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Bottesini wrote chamber music - quartets and quintets, that have been recorded. They continue in the manner of Boccherini and Paganini, that is an Italianate concern for melody over motivic development. I value him  as part of that Italian tradition of instrumental writing that almost disappeared in the 1800's.

Same sound world as Canning's Fantasy on a Hymn Tune.

I greatly enjoyed the Eberwein. The music is in the Late classical style, and has an ambitious scale. Similar to Ries. The performances are problematic, but not so much as to distract.

A performance of Vieuxtemps 3rd String quartet has appeared on IMSLP

https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.3,_Op.52_(Vieuxtemps,_Henri)#IMSLP836689

thank you.

Thank you for that detail.

I suspect more adherence to the score, and care over expressing the structure, would have helped the CPO performance.

As I said, that'll be a 'no' then.

PS Alan - your surety was misplaced - I had no idea exactly what commercially unavailable meant ("as I'm sure you're aware")

That'll be a no then.

It was the phrase 'commercially unavailable' that caught my eye.

Or place them on the downloads board?

Just listened to the CPO recording - and that could well be it. A repeat would be good in this movement as the thematic material is none too distinguished, the tonal plan is quite ambitious, and Ries has a tendency to develop themes immediately - all of which obscures the structure. It can just sound like a mass of enthusiastic playing. And I say that as a big Ries fan, but this piece has never really impressed me much.

Nothing we haven't heard elsewhere - but I am curious about the first movement of the Sextet in C being 4 minutes longer than the CPO recording...

https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68380

I especially enjoyed his conducting of Stanford, and got in touch with him to say so.

Thank you. I rather wish it was otherwise as I like the performance, but the missing finale is always going to mean other performances are preferred.

Does anyone know why Naxos do not include the finale of Zemlinsky's Symphony No 1 on their recording?

The sleeve notes actually refer to the third and final movement.

https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.223166

Thank you