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As for Arthur Honegger, this should not be a closet thing anymore since I've recorded his film music on 4 CDs long ago, and that sold very well. 2 voluems vere reissued not long ago. I don't learn all that from royalties received (Marco Polo never pays such a thing), but I look at the composer's rights lists and those from our performer's society and radio performances.
Regards from Switzerland

... and there is also quite a luscius and uncommon Hollyoodian Piano Concerto by Shostakovich, entitled "The Assault on the Red Hill", to the Stalinist movie "The Unforgettable Year 1919". It was first recorded over here (with a wrong title translation "The Assault on Beautiful Gorky") in 1983 by EMI (Dmitry Alexeev, Piano") and later on, in 2000, I conducted the same piece in Moscow on a Marco Polo/Naxos recording (Pianist Ellena Alekseyeva) - the two artists are nor related.
Regards from Zurich/Switzerland
Adriano
(conductor-composer)

Oh, thanks Gareth for your good research and news 
Don't know whether those scores are available for sale; I have got them from the composer years ago. I may be able to send a CDR copy of the performace I have to people who give me their postal address.

A belated answer to Delicious Manager regarding the Batiz Naxos Respighi Recording: a more unpardonable error is that the trumpet sequence in the second movemet of Pini di Roma, which clearly states that it should be played offstage ("interna"), the sound engineer has it played normally in the emsemble!

Oh, thanks, so it looks he is coming from the Autro-German region and not from Belgium or Netherlands :-)
Greetings Adriano

I have some old recordings conducted by Antoine Dewanger (1905-1974), who seems to be an exciting, totally neglected composer. There is a rumour that he was a Collaborateur during the Nazi Régime.
He composed an impressive "Symphonie Dramatique" for orchestra with an extra group of 9 Saxophones, which I always wanted to record, but could not find any interest from producers/sponsors. Publishers, French, Duch and Belgian Composer's Copyright Offices have no information on Dewanger, what happened there?? His tone poem"Méphisto" and "Marche solennelle" are the works conducted by Dewanger which I have on 78s.
Greetings from Switzerland
Adriano
Conductor/Composer

David Wooldridge, alias Michael Humphry (b. 1927) is the author of an exciting Biography of Charles Ives. As a composer, he wrote one of the most beautiful vocal song cycle with orchestra I ever heard in my life. This work, called Five Italian Songs (1978) was performed by Heather Harper and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Gielen at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on August 10, 1979). I am fortunate enough to have a recording of this great musical event.
A mystery: nobody in England and in the USA (where the composer lives) can tell me what has become of him. Last time I had him over the telephone was some 12 years ago. He sent me the orchestral and vocal score of Five Italian Songs, published by Hinchinbroke Music. Since then, I could not get in contact with David anymore; my letters remained unanswered, nobody could find out the address of the Publisher, not even the official Composer's Copyright Companies!
Anybody heard of David Wooldrige?
Adriano, Zürich/Switzerland
Composer-Conductor

I only wonder why on earth Chandos got to the Suisse Romande, which is no good orchestra anymore since ages!
And why Järvi goes to Geneva, that is another mystery, could't he find a better ensemble?
I think the TUdor CD set is great; about tempi one can discuss for ever.
Greetings from Switzerland
Adriano
Conductor/Composer

The interpretations and tempi of this disc are such a bore!
Greetingf from Switzerland
Adriano
Conductor/Composer

The Rossiniana conducted tby Antonio Janigro is the best so far!
Greetings from Switzerland
Adriano
Conductor/Composer

Hi Mark Thomas
Hi eschiss

Nice to hear that you still have/remember the Raff LP! Alas, my own label is dead since a long time, but, if you are interested, I can send you Respighi's piano works which were published on the same label on CD of which I still have a considerable stock.
Of all these LP's I have made nice private CD transfers.
You can write me and send me your address.
Kindest regards

Adriano

This was the complete catalogue of Adriano Records:
LPs
ADR 1 (1977) JOACHIM RAFF (Stereo)
Grand Quintuor (Piano Quintet, op.l07)*
Zürich Piano Quintet

ADR 2 (1977) OTTORINO RESPIGHI (Stereo)
Violin Sonata - 11 pieces for violin and piano*
Robert Kunz & Rudolf am Bach

ADR M3 (1978) JACK TROMMER (Historical Mono)
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (Original Soundtrack)*
Swiss Studio Orchestra, Dolf Zinsstag

ADR 4 (1983) OTTORINO RESPIGHI (Stereo)
String Quartet in D* - Doric String Quartet
I Virtuosi Elvetici

ADR E5 (1979) OTTORINO RESPIGHI (Historical Mono)
5 Songs and 2 Italian Folksongs*
Elsa & Ottorino Respighi performing (coupled with historical recordings of other singers)
(Partly reissued on CD in 2005 on Pierian 0024)

ADR 6 (1982) JULIUS REUBKE (Stereo)
Sonata B flat major - Mazurka and Scherzt
OTTO REUBKE 4 Pieces'
Rudolf am Bach

ADR 7 (1983) ERNST PFIFFNER (Stereo)
Hafiz-Zyklus - Polyhymnia - Suite for Violin, Piano Pieces
Various Swiss Artists

