
Toccata Classics claims this to be the first recording devoted to piano music by the Czech-born Viennese composer Egon Kornauth (1891-1959). Judging from most of
This disc represents the start of a new cycle of orchestral music by Russian composer and Shostakovich contemporary Vissarion Shebalin. There hasn’t been much attention
The second volume in pianist Stephen Gutman’s three-disc survey of Rameau’s complete keyboard music begins with the composer’s harpsichord transcriptions of the ballet music from
Martinu’s pre-Paris output remains virtually unknown, unpublished, and unperformed. There
Toccata Classics is an enterprising label whose willingness to take risks can only be applauded, and anyone familiar with contemporary music knows how exciting and
The choral music of Estonian composer Veljo Tormis has been very well treated on disc. Several of those efforts have been reviewed at Classicstoday.com, including
Vytautas Bacevicius (1905-70) spent the latter part of his career in the U.S., where his music was almost completely ignored. In the Poème, the Piano
Donald Francis Tovey’s only symphony was written in the first decades of the last century, roughly contemporaneously with Elgar’s Second. It is, as you might