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I have just been looking through the MertonMusic Catalogue of scores and note there are nearly forty sextets many from composers I have never heard of.
Giles Enders

I would nominate his first piano trio.  I run chamber music concerts in London and it is one of the pieces which the audience have asked us to programme again.
Giles Enders

I too acquired the Mlynarski violin concerto and whole heartidly agree it is a winner, good for Nigel who insisted on recording it. As he is now resident in Poland I hope he will discover some others.
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I have been wondering if the second piano concerto (for left hand) is not a rehash of his first piano concerto dating from 1902 and which mysteriously disappeared about the time of the second.  The concerto now known as the first was actually his second in terms of composition. There is a very poor, pirate? recording of the second which sounds as if it has been reworked for two hands.
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I do know who the owner of the Sterndale-Bennett piano concerto No6 is. A 90 year old woman who married into the family.  The worry is, what will happen to a number of MS which she ownes. 
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The title Unsung Monumental Symphonies, makes me think of the one by Josef Marx.  It has never been recorded and I have never seen the score but the Marx website has been extolling its virtues for years. Any thoughts?
Giles Enders

I have now found that the Bodleian has the full score of the second concerto.  Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direstion. I understand it is a late work.

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The Russian Rhapsody has not been recorded yet. There are recent recordings of piano concertos 2 & 3 which came out last year.  I have them, the performance could be better but I am pleased to have them.
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I am surprised that someone should claim Michael Dussek is a decendent of the composer.  I asked him that very question two years ago and he said that he was unable to make the link, and could only trace his own Dussek history back to 1850.

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Someone mentioned Zarebski, that quntet is deffinatly worth a listen.  Recently I bought the two by Gernsheim and think they are worth hearing.

Giles Enders

I forgot to mention that Cowen's real name was Hyman Cohen in case anybody is interested.
Giles Enders

Slightly off the topic, If any one is interested in Cowen's grave it is in the Jewish Cemetary in Golders Green< London.  This was not his 'birth'  name and strangely he was born in Jamaica and brought to London as a child.
Giles Enders

They arenot exactly romantic but I like the two concertos by Francis Poulenc. No one has mentioned poor old dErlanger 1868-1943 or Louise Ferranc 1804-1875 0r Dubois who wrote two.
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I have just spent several years researching piano quintets and know of but haven't heard, over 650 of them. Several are lost including an early one by Bartok.

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I am seeking information/opinions about Robert Austin born 1914. The only information I have, is that he was an organist at The Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, England from 1932.  I understand that he wrote a substantial amount of organ and chamber music.

Giles Enders