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Thanks Justin

Ebay is a good idea. I found the LP there and ordered it immediately.

Excerpts of the Kleinbasler Gedenkfeier have been played in September 2013 (https://www.radioswissclassic.ch/de/konzertkalender/event/107566).
Excerpts from the Riehener Festspiel have been played in September 2014 (together with Serenade no.1 from Huber). I did not find a link.

Both were played only once at the Tag des Denkmals in Basel (2013) and Riehen (2014). I was there 2013 and 2014 and enjoyed the music.

It is a pity that there does not exist any recording. 

Where did you find the LP? I heard it once on Swiss Radio.

Please excuse my mistakes in the English language. My languages are German and French.

Sorry, I have to correct a detail. I found the "Programmheft" (I don't know how to translate in english) from 1995 and a short text from a radio magazine of 1991 and saw that the broadcast was 1991 for the 150th birthday of the composer. So the broadcast was of course the performance of 1990. I remembered that I heard Manasse first live and then in the radio. But it was the opposite. It is more than 20 years ago and so memory can  be wrong. 

In 1995 I heard Manasse live in the Zurich Tonhalle. Later that year there was a broadcast of this performance in Swiss radio. I recorded it, of course not in very good sound quality. Perhaps a friend will upload this performance for the forum.
In part 3 some seconds are missing. Being not a specialist in computers I can't upload it myself.
I also have recordings from Swiss radio of the cello concerto and Hymne an die Musik op.2. If uploading Manasse works, my friend will perhaps upload the other works too.

My favourite is number 5. But on Sunday November 17 I will hear number seven in concert in Baden (Switzerland), played by an amateur orchestra. It is the first time that I have the opportunity to hear a Symphony by Raff in a concert. And I am very excited about that.

Our local symphony Orchestra (Argovia Philharmonic) has in 2018/2019 several concerts with British Music. The reason is that Douglas Bostock will leave the orchestra after 18 years.
Some really unsung compositions: Pagan Symphony (Bantock), Organ Sonata (Elgar, instr. Jacob), Symphonic Variations (Parry) and in Switzerland also seldom heard The Sea  (Bridge), In a Summer Garden (Delius), Somerset Rhapsody (Holst), The Perfect Fool (Ballet Music, Holst)
https://www.argoviaphil.ch/

I also wrote some years ago to Supraphon about Suk's Under the apple tree and Josef Bohuslav Foerster's cantata May (on an LP together with Smetana Czech Song and Dvorák Heirs of the White Mountain; conductor Zdenek Kosler). But I got no answer too. It's a pity!

[MT]

Thanks for the news. That will be interesting and I'll buy the CD as soon as possible. You can find the score of the symphony on the imslp site:
Link removed (see next post - MT)

I haven't listened to most of the works in my list for quite a long time. I remember at least Coleridge-Taylor, Graener, Hurlstone and Röntgen to be romantic in style.

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932): Variationen über eine norwegische Volksmelodie
Franz Schmidt (perhaps no unsung Composer): Variationen über ein Husarenlied (1931), Konzertante Variationen über ein Thema von Beethoven (1923, for piano and orchestra)
Schostakowitsch: Theme and Variations op.3 (One of his earliest compositions. Date of composition given as 1915(!) - 1922)
Arthur Somervell (1863-1937): Normandy - Symphonic Variations (but for piano and Orchestra)
Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946): Variations for orchestra op.2
George Szell (the famous conductor): Variations on an original theme op.4

End of the list...

As I mentioned before:

- Not all compositions are truely romantic
- All are or were available on CD

Martin

Edward Joseph Collins (1886-1951): Variations on an Irish Tune (1932)
Ernest Farrar (1885-1918): Variations op.25 (bur for piano and Orchestra)
Herrmann von Glenck (Switzerland, 1883-1952): Variationen-Suite (1918, second Version 1930)
Paul Graener (1872-1944): Variationen über ein rusisches Volkslied
Edvard Grieg (of course no unsung Composer): Altnorwegische Romanze mit Variationen op.51
Robert Heger (The German conductor, 1886-1978): Verdi-Variationen op.23
Already mentioned in this forum:
William Hurlstone (1876-1906): Variations on an original theme (1896), Variations on a Hungarian Air (1897), Fantasy Variations on a Swedish Air (1903)


Not all of this compositions are perfectly romantic. Judge yourself. All are or at least were available ond CD

To be continued...

I'm looking through my archive and found first:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air op.63

Perhaps, I will find some more...