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Any news on the apparent recording from Dutton of the Violin Concerto and Othello by Borkiewicz?

How about the Malizcewski Concerto? You used to be able to hear an off air performance on YouTube but alas it's been taken down. An exciting work, but well over-the-top in my opinion. Worth recording. I wonder why nobody has.

The BBC must be sitting on so much stuff. Shame there are not so many people in the music department anymore who know anything really solid about music!

Strange about the Cowen 5th because I am almost 100% certain it was recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra in the British Symphony Series for Radio 3. Am I the only person with this recollection? I don't remember who conducted but it was either Yates or Wordsworth I think. Maybe it has not been transferred to disc,

I would bet on Yates recording his version with Dutton. I should think that is most likely. I hope so anyway.

Yes, people were expecting a work more dense and complex then it turned out to be. It isn't for a particularly small orchestra, indeed there were four percussionists as well as triple wind and harp. I have to admit I don't understand any fuss that there is about Brian, but this piece was good.

I was at the English Music Festival performance of The Fantasia. It is a substantial work with all the finger prints of Butterworth. The climax was so powerful and expressive whilst the clever use of the trumpets at the end moved everyone in the audience. Martin Yates has done a first rate job by taking what was orchestrated by Butterworth and then making a convincing development out of the material, much in he way Butterworth had done in his other works. I can honestly say that had I not been aware of the history of this piece I would not have known that it was not by Butterworth in its entirety. There was so much chat about the work after the concert and it was all positive and we all agreed that this is a major addition to the Butterworth catalogue. I waited to see if I could talk to Martin Yates afterwards but there was such a queue of people I'm afraid I couldn't stay any longer. I did notice two major publishers talking to him, so I expect we may see it published and available before too long. I urge all of you on this forum to listen out for the broadcast. It will be well worth your while. The BBC Concert Orchestra played superbly throughout the concert, which also had The New Age by Richard Arnell, a superbly robust opening work, the Bucolic Suite by Vaughan Williams, a piece with a beautiful slow movement, the surprisingly good 3rd English Suite by Havergal Brian and the Finzi Cello Concerto, given a fabulous performance by Raphael Wallfisch. All in all it was a perfect evening for lovers of neglected English music. Listen out for the Radio Three broadcast.

At last, Widor has made composer of the week. Well worth hearing and to have such a great amount of his music to listen to now that we have the three Dutton discs to be able to evaluate the orchestral music and the concertos. What a fantastic piece the Cello concerto is. I liked it when I first heard it but listening to it again today made me realise that it is quite special and is definitely one of the works that was well worth rescuing and should never have gone into total obscurity.

Driver is a really good player so that is good news. I don't know anything about the conductor though. Fingers crossed for a good release. I thought with Mike Spring leaving Hyperion that the series may stall. Good that it hasn't.

Does anyone know what's become of this recording? I've listened to it a lot, really good piece and wonderfully played by Ludmil Angelov. In my opinion Mr. Angelov should record it in a studio with a better orchestra. Probably won't happen though. Shame because it is worthy of it.

I've heard that Martin Yates ( the conductor not the Sullivan Society Chairman) is planning a recording of Light of the World. Someone I know is helping him with the orchestral score and material. I hope it goes somewhere and I hope he does the original version, not the one that Sullivan cut sometime after the premier. We should suggest great British soloists on here and see if any of our suggestions come to anything!

Ciccolini belongs to the era of great pianists who's career became more important and celebrated over time as he matured as an artist. He was the kind of pianist who represented the true spirit of being a great musician with an open mindedness to repertoire that we seldom see at this level.
All his performances were based on his own unique insight, from the unsungs talked about above and including the more standard faire.
That over used word "great" cannot be used enough in my opinion when talking about Aldo Ciccolini. Trully irreplaceable.

I would love to see a score of this. Does anyone know who publishes it? Boosey only lists an early Concertino for piano and strings op.4

I think the Cello concerto is a much stronger work than either of the Piano Concertos. I also think the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra is too. The violin concerto took me a couple of hearings. Once I found my way around its structure I really do like it. It's not a great lost work but it didn't deserve to be totally ignored. It would be lovely if it gave young and amateur violinists a chance to expand their repertoire but it's probably more difficult than it may appear and Sergey Levtin plays it so well as to make it sound straightforward!

I asked Dutton about the order of the recordings and they said it was the choice of Martin Yates to do the Widor recordings and the Piano Concertos were they obvious place to start because at the time there was no recording of those. As it happened Hyperion's recording came out just a month after the Dutton version. Regarding the two purely orchestral symphonies the decision to record No.2 first was much simpler than anything suggested here. There was orchestral material for No.2 and there wasn't any for No.1. Also No.2 used slightly larger forces than No.1 and as they were doing the cello concerto recording with the RSNO (and at the time thought they may do No.1 with either the Northern Sinfonia or the BBC Concert Orchestra), it seemed more sensible to do Symphony No.2 first.
In the end the orchestral material for Symphony No.1 was created by Emma Syrus, from the ROH, who I was told works closely with Martin Yates on all his projects.