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Maybe a message to the ONB will help in locating the full scores. They might be able to help.

Yes, John  that is clearer and better English.

The last point you make, Alan, is very important. It is essential that this shameful misattribution be corrected.

Yes. It's a really splendid work (and nice to know it is by a real composer, not a Nazi stooge - well, we don't know he was that exactly, but he was certainly a charlatan). Now I would like to hear some of those Kauffmann concertos which Fleisher has.

That is precisely the point, Mark. I can't see how it can be in the interests of the choir (or any of the artistes) to make this brand new recording available via a medium which is free. I will listen to it, of course, but I shall also purchase the CD when it is released.
Anyway, as Alan rightly prompts: back to the work itself. (Alan and I will lumber back into the Jurassic undergrowth!)

This is a thesis, isn't it? Might be tricky. I suggest contacting the library and asking if it is available, either online or in hard copy, to purchase from a publisher (might be academically restricted - i.e. you have to have a subscription to the service). Is there a German equivalent of UMI ProQuest?

I think you are right. I had another look myself and it seems my memory played me false. There is not as much as I thought there was. (Well, it is about 6 or 7 years since I last explored the mss.)

Darrel, it looks to me that you have 2 tenor trombones and a bass trombone, which is standard. Hence the 2 different clefs, and I think the 2nd trombone is in the parts, except that the first page of the 2nd trombone part seems to be missing. I will look more carefully tomorrow. (The trombones play only in the 3rd movt of the PC.)

Herz would have written, probably, for an alto, tenor and bass trombone - hence the 3 different clefs.

And the fact that he has written a fair amount of film music. I have to say I rather enjoyed the largely cheerful material and its colourful orchestration. I found the slow movt. of the PC particularly beautiful. It's all highly tonal.

I noticed that too. Sounds interesting.

The PC is a good work IMHO. It would be really lovely to hear a performance with a first class soloist and orchestra.
Maybe Darrel might like to take a look at the D minor concerto since a lot of that (at least the solo piano part and some of the orchestration) is extant.

The digitised Borgstrom MSS held by the National Library of Norway can be found here

The PC Op. 22 is MS 2106 - MS Full Score is here and Orchestral Parts are here

There are also MSS of a PC in D minor and one in G minor. However, these appear to be incomplete.

This is a really attractive collection. Among the many gems, Suter's VC stands out for me.

Extracts can now be heard here

The Kovarovic concerto was one of many that Hyperion perhaps should have taken up! I did mention it several times to Mike Spring in years gone by, but he never seemed to be interested.

So did I, Martin. I even suggested he coupled it with the Novak, which at one time he seemed to be considering, and sourced the material for him. Alas, it was not pursued. I agree with Mark about the Kapralova - it's quite attractive, I think.  I don't, I'm afraid, know a note of music by Pavel Borkovec. However, both his piano concerti can be heard on YouTube, the second here.  Having just sampled both I can say that No. 2 is a bit like Shostakovich, without the tunes, and preferable (to my ears, at least) to No. 1, which I find quite spiky and unappealing.