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As an LP lover, I've seen the Richter PC on Ebay a few times, but the condition has always looked questionable. I keep hoping I'll run across someone who is abandoning their vinyl collection and has a copy in mint condition needing a new home.

On that same LP is also Richter's Variations for Piano and Orchestra.

Just being picky, but isn't the correct spelling of his name Philipp (with one "l" and two "p"s)? It does make a difference when searching for recordings. Oddly, one CD does turn up on Amazon with your spelling. But many more turn up with the other spelling.

This is an interesting challenge and I'm going to think a bit more about it before suggesting works.

One thing I would note -- any concerto would require a soloist who knows the work or is willing to invest a lot of time learning the work. It also adds more expense to the programming. So, I will focus my thoughts more about orchestral works.

I also think the 1914 date is an unfortunate limitation. Romantic and late romantic style music was being written even into the 1950s in Soviet Russia, so a cut off date like 1914 eliminates a composer like Myaskovsky. That said, I suppose 1914 was an important historic point with the beginning of WWI, and by then we also were suffering the full frontal attack of modernism.

What a remarkable composer! Died 26 years before he was born, making his Symphony No. 4 "Youth Symphony" (1948) youthful indeed.

He seems to have lived his life in reverse. Quite amazing!

I'm interested to hear this Confession.

Does anyone know his relation (if any) to Villem and Hans Kapp?

Ever leery of anything remotely "period-instrument" performance, I have avoided this CPO disc. I've learned that scratchy strings and bleating horns and breathlessly quick tempi just do not appeal to me, no matter how "HIP" it might be.

Unfortunately, as a result, I've never heard the 7th. Since the composer chose to withhold publication of the piece, I've not been overly concerned about that. But I suppose I  ought to pick it up just so I know basically what the music is like.

I keep waiting for this symphony cycle to be taken up by a top tier orchestra that can do justice to the music. At least we have the String Quartets 1-3 by a first rate ensemble.

Try to convince the owner -- if you can ever get past the gate. It's owning and keeping away from others that feeds the self-adulation. Especially with music, if you give it to the world to be performed and recorded, you no longer own it.

I'm not justifying this. It is a mentality I can't really connect with. But I think it is a real phenomenon.

Why is this any different from a wealthy person buying art masterpieces that have never been photographed or exhibited and hanging them on the walls of his own home, never to be seen by the public or even researchers?

Isn't that the whole point of getting rich -- so one can have "nice things" that re-affirm one's own greatness, stroking one's own ego? And isn't a part of that whole scene the clamor of the unwashed peasants bemoaning that they can't benefit from those "nice things" themselves?

My point is, sometimes it is not about the money, but about the power and control and self-adulation that comes with ownership, just knowing "I'm the only one" who can ever enjoy this.

I can't say that I really grok that mentality, but we see it in evidence all the time, and not identifying with it probably explains why I'm not rich. 

Nina Makarova -- contemporary with Zena Levina, who is already on your list. In fact, this CD has works by both of these women composers.
http://www.amazon.com/Nina-Makarova-Symphony-Concerto-Russian/dp/B000001LPH/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427637845&sr=1-1&keywords=Zara+Levina

She was a student of Myaskovsky and married to Aram Khachaturian. I put together information regarding her works for the Soviet Composers website here -- http://home.online.nl/ovar/makarova.htm

Well, the "Sung composers" thread was terminated because of negative opinions. I'm just trying to get a sense of where the line is regarding expression of negative opinions about composers or their music.

So, now I'm confused. Are we permitted to express negative opinions about music on UC or not?

sdtom, my Kindle uses the same cord that is used for charging my cell phone. Have you tried that?

I'm able to import PDFs directly into my Kindle Paperwhite without converting to a different format.

I guess my rolling-eyes emoticon was not enough to clue that my comment was intended tongue in cheek. Yes, it is true that there is music that I do not care to spend time listening to. But if others like it, I have no problem with that, or with them. That applies to those who enjoy modernist abrasive stuff as well as Baroque or other styles of music that I don't really want to spend time listening to.

Except, of course, for those who like Mozart. How anyone can listen to that drek is beyond me. They are so severely brain damaged, I'm surprised they can feed themselves.

Do I need an emoticon for that?

Thanks very much, Mark. I'm not sure how I missed this guy the first time around, so I appreciate the second chance.

What I don't "get" is the level of appreciation for some composers that bore or irritate me. 

I agree with Gauk. There are some Romantic era composers, both sung and unsung, whose music just doesn't do anything for me (boring) or I just don't enjoy listening to (irritating). There are also some of the composer royalty outside the purview of UC who bore me to tears. But the thing is, I understand what they are doing, so I "get" them. I just don't waste time on them.