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Interesting! The translation seems possible, but not completely certain. I shall have to attend to find out!

Edit: In case anybody else is interested and local, it's on Sun 24th Oct, 7.30, at the Cambridge Corn Exchange (UK)

My curiosity was piqued today when I saw an advert for a concert playing (amongst other things) Ole Olsen's "The Wild Hunt of Thor". (No opus given)
I'd not heard of this piece before, and google didn't turn up much of use.
However, I do have a recording of Olsen's Asgaardreien, Op.10, which might be the same piece.

Does anybody know either the piece or Norwegian well enough to say if they are one and the same, or whether a truly obscure piece is being played?

Ah, brilliant, thank you, I shall have to explore their back-catalogues!

Fantastic, thanks!

Sadly, these links are indeed now dead.

Does anybody have a copy of these that they could somehow get to me? I would do just about anything to get my hands on these recordings; Bortkiewicz is one of my favourite composers.

I am surprised that there exists no introductions thread yet! But, looking around, I cannot see the obvious place to put one.

It occurs to me that in a forum with a relatively small user-base and a very similar set of interests, there could be a few benefits to actually introducing ourselves. We may have specific, ongoing goals we are trying to achieve (e.g. a complete Bortkiewicz collection), which others can help with. We may have specific queries which aren't worth a dedicated thread each, which can be easily answered. And we may have some bigger goals which we will never achieve on our own, but by working together might garner enough interest to go somewhere with them.


I hope nobody minds me introducing myself here:
My name is Andrew, I'm 23, from Cambridgeshire, UK. I've only been interested in classical music for a few years (all rock/metal before that). I've only been interested in "unsung composers" for about 2 years; I came across the Lyapunov disc from the Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto series, which really got me interested. I've been collecting a fair bit since then, and now own about 750 classical CDs (although most is well-known stuff).

I'm keenest on romantic-era orchestral stuff. Brahms is my favourite composer (Perhaps because he was who I first heard live?). Other favourites are Bruch, Medtner, Bortkiewicz, Henselt, and Scharwenka (Xaver). I am very interested in getting an as-complete-as-possible collection of these composers.

I have some big ideas (although, probably just because I think too much...).
I'd like to create a musical works Wiki system, like IMSLP, but without the necessity of having their scores - just an opus list/equivalent with relevant details, and notes of whether/where scores and/or recordings are available. Basically, a record of who wrote what, when, and how to get it. I've done web-application development work before, so it would be a home-grown effort, and I'd trawl biographies and the web for info (and possibly beg publishers for a list of what they've published)
I'd also like to work towards getting the music of many of the lesser-known composers' work recorded. Ok, I'm young and poor, so I can't commission orchestras or anything - but hopefully I will be able to do *something* in the future. Plus, I'm planning to learn the piano, which will hopefully allow me to do some of the easier stuff myself. People like http://www.youtube.com/user/PSearPianist have been very inspiring when one sees what has been achieved with simple equipment, a love of the obscure, and plenty of time.

I have a few queries:
- Which labels/series are good for finding premier or just obscure recordings? I am aware of Hyperion's Romantic x Concerto series (which I own all of), as well as Sterling's main series (which I own about half of). Are there any others I should know about?
- Are you aware of a good source for out-of-copyright audio recordings?
- What's the easiest/quickest method that you have found for ripping audio from youtube clips?
- How do people here back up their collection? Mine is all ripped to FLAC, then put onto an off-site external hard-drive, but is there an easier way?