Richard Stöhr’s…
Tenor Norbert Meyn talks about his new Toccata Classics release, C.P.E. Bach: Spiritual Songs, in the latest Toccata Podcast. Listen here, or subscribe in iTunes.…
My contact with Philipp Scharwenka’s music came from my in-depth study of the great Portuguese pianist José Vianna da Motta (1868–1948), who, at the age…
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…
I approached Classical:NEXT 2015 – the trade fair for classical music – at De Doelen, Rotterdam, at the end of May, with an open mind…
Corrie Hermann offers some touching and affirmative thoughts as a postscript to the third and final recording of the complete surviving works of her father,…
The narrative seems to have all the ingredients of a tragic, if not epic, film. The young genius, his potential cruelly crushed by an evil…
There are always some coincidences when the significant events of history happen. Most people can probably remember the moment when they heard the news of…
It all began with a strange thought: what if a piece of music should suddenly forget all about itself, with only its name left behind…
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…
An inadvertent benefit of the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 was that I had time to do lots of recording. I was able to record…
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