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Toccata Classics

  • Pál Hermann Complete Surviving Music Vol. 2 ensures legacy

    Apr 27th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Pál Hermann, Toccata Classics

    Volume One in this series featured Pál Hermann’s orchestral works. This volume presents his surviving chamber and instrumental music. “Surviving” is the operative word in this series. Pál Hermann (1902-1944) was one of the foremost cellists of the 1930s. This Hungarian artist was also an innovative composer. He had studied with both  Béla Bartók and […]

  • Josef Schelb Orchestra Music Vol. 2 features concertos

    Jul 1st, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Josef Schelb, Jürgen Bruns, Kammersymphonie Berlin, Tatjana Blome, Toccata Classics

    German composer Josef Schelb lost most of his manuscripts in a Berlin air raid during World War II. He made up for those losses after the war, creating 150 new works between 1949 and his death in 1977. This album features three of his post-war concertos. The Kammersymphonie Berlin seems the ideal ensemble for this […]

  • Pál Hermann’s music revived, thanks to Toccata Classics

    Jun 10th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Clive Greensmith, contemporary classical music, Kateryna Poteriaieva, Lviv International Symphony Orchestra, Noteworthy Release, Pál Hermann, Sofia Soloviy, Theodore Kuchar, Toccata Classics

    When I saw the title for this release, I thought I might want to review it. When I read the subtitle, I knew I had to review it. I’d never heard of Pál Hermann, and I’m always looking for new composers to discover. But “Complete Surviving Music?” What did that mean? What did it survive? […]

  • Ian Hobson launches new Moritz Moszkowski series

    Jun 2nd, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Classical music, Classical piano, Ian Hobson, Moritz Moszkowski, Romantic period, Toccata Classics

    And so Toccata Classics launches yet another series I’ll be following closely. Moritz Moszkowski was a household name at the turn of the 20th Century. Both as a pianist and a composer of piano music he was in demand. By 1910, ill-health had ended his concert career and he — and his music — was […]

  • Julian Carrillo Orchestral Works show originality

    Apr 1st, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Coro y Orchestra Sinfonica de San Luis Potosi, Jose Miramontes Zapata, Julian Carrillo, Luis Guillermo Hernánandez Ávila, Orchestral music, Toccata Classics

    I sometimes wonder what would have happened had Harry Partch and Julian Carrillo had ever met. Both created their own musical languages — and instruments to play them. Both subdivided the octave into microtones, much smaller subdivisions than traditional sharps and flats. Would they have inspired each other? I like to think so. This release […]

  • Friedrich Gernsheim Piano Music Volume 2 delivers

    Feb 2nd, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Classical piano, Friedrich Gernsheim, Jens Barnieck, Romantic period, Toccata Classics

    Jens Barnieck continues his survey of Friedrich Gernsheim’s piano music. This volume includes Gernsheim’s first piano sonata and several smaller works — all receive their world recording premieres with this release. Barnieck’s performances are just as satisfying as they were with volume one of this series. Gernsheim began composing around the time of Mendelssohn and […]

  • Arnold Rosner Requiem — Timeless

    Jan 18th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Arnold Rosner, CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Feargal Mostyn-Williams, Gareth Brynmore John, Kelley Hollis, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Palmer, Toccata Classics

    Toccata Classics has done a real service to music with this recording. It’s one of Arnold Rosner’s most substantial works. And, unfortunately, one most likely to only be heard through recording rather than live performances. The Requiem is a massive work. It contemplates death through a variety of traditions: Zen Buddhism, the Jewish Kaddish, the […]

  • Robert Furstenthal Chamber Music Volume 3 maintains quality

    Dec 22nd, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Robert Fürstenthal, Rossetti Ensemble, Toccata Classics

    This latest installment of Furstenthal’s music features four instrumental sonatas and a string quartet. Like the preceding volumes, the music here is of very fine quality, and timeless. Furstenthal’s promising musical career was derailed when Austria was invaded in 1838. The young composer fled to the United States — and never wrote another note. Not […]

  • Moritz Moszkowski series continues with sweet orchestral suites

    Nov 10th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Ian Hobson, Mortiz Moszkowski, Noteworthy Release, Orchestral music, Romantic period, Sinfonia Varsovia, Toccata Classics

    This installment of Moritz Moszkowski orchestral music features two of his three orchestral suites. Ian Hobson and the Sinfonia Varsovia deliver sympathetic performances. The strings especially seem to exude the Romantic gooeyness of Moskowski’s style. The ensemble is well-recorded. The sound has a little bit of soft focus, but all the music details can be […]

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