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for those interested (completist,me?) in PIT whole concertante works with piano:Oleg Marshev on Danacord (DACOCD586/587) added the andante & finale op.79,Concert Fantasia op.56 and Allegro in c minor (1863/64)with a danish provincial orchestra....

for example Gottfried Huppertz (1887-1937)famous for the Metropolis fritz Lang masterpiece (1927,cd Capriccio C 5066),but also Die Nibelungen (F.Lang,1924) and the medieval tragedy "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (Gerlach,1924),an astonishing forerunner to my so dear Korngold !

The last refuge of romantic music is in films and some ballets (sometimes from the same pen): lend an ear to Finnish composer Tuomas Kantellinen:his ballet music Snow Queen.

Did you knew that secret jewel: Tchaikovski 2nd piano concerto...?recently discovered on radio (without composer's name aired before listening)but except for complete sets of his piano/orch.works, when have we chance to listen to it ?

the Vitezslav Novak one(premiere rec.)is due to release by Supraphon, early in September !

Sir Charles Mackerras recorded the Vorisek Sy (+Arriaga one)for Hyperion !

As a Korngold devotee, I wish a recording (CPO,please!)to complete his works based on silver/golden age viennese operettas (see his letters to J.strauss II Adele)

victim of tuberculosis, protégé of Tchaikovsky,friend of Rachmaninov,ploughed by Rimsky-Korsakov (the Young wife o Vassili ...send a faulty copy of his 1st symphony to the professor..!)fortunately, russian Maestros (incl.Svetlanov & Jarvi recorded his orchestral works, Following the cd of Veronika Dudarova on Olympia

For me,a kind of nordic Berlioz,without the woolly forewords of the boiling Hector (see mad poet of Fantaéstic Sy,Lelio et al),discovered some years ago through a "cd renaissance" (EMICl. Matrix etc.)

try the swedish entrepreneur /dilettante composer Berwald, a kind of nordic Berlioz,without the woolly forewords of the boiling Hector (see mad poet of Fantaéstic Sy,Lelio et al)

romantic melancholy ?

there are some dubious works/arrangements/kontrafakturen by Beethoven,J Haydn recorded byD.Klöcker on Orfeo and THE violin concerto (Beethoven!)op.61 arranged by M.Pletnev for Michael Collins (cd DG 457652-2,2000)coupled with Mozart great one !

Don't hope to find some clarinet Paganini composing for himself,the only minor one player/composer was Joseph Beer (1744-1812)revived by maestro Klöcker (cd Koch-Schwann 3-6422-2h1,1997),see alsoHeinrich Joseph Baermann (1784-1847)thanks to Klocker again (cd OrfeoC065011A),and Iwan Mûller (1786-1854) on a MDG cd (901 1846-6 in 2014)

child prodigy,Barnum-like touring virtuoso through 3 Americas (the States,the South and the west indies)he went in Paris and then the toast of musical socialites 'Berlioz, Chopin...) his piano solo works have scent of the isles (Cuba etc.)English-jewish father, french mother of aristocracy settled in St-Domingue (Haiti)he left also various works for piano & orchestra (undusted by Vox in the 50/60') and an opera "Escenas Campestres (rustic scènes),all with infectiouscaribbean rythms and tunes !

I remember 2 discoveries thanks to radio or cd :-his  charming1974 stage musical "The Good Companions" (cd DRG15020) or his original1962 film score for "two for the seesaw" (cd KritzerlandKR20012-5) and I agree : he was that very american kind of musician ,like dear Lenny : musical polymath