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Does anyone know if cpo has any Draeseke chamber music (eg the cello sonata*) and/or orchestral Julius Röntgen (eg the remaining symphonies) still in-the-can? Just curious, thanks...

*Edit: I have the AK/Coburg CD with this gem, and have heard the recording on Youtube too- but the ready unavailability of a more recent recording seems unfortunate precisely because it's really a lovely work

now listed at JPC and streaming on Amazon Music.
Started giving the symphony a listen, first movement so far, rest later. Nice!!!
(I might be wrong but I'm getting the impression here that Draeseke was a good teacher...)

I think imslp has the miniatures if we're talking about the same thing

A quick check reveals it was written in response to Dukas... and a book about Imogen Holst says "But nothing would have persuaded her to allow the disastrous Phantastes suite of 1911 to see the light of day (apart from its slow movement, of which she was rather fond.)" (Foreword, p.xv, "Imogen Holst: A Life in Music".) (1912 reviews of performances of the suite do not seem to agree with the editor about the adjective "disastrous".)

Thanks!
Wrote several string quartets too, iirc. I'd be interested in hearing one of those

Phantastes as in, inspired by George MacDonald's novel (pub.1858)? (I've been reading it, but didn't know there was any music based on it.)

This is now listed as being scheduled for release on January 3 2025, and audio samples are available at Presto. The symphonic prelude of 1933 was according to the link inspired by "Miracles around Verdun" (Wunder um Verdun) by Hans Chlumberg (1897-1930) (they have his name spelled so very wrong it took me awhile to figure that out.)

SMDB suggests the results were 78s so probably??

According to https://smdb.kb.se/, Atterberg recorded at least part of his 6th symphony (maybe all or most) with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1928. (12 October 1928 according to Chandos. Beecham's recording preceded it by a couple of months, on 12 August, before its public premiere.) Not sure about the 3rd symphony, will see if I can find out. (It was on some Polydor disc, I think. That was also true of the symphony 6 recording.)

Opac.sbn.it has a few listings for Francesco Lanza concerto, including the manuscript for the one for "piena orchestra" already noted that may be the same one that lacks the piano part (oh I see what you mean, the manuscript of the score has the piano part blank- sounds like something Mozart would do, to prevent piracy), a published concerto (Op.7) and a keyboard concerto in B-flat (a stampa = published). Since the mss is in F, the B-flat one is either Op.7 or actually a 3rd concerto (or a typo!).

This sheet music collection contains a Grand Concerto op.7 by Lanza in piano solo or duet form, which , if it's even the same work, may supply the lack. I don't know!... (Hrm. Worldcat lists it, but Ohiolink and other sources don't. So, not sure now. May be another source for that "collection", though.) (Besides AbeBooks... which makes it look more too early than too late for us. Not sure if the concerto at InternetCulturale- which may be a different work- is in our remit; his years were 1783-1862...Lanza Tradition attributes 2 concertos to him. The site also mentions some other concertos that might answer the question, like Gilda Ruta's, if we can find them.)

ms of Francesco Lanza's concerto for piano and full orchestra, mid-19th century.

Re Pick-Mangiagalli, btw, there's also his 3 Miniatures, Op.4 for piano and strings, composed 1909 and published 1910.

Oh. I thought "a refreshing change from the gobbledegook that peppered the Büttner booklet." was a little confusing, but.

The nearest-that-might-work (though not within our strictest remit) and undiscovered-to-my-knowledge piano and orchestra I find (so far) that IMSLP contains (before I expand elsewhere) is a brief 2-movement "Oriental Poem", published in 1932 but pretty Romantic to my eyes, called "La Perla Nera" by Armando Mercuri (1884-1948). A deep search of InternetCulturale-Italia might turn up more orchestral and concertante works by the lost generation of 19th-century Italian composers, though.