Alfonso Rendano (1853-1931)

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks, Alan. The audio extracts are promising.

[terry martyn]

The Albanian YouTube recording sounds like watered-down  Brahms at his most ponderous, and I am not sure that this is down entirely to the conductor and orchestra.  Long, and tepid, and short of ideas,perhaps.

Just because a manuscript is discovered  (cf the Suppe symphony) does not mean that a  recording should ensue.

[Alan Howe]

I'll be purchasing the CD if and when it appears: I find the history of non-operatic music by Italian composers in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries very interesting, e.g. Sgambati, Martucci, et al... 
    I note that the new recording was made in Germany, with the excellent Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, the same band featured on the first-rate cpo recordings of Dietrich's Symphony, VC, etc. That gives me confidence that the performance will be a good one. Here's the finale:
https://soundcloud.com/naxosmusicgroup/rendano-a-piano-concerto-iii-vivace
Sounds good to me!

[eschiss1]

I'll try browsing SBN later to see if I can find locations of scores etc. of Rendano's works in Italian libraries but it's loading very slowly right now...
(It may be my browser, which is doing something weird when it does connect. ICCU SBN is working better but doesn't quite do what I'm looking to do. Returning to Google Chrome from DuckDuckGo is seeming better all the time, or even other browsers.)

[Mark Thomas]

Here's the finale:
https://soundcloud.com/naxosmusicgroup/rendano-a-piano-concerto-iii-vivace
Sounds good to me!

Me too. Something about Rendano's writing for the piano and the spareness of the orchestration reminds me of Anton Rubinstein's concertos, which is not a bad thing.