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Not a Boulez lover, but definitely a Schoenberg, Babbitt and Sessions enjoyer, adorer and etc., does that count?  There are some composers I think will land in the dustbin of history (i expect to be proven wrong, but why else to make predictions if not to chance a guess?) but not those three (nor Webern or Berg either.)

Eric

I thought Cherubini's symphony was an arrangement/expansion of a string quartet, not an opera overture? Maybe it's both?

Eric

Glad to see the Widor and Rosenhain concertos included, among other works.  (BSB has a score of Rosenhain's piano sonata in f, and IMSLP has a few other works uploaded, but Worldcat lists only one recording, of Katsaris playing a solo piano work called Morceau de concert sur un thème de La reine de Chypre. I don't think I've seen or heard the concerto yet, at that.)
Eric

(JB) Foerster quartets? Lots of good news in that list, yes. (I've seen his quartet no. 4, anyway, but heard several other works of his, including a few of his symphonies.) Their list for 2011 will probably be better still, in the meanwhile this selection is remarkable enough.

Hope they are not yet done with the music of Benjamin Frankel, some of whose chamber music might well make a good release still and has yet I think, to be commercially recorded anywhere (his piano quartet, 2nd violin sonata and 2nd string trio, I think, among those works. Or the Catalogue of Incidents.)

(That said ! -- I like Telemann too and what I've heard of cpo's earlier music line in general, and wouldn't be without the best of that either; only a few labels recording vocal music by the Bach family- aside from Bach- and from his contemporaries- now, and cpo is one of them, along with Capriccio etc., I gather. Anyway. Capricious digression.)

Eric S.

Welcome back aboard, Eric!

Thanks!  (Oh, and now I do notice the thread about the new recording of Noskowski's string quartets. Ask and, etc.!)

The symphony no. 2 in C minor is from 4 years later (1879, or rather 1875/9); I thought I'd read on a translation of a Polish site that it was available on a limited-edition LP at one point, but now I'm not at all sure. I agree that, judging from the BBC broadcasts, the 3rd symphony is very good stuff. It's good to see that the new recording is labeled volume 1.

Also two string quartets written, etc., but aside from the 3rd symphony I think I've heard only a tone poem and maybe the piano quartet once.
Eric S.