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Thanks rosflute (and everyone else on this thread as well!) for your kind words of support. Much appreciated! Hopefully all will soon be dealt with and I can press on with more edifying musical concerns.

Ilya, the other thing about SSD memory is that it is still magnetic, as far as I understand. Although physically hardy, flash storage has its own rate of decay (which, as you point out, has not yet been established...). At least, if we use the open source formats like flac (which thankfully seems to be becoming quite standard), there will be less danger of incompatibility problems in the future. But we still will have to back up over and over.

But Tom, the trouble is, there is no way she could even rescue her article. About eighty percent of it is by me. Page after page consist only of cut and pasted, stitched together, and slightly reworded material that she did not write at all, including directly re-used quotations, everything! The footnotes would look mighty funny! All full of herbs, but next to no meat and potatoes.

The problem with all detection tools is that, at the end of the day, they can only detect when group of words has been replicated exactly. But in fairness, the designers of these tools know this, and add that only human intelligence can be the final judge in many cases.

Out of curiosity, after I found Ms. Bratu's article, I tried one such tool, inserting all manner of random phrases and sentences (the length had to be more than six or seven words) from her work. Every time, the internet search yielded her article but never my book. If I put any short snippet from my book into the tool, the internet search immediately yielded my book. There was always only one search result in each case.

At that point my feelings of pity  for the author (perhaps she was merely naive...etc) gave way to slightly stronger emotions, because it was then apparent that the author had gone to great lengths to ensure that she had made just enough changes to my texts to allow her work to slip under under the radar of many, if not all, internet detection tools. To compound the matter, she had expended very great effort in reading a very long book in a language that was not her own native tongue (her English is very weak on the evidence of the long email she wrote to me), merely in order to craft what she had crafted.

American Record Guide used to publish lists of CDs that went bad. Turned out that the corroded ones could often be traced to certain batches at certain factories. I have had the odd one as well, but all told very few out of 10 000 or so. Am very pleased with that.

Thanks Tom! On the other hand, on a personal level, I have little desire for retribution. But as a lawyer friend privately warned me, Herb, you have to take action on this because if you don't, you can actually lose some intellectual rights. And so, here we are. I only wish the writer had used, shall we say, more orthodox research methods. Then, everyone would be in a win-win situation. She seems to be an intelligent person (albeit occasionally prone to foolish decisions) and is a very fine pianist who even performs things like Alkan! She clearly sympathized with my general attitude toward 20th C music and deeply loved composers like Glazunov and Scriabin, as so many of us do here. And of course, saw their romantic attributes as a truly positive contribution to the Modern Era. Sigh!

On the other hand, it is too bad that so many have dispensed with (factory printed) CDs because as an archival medium they are far better than a hard drive. The CDs I bought in the late 1980s all seem to still work, and that is going on 30 years of worry-free storage. The same is not the case with the hard drive. I started ripping my  collection to the computer a while back but gave up because it was so time consuming. I mentally calculated how much storage it would take if I backed everything up 3 times (a good policy) and renewed those backups every 4 or 5 years. After 30 years would add up to a lot of hard drives! Not so cheap, nor as worry free as CDs sitting on a shelf. I'm afraid that we are descending into what someone called the digital dark ages, where unless we frantically continue to back things up on a regular basis, we are in serious danger of losing valuable information. A CD one buys as a download is an expensive hassle if you want to keep it for 50 years!

Mark, I have written to the European Skryabin Society. I have not yet heard back, but imagine that they will eventually pull the article. The Society's occasion for publishing it was because their secretary and president were on the organizing committee of the Scriabin/Glazunov conference in St. Petersburg, where the author gave her scholarly presentation of the research contained in this paper last October. I have also notified the organizing committee of the St. Petersburg conference itself because it is expected that it will be published in the conference proceedings (if it hasn't already, as the author claimed in her personal blog. The blog disappeared from the web in the middle of last night, and also contained information about this essay as well as the conference she attended).

Hello everyone!
Last February Alan Howe kindly let this forum know about my ebook on 20th C romantic music:
www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,5472.msg57610.html#msg57610

Unfortunately, there is now a 24pg pdf article afloat on the web dealing with the same topic. If any of you have seen this article, (entitled The XXth Century Romantic Revival Issues. Scriabin's and Glazunov's Cases), you should know that about 80 percent of it consists of substantial passages directly taken (and slightly reworded) from my book. The scholar and pianist Dr. Andreea Bratu (Ovidius University in Constanta) wrote the article and presented it at an international conference in St. Petersburg in October. It was then published by the European Skryabin Society at componisten.netwww.componisten.net/downloads/Scriabin's%20and%20%20Glazunov's%20cases.pdf).

Andreea Bratu has received letters from me as well as my Doktorvater in Germany but in a return email this morning has denied that anything is wrong. So as protection of my writing, and to throw the issue in front of the public court of opinion so to speak, the following link will show 20 pages worth of comparative passages (I did not catalogue the whole article). http://www.herbertpauls.com/dr-andreea-bratu-ovidius-university-plagiarizes-two-centuries-in-one.html

Cheers!
Herb

Just checked the Naxos Music Library. The cpo Badings disc is there together with the complete booklet.

sdtom, you can get all the complete booklets for Naxos and Marco Polo CDs (and many other labels as well) through the Naxos Music Library. My local public library has a subscription, so I can use my library card number from home to access all the cds, cover, art, complete booklets, etc. Perhaps your public library in Minneapolis has the Naxos Music Library...

A sneak preview of the concerto...

https://www.facebook.com/HenningKraggerud/videos/1011867555518833/

The upcoming series of recordings sounds very promising! I have always been curious about Moor ever since reading the big Kirk biography of Casals more than 30 years ago. That book had quite a bit of material about Moor which I found fascinating.

As far as unsung music is concerned, the Accardo/Masur Bruch set really does seem to have stood out for its quality and polish, both orchestrally and in terms of sound. During the earlier years of the Romantic Revival there was much happening but one often had to put up with some hasty production values. If only Ponti and Rosand had been given sound and orchestras up to Philips standards for their many recordings! There were a few things with top orchestras and labels like Wild's Scharwenka and Paderewski Concertos on RCA and Lewenthal's Rubinstein and Henselt Columbias with the LSO but those, like Accardo's revivals of unknown Bruch, were a real treat. I think of his Paganini Concerto set in the same terms.

hammerplay, I had not heard of the forthcoming Lhevinne release. Where can one find more info about that. It's not on Marston's site yet, although there is a teaser about the forthcoming Landmarks release (mouth watering!)