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I have Vasilenko's symphony no.3 but you have to know it is scored for folk orchestra, if you are still interested I will upload it next week ( I'm currently out of town).

What a pity Walton's 1st symphony was just a one off! Having waited so many years for its successor, I was so disappointed when he actually produced it. It would seem that some composers reach a peak and then go down hill.

I disagree : Walton's first is a masterpiece indeed but the second is also a very good work. There is no drama like in the first but the music is just incredible : lyrical and robust and the variations on the 12 tone theme of the last mvt allow him to display a total command of the orchestra, much more subtle and refined than in the fisrt Symphony. The cello concerto is also a masterpiece BTW.

Thank you for this superb rarity. As an Australian, I should perhaps be embarrassed that I have never heard of, let alone heard the music of, either composer and even more so when I found a lengthy entry in Wikipedia.  With its brooding Baxian soundworld and finely detailed orchestration, I wonder how a self-taught composer developed such a style. Is the other piece on the record similar in style?

The Tahourdin is pretty modern and atonal but I have other orchestral pieces by Hughes, and also by Clive Douglas who composed in the same vein ( at least for one of his periods).

Thx for the Hill symphonies, IMO he is a very conservative composer, more connected with the german tradition than with the english one but his symphonies ( most of them arrangements from String quartets) are enjoyable and I'm looking forward to hearing more of these !

Some excellent points! I'd never considered the Walton influence in some of the composers you mention, such as Orbon and Linde. I'll have to listen to Lovelock and Hughes again in light of your observation, too. Hughes' music is magnificent -- Dutton or Toccata should consider him!

While Hindemith certainly did influence Walton and Cooke greatly, I hear much more Hindemith than Walton in Cooke.

RR Bennett, Rutter, and Joubert -- definitely. I'd always thought of LeGallienne as more in the English pastoral style, but now that you mention it, there's certainly Walton there, too.

I haven't had a chance to listen to your work yet -- thanks for posting it, though!

Yes I do think that Lovelock's Viola concerto is Waltonian in places but one can also find some Finzi in it.

Hughes is in my view a combination of some Walton, Bax and Ireland ( he also wrote "a Forgotten Rite") but of course he is more than that : his beautiful music really deserves modern recordings.

I agree that Le Gallienne's Sinfonietta is a pastoral one in the vein of Finzi and VW, I will give another listen to the symphony that sounds darker in my memory .

Thinking of Walton's music, Gareth Walters ( Primavera Overture) and Richard Mills are two more names that come to my mind but I haven't played music by these composers for a while.

I've been a huge fan of Walton's music for many years and also looked for composers who sounds like him. To me the Clifford is OK but suffers several orchestration issues, I agree that Braga Santos sounds a little bit like Walton but IMO his modal approach of the harmony is closer to VW ( strangely enough, it's something one can also notice in Gonchiksumla's Symphonies).

I could add a couple of more composers to the list : both RR Bennett and Rutter's Partita for orchestra ( obviously a tribute to Walton's own partita who was himself strongly influenced by the score of Roussel's Suite in F !), Cooke' first ( like Walton he was also influenced by Hindemith), Joubert's first, Julian Orbon, Bo Linde ( especially with the violin concerto) and to stick with the australians : Robert Hughes, Dorian Le Gallienne, Clive Douglas, Lovelock. Some of their works are available here :

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/presented/fulllist.htm?WT.mc_id=ClassicFM_FrontPage_classicamp_composer

if anybody is interested I can upload the very Waltonian first Symphony of Robert Hughes and if I may add my own orchestral study :

http://www.mediafire.com/?mty2dmnwih0

Thank you for these pieces by A.Skulte, it is a composer I really like. I myself doubt the complete ballet will be recorded in the near future : sadly, even Naxos never finished the Ivanovs Symphonic Cycle.

 I have his Symphony No.13, I will post it next time.

The cello concerto is also a favorite of mine but I think I like everything by him, Handley was a champion of his music ( as of so many british composers). I like both his Deliusian side and the more robust Walton one. This thread made me realize I still don't know his Nocturne for baritone, chorus and orchestra.

Yes I have the Symphonic Poem "Zviadauri" by Mshvelidze.

I would be interested in the followings choral/orchestral works by Adolf Skulte, maybe you have them, I actually don't even know if the Riga and Echo cantatas were ever recorded :

Sakta of Freedom", ballet (1950)

"Riga", cantata for mixed chorus and symphony orchestra (1951)

Suite to the ballet "The Brooch of Freedom (Brivibas sakta)" (1956)

"The Forests Rustle (Mezi salc)", ballada for mixed chorus (1964)

"Thunderstorm in Spring", ballet (1967)

Echo (Atbalss)", cantata for mixed chorus and symphony orchestra (1969)

Overture for symphony orchestra (1987)

Thanks  lot for the Rainis anyway.

Thank you for the Yurovsky : your recording  sounds much better than mine and  the beginning of the symphony was also missing. This last symphony sounds maybe much like Golubev/Myaskovky than DSCH IMO.

You are welcome, many more on the way !

I have a MP3 of the fifth too but the sound is very poor, so I'm definitely interested in your version !