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Agree, Adriano, heard the "Ocean" symphony in my distant youth as first contact with Rubenstein and have never stopped loving it. On other things, I too want to like his other music, some of it is not so easy for me.

MusicaNova has a channel on YouTube so maybe the pieces you mention will be there someday, some interesting pieces there, such as Jacopo Fischer's 7th symphony, also Warren Cohen's son is a composer and only a teen and his Dad plays his pieces, some works of Graham's on there from when he was maybe 10 or younger, not for this forum, though tonal and well done, but interesting always to hear these prodigies' works. (Hoping for Alma Deutscher's piano concerto sometime).

Maybe Johanna Senfter? Have only ever heard her 4th symphony, would very much like to hear more (anybody know of other pieces available?). Agree with Adriano that it seems unnecessary to listen to music only to find "influences". Of course, listeners with trained ears will hear echoes but then also that training just probably helps them put it all into perspective, hopefully to find something to appreciate about the "influenced" composer's highly subjective sound expressions. I said in some forum once, maybe this one, that all music must have descended from birdsong, so rather than decry a musical passage that is 'derivative' of the warble of a two-toed yellow faced whickerpoof, just listen to it or don't!

Recording link in downloads of Schreck Christus.

I recently gave most of my CDs to my local university library with the exception of my most beloved ones, and among those kept were all the Guild CDs, but especially the Brun series and the Marco Polos that Hadrianus gave us. Guess the recently emerged American cultural marauders will have to pry the beautiful sounds from my cold dead ears!!!

This is one of those unsung concertos that would be a great "revival" project (says he who has not two pennies to rub together).

Movements II and III.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRO_H-DF7nc

Thanks, Hadrianus, your points are well stated, and who else but a conductor of your stature would know more about the music you play (besides the composer)? I understand and respect personal opinions, so, to state my own, apparently I hear "beauty" most places others hear "turgid". I think it is to my advantage to be an emotional listener rather than an analytical or educated one, and the experience of listening to Respighi is one of my favorite feelings.

Live performance of Concertstuck:
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbqe3SARNDs[url]

God forbid one should forget the idiom issue!

Loved the excerpts on JPC website, thanks for the steer. Makes me "hungry" to hear his works for violin and orchestra!!

Maybe not to you, hope to have the chance to make up my own mind, something I am quite capable of. Jim

But you guys are our "Mama", so of course we love Mom's songs and lullabies! Hopefully we can survive as a free country and keep singing them, different words or not.

Her Requiem is on YouTube and quite beautiful.

Thanks, Giles, always intriguing to hear about someone I hadn't heard of before, then ache to hear their music, sounds like this concertino would be pretty interesting, certainly an interesting life. Where is that lottery win I need to produce recordings of little forgotten tidbits?