Flemish romantic music/ Flemish rhapsodies

[alberto]

Reading the topic "musical idioms" caused me to take from the (more or less ordered) shelves some CDs of Flemish Music of late 19th century or early 20th century (up to the thirties).
I rembered the following five CDs as containing good stuff.
"Flemish Romantic Music" is actually the title of Naxos 8.550584 (Belgian RadioTv Orch., cond. Alexander Rahbari).
Contents:
-Marcel Poot Cheerful Ouverture (not at all romantic, and really cheerful)
-Jan Blockx Flemish Dances
-August De Boeck Fantasy on two Flemish Folksongs
-Lodewijk Mortelmans Morning Mood
-Arthur Meulemans First Symphony
-Paul Gilson Sailors' dances (actually mov. 2 of "The sea")
The Naxos should be easily available and is according to me very playful

Then I have four CDs of the disappeared (?) label "Discover"
High Priest of Flemish Music appears Alexander (formerly Alì) Rahbari, Austrian (formerly Iranian). A good conductor I have seen in actual concerts at least 4 times.

The oddest CD is "Flemish Rhapsodies" (Discover 920101)
Five "Flemish Rhapsodies " composed by
Jean Absil (indeed Walloon)
Michel Brusselmans
Maurice Schoemaker
Marinus de Jong
Albert Roussel (obviously French)
for good measure there is also
August De Boeck "Dahomeyan rhapsody" (also Percy Grainger composed a piece titled "In Dahomey")

"Salve Antverpia" (Discover 920100, Rahbari cond.) contains works by
-Lodewijk Mortelmans
-Flor Alpaerts
-Jef Van Hoof
-Jan Blockx
-Daniel Sternefeld

Discover 920321 (cond. Rahbari) contains "premiere recordings" of works by
-Flor Alpaerts
-Arthur Meulemans
-Henri Georges D'Hoedt

Discover 920126 (cond. K.A.Richerbacher) claims to contain "first recordings" (1987) of
-Paul Gilson The sea
-August De Boeck Symphony in G
(Maybe exist -or existed- Marco Polo alternatives).

I rate all the above at least interesting.
Maybe somebody has something to say about the legacy of the label "Discovery".

[eschiss1]

The Gilson and de Boeck existed in, I think, multiple other recordings including one each on Marco Polo.  I remember reading an interview with Rahbari in Fanfare Magazine as he was beginning Discover Records... that was awhile back.
hrm. also Benoît's Hoogmis (High Mass) he recorded for that label - Benoît, two of whose concertos/symphonic poems for soloist and orchestra (op.43) I've skimmed in score (I have his overture Charlotte Corday from 1876? which I should listen to again- I think I liked it- conducted by Latham-Koenig...) seems to have been generally interesting too...