Martyn Harry: Piano Works and Songs

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
May 15, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Martyn Harry
    • PERFORMER
      Lore Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell, Anna Akhmatova
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 15, 2026
    • UPC
      5060113447975
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0797
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Arpeggios -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    2. II. Con fuoco -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    3. III. Embedded Chorale -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    4. IV. Chromatic -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    5. V. Toccata -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    6. VI. Three-Part Invention -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    7. VII. Giocoso (seventh inning stretch)

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    8. VIII. Textural Fugato

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    9. IX. Lament (empty ninth inning)

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    10. No. 1. —

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell

    11. No. 2. —

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell

    12. No. 3. —

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell

    13. No. 4. —

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell

    14. No. 5. —

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell

    15. No. 6. —

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Loré Lixenberg, Jonathan Powell

    16. No. 1. Station I -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    17. No. 2. Station II -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    18. No. 3. Toccata I -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    19. No. 4. Station III -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    20. No. 5. Toccata II -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    21. No. 6. Station IV -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    22. No. 7. Psalm I -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    23. No. 8. Station V -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    24. No. 9. Toccata III -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    25. No. 10. Hymn I -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    26. No. 11. Toccata IV (Crib) -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    27. No. 12. Hymn II -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    28. No. 13. Memory Dump I -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    29. No. 14. Hymn III -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    30. No. 15. Psalm II -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    31. No. 16. Toccata V -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    32. No. 17. Hymn IV -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    33. No. 18. Toccata VI (Crib) -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    34. No. 19. Toccata VII -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    35. No. 20. Psalm III -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    36. No. 21. Stretto -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    37. No. 22. Station VII -

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    38. No. 23. Memory Dump II

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    39. Restraint for Handcuffed Pianist

      Composer: Martyn Harry

      Performer: Jonathan Powell


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.