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In the download section, I offer an interesting piece, Krogulski's Octet for piano, strings, flute and clarinet. According to a Polish site, it was played at Warsaw in 1832:

http://www.bibliotekapiosenki.pl/Krogulski_Jozef_Wladyslaw

(but perhaps I do not understand the text rightly). The Grand Octuor is a rarity in the 19th century (Louis Ferdinand, Anton Rubinstein). Krogulski's work sounds to me like a French composition, less brilliant than (let's say) Kalkbrenner's Septuor, rather in the mod of Onslow's works (there is a storm episode in the finel which recalls Onslow's coup de vent) and, I fear, with the same melodic weakness.
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SemiSerio

Hi! In the DOWNLOADS Folder, I have uploaded the recording of a "Concerto for Two Cellos by Antonin Kraft" (as announced). I found it on YouTube and recorded it an audio file. Antonin Kraft? The work is certainly not by the Esterházy cellist (the style points at 1840-1860) and it is not a Concerto either, but rather a one-movement Concertino. I do not find any similar piece in the list of works by Anton's son Nikolaus (1778-1853). Could it have been written by the latter's son, Friedrich Anton (1807-1874)?
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SemiSerio