Curt Protze (1891-1967): Orchestral Works from Antes

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How about this intriguing release of (shortish) orchestral works by the virtually unknown German composer Curt Protze (1891-1967): http://recordsinternational.com/cd.php?cd=01P004

Judging by Records International's description of the recording, it appears Protze would fall within UC's remit:

There is very little information about this composer but it may be that his career after World War II was harmed by the work he did scoring Nazi "Kulturfilm" productions which promoted German town and country life in that best of all possible Reichs. Three of these are included here and contain much lovely, conservative Romantic music, some of which is almost pictorial (well, "Spring in Halle" pretty much lets you know what would be going on on screen, doesn't it?). But his Münchhausen overture is full of Richard Straussian bluster and bonhomie and the opera prologue is the best thing here - quasi-Expressionist in its vivid colors right out of Schreker and/or Zemlinsky.

It's not exactly cheap, but as an insatiable collector of late-romantic orchestral music I will most likely be snapping this one up!