ADR 8 (1988) GIOVANNI PALESTRINA (Stereo) Missa brevis
GREGORIO ALLEGRI Miserere
A-cappella-Chor Zürich, Piergiuseppe Snozzi
(Reissued on CD in 2007)

ADR E9 (1985) FRANZ SCHREKER (Historical, 78s transfers)
Der Schatzgräber (Interlude)* Die Gezeichneten (Prelude Act III)
EDWARD GRIEG Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 GEORGES BIZET L'Arlésienne (Suites 1 & 2)
Philharmonisches Orchester Berlin, Franz Schreker

CDs
ADR 10 (1991) OTTORINO RESPIGHI (Digital Stereo)
Tre preludi sopra melodie gregoriane - 6 piano pieces -
6 little pieces (4-hands)
Rudolf am Bach (with Evelyn am Bach)

ADR E11-12 (1993) Enrico Egano, Violoncello (Analog Stereo)
Works by SCHUMANN, BRAHMS, MENDELSSOHN, KODALY & SHOSTAKOVICH
(Live recordings 1979-1983)

ADR 13 (1994) The Zürich String Trio (Digital Stereo)
BEETHOVEN: Serenade D Major - DOHNANYI: Serenade C Major - REGER: Trio A Minor (Live recording)

ADR 14/15 BEETHOVEN (Digital Stereo) Complete String Trios
The Zürich String Trio
(Reissued in 2002 on CD on Brilliant Classics 92292)

ADR 16 (2002) The Zürich String Trio (Digital Strereo)
Works by DOHNANYI, REGER & SCHNITTKE

Hi Latvian
No other Symphonies have been published by Strong. I just have a copy of the MS of the 3rd and 4th Mvt of his First and some more youthful orchestral works, which I was promised by Naxos to have them recorded, but Naxos do not want me anymore (it was great to work for them but difficult to get along with its boss since he wanted to control me and did not let me record for other companies, not even the repüertoire he did not want himself!) and other labels are not interested anymore. Anyway, today you need full sponsorhip for practically all the classical labels unless you are a star making the usual mainstream nobody buys anymore. It's no real fun making music anymore...

Hi everybody and greetiongs from Switzerland by the crazy guy who is on the way of recording all of Brun's orchestral works. 
Hurwitz & Co have problems because they are confronted with something new and unusual: it's not their taste and way of thinking, they await just music going from A to Z according to the usual symphonic rules and according to mainstream, according to what they have judged as good beforehand. And they affirm things without even having perused a score!
I think Brun is now judged as was judged Mahler when they first tried to promote him - even Bernstein hat problems at the beginning. Mahler is crazy, revolutionary and unpredictable too.
Brun is more complex and crazy than Mahler because he mixes tradition with avant-garde techniques more wildly, he plays with polytonality, polyrhythm and dissonance more daringly. In any case his symphonies are as personal/intimate confessions like Mahler's, reflecting sanguine temper, his difficulties and anger towards Swiss petty-bourgeois way of life. 
You cannot imagine how difficult to play these Symphonies are and what personal engagement it needs to study, to love and to perform them. It's not a matter of many orchestras. Brun's Second is nothing in comaprision to what follows after.
I admit, it's not necessarily music for the subscription concert-hall. Its music which has to be listed and relistened several times before being able to get into it!
Best regards
Adriano

Hi everybody 

In any case, there are more important things about artists than the way they want to be named.
Now, a new CD with two more Symphonies by Swiss composer Fritz Brun has been released on the Guild label. I am on the way of recording all his Symphonies (10 - and all completed) and orchestra works:

http://www.guildmusic.com/shop/wbc.php?sid=6278701e237&tpl=suche.html&q=adriano

The Third Symphony has been relesed on the Sterling label, which I have left for various reasons.

In July there was the first performance of my string quartet arrangement of Hugo Wolf's "Michelangelo Songs" - in Trinidad and Tobago, by the excellent German baritone Christian Immler. What an honour for me!
If you consult my homepage m(www.adrianomusic.com), you'll find a lot of crazy arrangements I have done for various chamber groups, including a very successful one of Debussy's "Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune" for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet, which you can hear on flutist's Andrea Kollé's homepage http://www.andreakolle.com/recordings.php

In November there will be a première in Krefeld (Germany) of my wind quintet "digest" arrangement of Dvorak's opera "Rusalka", which is the second arrangement of this piece I have done. Its first (for the same ensemble as the Debussy) will be premiered next year at the Prague Children's Theatre and also performed in Austria and Switzerland.

I've also finised composing an "Impertinent Concertino" for harspichord and strings, which should be premièred next year. Other works of mine can be heard on the Italian CD
http://www.ineditacd.com/asp/Dettaglio.asp?ID=PI2743

That is all for now, hope it does not sound too pretentious :-)

To all of you kindest regards from Switzerland

Adriano

Thanks, Alberto, for your appreciation 
My second CD with music by Pilati has just been published on the Inedita label and a review can be read on the MusicWeb.
The fact that an artist uses only his first name does not make him "enigmatic".
Is Madonna enigmatic to you?
How about Midori and Solomon, just to stay within the domain of classical music?
Of course, prostitutes, clowns and dressmakers also use first names only 
I do so because I found that my parents did not deserve have their name associated with mine: they opposed against everything I was doing, so I preferred doing this all by myself.
Have a nice Summer!
adriano