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Jonathan Woolf
Górecki: Symphony No 3 (Alto)
Amongst the most moving recordings of Górecki’s Third featuring the soprano who premiered the work [JW]
Beethoven: Middle Quartets (Bridge Records)
(Déjà Review) An invaluable addition in excellent sound, splendid documentation and full of concentrated wisdom [JW]
Léner Quartet (Pristine Audio)
More canonic Léner Quartet restorations from the 1920s and 30s [JW]
H Koppel: Composer and Pianist Volume 7 (Danacord)
Volume 7 of the Koppel series, finally here, shows the composer’s two sides [JW]
d’Ambrosio: Works for String Quartet & Quintet (Tactus)
Premiere recordings of Alfredo d’Ambrosio’s ever-vernal charmers [JW]
Kelly: Chamber Music (Toccata Classics)
More Kelly premieres expand our knowledge of the short-lived Australian [JW]
Hannah: Music for Piano and Organ (PGM Audio)
Canadian Ronald Hannah’s piano works offer playfulness and charm and more besides [JW]
Van der Pals: String Quartets Vol. 1 (cpo)
Gently melancholic chamber works from a less-well-remembered composer [JW]
Nathan Milstein (violin) Mendelssohn, Bruch & Tchaikovsky (Biddulph)
The first Bruch/Mendelssohn coupling is restored, with Tchaikovsky to swell the programme [JW]
Cooke: Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (Toccata Classics)
Warmly welcomed works by a somewhat underappreciated composer [JW]
Joseph Szigeti (violin) European Columbia Recordings Vol. 4 (Pristine Audio)
The final furlong for Szigeti’s legacy on Pristine Audio with top-notch Obert-Thorn restorations [JW]
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3, The Bells (Biddulph)
Astonishingly vivid off-air survivors from London’s Queen’s Hall in the 1930s [JW]
Müller: Chamber Works (Capriccio)
(Déjà Review) My first meeting with Müller and I hope it won’t be my last … music which is animated, warm and intriguing [JW]
Wendling Quartet: DG and Electrola Recordings (Biddulph)
An important cache of early chamber music recordings heard in debatable transfers [JW]
British Piano Concertos (Lyrita)
Premiere recordings of three neglected but attractive piano concertos [JW
Sitt: Viola and Piano works (Eudora)
Salon-scaled charmers from a significant teacher and performer [JW]
Thomas Jensen (conductor) Legacy Vol. 18 (Danacord)
Core repertory from Thomas Jensen in authoritative performances [JW]
Parry: Scenes from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’, Blest Pair of Sirens (Chandos)
Parry’s Wagnerian dilemmas encountered in this premiere recording [JW]
Enna: Violin Concerto, Symphony No.2 (Dacapo)
There is, unfortunately, little if anything that is distinctive in much of his music [JW]
Bruch: Songs and Dances (cpo)
An ingenious collection of dances, though perhaps not to be played straight through [JW]
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Naxos Historical)
(Déjà Review) Spiritual engagement of the profoundest kind [JW]
Scott: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 (Toccata Classics)
Derek Scott encountered in a third disc of his music; tone poems, fantasies and darker music [JW]
Grosz: Achtung, Aufnahme!! (Channel Classics)
Werner Herbers’s swansong with his Ebony Band: more previously unrecorded Weimar delights [JW]
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