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A million thanks to those members - you are ALL heroes to me! - for those marvellous " monumental " symphonies by Cuclin.

Anyone have a recording of his No.12.... I believe it lasts just over 6 hours!

My excuse for a catalogue also shows a couple of other works by Hanssens:

Clarinet Concertino
La Romanesca - Fantasy for Orchestra

Accessing them may be a problem and I cannot vouch for sound quality, but if you are prepared to wait a while and are not too fussy about quality, they are yours.

I've got his Violin Concerto No.1 if you want it.

Just downloaded an hour-long opera from a BBC broadcast of 1967: The Lake of Menteith by Harold Noble.

A web search has yielded nothing.

Can Albion, or any other knowledgeable Anglophile, enlighten me as to the life & times of  the composer and this rather lovely opera?

You could write a book about the great number of composers killed in transport accidents.

Chausson & Granados immediately spring to mind.

Or you could buy " What Killed the Great and Not So Great Composers? " by Joseph Lewis who devotes a whole chapter to                       "  Transportation Accidents and the Composers"

Thanks to those members who have replied to my post re:AGT.

Here are details of the NY Concert:

www.richardthetenor.com/Concerts/GoringThomas/index.htm

BTW, for you trainspotters here are a few more "kareninas":
Emils Darzins ( 1910)
Jorge Liderman ( 2008)
Isaac Nathan ( 1864)... O.K. it was a tram, not a train

Like a surprising number of composers, Arthur Goring Thomas met his untimely end under a train.

Does anyone have a recording of his cantata: The Swan & the Skylark.

It was recorded from a concert given in New York several years ago along with some songs and duets.

I had contacted Richard Slade, the tenor who organised the concert, in the hope of obtaining a recording, but (alas) to no avail