Toccata

Between... 

The music of Douglas Gordon Weiland—born, like Elgar, in Worcestershire in 1954—is one of the better-kept secrets... 

In... 

The Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) is best remembered for a handful of virtuoso piano pieces, but... 

The... 

The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) completed the last of his five symphonies in 1956, when... 

The compositional career of Robin Stevens (1958–2026), Welsh-born... 

The guitar is traditionally the preserve of the Spanish. But Timothy Bowers, born near... 

In this sixth album, the... 

David Hackbridge Johnson, born near London in 1963, is an all-round... 

The reputation... 

The music of Artur Lemba has been strangely neglected, even in his native Estonia — although during his... 

Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) was perhaps the only virtuoso pianist-composer in the manner of Rachmaninov and Liszt to have... 

In 1938, the Moravian-born Hugo Kauder (1888–1972) became one of the many Jewish musicians forced... 

Baseball, Bach, a disused railway line, and the misuse of music in Iraqi prisons might be... 

Steve Elcock—UK-born (in 1957) but long since based in France—was recently... 

The Viennese-born Carl Czerny (1791–1857) is best remembered for his countless pedagogical studies, hundreds and... 

Myron Silberstein, Brooklyn-born (in 1974) and a long-term resident of Chicago, belongs to that centuries-old tradition of... 

The symphonies of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) explore the darker... 

The compositional career of Robin Stevens, Welsh-born (in 1958) and Manchester-based, is... 

The Estonian composer Mihkel Kerem – born in Tallinn in 1981 and Joint Assistant Leader... 

The Swedish composer Moses Pergament (1893–1977) – Finnish-born of Lithuanian-Jewish stock – chose... 

With this volume, Dobromir Tsenov completes his survey of the solo piano music of his compatriot Lubomir Pipkov (1904–74), one... 

The... 

The... 

This fifth volume of the orchestral works of the late-Romantic Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) brings... 

Spanish Renaissance polyphony has a reputation for florid, intricate contrapuntal textures and dark colours. Sebastián... 

The largest part of the output of the Hamburg-born composer and writer Walter Niemann (1876–1953), a student of both Humperdinck and... 

The Hamburg-born Ferdinand Thieriot (1838–1919) not only shared a teacher – Eduard Marxsen – with Brahms; both... 

Toivo Kuula (1883–1918) is one of the many composers who died at a tragically young age – 34 in... 

David Matthews and Peter Sheppard Skærved have been collaborating on a series of works for violin and... 

From the early days of the twentieth century until the Anschluss forced him into American exile, Richard Stöhr... 

The music of the Yorkshire-born Arnold Cooke (1906–2005) – inventively contrapuntal, lyrical and energetic in... 

Whether in his original home of Vienna, as a... 

Charles Harford Lloyd (1849–1919) – organist of Gloucester Cathedral and... 

Over the past century or so, composers have tended to see... 

Joly... 

When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920, took the path of many Viennese Jews... 

The Welshman John Thomas (1826–1913), harpist to Queen Victoria, wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both... 

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to... 

The Portuguese composer César Viana – born in England in 1963, and now resident in Spain – is an all-round musician: conductor, pianist, early-music... 

The Lithuanian pianist and composer Vytautas Bacevičius (1905–70) – exiled to the New World by the outbreak of the Second... 

Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) is often viewed as a gifted miniaturist, sifting through Baroque and... 

Although Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000) was born in Massachusetts and ended his days in Seattle, his music was... 

Thomas Pitfield (1903–99) was a polymath: artist, bookbinder, cabinetmaker, calligrapher, cartoonist, composer, designer, poet, printmaker, and... 

Hans Gál (1890–1987) wrote extensively for... 

The... 

The music of Artur Lemba has been strangely neglected, even in his native Estonia—although during... 

The Second Symphony of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) is deeply bound up with his personal... 

The music of the Romanian composer Anatol Vieru (1926–98) is an arresting fusion of classical procedures, avant-garde... 

As composer, pianist, and educationalist, the Prussian-born Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917) was one of the most highly respected musicians... 

The Choir of... 

Werner... 

Naresh Sohal, born in Punjab in 1939 but resident in the UK for most of his life, was the first person of Indian origin to make his... 

The English composer John Gardner (1917–2011) played the organ from an early age; his first work to be published was... 

In the 1930s, as Günter Raphael (1903–60) found doors closing in his native Germany—he was half-Jewish—he was accorded a... 

Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has a long history of engagement with the... 

Marcel Dupré (1886–1971) was the most prominent French organist of his generation, playing... 

The largest part of the output of the Hamburg-born composer and writer Walter Niemann (1876–1973), a student of... 

Two traditions coalesce in Casanova e l’Albertolli (1937), the third of the four operas by... 

Percy Grainger (1882–1961) and Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015), both... 

As with many other Australian... 

As pianist, conductor, and composer, Jean Louis Nicodé (1853–1919) was one of the most highly respected musicians... 

Most... 

The Welshman John Thomas (1826–1913), harpist to Queen Victoria, wrote prolifically for his own... 

Lubomir Pipkov (1904–74) was one of the leading members of the so-called ‘second generation’ of Bulgarian composers. In... 

Born in Maryland in 1954, John Stamp—universally known as 'Jack'—is a well-known figure, both... 

Like so many important Austrian musicians forced into American exile by the Nazis, Richard Stöhr... 

The Roman Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833) was... 

The neglect of Moses Pergament (1893–1977) can be ascribed in part to... 

The music and teaching of Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948) laid the foundations for a national school of composition in Lithuania... 

For the latter part of her long life, Ester Mägi (1922–2021) was known as ‘the First Lady of Estonian music’, her... 

The Hamburg-born Ferdinand Thieriot (1838-1919) not only shared a teacher - Eduard Marxsen - with... 

The exploration of the music of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) on Toccata Classics continues with... 

It may be a cliché to write of the clarity of Gallic writing for the flute – the kind... 

The German violinist, violist, and composer Friedrich Hermann (1828–1907) spent the six decades... 

The Latvian composer Janis Kepitis (1908–1989) has a fairly low profile even in his home... 

The Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941) – also a pianist, conductor, musicologist, and writer on...