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…
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 March 2022 Toccata Classics released an album of music by Noah Max (b. 1998) – painter, poet and conductor as well as composer. Since…
If the name of the small town of Lillehammer in Norway rings any bells for you, it is probably as the site of the 1994…
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…
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…
Tucked away on the west coast of Latvia is the town of Liepāja, home to fewer than 100,000 people, but boasting an especially fine orchestra,…
One of the Toccata Classics releases later this summer will be a recording of a sequence of piano preludes commissioned from me in 2014 by…
Havergal BRIAN: Complete Choral Songs, Vol. 2 Joyful Company of SingersPeter Broadbent, director First Complete RecordingTOCC 0680 Moritz MOSZKOWSKI: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 Symphony in…
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