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I would love to see a video of how exactly 6 pianos plus orchestra are coordinated. Seems I recall reading about a Czerny polonaise/piece for 8 pianos...

Gottschalk wrote a couple pieces for 16 (!) pianos and orchestra, and one for 13, though they are lost.
There IS an extant piece for three pianos, 10 hands, and orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMWF5BdLJs

Interesting. Wonder if there's anything that isn't on this disc:
https://archive.org/details/cd_the-symphonic-works_bonis-mel-bucharest-symphony-orchestra

They've been niche for a while now.
Someone on another site about the Chandos store closure linked this article here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2018/05/07/the-short-unhappy-life-of-music-downloads/ -- from over six years ago.

I actually would really like to know what #7 is myself...

EDIT: Listening to the whole thing it seems to be a medley as well and I don't recognize or only vaguely recognize most of it.

No 8 is "The Pirates of Penzance" medley

It's actually a medley of both Pirates and Pinafore, and the tunes are listed on the side.

#4 sounds familiar, but it might just have that sort of sound.
#6 as well.
#7 I absolutely recognize but it escapes me.
#9 sounds like it could be Wagner. But not sure what.

#1, 2 and 3 are all from Carmen as noted above, I'm guessing it's a medley that was broken up as they all contain multiple sections from it.

Mostly the same as the old Marco Polo disc, but of course being a modern CPO release it's likely to sound better and have better playing.

It's interesting that some sources seem to say that Walton only wrote the title music for the Richard II 1978 tv production, such as wikipedia and this: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/526894/credits.html

That is probably this
http://web.archive.org/web/20110709191638fw_/http://www.williamwalton.net/works/incidental/bbc_shakespeare.html

The old Walton site doesn't mention this at all...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110525205522fw_/http://www.williamwalton.net/works/incidental.html (nor in Film Scores either)
Nor does Wikipedia.

Now of course there's music from the film Richard III but I guess this isn't what you mean since that's from the 50s.

I remember there was some experimenting with computer composed classical-esque music in the early 90s. This really isn't a new thing.

I wager it was written by Robert Folk for the film. But I could be wrong.

Naxos is easily by FAR the label I own the most discs of. They've been a true god send for both unsung composers.

Also I don't think anyone's mention the other Alfano recording they just released?

https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.574533

Discogs in general is bad at being comprehensive for classical music, so it's extremely hit or miss no matter who the composer is.

I wonder if this means that Chandos's site will merge into Naxos's or will stay like it is?

Not all that odd from a retailer's perspective. Keeping inventory is expensive, so the more customers you can serve with the digital product, the less physical items you need to stock. Of course, one box of Raff CDs won't make a huge difference but across their entire catalogue...

This, however, is Amazon which lists almost anything else. They are as a whole pushing toward digital but this isn't some small label that sells mainly from its website, this is CPO which for sure could be considered a major indie in the classicalsphere.