Toccata Classics is an independent British classic music label founded in 2005.[1][2]
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, with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Jon Lord.
Recordings include lesser known works by Alkan, Eyvind Alnæs, Algernon Ashton, Vytautas Bacevičius, J. S. Bach/(arr. Sigfrid Karg-Elert), Mily Balakirev, Beethoven/(arr. Karl Xaver Kleinheinz & Friedrich Hermann), Georg von Bertouch, Havergal Brian, Julius Burger, Adolf Busch, Bellerofonte Castaldi, Henry Walford Davies, Edison Denisov, Heino Eller, Enescu, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Ferenc Farkas, Herman Galynin, John Gardner, Friedrich Gernsheim, Alexander Goldenweiser, Arthur M. Goodhart, Albert Guinovart, Arthur Hartmann, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Salomon Jadassohn, John Joubert, Khrennikov, Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko, Mario Lavista, Benjamin Lees, Yuri Levitin, Charles Harford Lloyd, Anatoly Lyadov, Boris Lyatoshynsky, Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Edward Macdowell, Ester Mägi, Sir George Martin, David Matthews, Krzysztof Meyer, Robin Milford, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Reinhard Oppel, Sir Walter Parratt, Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, Pēteris Plakidis, Alexander Prior, Phillip Ramey, Günter Raphael, Igor Raykhelson, Reicha, Röntgen, Shebalin, Shostakovich, Leone Sinigaglia, John Stafford Smith, Somervell, Philip Spratley, Sir John Stainer, Peeter Süda, Marko Tajčević, Matthew Taylor, Boris Tchaikovsky, Alexander Tcherepnin, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Telemann, Ferdinand Thieriot, Veljo Tormis, Sir Donald Francis Tovey, Sergei Vassilenko, Gareth Walters, Mieczysław Weinberg, Charles Wood, Hugh Wood, Felix Woyrsch and others.