Toccata Classics

The Malmö Orchestra does wonders with the technically taxing Symphony, due doubtless to appropriately firm directions from George Vass. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[The Camellias] and the slight but touching Ode on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, are recorded here for the first time. The Symphony for Strings from 1948 is better known, but plays into the... — The Guardian, 31st January 2013, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein,... — Sunday Times, 10th June 2012More…

Glebov traces the evolution of Lyapunov's virtuoso piano music...Sparkling accounts, if short on charisma. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Gál's profound humanism shines through in music that is expressive yet restrained...For those attuned to the understated appeal of to mid-20th-century choral earlymusic, this disc is a revelation,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2025, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The performances on this lovely disc are very fine indeed. Jenni Lättilä has a fine powerful voice, full of life and character, and Kirill Kozlovski is the perfect associate artist, performing... — Classical Music DailyMore…

This collection of songs plus one work for violin and piano from Havergal Brian's early period show an original mind at work. Superior and idiomatic performances, clear sound. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 4 out of 5 starsMore…