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Jonathan Woolf

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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]

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Kelly: Chamber Music (Toccata Classics)

More Kelly premieres expand our knowledge of the short-lived Australian [JW]

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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]

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Cooke: Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (Toccata Classics)

Warmly welcomed works by a somewhat underappreciated composer [JW]

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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]

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British Piano Concertos (Lyrita)

Premiere recordings of three neglected but attractive piano concertos [JW

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Sitt: Viola and Piano works (Eudora)

Salon-scaled charmers from a significant teacher and performer [JW]

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Thomas Jensen (conductor) Legacy Vol. 18 (Danacord)

Core repertory from Thomas Jensen in authoritative performances [JW]

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Parry: Scenes from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’, Blest Pair of Sirens (Chandos)

Parry’s Wagnerian dilemmas encountered in this premiere recording [JW]

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Enna: Violin Concerto, Symphony No.2 (Dacapo)

There is, unfortunately, little if anything that is distinctive in much of his music [JW]

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Echoes of Bohemia: Czech Music for Wind (Chandos)

A highly effective disc [JW]

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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]

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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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Louis Kaufman (violin): Violin Sonatas (Biddulph)

A stylish release featuring a quartet of sonatas played by the sumptuous tonalist Louis Kaufman [JW]

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Mozart: Piano Concertos (SWR Classic)

Michelangeli’s Mozart at its most ebullient, masculine and human [JW]