Shostakovich 4, 11 Nelsons
Transparent Granite!

Nothing but Praise

BrucKner 4 Nelsons
the finest of recent years.

superb BD-A sound

This is a wonderful set

Telemann continues to amaze

A superb disc

Performances to cherish

An extraordinary disc.

rush out and buy this

I favour above all the others

Frank Martin - Exemplary accounts

Asrael Symphony
A major addition

Another Bacewicz winner

match any I’ve heard

An outstanding centenary collection

personable, tuneful, approachable

a very fine Brahms symphony cycle.

music that will be new to most people

telling, tough, thoughtful, emotionally fleet and powerfully recorded

hitherto unrecorded Latvian music

Jonathan Woolf

Jonathan Woolf was born in London in 1963.

As a reviewer he focuses on a significant number of historic recordings, but has a broad range of musical interests He works as a librarian, a suitable profession for cataloguing the mountainous piles of LPs, CDs, 78s, cassettes and books that seek daily to envelop him.

He is a past editor editor of the journal of the British Music Society. He also reviews for Classical Recordings Quarterly [CRQ].