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Thanks for uploading the Jirak Violin Sonata. I could not quite make out  the names of the performers as announced by the Czech radio lady. If you had better luck, please tell me who the performers are.
Thanks.

Can't quite make out the names of the performers as announced by the lady aanouncer of the Jirak Violin Sonata.
Please let me know what they are if you had better luck.
Thanks.

Yup, that's the same answer I got, except in English. I have asked a friend with contacts in Italy to see what can be done. If nothing else, it would at least be good to verify that the wanted discs actually exist.
Someone above mentioned that this company's releases include "some known artists". Hey, this site is about COMPOSERS, so who cares about the artists when we are talking about incredibly rare, never before heard or dreamed about repertoire like the Margolas, Veretti and Viozzi CDs.

As I noted in my initial post, I did try to order via email, but was told that Rainbow Classics does not sell through the mail. and their CDs are available in only "a few European countries", Italy presumably being one of them. I was glad to hear that some of their issues were once sold through Berkshire, but I assure everyone that none of the Margolas (ESPECIALLY the several orchestral ones) nor the Giuzzi, or Veretti were ever sold through Berkshire. Me and my friends would have grabbed them immediately.
So, the CDs I am after remain extremely elusive and I am hoping that someone in Italy can help.

Rainbow does have a website: www.rainbowclassical.com
Therein they also list various emails and telephone numbers to contact them. Their site says that they are working on having online sales, but as yet it is not ready. Perhaps they are bogus and the listed CDs do not exist; they did look too good to be true!

I recently encountered a website for an Italian company called Rainbow Classics. They list a number of highly desirable releases by such 20th century Italians as Franco Margola (several orchestral CDs), Antonio Veretti, Giuolio Viozzi, etc. Upon contacting them I was informed that their CDs are available only in "a few European countries", presumably Italy being among them.
Can anyone help this USA collector obtain these most attractive soundings discs? I love collecting the music of conservative 20th century Italians whose works have long been ignored, for either political (taint of fascism) or aesthetic reasons or both.

Many RAI tapes were available in the US for purposes of radio play and many were broadcast and recorded. Many of these tapes have been circulating among collectors for decades. But a number of others were either not broadcast or not recorded by anyone, at least I have never seen them. I know of their existence from the catalog that accompanied the tapes.
Here is a partial list of those "missing" RAI tapes. All are orchestral or vocal-orchestral works.  Perhaps some member of this site has some of them:

Renzo Bossi, "Vibrazioni"
Orazio Fiume, Canto Funebre
Carlo Franci, Vibraphone-Marimba Concerto
Sandro Fuga, Trumpet Concertino (This was once promised to me by the composer's daughter, but she never sent it)
Terenzio Gargiulo, Oboe  Concertino / Serenade
Guido Guerrini, Variations on a Sarabande of Corelli
Mario Labroca, Madrigals for Orch.
Lino Liviabella, Symphony for Voice & Orch. (After T.S.Eliott)
Franco Margola, Fantasia on Ahmaric Themes
Virgilio Mortari, Varriations
Riccardo Nielsen, Sonatina for Piano & Orch.
Flavio Testi, "Crocifissione"
Gian Carlo Tocchi, "Luna Park" Ballet Suite
Mario Zafred, "Duino"-Cho. & Orch.
Ottavio Ziino, Piccola Sinfonia Concertante

These guys are almost all conservative 20th century composers and surely qualify as unsung, although a few like Margola have been turning up lately on CD.
I would love to know if anyone has any of the music on this list.