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Jonathan Woolf

Heifetz Sonatas Naxos

Jascha Heifetz (violin) Sonatas (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) No Heifetz admirer should be without this [JW]

Bells for Stokowski (Reference Recordings)

(Déjà Review) There’s something for everyone, and very attractively played too [JW]

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Greene: Jephtha (Chandos)

Maurice Greene’s accomplished, perceptive early English oratorio on disc at last, in an excellent performance [JW]

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Sæverud & Toch: Symphonies (Antal Doráti Society)

New symphonies from the 1950s, live in Minneapolis in Doráti-led performances [JW]

Chronicles for solo violin (Delphian)

Rare solo violin works given a fine outing here [JW]

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JS Bach: Magnificat (Antal Doráti Society)

A rare slice of Doráti’s Bach from French sources [JW]

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Cello Concertos from the Netherlands (Brilliant Classics)

Top quality soloists promote the cello in compact Dutch concerto works [JW]

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Brian: Agamemnon and Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 (Hyperion)

Havergal Brian’s Agamemnon on disc prefaced, as he’d suggested, by the Twelfth Symphony [JW]

Dohnányi plays Dohnányi: The Complete HMV solo piano recordings (APR)

(Déjà Review) Pellucid beauty, an exceptional sense of excavated drama, tremendous atmospheric compression, rhythmic nuance and panache [JW]

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An English Pastoral (SOMM Recordings)

From early Gurney to Ian Venables, the Pastoral is renewed through warmly flowing compositions [JW]

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Jelly d’Arányi (violin): Columbia recordings (Biddulph)

The cultured elegance of violinist Jelly d’Arányi in recordings from the 1920s and 30s [JW]

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Nathan Milstein (violin): Works by Brahms and Beethoven (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) Aristocratic playing and transfers that sound extremely well [JW]

Arthur Catterall (violin) Mozart, Brahms and Franck (Biddulph)

Concertmaster-soloist Arthur Catterall in historically valuable late acoustic recordings [JW]

Langgaard: The Early Recordings (Danacord)

Danish Radio’s role in the Langgaard rediscovery is made explicit in this significant release [JW]

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Sauer & Ansorge: Piano Concertos (Capriccio)

Two German contemporaries and their very different approaches to the piano concerto [JW]

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Antheil: Venus in Africa (cpo)

A late satiric opera by Antheil, splendidly realised, devoid of Bad Boy but not devoid of spice and wit [JW]

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Coral: Aurora Borealis (Tempus Clasico)

Sonic and structural explorations from a leading Mexican composer [JW]

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Scott: Orchestral Music Vol. 4 (Toccata Classics)

Kick off your shoes and take to the dancefloor with Scott’s tapestry of orchestrated dances [JW]

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Blodek: V studni (Supraphon)

A comic Czech opera recorded in 1959 heard for the first time in stereo [JW]

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In the Cabinet of Wonders (False Azure Records)

A Hamburg organ-and-violin duo of the Baroque comes alive [JW]

The Graceful Ghost – Contemporary Piano Rags (Rivermont)

The Contemporary Piano Rag in the vitalising hands of a master practitioner [JW]

Decruck: Concertante Works, Vol 2 (Claves)

Modest in proportion but full of beguiling colour [JW]

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Korngold: Symphony in F sharp (Supertrain Records)

Korngold plays his Symphony in a previously unreleased piano version [JW]

Quartets Through a Time of Change (First Hand Records)

An imaginative selection of French string quartets [JW]