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Thanks a lot for the Johanson latvian, this early symphony is already atonal ( like the 10th), I'm not very fond of atonality but I like the way he makes use of it : it's robust, dense and highly polyphonic. 

Thx for the Violin Concerto : I also have a lot of music by the Yossifovs ( father and son) but didn't have that one. At first hearing it was surprising to notice that except for a few parallel fifths in the harmony, the music sounds much more american than bulgarian.
I will upload soon some works by Gubarenko that sometimes are also close to american music and especially Barber.
I should also mention a festive Overture by Kozlovsky that opens (and ends) in a pure Waltonian manner !

And the Merikanto 1+3 CD will become available on classiconline.com ( MP3) and Albany US in spring : save your bucks for a beer or two.

Glad you liked it, so I will upload his fifth soon.

This is the symphony as broadcasted by the BBC, so it should be the complete work. I would say trust your ears, the final track sounds like there are two different sections : first, a brief and swfit scherzo running less than 5' ( 4'35") and then a  march or procession that could considered as be the beginning of the finale.

The links are now restored, the files were deleted and I have no idea of what happened.

Many thanks for the uploads of music by Monrad-Johansen - interesting music and a totally new name to me. 

This must be the week for unpleasant composers, though, having had uploads of music by John Powell, because according to Wiki:

During the German occupation of Norway in the course of World War II, Johansen supported the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling, and during the period of 1942-1945 was a member of the Nazi-appointed Kulturting (Cultural Council).

Yep and Gesualdo was a murderer but I like him a lot ! Like Pettersson I don't think music makes people better.

I also have an overture by Groven and a piece by Svendsen from the same LP if anybody is interested ( The Symphony by Egge is available on CD).

Here's what i have :

Adolfs Skulte,

Symphony No.7 "Preserve Nature"  ( 1981)

1.Mvt 1 Grave-Agitato              11:30
2.Mvt 2 Largo                           11:47                     
3.Mvt 3 Allegro furioso             12:59
                                                36:16

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra,
Chamber Choir "Ave Sol"
Vassily Sinaisky,

This is the breakdown of the mvts in the recording I got from the Latvian radio, hope this helps :

Adolfs Skulte,

Symphony No.3 "Ave Sol" Cis Moll "Cosmic"(1963)

1.Mvt 1 Gravemente                   13:24
 
  Mvt 2 Vivo.Con Fuoco                       

2.Mvt 3 largo                              08:26

3.Mvt 4 Presto                            06:55


                                                  28:45


Symphony Orchestra of Leningrad's Philharmony,
Arvids Jansons,
Recorded in 1963 at the Big Hall of Leningrad's Philharmony ( Mono)

[Vitali Gubarenko (b.1934]

Vitali Gubarenko  (b.1934)

Symphony No.1  (1961)

1. Moderato
2. Allegretto
3. Andante
4. Allegro vivo

USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Igor Blashkow, Conductor

Melodiya LP D 030 393

This is a beautiful and uplifting symphony from beginning to end by a Ukrainian composer. If there is more music by this composer please upload it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8866rhcd9q9hjv4,bng8e7okb3e914l,up24lr978f2lebc,920p9zi83whlfr3

I also like Gubarenko's first a lot. I will upload more by this composer in a few weeks : I need to digitize the LP's

[shamokin]

shamokin has very quickly rectified the Symphony No.8 which is now uploaded in its entirety.

The first uploaded version was actually a passage from the Adagio of Bruckner's fifth if I remember correctly, a symphony I haven't played for a long time !

The first Symphony is actually a piano piece ( which one BTW ?)

I've never heard that claim before! Very interesting...

I took a look just now at a couple of books by Latvian musicologist Ludvigs Kārkliņš, where he discusses Ivanovs' symphonies in some detail (one book is entirely devoted to Ivanovs' symphonies), and he doesn't make this claim. He does state, in the other book, that the work was Ivanovs' graduation piece for his composition class with Jāzeps Vītols at the Latvian Conservatory, so I would infer that Vītols expected him to create a completely original work for this purpose.

Nor does musicologist Arvīds Bomiks mention any such origin in his worklist of Ivanovs' music for Musica Baltica.

I'm curious -- where did you read or hear this? I'll be very interested to do further research if it is indeed the case!

No sorry that's a misunderstanding : I just downloaded the file named Ivanovs01.mp3 and it happens to be a piano piece : did I download the wrong file ?

The first Symphony is actually a piano piece ( which one BTW ?) 

I created an Irish music folder for the Boydell and the Victory but I don't mind  you move my post to the british folder

To me Glebov was a kind of Belorussian John Williams : he is very gifted in finding catchy tunes, his orchestration is really colorful and inventive and he is much more at home with ballet than with symphonies IMO.