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May I recommend the gorgeous and very beautiful Piano Quintet op. 51 in D Major of Arensky as played by Lilya Zilberstein and friends from the supurb EMI 3Cd box set of  Martha Argerich's Lugano Festival 2008. It is wonderful.


In fact, all 7 Argerich/Lugano Festival 3 CD box sets are treasures to savor. These EMI beauties won't around for much longer. In fact the earlier sets are scarce and hard to obtain. The series covers the years 2002-2009 and they are highly recommended.

How many of you have heard these Argerich/Lugano EMI boxes? Have you obtained any? If you have not, you should.

I have many recordings of the powerful, massive, intense and severly underrated Piano Concerto by Max Reger. I think the classic Rudolf Serkin Columbia version with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra is the best recording of this thorny masterpiece. Serkin is probably the only pianist who finds the sunny humor in the delightful finale.

What do you think of this work? Which versions do you prefer?

P.S. I would suggest that Marc-Andre Hamelin would be the perfect contemporary virtuoso to record this great concerto and it should be in the supurb Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto series. Any comments about my suggestion?

I have the Dvorianas on order and looking forward to hearing it. The Korngold is a good discmate and Guzman is an excellent violinist, so this CD seems lieka win-win situation, mates.

The Villa Lobos Piano Trios No's 1-3 are fascinating.

I just ordered this Tyberg CD and cannot wait to hear it.

I first encountered the music of Tcherepnin on an LP from the Louisville Ocrchestra Society many years ago. I was captivated by Alexander Tcherepnin's performance of his own Piano Concerto No. 2, with Robert Whitney conducting the Lousiville Orchestra. This LP hooked me on Tcherepnin and since then I have acquired just about everything by this charming cosmopolitan composer on LP and then CD.
Have any of you heard any of the other Louisville LPs? That was a great series, that remarkably was partially reissued on CDs recently. There are some fabulous 'unsung' composers represented there.

Chandos has a wonderful, new 5 CD budget box set containing reissues of Symphonies in their 'Contemporaries of Mozart' series at a very low price. The contents are simply wonderful. Included are 15 Symphonies by Kozeluch, Krommer, Pleyel, Carl Stamitz and Vranicky.

Matthias Bamert conducts The London Mozart Players. The catalogue number is: Chandos 10628.

I am eagerly awaiting this set. Has anyone in the Unsung Composers Forum heard any of these Symphonies? They were first issued by Chandos at full price in the 1990's and early 2000's?

Mackerrras not only excelled in Janacek and other Czech masters, but he was a supurb conductor of composers as diverse as Mozart and Sullivan. He shall be greatly missed.