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For those interested, I'm glad to let you know that the whole album is now available for streaming at the following YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lkluVZxP7fy7h47-fG8h1YLQPc2iCgtd8

A teaser is now online on YouTube with different snippets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAB-98bLrL0

I just recorded and uploaded in the Downloads section a recording of her Cello Sonata No. 2 in E minor broadcast by the BBC on March 12.
I see that her first cello sonata, whose I had uploaded a recording of the first movement only, is now available on the BBC as a Classical Music Digital Archive:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07vlcqf
Unfortunately it turns out that it can't be listened from France (and probably from many other countries). Could one of you Brits out there record it and upload it in the Downloads section?...

Hello,
I just uploaded Jerzy Gablenz's "Piano Concerto in D-flat major" op. 25 (1926), in the same performance as the one whose link is missing for long...
I took it from a Polish source - the sound is slightly better than the one formerly on YouTube...
Corentin Boissier

In the archival recording of Gipps' concerto I uploaded on my YouTube channel collectionCB2, the orchestra is the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.
Indeed, this recording is probably not so old, since the "Ruth Gipps obituary" indicates "in 1948 her piano concerto was a great success. Many years later, it was revived and broadcast by Eileen Broster".

I uploaded on the Downloads Board my recording of the live performance of the first movement (only ) from Leokadiya Kashperova's Cello Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op.1 No.1, which was broadcast by the BBC on March 8. It is a very pleasant and sunny work, melodically and harmonically superior to her symphony, in my opinion. A short snippet of the third movement is available on VIMEO ( https://vimeo.com/218447045 ) and the scores of both her cello sonatas are available at IMSLP.

For those who are interested in hearing more, the complete Symphony No. 1 "Glencree" is available on the BBC for a few days, as it has been broadcast on March 8:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th2dr
As well as her 1934 Overture:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th2dd
On YouTube, there is also her orchestral rhapsody The Magic Harp, as well as her sketch for small orchestra The Wild Geese, although played by a non-professional orchestra concerning this last work.
P.-S. Yes, the fine Violin Concerto lasts 17 minutes in all, since Ina Boyle seems to always compose concise works...

Well, describing a compositional style with words is never easy - I would say that I like numerous composers (cf. my "collectionCB"s channels), that I'm without doubt influenced by many of them, and that I compose - for the time being - in a broadly-defined late romantic style, while adapting my language to the specificites of each work I want to compose, in such a way that I've composed several works which certainly wouldn't fit this forum, like for example my concert piece for piano Solitude or my Double Toccata, which are written in a more modern (yet rather tonal) style.

By the way, according to what I learnt at the Conservatory of Paris, the style of the early Barber can be described as "post-romantic" as it chronologically follows the romantic period while keeping much of the style and incorporating some more "modern" elements, while the word "neo-romantic" should be used to describe the style of composers writing after 1950 who try to reconnect with a broadly-defined romantic language without being themselves directly connected to the romantic tradition.

There is no commercial recording of my music. All the recordings I upload on my YouTube and SoundCloud channels are realized by myself, with my own material.
Actually the situation is harsh in France for a young "neoromantic" composer, as for decades and decades, France doesn't want tonal/expressive/romantic music. Even if Pierre Boulez died in 2016, his influence still controls almost the entire French musical panorama. It's no surprise that I can't find any labels eager to commercially record my works, and most of my works have never been performed "live" in proper concert halls...
So I struggle to find some musicians interested in performing my works - I generally have to self-perform my piano works and the piano part of my chamber works.

Hello,
I'm Corentin Boissier, French neoromantic composer (b. 1995). Here's my recent Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 21 (2017), performed by the American cellist Eric Tinkerhess with myself at the piano. As this sonata is written in a style close to the one of French composers of the late XIXth/early XXth century, I think it should fit with this forum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB16n9_nYc
1- Lento grave – Allegro non troppo (11.39)
2- Scherzo : Presto con brio (8.37)
3- Recitativo – Allegro moderato ma risoluto (5.36)

I would be interested by the recording of Chasins' "Piano Concerto No. 2".

Hello,

Enigma solved ! This file didn't come from Unsung Composers. It's a recording from a CD :
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) :
- D'un soir triste (1918)
- D'un matin de printemps (1918)
Dir : Yan Pascal Tortelier

Splendid Diptyque, in a style close to Albert Roussel, Florent Schmitt and Pierre-Octave Ferroud !

Musically,

Corentin Boisssier

This is:
VAN DIEREN - Elegy for Cello & Orchestra, Op.1 (1908)
Bunting/RPO/Fredman. (ex-BBC Radio 3, 18th Jan. 1976) 

No, it isn't this work (the unknown work is not an elegy and includes no solo cello part). Maybe it could be composed by the Australian-American composer George Boyle ?