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It gives me a 'your connection is not secured' error right now.

You can always try The Wayback Machine in cases like this.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://theoperadatabase.com/ seems to be fine.

Looking at the Durand page- has Calvocoressi's translation been recorded? (Durand's catalog also mentions the derived chorus and orchestra Nuit persane Op.26bis written in 1891.)TerraEpon- is Nuit persane what's on that orchestral CD? La brise, La fuite, Les cygnes?

No, just direct orchestrations of three songs from Op. 26.

However, 26bis IS on this set: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Saens-Helene-Persane-Rosamund-Illing/dp/B01KB1Z5FW/ which I'd highly recommend except for that price, yikes.

And a fine recording it is.

This new one...what makes me curious is the text about "a previously unrecorded version of Saint-Saëns's six Mélodies persanes" -- certainly it's been recorded on this CD:
https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Sa%C3%ABns-Tassis-Christoyannis-Jeff-Cohen/dp/B01LQCBYIM amoung at least some of them recorded elsewhere.

Or did it mean orchestral versions? Three of them are here:
https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Sa%C3%ABns-Christoyannis-Orchestra-Svizzera-Italiana/dp/B073LY2887 -- the liner notes imply (though don't definitively state) he only orchestrated those three.

So...,.the Sinfonietta is for two wind quintets...and it's Raff. Given I don't have that old Tudor CD this might be something I need.
Which piece is the sample from?

CD-Rs are a perfectly legitimate way for a record company to keep catalogue items available when demand does not justify replicating a CD with a minimum run of 500. The sound quality is identical and its duration as a media source is up to 100 years. There is no legal obligation to declare the type of media used, however, if you are unhappy with the product you have received, then Guild will offer you a full refund for the item in question but it cannot offer a replicated CD. Please let us know.

I got a very similar quote back when I got an ArkivCD buying through Amazon (waaaaaay back when they were pretty much limited to Marco Polo and a few other labels).

Yeah, I had the Granados piano box set which I got sometime in the mid 2000s which was already by that point on CDRs.

No, but he's too often 'unseen', i.e. visually unsung.

Oh, and the piece is definitely within our remit! Why wouldn't it be? Because it was written in 1950?

Well if you say it it, then it is.

His Piano Concerto is one of my all time favorite pieces and one of the only pieces I try to buy every recording of (five I know of, including an arrangement for Piano, Theater Organ, and Percussion).

Of course Leroy Anderson is neither unsung nor really within the forum's 'remit'.

He is one of my favorite composers granted,...

I never found the CD at an easy to buy from place, but pretty sure I've seen it on the 'usual suspects' for streaming/downloading.

I absolutely love the previous Naxos CD with his music as well as a disc that has many of his family (including a mere one of his pieces) but ooof, 'antiquated' sound can get grating. The 'Satie played on an 1890 Erard' or whatever I heard was just hard to listen to.

Also for some reason the digital platforms title the release "excerpts" but I see no indication it's cut or whatever, in that article or in the artwork.

So I dunno if this is the same recording mentioned earlier in this thread, but a 1975 live performance has finally been released on CD:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8906382--johann-strauss-ii-ritter-pasman

Will go nicely with the recent Naxos disc for violin and orchestra.

Never heard of Schreker or that work. I love the Zemlinsky so this might be worth looking into....

A few days ago I saw someone talking about something a parent did "in the days of CDs" as if it was a long time ago.