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Re contemporaries of Beethoven, I like what I've heard (mostly over Concertzender Hilversum) by Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847) ...

Re Wilhelm Berger: the recording I know about which seems more likely to still be available (?) is of his piano quintet, a 1994 recording on MDG.

There is another Wilhelm Berger, a Romanian composer, but I don't know of any CD recordings of his music. A violin concerto of his was recorded on LP.

Might I add http://radiowavetuner.com/ as a resource and list of stations rolled up into one, perhaps?
Eric

It appears that the most recent addition to the Wartime Music series is Volume 11 - composer Yuri Kochurov.  A new name to me; I've heard nothing by this composer.

It seems Maria Yudina played an Adagio of his (full name: Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov) from about 1956 (available on a CD or CD set of her performances, I think), and that he wrote music for film (as did many other Soviet composers). I don't know if he is still alive (yeah or nay). His name (these may all be different Yuri Kochurovs, of course) also appears as the editor/restorer in 1946 of Tchaikovsky's Voyevoda whose score was destroyed in an opera-house fire? (Google-books  "A Shostakovich Casebook" footnote mention.)  All tangential to the "Macbeth Symphony" that I think is on this latest CD, or to giving his year of birth (besides probably before 1936 and probably earlier).

Worldcat gives the date of publication of the Kochurov Macbeth symphony as 1962.

Hello TerraEpon,
Not a concerto either, but I think Leroy Anderson  ? used a typewriter in one of his pieces, and Antheil used carhorns? or something equally as confronting.
The ABC have released a disc of Tuba Concertos by V.Williams (the best of them),Lovelock,Wilder,Kenny & Danielsson. (ABC # 476 5251). Naxos have a disc of Tuba concertos by Gregson,Steptoe,Golland & V.Williams.(8.557754), and another of Timpani Concertos by Druschetzki,Philidor,Fischer,Molter, & Graupner. Re the Timpani concertos,unless you are an enthusist looking for something different, don't waste your money !
Marcus.

Given Molter and Graupner's basically good music elsewhere, I expect the problem is with the performance myself... and I remember a quite positive review of another recording of the Druschetzky (the concerto for oboe and 8 timpani?) together with a symphonie concertante by Maximilian von Druste-Hulshoff that was of course a review and an opinion but still makes me wonder about the performance on the Naxos disc.  Just a guess though.

Listened today to the 2nd symphony (1911) of this Swiss composer - born Lucerne 1878, died 1959 Grosshochstetten - for the first time.

(I think I recall beginning his en-Wikipedia article, but I hadn't heard anything of his until now.) It was on BBC Radio 3 last week (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r2lk9) (Kitajenko conducting Berne Symphony).  In the 2nd symphony I hear something of Brahms (possibly the Brahms of serenade no. 2), maybe Dvorak, maybe Strauss or Bruckner; the slow movement's ending is impressively still - there's a lot to be said about this 40-minute work and really I'm still digesting it I do hope to hear more of his music and am glad more has been recorded. The 5th symphony of 1929 with its opening Chaconne has always sounded interesting to me.
Glad to have heard his music finally.
(Briefly see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Brun)
Anyone familiar with the other symphonies, the concertos, the string quartets, other works? Heard the other recordings, know of ones in progress? Opinions? Thanks-
Eric

Grizzly would involve a bear. This just sounds gory...

Speaking of M. Weinberg's Mendelssohn-and-others-quoting trumpet concerto, it will be on next Thursday on BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rd8lj

Re Mosolov again (sorry!) : the works on the disk are the cello concerto no. 2 from 1937-5 and the symphony in E from 1944 (http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//NFPMA9978.htm ).
I'm also glad to see so much Myaskovsky in the series and hope the performances compare favorably to others that exist of the same works. Perhaps they'll take the opportunity of a future release to record "Kirov is with us", another wartime Myaskovsky work- probably requires considerable outlay though.
(I also hope a future release will contain something along the lines of Evgeny Golubev's symphony no. 3 of 1942 (rev. 1974), say, and/or the piano concerto no. 1 of 1944 (once recorded by V. Bunin apparently); one can always dream. I would say symphony 5 but its 1960 date is well outside of the Wartime Music's considerations. Though a new recording of that work, or even a reissue, would be welcome anyway.)
Eric

Modern euphonium concertos come to mind, too?  Gordon Jacob's 1969 Fantasia, and others.

My understanding is that this will be in the public domain, since it is only a new edition of an out of Copyright work.

I think IMSLP have learned their lesson from the UE affair and are unlikely to let something similar happen again.

Thal

That doesn't mean it doesn't sometimes take them awhile to find and remove etc. In this case the work itself was first published 1888, but I don't know how much editing went into the new edition so far as copyright law might be concerned in different countries (horrible grammar, I know). Better to scan the original edition to be safe, imhonesto...

I gather the bayan is very similar to the accordion, and has several concertante works written for it by Sofia Gubaidulina-
Eric

British Library Reference Collections apparently has an "Andante and Allegro from the 1st concerto in D for the concertina" by Regondi, but Worldcat says nothing about the scoring? (actually, going to catalogue.bl.uk directly adds &piano. Ok. Published around 1855. Exists in two records, one mentions piano, one doesn't.)
They also have a Beriot concerto (his 1st) transcribed by Regondi for the concertina, and this andante and allegro may be from _that_ work, not from a concerto written by Regondi (I forget, is Beriot's first concerto in D? Well, it might be from someone's work transcribed by Regondi. Hrm. Probably not the Beriot, anyway- which seems to be in one movement?) and the title may not disambiguate enough... sigh. Still, seems unlikely- I would put in a guess for its being an original composition.

Hi all

As far as I know, only two romantic-era concertos for the accordian or concertina were ever composed. Both by one of the most underestimated composers of the 19th Century, Bernhard Molique  (1802-1869). His Concerto no 1 for Concertina and Orchestra in g, op 46, dates from 1853. It popped up on Australian radio in 2002, possibly because some bright spark realised it was the boicentennary of his birth. A really charming work. Have no idea about the recording details. There is some info about it (and Molique's unresurrected no.2 from 1861) on a couple of instrumental chat sites.

regards
Peter

No, I think there's a third, by Giulio Regondi?

Pity. Do you know if there ever has been a recording of the Novak?