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Apologies for this being slightly OT - I asked Alan's permission before posting, and he kindly agreed.

I wonder if members might be able to help. I have a great passion for Russian and Soviet music (blindly collecting a lot of pieces I don't really like!). Some years ago I bought the first CD in a series of three double CDs of Ukrainian music published by Angelok1. It includes 11 pieces by 20th-century Ukrainian composers - none of which blew me away - though I did find Klebanov's Suite for Strings No.2 and Gubarenko's Chamber Symphony No.2 interesting, so I decided not to get the others. Well, my curiosity has got the better of me, and I'm trying again... unsuccessfully.

Set 1 is commonly available. However, the ONLY place I have managed to find, after several hours of hunting which sells sets 2 and 3 is here: http://www.classicalcds.net/angelok1/. However, when ordering I get a page error and am unable to send the order. I have e-mailed the owner, a seemingly very pleasant chap called Jeffrey. At first he seemed keen to help, but now he has been silent and not replying to my e-mails for two months. I have tried ordering on three different browsers on MAC and PC with no luck.

I have two questions - firstly, have any members ever ordered successfully from classicalcds.net, and if so, might you be able to offer any advice? Secondly, does anyone know of anywhere else I can get these CDs from?

Many thanks,
Lee

Hi All,

I'm (relatively) new to the site and have been reading all your posts with great interest - what a wonderful site! Heartfelt thanks to all the people who take the time and trouble to upload music and contribute to the discussions! Marvelous!

I haven't updated my own website for two or three years, but at one point I did extensive work (inspired by Onno van Rijen's site) researching Russian and Soviet music. You can find the the results here:

http://www.russiancomposers.org.uk/

It contains catalogues (some nearly complete, others just a handfull of works) for hundreds of Russian/Soviet composers (1200 springs to mind, but I forget the exact number). I rather foolishly didn't originally include stage works, so they are missing and it is peppered with contradictions I'm afraid (look at the Mosolov page and the mess his symphonies are in for example!), but it is there if anyone would like to look.

I won't be updating it for the forseeable further unfortunately (I still have many pages of notes to add sometime), as I'm engaged on another project. I have spent the last few years collecting together a database detailing some 16,500 works for string orchestra or small chamber orchestra, which I hope to publish on the web sometime - string orchestra music is my absolute passion (at the moment), you see!

Thanks,
Lee

Hi there all,

What an amazing site - thank you so much for all the time and effort people put into the uploads, and the discussions are very interesting too - it's amazing that people know so much about little-known composers.

My question is this. I had an mp3 collection of about 18,000 tracks, even before I joined this site. I am finding iTunes a little cumbersome and wanted to change software. My absolute primary requirement for this is that the cataloguing software can tell me what is and what isn't on my iPod at anyone time. I have a 160GB iPod which generally holds about 15,000 tracks. So, my only current way of finding out if something is on my iPod, is to go and look down the list! It would be much better if I could look through my library and see some sort of marker or something to tell me if a track was on the iPod or not.

Does anyone know if iTunes can actually do this (I'm pretty sure not), or does anyone have any suggestions for a piece of software that might. I've looked at Media Monkey for example, and can't see anything that says that it can do this.

Many thanks in advance,
Lee