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Jonathan Woolf
Dale & Bowen: Piano Works (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Add this to your British piano collection without reservation [JW]
Myaskovsky: Symphonies No.24-25 (Northern Flowers)
Myaskovsky’s symphonic brace that prioritises expansive tempi [JW]
Owen: Songs & Piano Works (Private release)
This disc gives eloquent service in its expansion of Morfydd Owen’s recorded music [JW]
Frederick Stock (conductor): Chicago Symphony Volume 6 (Pristine Audio)
The final volume in this series reprises Frederick Stock’s strengths as a recording artist [JW]
Weelkes: Ninth Service and Anthems (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) Fruitful, grand and invigorating [JW]
Lemba: Chamber Music, Vol 2 (Toccata Classics)
The second Lemba chamber music volume presents better compositional skill than the first [JW]
Sibelius & Paganini: Violin concertos (Pristine Audio)
The fervour is unceasing and the music is charted with feverish intensity [JW]
The Minneapolis Concerts in the 1950s: Newly Discovered Recordings (Antal Doráti Society)
Doráti and the Minneapolis in live concerts with variable music-making but some energising rarities included [JW]
Carlos Kleiber – I am lost to the world (C Major)
(Déjà Review) This documentary raises more questions than answers [JW]
Hear, O Heav’ns: Chapel Royal Anthems (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) A most enjoyably and intelligently conceived disc [JW]
Romantic Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Sterling)
Interesting repertoire but frail, uncompetitive performances and recording [JW]
Reznicek & Korngold: String Quartets (Nimbus Records)
(Déjà Review) Contemporaneous works by two very different composers of differing generations [JW]
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 1 (Music & Arts)
(Déjà Review) Profoundly impressive [JW]
Alfred Cortot (piano) The Late Recordings Vol 4 (APR)
Much to excite the poetic instinct [JW]
Ann Schein (piano): Chopin and other recordings (APR)
Superb transfers of obscure KAPP LPs reveal the lyricism and musical maturity of a remarkable American teenager [JW]
Toscha Seidel (violin): American Columbia Recordings (Biddulph)
A disc that straddles the acoustic/electric divide and showcases the glorious art of violinist Toscha Seidel [JW]
Continental Britons. The Émigré Composers (Nimbus Records)
(Déjà Review) No one with the slightest interest in these composers can fail to be stirred by this release [JW]
Tchaikovsky, Smetana: Piano Trios (Biddulph)
The immediate post-war Vox chamber music catalogue gives up its secrets in fine restorations [JW]
David Oistrakh (violin, viola): Legacy (ICA Classics)
(Déjà Review) Admirers of string players will warm to this DVD, and to the estimable performances preserved here [JW]
Berlioz & Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts (SOMM Recordings)
Beecham live at the Royal Festival Hall, galvanizing in Berlioz and Wagner [JW]
Leopold Stokowski (conductor) Chicago Debut Concerts (Pristine Audio)
A little slice of Stokowskian debut history in these two discs [JW]
Bryars: Piano Concerto (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Wistful, often romantic and without flourish, and deeply intimate in reach [JW]
The Art of David Munrow: Complete Warner Edition (Warner Classics)
Protean and prolific [JW]
Haas: The Violin Works (Ars Produktion)
Premiere recordings of Joseph Haas’s violin works, an agile and droll student of Max Reger [JW]








































