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I am glad the link now works. Commercial recording: I cannot imagine that Nelson Goerner learnt the piece only for a single concert, but I have no idea if a release is planned. Perhaps someone knows more? The series of the Chopin Institute could be a candidate for such a CD (hopefully with more Krogulski).
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SemiSerio

As far as I can tell, it does work. Just try again
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In the download section, I offer an interesting piece, Krogulski's Octet for piano, strings, flute and clarinet. According to a Polish site, it was played at Warsaw in 1832:

http://www.bibliotekapiosenki.pl/Krogulski_Jozef_Wladyslaw

(but perhaps I do not understand the text rightly). The Grand Octuor is a rarity in the 19th century (Louis Ferdinand, Anton Rubinstein). Krogulski's work sounds to me like a French composition, less brilliant than (let's say) Kalkbrenner's Septuor, rather in the mod of Onslow's works (there is a storm episode in the finel which recalls Onslow's coup de vent) and, I fear, with the same melodic weakness.
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In the Grove, it is said that Nikolaus gave some concerts with his son Friedrich Anton, at least in 1820-1821. So one can think about Nikolaus composing a highly virtuosistic piece for himself and Little Fritz...

I have no other Information about the work and I did not know there was another performance online. Many thanks for telling us this. Does it perhaps mean that the work was published? As to the date, I do still not think it can be by Antonin sen. but possibly by Nikolaus - this of course if the work is played in its original form and not in a romanticizing arrangement. How like is it that a composer born in 1749 would write a compact Concertino of this kind? The first ones seem to have surfaced at around 1810-1815 but written by composers who were much younger that Kraft like Weber and Bärmann.
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Hi! In the DOWNLOADS Folder, I have uploaded the recording of a "Concerto for Two Cellos by Antonin Kraft" (as announced). I found it on YouTube and recorded it an audio file. Antonin Kraft? The work is certainly not by the Esterházy cellist (the style points at 1840-1860) and it is not a Concerto either, but rather a one-movement Concertino. I do not find any similar piece in the list of works by Anton's son Nikolaus (1778-1853). Could it have been written by the latter's son, Friedrich Anton (1807-1874)?
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SemiSerio

I cannot check if the recording is the same as on the Dohr CD. My recording is from a WDR broadcast and I thought it was a concert performance. I did not even know that there was a commercial CD of Wüllner's works.
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Thanks. I do not know the italian recording. Could you perhaps share it?
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Hi! I'm glad the Goetz upload was appreciated. A word upon the orchestra: There used to be two orchestras as a part of the Südwestfunk: the Symphonieorchester for the classical and modern repertoire (with conductors like Rosbaud to Gielen) and the Rundfunkorchester for lighter music (operetta, symphonic dances etc., like the BBC Concert Orchestra; this is the orchestra playing the Goetz Overture). But they played a lot of rarities, too, especially under Emmerich Smola (1922-2011), a Bohemian conductor. The Südwestfunk was merged with the Süddeutscher Rundfunk some years ago, it is now called SWR and still owns two orchestras: the SWR Symphonieorchester (ex SWF SO) and the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester des SWR (ex RSO Stuttgart). These ones will also disappear. In twenty years, the Land of Baden-Wuerttemberg will have merged three full orchestras into one, which also means that they will play less and less unusual repertoire.
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The mp3 links have been added.
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Hi! Is there any chance that someone will re-upload the rare Symphony by Meseron? The link does not work any more. If of interest, I can upload a Symphony by Neukomm, written for Rio de Janeiro.
Many thnaks
SemiSerio