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. The sponsors of the label were the late Josef Suk

Josef Suk (violinist)

Josef Suk was a Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor, the grandson of Josef Suk, the composer and violinist, and great-grandson of Antonín Dvořák. In his home country he carried the title of National Artist....

, with Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...

 and Jon Lord

Jon Lord

Jonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord is an English composer, pianist and Hammond organ player.Jon Lord, also known as 'Hammond Lord', is a classically trained piano player. He is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms...

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Recordings include lesser known works by Alkan

Charles-Valentin Alkan

Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...

, Eyvind Alnæs

Eyvind Alnæs

Eyvind Alnæs was a Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director.Alnæs studied music first in Oslo with Iver Holter, then in Leipzig with Carl Reinecke and, after the première of his first symphony in 1896, in Berlin with Julius Ruthardt.From 1895 to 1907 Alnæs served as an organist in...

, Algernon Ashton

Algernon Ashton

Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton was a British composer and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music 1884–1910....

, Vytautas Bacevičius

Vytautas Bacevičius

Vytautas Bacevičius was a Lithuanian composer of decidedly radical and modernistic leanings. Most of his works are in an atonal idiom of his own devising...

, J. S. Bach/(arr. Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a German composer of considerable fame in the early twentieth century, best known for his compositions for organ and harmonium.-Biography:...

), Mily Balakirev

Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...

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

Georg von Bertouch

Georg von Bertouch was a German-born Baroque composer and military officer who dwelt during most of his adult life in Norway.-Biography:...

, Havergal Brian

Havergal Brian

Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...

, Julius Burger

Julius Bürger

Julius Bürger 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 pupils - Alois Hába, Jascha Horenstein, Ernst Křenek, Karol Rathaus - who followed Schreker to Berlin when Schreker was...

, Adolf Busch

Adolf Busch

Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-born violinist and composer.Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering...

, Bellerofonte Castaldi

Bellerofonte Castaldi

Bellerofonte Castaldi was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist. His tabulatures are more complex than for example Kapsberger....

, Henry Walford Davies

Henry Walford Davies

Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941.-Early life and education:...

, Edison Denisov

Edison Denisov

Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...

, Heino Eller

Heino Eller

Heino Eller was an Estonian composer and composition teacher.Eller was born in Tartu, where he took private lessons in violin and music theory, played in several ensembles and orchestras, and performed as violin soloist. In 1907 he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study violin. From...

, Enescu, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. Ernst was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Paganini's greatest successors....

, Ferenc Farkas

Ferenc Farkas

Ferenc Farkas was a Hungarian composer.Farkas began his studies in composition at the Budapest Academy of Music , where his teachers were Leo Weiner and Albert Siklós. He later studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome...

, Herman Galynin, John Gardner

John Gardner (composer)

John Linton Gardner, CBE is an English composer of classical music.-Biography:Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War....

, Friedrich Gernsheim

Friedrich Gernsheim

Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr...

, Alexander Goldenweiser, Arthur M. Goodhart

Arthur M. Goodhart

Arthur Murray Goodhart was a British composer and organist.He was a pupil of Sir Joseph Barnby and Frank Bridge, then a housemaster at Eton College. He later lived in Brighton and he contributed to The Triumphs of Oriana ....

, Albert Guinovart

Albert Guinovart

Albert Guinovart is a Catalan composer.Guinovart studied at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona...

, Arthur Hartmann

Arthur Hartmann

Arthur Hartmann was an American violinist, composer and friend of Claude Debussy.Uncle to writer/artist Alfred Bendiner Author of "Claude Debussy as I Knew Him' and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann"-Sources:*...

, Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family....

, Anselm Hüttenbrenner

Anselm Hüttenbrenner

Anselm Hüttenbrenner , was an Austrian composer. He was on friendly terms with both Ludwig van Beethovenhe was one of only two people present at his deathand Franz Schubert, his recollections of whom constitute an interesting but probably unreliable document in Schubertian biographical...

, Salomon Jadassohn

Salomon Jadassohn

Salomon Jadassohn was a German composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.-Life:...

, John Joubert

John Joubert (composer)

John Joubert is a British composer of South African descent, particularly of choral works. He has lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 40 years. A music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on...

, Khrennikov, Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko, Mario Lavista

Mario Lavista

Mario Lavista is a Mexican composer and writer. He has had numerous pieces published, especially chamber music, but also incidental music for plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, and vocal music....

, Benjamin Lees

Benjamin Lees

Benjamin Lees was a contemporary U.S. composer of Art music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and lived in Palm Springs, California.-Early life:...

, Yuri Levitin

Yuri Levitin

Yuri Abramovitch Levitin was a Soviet Ukrainian composer of classical music.-Early life:...

, Charles Harford Lloyd

Charles Harford Lloyd

Charles Harford Lloyd was an English composer and organist.While studying at Magdalen Hall Lloyd was founder, with his friend Hubert Parry, and first president of the Oxford University musical club...

, Anatoly Lyadov, Boris Lyatoshynsky

Boris Lyatoshynsky

Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky was a Soviet Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two...

, Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Edward Macdowell

Edward MacDowell

Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...

