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A recording of the Symphony no. 2:III Adagio 'Pro defunctis' is available at archive.org with a hand-written note that someone contacted the conductor, Barbara Schubert, and that only this movement was performed at that concert:
https://archive.org/details/cd_francaix-korn-bresgen-weigl-compositions_jean-francaix-peter-jona-korn-cesar-bresge

More of Weigl is available at that site:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Karl+Weigl%22

Come to think about it, there may very well be a place for a non-choral finale:
"Philadelphia Orchestra to chorus: Put on masks. Chorus to orchestra: We're out of here."
https://www.inquirer.com/arts/philadelphia-orchestra-edinburgh-festival-chorus-masks-covid-20220819.html

Let's hope it's recorded - especially the Kauder.

Both Fisher Center performances are scheduled to be live-streamed:
https://tickets.fishercenter.bard.edu/events?k=TON_UPS3

Conductor and Music Director Leon Botstein highlights four German and Austrian composers of the early 20th century whose music was unfairly ignored or suppressed following World War II. TŌN is partnering with the Hugo Kauder Society to debut a new restoration of the Viennese composer's First Symphony.

TŌN [The Orchestra Now], Leon Botstein conductor

Adolf Busch (arr. Peter Serkin): Variations on an Original Theme
Walter Braunfels: Sinfonia brevis
Hans Erich Apostel: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Hugo Kauder: Symphony No. 1

Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
October 29, 2022 at 7:00 pm and October 30, 2022 at 2:00 pm
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/carnegie-hall-preview-the-lost-generation/

Carnegie Hall, New York City
November 3, 2022 7 PM
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/11/03/The-Orchestra-Now-0700PM

That'll be a no then.

It was the phrase 'commercially unavailable' that caught my eye.

Actually they are still 'commercially' available, both from Records International
http://www.recordsinternational.com/catalogue.php?search=Zolotarev
and AK/Coburg via the Draeseke Societies:
https://www.draeseke.org/akcoburg/catalog.htm

They're back up. 
https://www.recordsinternational.com/

Unless 'galloping senility' has finally caught up with me I am very much under the impression that there is already a recording of that 1st of July 2021 concert with the four works mentioned. I uploaded it myself, see here.

I have just downloaded Wheesht's copy of the concert - while the files differ from those that I have, there is no obvious distinction in sound quality to justify a duplicate. It seems that I was not the only one to miss that in Downloads.  'Galloping senility' is obviously a two-way street!

That 1 July 2021 concert was apparently not cancelled as I have a recording of the entire concert, with an enthusiastic audience being present. I can place it in Downloads if there is interest:
Femmes de légende/Clôture du 8e festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris
Concert symphonique

AUGUSTA HOLMÈS: La Nuit et l'Amour, interlude de l'ode symphonique « Ludus pro Patria »
MEL BONIS: Femmes de légende: Songe de Cleopatre op 180; Salome op 100; Ophelie op 165
MARIE JAËLL: Concerto pour violoncelle
CHARLOTTE SOHY: Symphonie « Grande Guerre »

RAPHAËL PERRAUD violoncelle
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
DEBORA WALDMAN direction

Dans le cadre du 8e Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris
En collaboration avec le Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique française

Jeudi 01 juillet 2021 20h00 Maison de la radio et de la musique - Auditorium

La mission du Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique
française basé à Venise, est la redécouverte et le rayonnement
international du patrimoine musical français (1780-1920). Il nous
présente un programme entièrement féminin, car l'histoire de la musique
et, plus généralement, l'histoire de l'art, en France, est marquée par
de grandes figures de femmes qu'on ne saurait confiner dans le rôle
d'animatrices de salon. Les quatre musiciennes à l'affiche sont
d'authentiques créatrices, défendues ici par la nouvelle directrice
musicale de l'Orchestre régional d'Avignon-Provence.

Borowski's Suite Rococo, Crépuscle, and Sérénade have been recorded by Reuben Blundell and the Gowanus Arts Ens on a CD titled "American Romantics II" for the New Focus Recordings label.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8390788--american-romantics-ii

Two other volumes in that series, with the same conductor, are:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8436651--american-romantics-vol-3
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8120730--american-romantics

Borowski's Overture for a Pantomine is available at archive.org in a 1943 broadcast recording by Fabian Sevitzky and the Indianapolis SO; the announced introduction has some background information on the composer:
https://archive.org/details/cd_wellejus-godron-broadstock-guarnieri-borow_henning-wellejus-hugo-godron-benton-broads
The same archive has a copy of Borowski's 1916 book with the somewhat immodest title "Everything Known in Music" from google books:
https://archive.org/details/everythingknown00healgoog/page/n42/mode/2up

I am not aware that he promoted UCs.

JPE Hartmann's Valkyrien and the premiere recording of Rubinstein's Moses would certainly qualify:
https://imgartists.com/news/michail-jurowski-conducts-world-premiere-recording-of-anton-rubinsteins-moses/
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8605119--hartmann-valkyrien-op-62

I had the opportunity to hear Jurowski père on several occasions at the Komische Oper Berlin. All quite excellent but indeed not very unsung; nonetheless a Love for Three Oranges from 2006 was great fun.

The following information comes from the notes distributed with a recording of Peter de Medici from the Letni Festiwal Muzyczny: VII Festiwal Muzyki Polskiej - Krakow 23 July 2011 that is in my collection. While it undoubtedly is of the same concert performance still in UC downloads, the recording that I have is one likely of different provenance. Note that the world premiere of Poniatowski's Mass in F was also performed at the same festival.

I have neither verified nor edited the text:

Jozef Michal Poniatowski (July 24, 1814 - July 4, 1873)
Polish composer and an operatic tenor. He was the nephew of the Polish
general Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski.

