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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…
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…
Gramophone Features Toccata Classics in September 2015 Issue!
Gramophone Magazine highlights a handful of recent Toccata Classics releases in the Gramophone Collector feature: William Hurlstone: Complete Piano Music “…while I usually run a…
John McCabe in his Own Words
John’s death on 13 February was not unexpected – indeed, he had given his brain tumour a good fight and long outlived his doctors’ prognoses.…
Launching the Pergament Permanent
I remember my first encounter with the music of Moses Pergament distinctly. In my youth I was a frequent visitor to the City Library in…
Talking About Bruno Schulz With Marius Kociejowski
Bruno Schulz was a Polish-Jewish writer and artist who lived most of his life in Drohobych – then in Austrian Galicia, now in Ukraine. He…
Aulis Sallinen Becomes a Patron of Toccata Classics
I am delighted to announce that Aulis Sallinen has agreed to become a Patron of Toccata Classics, joining Vladimir Ashkenazy, John Mauceri, Osmo Vänskä and…
Arranging Wagner and the Ensuing Obsession
The release of Wagner by Arrangement, Volume Three (TOCC 0673), is the first part in a personal masterplan of Wagnerianism that has been going on for the…
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…
Songs of Loneliness
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…
“A Saami Requiem” in Rehearsal
Photographs by Claudius MayWoehl, Woehl-Orgel-Projekte A Saami Requiem A Saami Requiem is an extraordinary meeting-place of musical cultures – western classical, Sámi yoik, Nordic folk-dance, electric rock,…
Prokofiev’s Violin Partnerships
At the beginning of October Toccata Classics will release a new album, by the violinist Yuri Kalnits and pianist Yulia Chaplina, of music by Prokofiev…
Obit Nikolai Kapustin
The news of the death of Nikolai Kapustin – on 2 July 2020, at the age of 82 – has sent me scurrying to my…
Elcock: From One Fifth To Another
Steve Elcock has mastered the fast introduction. A device favoured by Berlioz gets a new lease of life: both Elcock’s Third (2005–10) and this new…
Some Thoughts on My First Volume of Philipp Scharwenka’s Piano Music
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…
Rediscovering George Antheil — Not Such a ‘Bad Boy’ After All
When Martin Anderson of Toccata Classics first suggested a project of music by the American composer George Antheil, I immediately thought of the typically avant-garde…