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Jonathan Woolf
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor): The Complete Warner Classics Edition (Warner Classics)
A solid chunk of Mackerras, spanning half a century of recordings for the Warner group [JW]
Clarke: Complete Songs (Signum Classics)
The twists and turns of Rebecca Clarke’s songs, presented in full for the first time in stylish, perceptive performances [JW]
Bruch & Paganini: Violin Concertos (Claves)
A serious entrant … Romantic affiliations and technical armoury [JW]
Beecham: The Mono Era on HMV and Columbia Graphophone 1926-1959 (Warner Classics)
Beecham’s monos minus the acoustics (demerit) but with some previously unissued material in a well-compiled 53-CD box [JW]
The New Winter Songbook (Convivium Records)
Twenty-one new songs by a diverse selection of British composers [JW]
Fanny Davies and Adela Verne (piano): Complete Recordings (APR)
A leading Clara Schumann pupil excels in the studio, coupled with brilliant, rare recordings from a more shadowy performer [JW]
Posa: Lieder, Violin Sonata & String Quartet (Voilà Records)
A huge and superbly compiled book-format release devoted to a now unknown progressive Viennese contemporary of Schoenberg and Zemlinsky [JW]
Martinů: String Quartets (Supraphon)
A bristling, incisive look at four Martinů string quartets [JW]
Robert Bennett & Duke: Violin Concerti (Chandos)
Not just Samuel Barber – the American Violin Concerto, School of 1941-1943, revived with élan [JW]
Bloch: Schelomo; Strauss: Don Quixote (Pristine Audio)
(Déjà Review) A deserved classic [JW]
Leopold Stokowski (conductor): Great Recordings, Vol 2 (ICA Classics)
A second tranche of Stokowski from ICA contains the known and issued and some novelties [JW]
Bliss: Miracle in the Gorbals & Metamorphic Variations (Chandos)
Mid and late period Bliss contrasts an underappreciated ballet with a curious orchestral work [JW]
Sir Adrian Boult: The Warner Classics Edition (Warner Classics)
A 36-CD remastered box that restores (almost) all Boult’s mono legacy for the Warner umbrella of labels [JW]
Bériot: Violin Concertos 2, 3 & 5 (Naxos)
Fireworks and songful concertos [JW]
Clarke: Music for violin, viola and piano (Brilliant Classics)
Compact, youthful interpretations of Rebecca Clarke’s works for strings with piano [JW]
Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Music (Somm)
A potpourri of largely unrecorded Coleridge-Taylor [JW]
Unaccompanied: Paganini, Bartók, Skalkottas, Ysaÿe (Divine Art)
(Déjà Review) An encounter with excellence [JW]
Victor Schiøler (piano): The Great Danish Pianist Volume 7 (Danacord)
Rare and previously unpublished material enliven another Schiøler release from Danacord [JW]
Kanitz: Chamber Works (Chandos)
A Viennese composer in America – the ARC Ensemble restores another overlooked figure [JW]
Heinrich Koll (viola): The Art of the Viola (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Fluent and elegant, and very pleasing [JW]
Moeran: Symphony & Violin Concerto (Somm Ariadne)
Two historically important broadcasts of major works by E.J. Moeran [JW]
Alfred Cortot plays Chopin (APR)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)12 Études Op.1012 Études Op.25Piano Sonata No.3 in B Minor Op.5824 Préludes Op.2814 WaltzesAlfred Cortot…
Turina: Piano Music Volume 5 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Alluring sun bathed piano writing and playing [JW]
Bosmans: Concertos (Resonus)
The lyrically elusive art of Henriëtte Bosmans [JW}
