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Thank you so much, Alan. I'm very glad that the beautiful work is singing again - I feel very lucky to be Reinecke's conduit. Where do you write? I am hoping that more people who are excited about unsung music will want to write about it as well!

First review came in yesterday, hopefully many more   Nice mention of UC!  Please enjoy and share...
http://www.musicincincinnati.com/site/reviews_2014/Cellist_Samis_Makes_the_Case_for_Reinecke_Concerto.html

Alan, Kickstarter rewards will be sent out within a week following the Nashville CD release party (June 7), so you can expect to receive them later this month, depending on how long the international mail takes...
Thanks again!

[June 10]

Mark, thanks for posting that! I just realized that I have not shared the new June 10 release date (both digital and physical) with UC. Very exciting! I have a CD launch party this coming Saturday night in Nashville: https://www.facebook.com/events/691509107583316/  If you are located anywhere near, we'd love to have you! 

More links:
ITunes preorder: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reinecke-cello-concerto/id871369093?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Amazon:  http://ow.ly/xuxD1
Arkiv: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=1276807

Please check it out and leave a review once you hear it! I'd love to hear what you all think.

Again, I am so grateful to James Levee and UC for leading me to the concerto's discovery. This is a wonderful forum. I have thanked James and you all in the liner notes as well! 

Thanks so much for sharing that, Alan!

Hi all, Just wanted to say thank you again for your help with this.  My Kickstarter is funded at 140% which is truly wonderful!  I'm so excited to make the best recording of this forgotten gem that I can.

Please enjoy the YouTube clip I just posted with footage from our performance last February.  The Grutzmacher cadenza is included in this excerpt from the first movement.  -Michael

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FthgpPIJZnk

Thank you so much Josh et al for your support!  I am very excited about sharing this amazing piece.  Interesting story: the second theme of the first movement sounds quite a bit like Dvorak Concerto's second theme. Often people note, "Wow, that sounds a lot like the Dvorak," as I did the first time I read it with my pianist. As a matter of fact, when it returns in the recap, it's even in the same key as Dvorak's exposition. But guess what... Dvorak Concerto was thirty years after the Reinecke Concerto!

This is a truly beautiful and communicative piece. To me, it's like the Mendelssohn cello concerto that never was, but in a voice all its own.

We're getting there... please keep spreading the word!  Thank you for your help!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelsamis/a-forgotten-cello-concerto

Thank you, Jim, for posting my message.  It's great to be here, especially since this forum is how I initially found the Reinecke Cello Concerto.  As both a cellist and champion of Romantic-era music, I cannot believe this piece has been overlooked.  I really feel that it deserves wider audiences and a place in the standard cello repertoire.  I initially tried to find a copy of the Blees recording, but simply could not.  I must say, though, it was really fun interpreting a concerto completely from scratch with no one else's ideas to compare, though also a great challenge at times.  The performance on Feb. 11 with the Gateway Chamber Orchestra was a great success, and I hope that our recording will be as well. 

I invite you all to explore my Kickstarter page about my project.  In the short video, you can hear clips of the first two movements from our performance.  It is found here: 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelsamis/a-forgotten-cello-concerto

Enjoy, please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions...  -Michael