Toccata Classics is an independent British classic music label founded in 2005. The founder of Toccata Classics is Martin Anderson, a music journalist. The label was founded primarily to promote unrecorded works by lesser-known composers, including British composers. By 2022 there were around 600 albums in the catalogue. The sponsors of the label were the late

Josef Suk Josef Suk may refer to: * Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), Czech composer and violinist * Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), his grandson, Czech violinist and conductor {{Hndis, Suk, Josef ...

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Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He i ...

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Jon Lord John Douglas Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English orchestral and rock composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with the British rock band De ...

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Recordings include lesser known works by: * Alkan * Eyvind Alnæs * Algernon Ashton * Vytautas Bacevicius * J. S. Bach/(arr. Sigfrid Karg-Elert) *

Mily Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев,BGN/PCGN Romanization of Russian, transliteration of Russian: Miliy Alekseyevich Balakirev; ALA-LC system: ''Miliĭ Alekseevich Balakirev''; ISO 9 system: ''M ...

* Beethoven/(arr. Karl Xaver Kleinheinz & Friedrich Hermann) * Georg von Bertouch *

David Braid David Braid (born 25 March 1975 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian composer and pianist specializing in jazz. Biography Canadian composer and jazz pianist, David Braid, is "considered one of his country's true renaissance men when it comes to ...

Havergal Brian Havergal Brian (born William Brian; 29 January 187628 November 1972) was an English composer. He is best known for having composed 32 symphonies (an unusually high total for a 20th-century composer), most of them late in his life. His best-know ...

Julius Bürger Julius Burger (Bürger) (Vienna 11 March 1897 - New York City, 12 June 1995) was an Austrian then American composer, pianist and conductor. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music under Franz Schreker, and was one of the group of Schreker's pupil ...

* Adolf Busch *

Bellerofonte Castaldi Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580 – 27 September 1649) was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist. Castaldi was born in Collegara, near Modena. He wrote male parts in his songs for tenors as he was opposed to the practice of castrati or male falsett ...

* Henry Walford Davies * Edison Denisov * Heino Eller *

Enescu Enescu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adrian Enescu (1948–2016), Romanian composer *Andrei Enescu (born 1987), Romanian footballer * George Enescu (1881–1955), Romanian classical violinist, pianist and composer ...

* Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst *

Ferenc Farkas Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer. Biography Born into a musical family (his father played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) in Nagykanizsa, Farkas began his musical studies in Budape ...

* Arthur Farwell * Jean Françaix *

Herman Galynin German Germanovich Galynin (russian: Ге́рман Германо́вич Галы́нин; 30 March 1922, in Tula, Russia – 18 June 1966, in Moscow) was a Russian composer, student, and continuer of the Shostakovich and Myaskovsky line in Sovi ...

* John Gardner * Friedrich Gernsheim * Peggy Glanville-Hicks * Alexander Goldenweiser * Arthur M. Goodhart * Albert Guinovart *

Arthur Hartmann Arthur Martinus Hartmann (né Arthur Hartman; July 23, 1881 – March 30, 1956)Arthur Hartmann Project, MusicSack, was an American violinist, composer and friend of Claude Debussy. Hartmann was the son of Sigmund Hartman and Pepi Schweiger, who h ...

* Heinrich von Herzogenberg * Anselm Hüttenbrenner *

Salomon Jadassohn Salomon Jadassohn (13 August 1831 – 1 February 1902) was a German pianist, composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. Life Jadassohn was born to a Jewish family living in Breslau, the capital of the ...

* Vladas Jakubenas * John Joubert * Khrennikov * Nikolai Korndorf * Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko *

Mario Lavista Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual. Life and career Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 1 ...

Benjamin Lees Benjamin Lees (January 8, 1924 – May 31, 2010) was an American composer of classical music. Early life Lees was born Benjamin George Lisniansky in Harbin, Manchuria, of Russian- Jewish descent. Lees was still an infant when his family emigr ...

Yuri Levitin Yuri Abramoviсh Levitin (''Yuriy'', ''Youri''; ''Levitine'') (russian: Юрий Абра́мович Левитин; in Poltava – 26 July 1993 in Moscow)Shostakovich, Dmitri; Glikman, Issak; Phillips, Anthony (ed.) (2001). , page 331. . wa ...

