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Unfortunately, Sokhiev is possibly the worst of all living conductors...

In this CD box are included the recording of the first live performance in Barcelona 2019 and the following studio production of Scherber 3, both with Schlüren conducting. Unfortunately, Schlüren needs 67 minutes compared with the 54 minutes of Lampson (col legno) and Scherber's own historical recording with piano. For me, this does not at all work and makes the recording VERY boring and tame. So, stick with Lampson's recording to get the full insanity and astonishing drive of Scherber 3.

The above mentioned concert will be broadcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r96x

I am not really happy with this release of the live recording of de Hartmann's cello concerto, as I had assumed that a studio recording (with the same forces) had been planned, maybe together with another work to make up for a full CD. So, does this mean that the "Thomas de Hartmann project" has come to a stop? But maybe I am too pessimistic...
By the way, in a few days a concert including a suite from de Hartmann's once successful ballet "Scarlet Flower" is due to be streamed: https://bsolive.com/events/rachmaninovs-rhapsody-poole

I agree wholeheartedly. I appreciate nearly all of de Hartmann's orchestral works released so far (see https://thomasdehartmannproject.com), but the Symphonie-Poème No.1 is the most remarkable piece we've got to know. I am looking forward to hearing No.2, whenever this will be recorded...

I knew Deshevov only for his great (and highly modernistic) opera "Ice and Steel". The pieces presented here are from his "socialist realism" period and as such more conventional but very crisp and enjoyable, more classicistic than romantic. Thanks for uploading this wonderful rarities, I am looking forward to repeated listenings!

I could have sworn that there existed a cpo-recording of Weigl's symphony 3 (combined with the final slow movement of symphony 4), but neither do I find it in my CD shelves nor in the internet. So my brain seems to play me a truly cruel prank...

Anyway, I have a strong feeling that Karl Weigl is more a master of small forms, whereas his symphonies appear to me rather pointless.

"How might Beethoven have written the alternative instrumental Finale of the 9th?" - well, we know the answer: not at all.

"I'm pretty sure they would have regarded themselves as Ukrainian by origin and culture."

This is exactly my point: Bortkiewicz and Gliere would definitely NOT have regarded themselves as Ukrainian, whereas Lyssenko and Lyatoshinsky surely/probably would.

Excusez-moi, but calling Bortkiewicz or Gliere "Ukrainian composers" is ridiculous, as it would be to call Mahler a Czech composer (with the difference that Czechia sort of existed then, whereas Ukraine did not).

No, it is Michail's father Vladimir's symphony 5. ("born 1972" is wrong, you can have a look at the cd cover and find "born 1915" there.) Vladimir the son does not compose, and is imho not as good a conductor as Michail was, who was often as a guest in Vienna and did very interesting and well conducted programs there.

Friendly and humble conductors loved by musicians are very often not conductors loved by audiences.

In principle, yes. But in fact it is quite strange to read everywhere how great he was, when really everybody found his conducting very boring and nobody liked his "interpretations" (he even succeeded in making Shostakovich's Eight (!) dull - I never had this problem with any of his colleagues). He simply wasn't a good conductor and there is no reason to claim this now, just because he is gone. That's it.

Arguably the most boring conductor of all time...

By the way, does anybody know anything about Maliszewski's Fifth Symphony? It is mentioned in the wikipedia article on Maliszewski but seems nonexistent elsewhere.