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I have checked my rather large collection and have found the following:

Manon - Besides the opera by Massenet there is a complete ballet with new music by Massenet recorded by Richard Bonynge on Decca.

Cydalise et le chevre-pied - The complete ballet was recorded by David Shallon and the Luxembourg Philharmonic on Timpani.

Esmeralda - This is a rare recording of Pugni's (1807-1870) ballet by the Odessa Symphony on an Adro Records cd.

Also, Oskar Nedbal (1874-1930) had excerpts of 4 of his ballets on 2 Supraphon discs with Miroslav Homolka and the Dvorak Chamber Orchestra: Princess Hyacinth/The Tale of Honza/From Tale to Tale/Andersen.

I purchased a cd about one year ago that was listed on e-bay of music by Ippolitov-Ivanov:
     Turkish March, Op. 55
     Turkish Fragments, Op.62
     On the Steppes of Turkmenistan, Op. 65
     Musical Pictures of Uzbekistan, Op. 69
Also, a suite from Maeterlink's "Blue Bird" by Ilia Sats.
This was an Aquarius cd (AQVR 377-2) devoted to works conducted by Leonid Pyatigorsky & I. Ermakova with the All-Union Symphony Orchestra. All are in mono, not stereo, recorded in 1949 & 1962. It arrived in the USA after about a one month wait from Russia. The music is your typical pot boilers from the Soviet Union, similar to Glazounow's Finnish Sketches, Op. 89.

I wonder why all the members from Great Britain would have forgotten one of their own: Eric Coates. He wrote the Seven Seas March & don't forget Man from the Sea from the Three Men Suite, with the main tune modulating to "Three Blind Mice"! Perhaps Coates was not classified as a Classical composer.

Regarding the Carnaval by Schumann, I have the lp of the Irving, Philharmonia recording and the orchestrations are indicated as below:
1 - Preambule - Orch Arensky
2 - Pierrot - Orch Glazounov
3 - Arlequin - Orch Kalazati (sic)
4 - Valse noble - Orch Klenovsky
5 - Eusebius - Orch Liadov
6 - Florestan - Orch Petrov
7 - Coquette - Orch Rimsky-Korsakov
9 - Papillons - Orch Tcherepnin
10 - A.S.C.H. - S.C.H.A. - Orch Wihtol
11 - Chiarina - Orch Vinkler
(The orchestrators of nos. 12-20 are not known)

It has been very entertaining to read some of the comments of fellow members. So, I would like to put my 2 cents worth of information on myself. I have been a member approximately 2 years. I check out articles about every 2 weeks but about 2 months I completed a project of "burning" 87 cd's with downloads of some of the items that were downloaded on this web site. I was pleasantly amazed at the wonderful works that have been downloaded and appreciate all the work other members have done to help listeners like me enjoy the music of some great unsung composers like. Anyway, I am 71 years old, born and raised in Detroit, Michigan (USA) but currently reside in the Kansas City area. I play drums, percussion, guitar and some piano. I can read music and have several ministure scores. My music collection consists of about 11,000 records, cd's, casettes, reel-to-reel tapes, 78 & 45 rpm discs. The only thing I never collected was 8-track tapes (thank goodness!). I enjoy music from the former Soviet Union of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries (Glazunov, Gliere, the "Kuchka", etc.) I have several older Melodiya lp's that I wish I could download, such as Rimsky-Korsakov's Mazurka on Polish Themes in C Major for Violin & Orch    (1888) that I have never come across anywhere else. I was a member of the Glazunov Society and have a copy of a Glazunov biography written by a member in English. Regretfully I understand this Society no longer is in existence. I moved from Omaha to Kansas City area and forgot to notiofy the Society, but read in a note from a member in Unsung Composers that the Society no longer exists. I hope other members place a posting here and would like to talk via e-mail with some members now that I am retired. I would be willing to trade cd's or burn some compositions onto a cd with some of my collections. I have all my recordings listed on my computer, a la the Schwann Catalogue (something else no longer in existence). My e-mail is detroit7810@hotmail.com. Thank you for your patience if you have this far and I hope this web site continues forever.

I have a copy of Ippolitov-Ivanov's Symphony No. 1 that was issued by HK-Marco Polo in 1984 on album no. 6.220217. I too hope more of his music would be issued on cd. There also is a recording of this Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 37 on CBS issued a few years ago.

I hjave an older Melodiya recording in stereo of excerpts from The Fountain of the Bakhchisrai:
Act I: General Dance; Waltz; Mazurka, Scene and Polonaise, Romance.
Act II: Scene in the Harem; First Dance of Slave Girls; Finale to Act II
Act III: Scene of Maria and Zarema
Act IV: Dance of the Horse-riders; Epilogue.
This was a 2 record lp (10-05071-74) and the other ballet excerpts were from Asafiev's Flames of Paris.

I was a member of the Glazunov Society several years ago. When I moved to a new address I failed to have my mail forwarded. Does anyone remember this scoiety and is still around? I've tried to locate them on the internet to no avail. I would love to join this society again as there were wonderful articles on npt only Glazunov but all the composers of the kuchka and their contemporraries.

I cannot access any downloads of fyrexia. Please advise how I can access the downloads. Thank You.

Jerry