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I posted this comment on the youtube video.  Thanks for posting this concerto.  I hope you will upload the other two movements, too, since the manuscript on IMSLP is complete.  For information on Lange, see the Zentralbibliothek Zürich webpage <https://www.zbcollections.ch/home/#/content/897b0a89cd714e6c9dd6d311db380a20?tab=inhalt> that includes (under "Kontext") a brief biography as well as (under "Dateien") a detailed catalogue of his works and a photograph. Additional biographical information can be found at <http://www.archivaria.com/BusDbios/BusDbios7.html>.

Here's the latest information from Dariescu: 
"The world premiere recording of the newly discovered piano concerto by Leokadiya Kashperova, which I made with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chris Hopkins will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week programme in December '22."

Here's the link:  https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/programm

It's on at 21:00 German time tonight.  Hope someone catches it in case I miss it.

Back on 27 April 2022, the conductor, Chris Hopkins, noted on Twitter that we'd be able to hear the Kashperova concerto "In the autumn [on BBC] Radio 3 I believe, watch this space!"  Fingers crossed.

Alexandra Dariescu and the BBC SO recorded the Kashperova Concerto in the studio on April 26, 2022, according to her twitter posting.  Hopefully it will air on BBC Radio 3 sometime.

If you missed hearing the Concerto, Op. 15, no need to wait until May 23.  It is still online at
https://neo.mx3.ch/mariaherz

Although the Grand Piano recording of Cleve's pc4 is no longer available, it was released complete and in perfectly fine sound.  I don't know what happened to whatever is (or was) on Spotify or why this recording has disappeared.  Perhaps it will be reissued as part of a set on Naxos.  Let's hope. 

Cleve's pc3 has been released on CD in a version for piano sextet (Joachim Carr, pf; Grand Piano 757) and his pc4 both on CD (Joachim Carr/Norwegian Radio O/Leo McFall; Grand Piano  757) and LP (Einar Steen-Nøkleberg/New SO of London/Roy Wales; NKF 30038).  Nevertheless, it would be good to have a new recording of the complete set along with the other works mentioned by Gareth.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned that cpo CD 555274-2 of Potter's Symphony 1, Cymbeline Overture, and Introduzione e Rondo for piano and orchestra (1827) is coming out on April 30.  Performers are the BBC Nat. O of Wales conducted by Howard Griffiths, with Claire Huangci on piano.

Alan mentioned the recording of Corentin Boissier's Glamour Concerto and Philip Marlowe Concerto a while ago.  It is now listed in the Toccata Classics Pipeline as 0569:  https://toccataclassics.com/pipeline/.  No release date mentioned, but forthcoming.

In the preface to the score of Concerto 1 prepared by James Tocco back in 2012, note is made that the work was performed by the composer already on 30 Nov. 1846, in Berlin.

The recording is trimmed closely at the end after the last eighth-note chord, but if you examine the score what follows are just two eighth-note rests.

For more information on this concerto and to hear some excerpts, see the 7' video at https://filharmoniapoznanska.pl/nie-znacie-to-posluchajcie/, which has comments by the conductor (in Polish) and pianist (in English).  The work is in e minor (New Grove says g minor).  According to the title page of the manuscript, the work was composed in 1862 and was submitted for his appointment to the Geneva Conservatory, where he began teaching in 1863 and became its Director.  It was performed for the first time on 22 March 1868 in Paris.

The Polish Music Center at Univ. of Southern California also has an article on the discovery of the manuscript full score in a small antiquarian book store in London

https://polishmusic.usc.edu/newsletter/2020/sept-2020/piano-concerto-discovery/

Christopher, the pianist in the earlier recording is Peter Wallfisch, not Lory.

Capriccio will soon reissue the old Balkanton recordings of Vladigerov's piano concertos 1-5.  Concertos 2 and 5 have never been out on CD, so this is great news.  AmazonUK gives a release date of 4 Sept. 2020 for this 2CD set, the cover of which can now be seen on soundcloud, where you can also hear the third movement of Concerto 3.