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[Evening 1: Bruckner's Boudoir]

OK, let's suppose...

... I just got off the phone with Warren Buffett, who's in urgent need for a tax write-off for some dodgy funds. He doesn't expect any revenue, just wants to lose money, which I'm obligingly going to arrange with this programme:

Evening 1: Bruckner's Boudoir
- Ignaz Bungert, Torquato Tasso Overture
- Bruckner Symphony No. 'oo'
- Ignaz Dorn, Labyrinth-Bilder oder Traum und Erwachen: Characteristische Symphonie

Evening 2: Danish Delights
- Paul von Klenau, Jahrmarkt bei London (Bank Holiday - Souvenir of "Hampstead Heath")
- Siegfried Langgaard, Piano Concerto No. 1
- Johan Hartmann, Symphony No. 1 in E, Op. 48
- Rued Langgaard, Music of the Spheres (as an encore)

Evening 3: Dutch Courage
- Wouter Hutschenruyter, Sr., Iwan & Pauleska, a Polish Romance
- Cornelis Dopper, Ciaconna Gotica (uncut version)
- Samuel de Lange, Viola Concerto
- Johannes Verhulst, Symphony in E, Op. 40

Evening 4: Bohemian Bravery
- Vilém Blodek, Symphony
- Bohuslav Martinu, Piano Concerto No. 3
- Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Schlemihl

Evening 5: Till Eulenspiegel
Hugo Rüter, Eulenspiegel, Overture
Jan van Gilse, Tijl (opera; concertante performance)

Evening 6: Polish Panache
Gregorz Fitelberg, Song of the Falcon
Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Xaver Scharwenka, Symphony in C
Emil Mlynarski, Symphony in F major Op.14 'Polonia' (as encore)

Evening 7: Belgian Bonbons
Peter Benoit, The Pacification of Ghent - 4. The Duke of Alva's Entrance in Brussels
Arthur Meulemans, Pliny's Fountain
Arthur de Greef, Piano Concerto No. 2
Jef van Hoof, Symphony No. 2 in A flat major
Paul Gilson, La Mer

Evening 8: French Flaneurs
Paul Dukas, Goetz de Berlichingen, overture after J.W. von Goethe
Darius Milhaud, Le Carnaval d'Aix for 2 pianos and orchestra
Joseph Guy Ropartz, Symphony No. 3

Evening 9: Russian Evolution
Nikolai Miaskovsky, Lyric Concertino in G major
Eduard Napravník, Concerto Symphonique
Sergej Taneyev, Symphony No. 4
Reinhold Glière, Hymn to a Great City (as encore)

Evening 10: German Gründlichkeit
Miloslaw Koennemann, Der Fremersberg, Overture
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Piano Concerto
Johann Abert, Symphony No. 4, "Columbus"
Felix Draeseke, Symphony No. 3 (as encore)
P.D.Q. Bach, Four Next-to-last Songs (as second encore)
Wilhelm Furtwängler, Symphony No. 2 (as third encore to round off an evening of truly Teutonic proportions)

Evening 11: British Bravado
Frederic Cliffe, Violin Concerto
Hubert Parry, Symphony No. 3
John Herbert Foulds, A World Requiem

I'd say that appreciation of the music doesn't exclude being slightly cheesed off with the quality of the present recording -  I know that for me it didn't in the case of the Bendix symphonies.

Other suggestions: Von Klenau 1, Martucci 2, Braga Santos 1

That sort of speculation, Jim, is unfounded and - frankly - pointless. Let's leave the conspiracy theories to others lest we appear paranoid. After all, there's plenty of them elsewhere on the web.

Unfortunately in this day and age, you're never quite safe on the internet. As someone who contributes to about half a dozen web sites, I can testify to the fact that malware is just about anywhere. And if it isn't malware or other forms of piracy, it's script kiddies trying to compensate for the problems of puberty by leaving their names all over the place (all of it under the guise of 'testing security', of course).

I'm thanking my deity of choice that Mark chose to set up the Raff.org site in something as undynamic (but safe!) as HTML, instead of one of the CMSes that are in general use nowadays. Although they're great pieces of software to work with, because of their genericness (sp?) their flaws are also general knowledge - and several people are busily exploiting them.

This problem is really eating away at the Web - and if something as harmless as Raff.org is infected, you can imagine what sort of attack more high-profile sites must be under.

This is good news indeed. For although I appreciate Seipenbusch et al.'s efforts, the sixth more than any of them could really do with a more fleshed out view. The current recording always gives me the feeling that there is much more to be had from this music.

Great to see we're there again - even if means I've been relegated to 'new' status...