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Sviatoslav Richter: The Pianist and the Person
In the autumn of 1959 I was beginning my final year at Oxford. A friend called David Tempest, like me a piano nut, asked me…
John Gardner, Symphonist
This interview was published in Fanfare, Vol. 24, No. 1 (September/October 2000) to mark the release of an ASV CD of John Gardner’s orchestral music.…
Concertos from the Caucasus: A Conversation about the Creation of the Recording
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…
David O’Brien — Dreams Come True: Recording my Grandfather’s Orchestral Music
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…
Vocal Works That Still Feel Excitingly New
The prolific compositional output of Elisabeth Lutyens includes 129 vocal pieces. The two pieces included on this album were written seventeen years apart: Nativity in…
Happy Collaborations — Samuel Adler: Music for Chamber Orchestra
Several years ago, through a mutual acquaintance, I met Dongmin Kim, the conductor of the New York Classical Players, and we immediately felt a kinship.…
Remembering Alice Herz-Sommer
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,…
Coming in from the Unknown
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…
Leif Solberg Dies at 101
The death of the Norwegian composer, organist and choirmaster Leif Solberg – in Lillehammer, during the evening of 25 January – has just been announced.…
Discovering Henry Cotter Nixon
Given my long involvement with The Havergal Brian Society – I was its Secretary and Newsletter editor from 1976 to 1992 and Chairman from 1994…
Gary Brain Remembered
It has not been a good week. On Friday Yodit, my beloved fiancée, partner of the past seven years and mother of our five-year-old Alex,…
A Conversation with Per Nørgård
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…
My Grandfather Pál Hermann: A Journey of Personal and Musical Discovery
In the film project ‘VISUALS’ Paul van Gastel, grandson of the Hungarian cellist and composer Pál Hermann, charts his personal journey of discovery of his…
First Posting to the Toccata Blog: Opening-up Classical Music
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…
Tully Potter on the Tully Potter Collection
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…
Freda Swain: A Composer Unboxed
The composer David Hackbridge Johnson reacts with surprise to the piano music of the unknown Freda Swain (1902–85) – whose music, after her death, spent…