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Jonathan Woolf

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Carl Schuricht in New York (Archipel)

Schuricht leads the Vienna orchestra with surety and command [JW]

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Wurmser: Piano Works (Hortus)

A near-forgotten man of French music reappears with a piano retrospective [JW]

Loeillet: Six Suites for Harpsichord (Prelude Classics)

A beautifully performed and recorded set of six modestly-conceived and barely known harpsichord suites [JW]

Alwyn: Elizabethan Dances, Oboe Concerto, Aphrodite in Aulis (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) Two premiere recordings at bargain cost and generally excellent performances [JW]

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Murrill: The Rediscovered Songs (First Hand Records)

Deft and charming songs from a composer best-known for his choral and organ music [JW]

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J S Bach: Mass in B minor (Tahra)

A living text; a source of drama and commitment [JW]

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Dolce: Music for Saxophone and Piano (Crystal Records)

Drama, dance and delight from a masterful saxophonist [JW]

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Sergio Fiorentino (piano) The Complete SAGA Album Collection (Rhine Classics)

Fiorentino’s complete Saga recordings of 1958-60 heard in excellent remasterings [JW]

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Amorous in Music (Et’cetera)

(Déjà Review) Plenty of variety here and quite some historical frisson as well [JW]

Smetana: Má vlast and other Symphonic Works (Supraphon)

Smetana’s dynamism brought out by a conductor of clarity and subtlety [JW]

Constantin Silvestri (conductor): Debussy, Ravel & Falla (ICA Classics)

Dramatic Franco-Iberian precision from an unexpectedly potent 1960s partnership [JW]

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Piston: Symphonies Nos 2 & 6 (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) The merit of this distinguished 1988 recording, in its new incarnation, burns just as brightly [JW]

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Andrés Segovia and his Contemporaries Vol 16 (Doremi)

Segovia in Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Concerto live from Lucerne and a phalanx of historical guitar recordings [JW]

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Shura Cherkassky (piano) The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals 1981-9 (First Hand Records)

Autumnal never-before-released Cherkassky recitals show few signs of fatigue [JW]

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Dupont: La Maison dans les Dunes (Piano Classics)

A lingering look at Gabriel Dupont’s marine imagination [JW]

Cécile Chaminade and her contemporaries play Chaminade (APR)

Cécile Chaminade’s 1901 recordings revisited, and a raft of shellac performances of her works by other pianists [JW]

Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski (Somm Recordings)

A reissued BBC broadcast, two rehearsal segments in improved sound and a never-before-released BBC interview [JW]

Roussel: Symphonies Nos 2-4 (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) The Cluytens-Prêtre team is formidable and allied to the lesser known, but still ardent, Dervaux you have as incisive a trio of conductors as you could wish at this price range [JW]

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British Cello Works Vol 3 (Lyrita)

Further discoveries in the British cello lineage [JW]

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Christine Walevska (cello) The Beauty and the Bow (Rhine Classics)

The admirable cellist Christine Walevska traced over 50 years of performances and recordings [JW]

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Ysaÿe: Poème nocturne (Musique en Wallonie)

More varied fare from Eugène Ysaÿe’s seemingly inexhaustible workbench [JW]

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Václav Neumann (conductor): Lucerne Festival (Audite)

Convincing examples of Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic heard during Lucerne Festivals of the 1980s [JW]

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Albert Sammons plays Elgar (Biddulph)

Sammons’ classic Elgar recordings offer virtuosity and tonal beauty as well as thrust [JW]

Michael Rabin (violin) Unpublished (Parnassus)

An unpublished live Beethoven Concerto spearheads this Michael Rabin release [JW]