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Toccata

Martyn Harry: Piano Works and Songs

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Details

Composer
Martyn Harry
Artist
Lore Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell, Anna Akhmatova
Format
CD
Label
Toccata
Released
May 15, 2026
Catalog #
TOCC0797
UPC
5060113447975

About

Baseball, Bach, a disused railway line and the misuse of music in Iraqi prisons might be unexpected inspirations behind the work of a composer who is an Oxford professor by day. But the piano music of Martyn Harry - born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1964 - proves to be a wild, kaleidoscopic mix of just such unlikely influences: Satie, Sorabji, American minimalism, Prokofiev, Silvestrov and more, all intended to exercise the technique of his good friend, the fireball pianist Jonathan Powell, whose early death in December 2025 shocked the musical world. There is a gleeful, almost manic quality to much of this music that found a counterpart in the unflagging energy of Powell's playing. A song-cycle setting six early Anna Akhmatova poems likewise taps into the tension she found in intimacy, releasing a surprising degree of passion.

Tracklist 39 tracks

  1. 1 I. Arpeggios - 01:45
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Arpeggios -
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  2. 2 II. Con fuoco - 01:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Con fuoco -
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  3. 3 III. Embedded Chorale - 01:31
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Embedded Chorale -
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  4. 4 IV. Chromatic - 01:42
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Chromatic -
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  5. 5 V. Toccata - 01:11
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Toccata -
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  6. 6 VI. Three-Part Invention - 02:10
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Three-Part Invention -
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  7. 7 VII. Giocoso (seventh inning stretch) 02:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Giocoso (seventh inning stretch)
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  8. 8 VIII. Textural Fugato 03:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Textural Fugato
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  9. 9 IX. Lament (empty ninth inning) 03:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    IX. Lament (empty ninth inning)
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  10. 10 No. 1. — 04:23
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. —
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell
  11. 11 No. 2. — 02:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. —
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell
  12. 12 No. 3. — 02:05
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. —
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell
  13. 13 No. 4. — 02:58
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. —
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell
  14. 14 No. 5. — 02:51
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 5. —
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell
  15. 15 No. 6. — 04:42
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 6. —
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell
  16. 16 No. 1. Station I - 01:43
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 1. Station I -
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  17. 17 No. 2. Station II - 01:02
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 2. Station II -
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  18. 18 No. 3. Toccata I - 00:38
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 3. Toccata I -
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  19. 19 No. 4. Station III - 01:08
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 4. Station III -
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  20. 20 No. 5. Toccata II - 00:29
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 5. Toccata II -
    Duration
    00:29
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  21. 21 No. 6. Station IV - 00:42
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 6. Station IV -
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  22. 22 No. 7. Psalm I - 01:13
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 7. Psalm I -
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  23. 23 No. 8. Station V - 01:04
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 8. Station V -
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  24. 24 No. 9. Toccata III - 00:33
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 9. Toccata III -
    Duration
    00:33
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  25. 25 No. 10. Hymn I - 00:37
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 10. Hymn I -
    Duration
    00:37
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  26. 26 No. 11. Toccata IV (Crib) - 00:55
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 11. Toccata IV (Crib) -
    Duration
    00:55
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  27. 27 No. 12. Hymn II - 00:21
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 12. Hymn II -
    Duration
    00:21
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  28. 28 No. 13. Memory Dump I - 01:34
    Track
    28
    Title
    No. 13. Memory Dump I -
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  29. 29 No. 14. Hymn III - 00:21
    Track
    29
    Title
    No. 14. Hymn III -
    Duration
    00:21
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  30. 30 No. 15. Psalm II - 00:30
    Track
    30
    Title
    No. 15. Psalm II -
    Duration
    00:30
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  31. 31 No. 16. Toccata V - 00:16
    Track
    31
    Title
    No. 16. Toccata V -
    Duration
    00:16
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  32. 32 No. 17. Hymn IV - 00:39
    Track
    32
    Title
    No. 17. Hymn IV -
    Duration
    00:39
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  33. 33 No. 18. Toccata VI (Crib) - 01:49
    Track
    33
    Title
    No. 18. Toccata VI (Crib) -
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  34. 34 No. 19. Toccata VII - 00:49
    Track
    34
    Title
    No. 19. Toccata VII -
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  35. 35 No. 20. Psalm III - 00:47
    Track
    35
    Title
    No. 20. Psalm III -
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  36. 36 No. 21. Stretto - 02:49
    Track
    36
    Title
    No. 21. Stretto -
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  37. 37 No. 22. Station VII - 01:22
    Track
    37
    Title
    No. 22. Station VII -
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  38. 38 No. 23. Memory Dump II 02:47
    Track
    38
    Title
    No. 23. Memory Dump II
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell
  39. 39 Restraint for Handcuffed Pianist 15:09
    Track
    39
    Title
    Restraint for Handcuffed Pianist
    Duration
    15:09
    Composer
    Martyn Harry
    Performer
    Jonathan Powell