Charles Harford Lloyd Charles Harford Lloyd (Thornbury, 16 October 1849 – Eton, 16 October 1919)Anatoly Lyadov Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (russian: Анато́лий Константи́нович Ля́дов; ) was a Russian composer, teacher, and conductor. Biography Lyadov was born in 1855 in St. Petersburg, into a family of eminent Russian ...

Boris Lyatoshynsky Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky ( uk, Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський ()), also known as Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky (russian: Бори́с Николаевич Лятоши́нский), (3 January 189515 Apr ...

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Alexander Campbell Mackenzie Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO (22 August 1847 – 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage. Mackenzie was a membe ...

* Edward Macdowell * Ester Mägi *

Riccardo Malipiero Riccardo Malipiero Jr. (24 July 1914 – 27 November 2003) was an Italian composer, pianist, critic, and music educator. He was awarded the gold medal by the city of Milan in 1977 and by the city of Varese in 1984.John C. G. Waterhouse : , Con ...

* Sir George Martin * David Matthews * Janis Medinš * Krzysztof Meyer * Robin Milford * Joaquín Nin-Culmell *

Reinhard Oppel Julius Reinhard Oppel (1878 in Grünberg, Hesse – 1941 in Leipzig) was a German composer. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt 1903–1909, was briefly an organist in Bonn, then from 1911 professor of composition at the Kiel Conserv ...

Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein (born ''Лев Орнштейн'', ''Lev Ornshteyn''; – February 24, 2002) was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative ...

* Buxton Orr * Sir Walter Parratt * Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko * John Pickard * Peteris Plakidis *

Alexander Prior Alexander Prior (born 5 October 1992) is a British composer and conductor who studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was Chief Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2022. Life and career Prior was born in London ...

* Phillip Ramey * Günter Raphael * Igor Raykhelson *

Reicha Anton (Antonín, Antoine) Joseph Reicha (Rejcha) (26 February 1770 – 28 May 1836) was a Czech-born, Bavarian-educated, later naturalized French composer and music theorist. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, he is now best reme ...

* Julius Röntgen * Shebalin * Percy Sherwood *

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...

Leone Sinigaglia Leone Sinigaglia (14 August 1868 – 16 May 1944) was an Italian composer and mountaineer. Biography Born in Turin into an upper-middle-class Jewish family, Sinigaglia studied music at the conservatory of music in Turin with Giovanni Bolzon ...

John Stafford Smith John Stafford Smith (bapt. 30 March 175021 September 1836) was a British composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Smith is best known for ...

Arthur Somervell Sir Arthur Somervell (5 June 18632 May 1937) was an English composer and art song writer. After Hubert Parry, he was one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s–1900s. One of his ...

Philip Spratley Philip Spratley (born 1942) is an English composer and writer on Essex folksong. He has worked as a school music teacher and church organist. Spratley was born in Newark in Nottinghamshire and grew up in the village of Balderton. He won a scholar ...

* Sir John Stainer *

Peeter Süda Peeter Süda ( in Viki, Saare County – 3 August 1920 in Tallinn) was a father of the Estonian organ school, composer and an early collector of Estonian folksongs. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1902 to 1912. His organ ...

* Marko Tajcevic * Matthew Taylor *

Jan Ladislav Dussek Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptized Jan Václav Dusík, Černušák, p. 271 with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 176020 March 1812) was a Czech classical composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech musi ...

* Boris Tchaikovsky *

Alexander Tcherepnin Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Черепни́н, link=no; 21 January 1899 – 29 September 1977) was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin (pupil of Nik ...

* Nikolai Tcherepnin *

Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hi ...

* Ferdinand Thieriot * Veljo Tormis * Sir Donald Francis Tovey *

Sergei Vassilenko Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko (russian: Серге́й Никифорович Василенко, ''Sergej Nikiforovič Vasilenko''; – 11 March 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and music teacher whose compositions showed a str ...

* Gareth Walters * Mieczyslaw Weinberg * Hans Winterberg * Charles Wood * Hugh Wood *

William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's '' ...

* Felix Woyrsch * and others

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