jw
Jonathan Woolf
Marie Hall: The Acoustic HMV recordings (Biddulph)
The complete recordings of a once-popular violinist restored in fine style [JW]
The Launy Grøndahl Legacy Vol. 9 (Danacord)
Conductor Launy Grøndahl marshals stage and choral works from Denmark’s past and present [JW]
Kalabis: Duettina, Chamber Music & Diptych (Hyperion)
Music that reflects both the bleakness but increasing vitality of Kalabis’s works for string ensemble [JW]
Ben-Haim: Orchestral & Chamber Music (cpo)
A thoughtfully assembled set [EJW]
Schumann: Piano Quintet & Brahms: Piano Quartet No 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) This recording has been absent from the catalogues for too long [JW]
Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Grosse Fuge (Archipel)
It’s great that these performances are newly available, but sample before you buy [JW]
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]
Greene: Jephtha (Chandos)
Maurice Greene’s accomplished, perceptive early English oratorio on disc at last, in an excellent performance [JW]
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]
JS Bach: Magnificat (Antal Doráti Society)
A rare slice of Doráti’s Bach from French sources [JW]
Cello Concertos from the Netherlands (Brilliant Classics)
Top quality soloists promote the cello in compact Dutch concerto works [JW]
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]
An English Pastoral (SOMM Recordings)
From early Gurney to Ian Venables, the Pastoral is renewed through warmly flowing compositions [JW]
Jelly d’Arányi (violin): Columbia recordings (Biddulph)
The cultured elegance of violinist Jelly d’Arányi in recordings from the 1920s and 30s [JW]
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]
Sauer & Ansorge: Piano Concertos (Capriccio)
Two German contemporaries and their very different approaches to the piano concerto [JW]
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]
Coral: Aurora Borealis (Tempus Clasico)
Sonic and structural explorations from a leading Mexican composer [JW]
Scott: Orchestral Music Vol. 4 (Toccata Classics)
Kick off your shoes and take to the dancefloor with Scott’s tapestry of orchestrated dances [JW]
