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Have only just stumbled across this, and am shocked. I knew his playing through the music of Finnish composers more recent than those considered here - Sallinen, Aho, Rantala, Pulkkis. A fine artist. Those who follow the Finnish music scene will miss him sorely.

the Asrael Symphony's status ... It has had two public performances in London in 2010 - one with the LPO under Vladimir Jurowski in February and one with the LSO under Daniel Harding in May ... So: unsung? No. Undersung? Maybe...   

Posting for the first time, and late in the day for this thread, but it called up a memory.

I think a crucial time for the Asrael Symphony's UK reception was Libor Pešek's tenure in Liverpool. He recorded the piece with the RLPO in 1990, and their magnificent Proms performance (13 August 1991), which I was lucky enough to attend, was an experience I can't imagine forgetting. I got to know the piece in the 80s through Neumann's recording, which I picked up after hearing the last 10 minutes of the piece on Radio 3 and responding to that extraordinary radiance. Only on a full hearing, of course, did I realise the truth of Suk's "You have no idea what that final C major chord cost me." Recordings may have multiplied, but if anything, I think the piece is still undersung.