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At Toccata Classics we aim to bring you fresh classical music as it has never been heard before. We are dedicated to producing top-notch classical music -- ALL our albums bring you first recordings of music that you can’t find anywhere else. We now have nearly 500 albums in the Toccata Classics catalogue, with many more in the pipeline, releasing four new albums every month. Among the composers you'll find here are Alkan, Alnæs, Ashton, Busch, Cotter Nixon, Elcock, Eller, Ernst, Farkas, Farwell, Glanville-Hicks, Lyatoshynsky, David Matthews, Oppel, Ornstein, Peyko, Pickard, Rameau, Ramey, Reicha, Röntgen, Schelb, Sekles, Shebalin, Shostakovich, Süda, Tartini, Alexander and Nikolai Tcherepnin, Telemann, Weinberg and many more.
Our sister label Toccata Next continues along the path of exploration, but with more varied, often multi-composer programmes. Toccata Press is an independent publisher of books on music. Brian Newbould's examination of the Schubert symphonies, amazingly, was the first full-length analysis in any language. Harold Truscott's book on the orchestral music of Franz Schmidt was the first to be written in English on that composer, nor had anyone written a book on Enescu in English before Toccata Press brought out Noel Malcolm's pioneering study of this great musician. Owen Toller's monograph on Pfitzner's opera Palestrina was likewise the first full-scale examination in English of this neglected masterpiece. Vol. 1 of Andrew Ashbee's examination of the life and music of John Jenkins was not only the first book on Jenkins but also the first on the viol fantasy; Vol. 2 was recently published to complete the set. Another of our numerous titles on British music, Ronald Stevenson: The Man and his Music was probably the largest book on any living composer when it came out. And our efforts on behalf of Stevenson continued with Comrades in Art, featuring his correspondence with Percy Grainger and complete writings on Grainger and his music. Other titles include Tully Potter’s monumental biography of the violinist-composer Adolf Busch and Hans Keller’s collected writings on Stravinsky, coupled with Milein Cosman’s insightful drawings and prints of the composer, a life-and-works study of the major Norwegian composer Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, a study of Szymanowski's opera King Roger and a biography of the Swiss composer Richard Flury. David Cairns’ collected writings on Berlioz and William Melton’s life-and works of Humperdinck are among the most recent titles.
