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Well, Sibelius is probably as well. And Peer Gynt.


But yeah, it sucks because I love it. It's crazy that even a large Dvorak score is has only ever been recorded once -- in the 40s at that!.

Lots of incidental music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Zden%C4%9Bk_Fibich

The title "Old England" makes me really curious.

I for one am quite the fan of 'Souvenir d'Amerique'.

I enjoy it as well, though I do wish the tracks were broken up a bit more.

I vaguely remember it being well regarded when it came out as that's when I was really getting into Sibelius. That said, of the more unsung stuff the recent Naxos series of the incidental music conducted by Sergestram is probably better (and also available as a bosset IIRC) and for the non-concerto violin and orchestra stuff there's a great disc on BIS (of course, part of the later complete edition).

Ok I suppose I can understand the issue with her intro. It was a little silly.

What's sickening is the two comments above me. I'm absolutely boggled by the animosity here. 'In the style of' arrangements are a pretty common thing, so if that's you're beef I guess you hate Peter Schickele too?
I mean no it's hardly the best thing in the world but I fail to see how it could even warrant such a response.
It's certainly enjoyable enough I'd listen to it again.

I second Alan. Lets concentrate on other composers who write music in the romantic medium. For instance what about Schmidt-Kowalski. I'd love to hear his unrecorded symphonies and concertos.

Not sure I understand this statement. Ok so other composers need more love fine, but what's wrong with noticing what she's done looking beyond any hype trains? Either you enjoy it or don't but you're effectively saying here "she's bad because she's popular" which is...a most annoying attitude.

I enjoyed the piece and if she keeps writing more like it, I wouldn't complain.

He did indeed write quite a lot of choral music (as well as trhee operas and some songs) but pretty much all his instrumental music is on disc. Granted I'm unsure about piano music though he wrote very little.

I've already given this a listen some weeks ago, it's for sure great stuff.

Oh nice. I have a few tracks from that I got digitally but it might be worth it to grab this.

It's just an anthology of the original albums, no new mastering and (as per normal with that series) not even liner notes, just a track list on the back of each cardboard sleeve.

So pretty missable for me who has most of it already.

Gotta be the  Fantaisie, or some sort of compilation (perhaps of the Fantaisie, Romance and Odelette?)

Though the Clarinet Sonata is a major piece in the clarinet rep, so....

People like to call "oh we have the parts but no full score" a reconstruction for some reason (a good example is Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1). Never understood that.