, Ester Mägi

Ester Mägi

Ester Mägi is an Estonian composer, widely regarded as the First Lady of Estonian Music.Much of her work consists of choral and chamber music, but her few symphonic pieces are also highly regarded. She trained initially under Mart Saar at the Tallinn Conservatory, then from 1951-54 at the Moscow...

, Sir George Martin, David Matthews

David Matthews (composer)

David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.- Life :He was born in London into a family that was 'not especially' musical; the desire to compose did not manifest itself until he was sixteen, and for a time he and his younger brother Colin Matthews,...

, Krzysztof Meyer

Krzysztof Meyer

Krzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist and music scholar.-Biography:Meyer was born in Cracow. As a boy he played piano and organ. He began his composition study early – in 1954, with Stanisław Wiechowicz...

, Robin Milford

Robin Milford

Robin Milford was an English composer.- Biography :Milford was born in Oxford, son of Sir Humphrey Milford, publisher with Oxford University Press. He attended Rugby School from 1916 where his musical talent for the piano, flute and theory was recognised, and studied at the Royal College of Music...

, Joaquín Nin-Culmell

Joaquin Nin-Culmell

Joaquín Maria Nin-Culmell was Cuban-Spanish composer and an internationally known concert pianist, emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley.-Early life:...

, Reinhard Oppel

Reinhard Oppel

Reinhard Oppel 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 compositions at the Kiel Conservatory, and from 1928 professor of music theory at the Leipzig Conservatory.Oppel was a student,...

, Sir Walter Parratt

Walter Parratt

Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

, Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, Pēteris Plakidis

Peteris Plakidis

Pēteris Plakidis is a Latvian composer and pianist.-Early life:Plakidis was educated at the Emīls Dārziņš College of Music before studying as an undergraduate in the Composition Department at the Jāzeps Vītols State Conservatory...

, Alexander Prior, Phillip Ramey

Phillip Ramey

Phillip Ramey is an American composer, pianist, and writer on music.He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago...

, Günter Raphael

Günter Raphael

Günter Raphael was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael is the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of National Socialism - he was declared a half-Jew -...

, Igor Raykhelson, Reicha, Röntgen

Röntgen

The roentgen is a unit of measurement for exposure to ionizing radiation , and is named after the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen...

, Shebalin, Shostakovich, Leone Sinigaglia

Leone Sinigaglia

Leone Sinigaglia was an Italian composer and mountaineer.- Biography :Born in Turin into an upper middle class family, Sinigaglia knew the leading figures of thought, arts and science that lived in the city at the time, such as Galileo Ferraris, Cesare Lombroso, and Leonardo Bistolfi...

, John Stafford Smith

John Stafford Smith

John Stafford Smith 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....

, Somervell, Philip Spratley, Sir John Stainer, Peeter Süda

Peeter Süda

Peeter Süda was a father of the Estonian organ school, composer and an early collector of Estonian folksongs.He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1902–1912...

, Marko Tajčević

Marko Tajcevic

Marko Tajčević was a Croatian and Serbian composer and musician.-Biography:Born in Osijek, Croatia on January 29, 1900, his music education began with violin studies at the Croatian Music Institution at the time the First World War broke out in Europe with Blagoje Bersa, Franjo Dugan and Fran...

, Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor (composer)

-Biography:Taylor was born in London in 1964. He attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music. He studeid composition with Robin Holloway at Queens' College, Cambridge University and later at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Royal Academy of Music. He later continued his composition...

, Boris Tchaikovsky

Boris Tchaikovsky

Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky.He was admired...

, Alexander Tcherepnin

Alexander Tcherepnin

Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...

, Nikolai Tcherepnin

Nikolai Tcherepnin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory...

, Telemann, Ferdinand Thieriot

Ferdinand Thieriot

Ferdinand Thieriot was a German composer of Romantic music and cellist.He was a pupil of Eduard Marxsen in Altona and belonged to the circle of musicians around Johannes Brahms, who was also a pupil of Marxsen. Later, Thieriot was a pupil of Josef Rheinberger in Munich...

, Veljo Tormis

Veljo Tormis

Veljo Tormis is an Estonian composer, regarded to be one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most...

, Sir Donald Francis Tovey

Donald Francis Tovey

Sir Donald Francis Tovey was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist...

, Sergei Vassilenko, Gareth Walters

Gareth Walters

Gareth Walters is a well-established contemporary composer who was born in Swansea, Wales, and completed his early education there. As a schoolboy, he began to compose, and he received early encouragement from the famous English composer, conductor and pianist, Benjamin Britten, who was a frequent...

, Mieczysław Weinberg, Charles Wood

Charles Wood (composer)

Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher.Born in Armagh, Ireland, he was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. His father was a tenor in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh , and later worked as the Diocesan Registrar of the church...

, Hugh Wood

Hugh Wood

Hugh Wood is a British composer.- Biography :While Wood was brought up in a musical family, it was only after graduating in History from Oxford that he decided to dedicate his energies to composition; and he moved to London in 1954 to study with William Lloyd Webber, Anthony Milner, Iain Hamilton,...

, Felix Woyrsch

Felix Woyrsch

Felix Woyrsch was a German composer and choir director.Woyrsch lived in Dresden and Hamburg while young, studying in the latter under Ernst August Heinrich Chevallier. He held posts as a conductor and organist in several German cities in the 1890s and 1900s...

and others.