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Jonathan Woolf
Chimera (Urlicht)
An enriching and engaging album of improvised music led by the quixotic and brilliant Iva Bittová [JW]
Čiurlionis: Complete Works for Orchestra (Northern Flowers)
Čiurlionis’s nature scores heard in eloquent performances by a foremost interpreter of his music [JW]
Victor Schiøler (piano) The Great Danish Pianist Vol 8
An apt final volume saluting the admirable pianist Victor Schiøler [JW]
Jorge Bolet – The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals (First Hand Records)
Bolet heard in a rare surviving example of live recitals – occasionally fallible but far more energising than in the studio [JW]
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3 (SOMM Recordings)
Known and unknown repertoire in Beecham’s ultra-communicative live performances [JW]
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]








