The 2011 Festival of Polish Music (Krakow) presented works by the
recently rediscovered Poniatowski. The festival organisers have a coup
on their hands, having managed to find a complete score of the
composer's Pierre de Medicis opera in the National Library in Paris.
Besides a concert version of the opera, the world premiere of
Poniatowski's Missa in F was also performed.

Poniatowski, a nephew of fabled Napoleonic marshal Prince Jozef
Poniatowski, was born out of wedlock in Rome in 1816, to an Italian
mother. His father, Stanislaw Poniatowski was to take the throne after
the childless cousin brother, the last Polish king, who was preparing
him for his successor. After the fall of the Third of May Constitution,
he left the country, sold all estates and lived in Rome where Josef was
born. Josef studied music in Florence. He was also a singer, and because
he had a nice tenor voice, his debut in Florence in 1839, proved to be
successful. He gained fame on the stages of Italian and French, from the
Austrian authorities received the title of Prince Monterondo. He was a
member of Tuscany in Brussels and London, in 1854 he settled in Paris,
where he won the confidence of Napoleon III, who gave him the title of
senator. He served the Emperor to the end, in 1871 he went with him into
exile in London, where he died two years later at the age of 57 years.He
wrote numerous operas for Italian and French theatres. Although
Poniatowski conquered Paris and Milan in the 19th century, it took more
than 150 years for his work to arrive in Poland.

Poniatowski's debut opera, "Giovanni di Procida," was a showpiece for
tenor title role. His achievements are 12 titles (nine with libretto by
the Italian and three French), which exhibited the greatest contemporary
scenes of Europe: Milan's La Scala, Paris Opera, Covent Garden in
London. No other Polish opera composer can boast such success.

So why then did Jozef Poniatowski fall into complete oblivion? Because
the style was epigone Belcanto, a follower of Rossini, Bellini and
Donizetti. In comparison with Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Tchaikovsky his
work seemed anachronistic. Still, in 1860 the Paris Opera decided to
give his "Peter de 'Medici" the same recognition from the Directorate
unsuccessfully courted by Hector Berlioz for his "Trojans". A reviewer
for the premiere of "La Presse" wrote: "Pierre de Médicis was a
brilliant victory of the Opera."

Peter de Medici belongs to the genre known as "grand opéra" which in the
nineteenth century, enjoyed great popularity, especially in France. The
action takes place in the Renaissance of Pisa and in accordance with
Paris rules, ballets and a variety of choral scenic effects were
inserted.

An update some years past  the last posting on this topic  :

The 'complete' film music to The Thief of Bagdad op 76 by Mortimer Wilson [reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald] has now been released as a download - and a CD promised for April 2022 - with Fitz-Gerald conducting the Frankfurt RO: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9303645--the-thief-of-bagdad

Also, the complete film with Wilson's music (this time via synthesizer) can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sst8YrG9zyo

It is interesting that this old thread was resurrected at almost the precise moment that I encountered a work that may be a ballet by Albert Wolff [I first learned of such occurrences of frequency illusion, or cognitive bias, as the "Yellow Volkswagen phenomenon"; it has more formally been termed the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon", but I digress]. The work in question is allegedly a ballet by Albert Wolff that I stumbled upon at archive.org. It is identified as "Ballet 'Loiseau[sic] Bleu' (The Blue Bird) - Albert Wolff".

The piece could well accompany a ballet (or a film) as it consists of a number of contrasting sections that (to my ears) alternate from Paul Juon to wannabe ersatz Mozart. It sounds played by a chamber ensemble with a prominent role for the piano.  I am well aware of Wolff's opera L'Oiseau Bleu, and have a recording; this work seems totally unrelated, though the 1959 broadcast recording of the opera is so murky it's hard to tell and is uninviting to carefully audition. Searching for information on any Blue Bird ballet by Wolff leads to many hits, but all to his 1919 opera of the same name.

So, since this thread is renewed, perhaps the experts and sleuths here might properly identify the work. It can be heard here:
https://archive.org/details/cd_aubin-wolff-compositions_francine-aubin-albert-wolff

I find that for the container-ship that is archive.org, the Pogonyi CD Collection is reasonably well-curated and total misattributions are rare. FWIW, the accompanying piece, the overly-long Symphonie Juive by Francine Aubin (Tony's frau) is correct and identical to the Saphir release LVC1131.

The year 2017 apparently marked the 140th anniversary of  Bortkiewicz' birth and the Heitere Suite was also performed at a concert in his memory in March 2017: Заключний концерт фестивалю пам`яті С. Борткевича
A video has been posted by the conductor of that performance: Igor Puchkov
The orchestra is identified as "Orchestra of the National organ and chamber music hall of Ukraine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapSekDzsS8

Somewhat stale information on crowdfunding efforts for the 2017 Bortkiewicz Festival are here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/international-bortkiewicz-festival-2017#/

My first introduction to the Lemminkäinen Suite came on a 1968 Nonesuch LP with Lukas Foss and the Buffalo Philharmonic featuring a gorgeous bi-fold cover with slightly naughty images for that time.

Naughty boys piqued by jasthill's reference to the cover art of Foss' classic recording, can regale themselves in this relatively high definition pdf:
https://ia804501.us.archive.org/34/items/lp_4-legends-from-the-kalevala-op-22_jean-sibelius-buffalo-philharmonic-orchest/lp_4-legends-from-the-kalevala-op-22_jean-sibelius-buffalo-philharmonic-orchest.pdf

Unfortunately, only 30 sec snippets of each movement of that recording are available:
https://archive.org/details/lp_4-legends-from-the-kalevala-op-22_jean-sibelius-buffalo-philharmonic-orchest