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It's good to revisit recordings that made an impression on first hearing some years back. This is one of those CDs that remains a favourite of mine - yes, it's expensive (the Goetz PC2 being coupled on a 2-CD release with Brahms' PC1), but the Goetz is given such a warm, expansive performance that it's hard to resist. And it sounds like a major contribution to the repertoire in this recording. George Bernard Shaw championed Goetz's music - no doubt his was an eccentric choice, but it's hard not to agree...

Errors in documentation are a real nuisance.

IMSLP is probably the best resource I know of:
https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Ludomir_R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki

Here's her cycle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwGDoMSLxbI&list=PLnEJuK0hNU7812m9B4ceyuoVoXqVTcKtk

Interesting - somewhere between Scriabin and Medtner, maybe? Alternating faster and slower passages seem to be characteristic of his idiom.

Agreed, Ilja. Dausgaard's the man in Langgaard's symphonies.

Let's hope it won't be too HIP-influenced to be enjoyable. After all, this is post-Schumann and 'on the way' to Brahms.

Thanks for this, Fred, and thanks for such an amazing overall production!

Thanks very much for this news, Eric. Fascinating.

Go for Lintu. Superb performances and recording.

Friends can judge for themselves here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUi9r52weSo

Personally, I don't hear any Gade in this - it sounds more like a late-romantic piano concerto which morphed into a strange hybrid. Langgaard was always a one-off...

The consequence for me is discovering a piece of music on a CD which I'd bought for the main work  that it contains and finding that I'd never listened to it!

One recording of No.4 is, of course, of the original (and greatly inferior) version.

No need to feel guilty. That's the whole point of this forum! As I've said repeatedly, I have my own 'left-field' views on the status of various composers and I no longer feel guilty in expressing them.

Thanks for that summary. Very interesting.

Written in 1882-83 and revised in 1887 and 1895, this is an absolutely splendid symphony. The premiere was conducted by Stanford in Cambridge in 1883 and then, after its first and substantial revision, the work was conducted by the great Hans Richter in London in 1887.

The work marks a major advance over Parry's 1st Symphony in its confidence of expression and its bold writing for the brass, the horns in particular, which come over vividly in Bamert's recording on Chandos. The accompanying booklet notes the foreshadowing of works such as Elgar's In the South and Strauss' Don Juan in the opening movement. It is interesting how Parry seems to be synthesizing an essentially Brahmsian/Dvorakian idiom with hints of Wagner - and anticipating the 'nobilmente' passages of Elgar.

Overall, this is a sadly neglected symphony - surely one which would go down a storm at the Proms.

Update: CD now announced at jpc:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/hans-huber-klavierquintette-nr-1-2/hnum/11165045