What Unsung Composers Were Under Your Christmas Tree?

[JSK]

Some of which I bought myself and much of it not unsung:

The set of 5 Russian operas on Bravissimo/Opera D'Oro
The budget 10-CD Smetana set.
Several $1 CDs from Goodwill, perhaps the most interesting of which is a set of MacDowell's piano concertos.
Parkin's set of Bax's piano music on Chandos. It was pretty much the only good deal at the one (terrible) used CD store in town where almost everything is overpriced and the Sound of Music songs are in the "Classical" section.

[oldman]

Santa guided me to www.emusic.com, where I found for sale a selection mp3 downloads from the Sterling label that cost me only a fraction of the $19.95 @ I would have had to pay for them elsewhere elsewhere. As a result I have a Christmas feast of the music of the music of Paul Buttner, Hans Huber, Ludwig Norman, Elfrida Andree and Frederick Cliffe.

A nice years end IMHO.

[TerraEpon]

The budget 10-CD Smetana set.

Eh? What's this?


Edit: Aha, this: http://www.amazon.com/Bedrich-Smetana-B/dp/B000GFKUEA
Bleh, old mono stuff. Ah well. Someone really needs to release a nice full set of Smetana's piano music that isn't mono with different music on each channel (no lie!)

[JSK]

The budget 10-CD Smetana set.

Eh? What's this?


Edit: Aha, this: http://www.amazon.com/Bedrich-Smetana-B/dp/B000GFKUEA
Bleh, old mono stuff. Ah well. Someone really needs to release a nice full set of Smetana's piano music that isn't mono with different music on each channel (no lie!)

I got it because the perfoamances looked OK and it was cheap.