Toccata Classics

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Toccata Classics (commonly used with the short form Toccata ) is a British music label that was founded in 2005.

history

It was founded by the music journalist Martin Anderson . It was especially intended to bring out the previously unrecorded works by lesser-known composers. The label was supported by Josef Suk , Vladimir Ashkenazy and Jon Lord .

Artist

The recordings include lesser-known works by Charles-Valentin Alkan , Eyvind Alnæs , Georg von Bertouch , Havergal Brian , Adolf Busch , Bellerofonte Castaldi , Tichon Chrennikow , Henry Walford Davies , Edisson Denissow , Jan Ladislav Dussek , Heino Eller , Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst , Ferenc Farkas , Arthur Farwell , Jean Françaix , Friedrich Gernsheim , Peggy Glanville-Hicks , Arthur Hartmann , Heinrich von Herzogenberg , Anselm Hüttenbrenner , Salomon Jadassohn , Vladas Jakubėnas , John Joubert , Nikolai Korndorf , Mario Lavista , Benjamin Lees , Anatoli Ljadow , Ester Mägi , Jānis Mediņš , Krzysztof Meyer , Robin Milford , Leo Ornstein , Walter Parratt , Günter Raphael , Julius Röntgen , Josef Schelb , Dmitri Shostakowitsch , John Stafford Smith , Arthur Somervell , Peeter Süda , Marko Tajčević , Georg Philipp Telemann , Ferdinand Thieriot , Veljo Tormis , Donald Francis Tovey , Boris Tschaikowski , Alexandr Tscherepnin , Nikolai Tscherepnin , Mieczysław Weinberg , Hans Winterberg , Charles Wood and Felix Woyrsch .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ British and international music yearbook Rhinegold Pub., 2006
  2. ^ Crisis Magazine , November 1, 2005: Music: Toccata Classics