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Presto now has the timings for the Naxos release. Here's a comparison with the cpo recording of the Symphony:

  Naxos             cpo

I   13:16          13:07
II    9:10            9:11
III   9:45          10:21
IV 10:16          10:49
TT 42:27         43:32

Not a great deal of difference between the two...

Here's an introduction (discussion) to the opera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHmdVj0N9k

The overture is included in the brilliantly played collection of Bottesini's music:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7975662--bottesini-collection-volume-2

According to their respective websites, the orchestra on the forthcoming release is approx. 60-strong whereas the orchestra on the cpo release is 70-strong, so the major difference will surely be to do with matters such as string vibrato, tempo and general articulation. Muscularity shouldn't be an issue - however, listening to excerpts of the Luxembourg orchestra's Farrenc symphonies, some of the tempi chosen make for less clear articulation than is ideal.

You may well be right, Ilja. I'll certainly be buying this anyway - and the violin soloist sounds really fine from the various excerpts available on YouTube. Speaking purely personally, I like lean and muscular Schumann and Brahms, but not scrawny and small-scale. Just saying...

Rumpf's recording on cpo is pretty standard stuff (well done, though), so there's certainly room for a more muscular alternative.

Very neat, I'd say. Thanks, Eric.

It's good to revisit recordings that made an impression on first hearing some years back. This is one of those CDs that remains a favourite of mine - yes, it's expensive (the Goetz PC2 being coupled on a 2-CD release with Brahms' PC1), but the Goetz is given such a warm, expansive performance that it's hard to resist. And it sounds like a major contribution to the repertoire in this recording. George Bernard Shaw championed Goetz's music - no doubt his was an eccentric choice, but it's hard not to agree...

Errors in documentation are a real nuisance.

IMSLP is probably the best resource I know of:
https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Ludomir_R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki

Here's her cycle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwGDoMSLxbI&list=PLnEJuK0hNU7812m9B4ceyuoVoXqVTcKtk

Interesting - somewhere between Scriabin and Medtner, maybe? Alternating faster and slower passages seem to be characteristic of his idiom.

Agreed, Ilja. Dausgaard's the man in Langgaard's symphonies.

Let's hope it won't be too HIP-influenced to be enjoyable. After all, this is post-Schumann and 'on the way' to Brahms.

Thanks for this, Fred, and thanks for such an amazing overall production!

Thanks very much for this news, Eric. Fascinating.

Go for Lintu. Superb performances and recording.

Friends can judge for themselves here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUi9r52weSo

Personally, I don't hear any Gade in this - it sounds more like a late-romantic piano concerto which morphed into a strange hybrid. Langgaard was always a one-off...

The consequence for me is discovering a piece of music on a CD which I'd bought for the main work  that it contains and finding that I'd never listened to it!