Toccata Classics
Robin Stevens: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (Toccata Classics)
A beautifully presented selection of diverting works [PRJ]
Ingegneri: Vol 5, Motets for the Liturgical Year (Toccata Classics)
This disc is a perfect way to get to know Ingegneri [JV]
Stöhr: Orchestral Music Vol. 4 (Toccata Classics)
A wonderful blend of flowing melody and an early 20th-century harmonic tinge [EJW]
Stöhr: Orchestral Music Vol 1 (Toccata Classics)
An interesting collection of concertante and string works by an unjustly neglected composer [EJW]
Thieriot: Chamber Music Volume 4 (Toccata Classics)
Pleasant Brahms-influenced works, lacking much spark [DJB]
Simpson: Chamber Music Vol. 1 (Toccata Classics)
Much more than just an appendix to the Hyperion series of Simpson’s music [DMD]
Lost American Violin Sonatas (Toccata Next)
A trio of premiere recordings by German-trained Americans [JW]
Pitfield: Orchestral Music (Toccata Classics)
More evidence of the continuing rehabilitation of this ‘Modest Man of Music’, an imaginative and skilful composer [GH]
CH Lloyd: Chamber Music for Clarinet (Toccata Classics)
Overlooked choral and organ composer is heard in chamber works with clarinet [JW]
Cooke: Complete String Quartets, Vol 2 (Toccata Classics)
Arnold Cooke’s string quartets realised by the Bridge Quartet in some style [JW]
Gardner: Complete Organ Music Vol. 2 (Toccata Classics)
A splendid addition to Winpenny’s and Gardner’s discographies [WK]
Viana: Piano Music (Toccata Classics)
An always interesting and well-played selection of Viana’s piano music, all first recordings [DHa]
Farkas: Orchestral Music Vol. 6 (Toccata Classics)
A happy addition to Toccata Classics’ enterprising Farkas cycle [PRJ]
Bacevičius: Orchestral works (Toccata Classics)
(Déjà Review) Anyone remotely interested in 20th century Eastern European Music will make a wonderful discovery [DWa]
Concertos from the Caucasus Vol. 1 (Toccata Classics)
An infusion of folklore enlivens three mid-century violin concertos [JW]
Pitfield: Orchestral Music (Toccata Classics)
A magnificent new release of unjustly neglected British music [DJ]
Brian: Complete Choral Songs Vol. 1 (Toccata Classics)
A lovingly presented collection – the unknown or underappreciated aspects of Havergal Brian’s work [NB]
Postcards from Ukraine Vol 1 – Violin Miniatures (Toccata Classics)
Folklore predominates in a zesty Ukrainian selection, most sensitively performed [JW]
Lemba: Chamber Music Vol 1
The first Estonian symphonist’s charming but rather bloodless violin works [JW]
Pitfield: Orchestral Music (Toccata Classics)
A valuable exploration of Pitfield’s eminently approachable orchestral music [JF]
Flury: Orchestral Music Vol. 4 (Toccata Classics)
Flury’s mature orchestral works, well performed, recorded and documented [EJW]
Pitfield: Orchestral Music (Toccata Classics)
British Pastoralism from 1946 to 1988 – lyricism and (largely) unclouded sunshine [JW]
Niemann: Piano Music Vol. 2 (Toccata Classics)
Inventive and evocative late Romantic piano music rescued from an obscurity that belies its one-time fame [RCh]










































