Toccata Year-End Sales Titles

  • Mozart By Arrangement, Vol. 2 / Herscovitch, Shovk
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    Mozart By Arrangement, Vol. 2 / Herscovitch, Shovk

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    Mozart wrote only one actual sonata for two pianos. Mozart By Arrangement is the first instalment of six sparkling new Mozart two-piano sonatas. Violinist and conductor Andrew Manze once observed that the frequent concerto-like writing...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 27, 2014

  • Lopes-Graça: Complete Music For String Quartet & Piano, Vol. 2
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    Lopes-Graça: Complete Music For String Quartet & Piano, Vol. 2

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    The composer Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906–94) was something of a Portuguese Shostakovich: as a committed socialist, he faced repression from Portugal’s rightist military dictatorship; his works were banned and he was stripped of his official positions....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2015

  • Fauré: Songs For Bass Voice & Piano / Schwartz, Howat
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    Fauré: Songs For Bass Voice & Piano / Schwartz, Howat

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    This collection of Gabriel Fauré’s mélodies is the first recording to be conceived for a bass voice. It juxtaposes some of the composer’s best-loved songs with some of his lesser-known works. This recital program draws...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2015

  • Cikker: Piano Music
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    Cikker: Piano Music

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    Ján Cikker (1911–89) was one of the leading 20th c. Slovak composers, credited with no fewer than nine operas. This disc features several first recordings of his piano music, of which little is known even...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2014

  • Rose: Danse Macabre / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
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    Rose: Danse Macabre / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble

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    The Danse macabre – the idea that Death comes for everyone regardless of status or importance – has fascinated musicians for centuries. In 2011, inspired by a vast 16th c. painting by Bernt Notke in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2015

  • Tobias: Complete Organ Works / Teemets, Maidre
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    Tobias: Complete Organ Works / Teemets, Maidre

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    Rudolf Tobias (1873–1918) founded the classical-music tradition in Estonia almost single-handedly, writing the first Estonian orchestral piece, the first Estonian string quartet, first Estonian piano concerto and the first Estonian oratorio, the monumental Des Jona...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 14, 2015

  • Zeitlin: Yiddish Songs, Chamber Music & Declamations
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    Zeitlin: Yiddish Songs, Chamber Music & Declamations

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    A member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St Petersburg, Russia, Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930) was known almost exclusively for Eli Zion, a classic of Jewish art-music. Zeitlin died only seven years after emigrating...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 14, 2015

  • Farkas: Choral Music
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    Farkas: Choral Music

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    Toccata Classics continues its exploration of the music of Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) with this selection from his huge choral music output. It ranges in mood from the folk-like simplicity of the Missa Secunda...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2015

  • Harrison: Solos & Duos For Strings & Piano
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    Harrison: Solos & Duos For Strings & Piano

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    The Australian-British Sadie Harrison is no ordinary composer: she is also an archaeologist and a professional gardener. So it is hardly surprising that a fascination with historical artifacts and biological processes filters into her music....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 10, 2015

  • Flégier: Mélodies For Bass Voice & Piano
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    Flégier: Mélodies For Bass Voice & Piano

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    The French composer Ange Flégier (1846-1927) enjoyed considerable frame in his own time but has now been completely lost from view. The extraordinary reception of his song Le Cor points to the predominant place held...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2016

  • Milan Dvorák: Complete Jazz Piano Etudes
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    Milan Dvorák: Complete Jazz Piano Etudes

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    Born in 1934, the Czech jazz composer Milan Dvořák, no relation to his better-known classical composer namesake, has been active since the 1960s leading big bands and swing ensembles and remains active today. This is...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2015

  • Fumagalli: Piano Music, Vol. 1
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    Fumagalli: Piano Music, Vol. 1

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    Adolfo Fumagalli (1828–56), one of four musician brothers from Inzago, near Milan, made a name for himself across Europe as ‘the Paganini of the piano’, astonishing audiences with dazzling technique and acquiring a reputation for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 14, 2015

  • Clarke: Music For 13 Solo Strings / Sheppard Skærved, Longbow
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    Clarke: Music For 13 Solo Strings / Sheppard Skærved, Longbow

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    For three decades the English composer Nigel Clarke (b. 1960) has worked in close collaboration with the violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and Longbow, Sheppard Skærved’s virtuoso thirteen-member string ensemble. Clarke’s engaging and energetic music often...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Csányi-Wills: Songs With Orchestra
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    Csányi-Wills: Songs With Orchestra

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    These orchestral songs by the English composer Michael Csanyi-Wills - best known for his film music - all deal with the subject of loss. In Three Sogns: Budapest, 1944 Csanyi-Wills uses documentation from his own...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2016

  • Bartók By Arrangement: Music For Viola / Nagy, Divertimento Budapest
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    Bartók By Arrangement: Music For Viola / Nagy, Divertimento Budapest

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    Bela Bartok, while most widely known for his orchestral works, was also an established composer of chamber music. His music for violin has become some of the most important in the instrument’s repertoire. The three...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 08, 2016