Toccata Classics

More premiere recordings of Myaskovsky’s introspective songs [JW]

Emotionally charged and challenging music offers much food for thought [SG]

Three successful orchestrations, especially that of the Piano Quintet [SB]

Tuneful, melodious and well played; it certainly doesn’t deserve the neglect it has received [JWe]

This second volume of Myaskovsky’s complete vocal works is to be warmly welcomed [GT]

Another strong entrant in an excellent series of recordings from Toccata [MSt]

Another chance to discover fine sacred works by an underappreciated composer [GH]

Savage … touchingly melodic, melting and romantically inclined [RB]

Sumptuous Romantic melancholia from Mexico, best in small doses [NC]

A most interesting collection of choral songs by Hans Gál [JQ]

A little-known German composer who writes distinguished music for the organ with a wide variety of influences [MSt]

Committed and technically outstanding performances [JF]

A rewarding read [SG]

A well recorded, but still little-known composer – well worth investigating [GH]

Fine, often beautiful works in glorious choral singing [HC]

Volume 6 of a remarkable cycle [JF]

Does this dark but gripping music proud [DMD]

Complex, sometimes evanescent but sombre quartets from a Czech Jew [JW]

More rare Enescu on a rewarding disc [SB]

Fine performances of rare chamber music by an unfashionable composer whose music has much to communicate [GH]

Numerous premiere recordings in an Abram Chasins twofer [JW]

This deserves to enhance Teodorescu-Ciocănea’s reputation and bring it before a wider public [DMD]

First recordings of impressive song cycles, authoritatively performed [NB]

An absorbing cross-section of vocal works composed over a period of four decades [JF]