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This one has caught me by surprise on CPO Walter Kaufmann - Piano Concerto No. 3 - Symphony No. 3 - 6 Indian Miniatures. Not yet listed on jpc's web site, but found else where on the web in assorted places including youtube. I guess he's a late romantic 20th century unknown - does he fit here?.  Chandos had a CD of his chamber music in 2020 on the Composers in Exile series.  The samples I've heard put him in the Korngold-Rózsa milieu.

Gotta like this forthcoming CD - some previously recorded mixed with some new unsungs newly recorded.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9532394--aux-etoiles-french-symphonic-poems

Saw this on Presto's futures listings - 10 hours 9 minutes - of French women composers: known, unsung, and unheard-of till now. (10 March 2023)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9439426--compositrices-new-light-on-french-romantic-women-composers

Is this currently available or forthcoming from DUX?
http://en.dux.pl/mirecki-wieniawski-polish-romantic-symphonies-arthur-rubinstein-philharmonic-orchestra-przytocki.html

Forthcoming CD in 2023 found here:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9408432--betsy-jolas-bonis-boulanger-holmes-poetesses-symphoniques
Probable repertory (my guess):
HOLMES: Andromède, Poème Symphonique, Pologne, La nuit et l´amour
BONIS: Le Songe de Cléopâtre
Betsy Jolas: A Little Summer Suite
Boulanger: ??
Pic of album cover:
https://www.fnac.com/a17557899/Betsy-Jolas-Betsy-Jolas-Bonis-Boulanger-Holmes-Poetesses-symphoniques-CD-album#int=S:Suggestion|NonApplicable|NonApplicable|17557899|BL0|L1

Happy New Year from Sterling:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9394342--ole-hjellemo-orchestral-works

First look link:
https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/joset-bohuslav-foerster-symphony-no.-1-festive-overture-from-shakespeare-590664
Release 14/10/2022
I couldn't find a link to the album cover - it's out there somewhere - it looks similar to the MDG cover(s) - Art Nouveau ish
I wonder if Naxos will redo the 4th symphony they previously recorded with Friedel.

Stumbling around the internet in my idle time with focused meandering I came across this announcement link: (https://english.radio.cz/new-czech-radio-cd-welcomes-arrival-spring-8747046), to wit Rozhlasová jarní ouvertura (Radio Spring Overture) featuring music by: Otakar Jeremiáš: Jarní (Spring) Overture, Op. 9, and Jarní (Spring) Suite, moods for orchestra; Josef Suk: Jaro (Spring), op. 22a - complete suite fully orchestrated by ?, and Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Jaro (Spring), lyrical suite for string orchestra and harp, op. 84.

Further perusal on the site's web page show a digital release of Martinů: Istar. Ballet suites with Jiří Waldhans and the Brno Philharmonic (circa 1975) presumably a digital remaster and not a LP rip.

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I just ran across these links of a Festival of music by Nikolai Myaskovsky on the stage of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic (sic) earlier this year.
Four concerts are featured:
Symphony No. 17 (2021) https://www.aveclassics.net/news/2021-05-18-9713
String Quartet No. 13 and Cantata-Nocturne "Kremlin at Night" (2021) https://www.aveclassics.net/news/2021-05-17-9712
Symphony No. 6 (2021) https://www.aveclassics.net/news/2021-05-20-9718
Concerto for cello and orchestra (2021) https://www.aveclassics.net/news/2021-05-19-9716

All really excellent performances, I hope this posting doesn't violate any protocols.

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Browsing backwards through the Presto future releases I found this interesting future release.  https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9247209--americascapes. Realizing Loeffler and Hanson might on the edges of the remit of this group and Cowell and Ruggles well beyond it leads me to ponder <here insert sarcasm> a release of unsung (obscure) Americana on a Danish record label recorded by a Basque orchestra lead by a American - might we expect a reciprocal release of the Isasi tone poems recorded by an American orchestra on a German label lead by a Basque? <sarcasm end>.  Ah! the mysteries of record labels and their repertory selections.

As my Germanic grandfather was wont to say: "Was ist dieser?"  Noted in the Naxos November 2020 preview releases is: HUMPERDINCK, E.: Music for the Stage (Chudak, R.V. and H. van der Plas, Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Salvi).  Also, betraying my age I recall my first encounter with Humperdinck being an LP of the Humperdinck Moorish Rhapsody (Maurische Rhapsodie) with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with Herman Abendroth.

How about this:
Beliczay: Symphony No. 1 & Serenade
Budapest Concert Orchestra, Tamas Gal
Release date:3rd Nov 2017

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Sterling/CDS1115

Reading the foreword to the new Naxos 2017 catalog (PDF) Klaus Heymann mentions "a spotlight on Catalan composers Joan Manén and Ricard Lamote de Grignon from the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra".  Although right on the cusp of the repertoire for this venue the possibilities are intriguing. Joan Manén - Nova Catalònia symphony?  Ricardo Lamote de Grignon - Catalana Symphony?

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I ran across this link http://intoclassics.net/news/2016-08-19-41200* featuring a re-orchestration of Schumann's Rhenish Symphony.  Of course there are the Mahler arrangements of the Schumann symphonies variously recorded - but this is a new one to me.  Does anyone know anything about this?  I don't think you could do much with the Schuman symphonies outside of re-assigning some lines to different instruments.  The recorded samples of the Tolba orchestration by an un-named Russian orchestra  are pretty dismal (circa 1961) featuring fruity brass.
Google translate makes a tossed salad of the Russian-Ukrainian text - my favorite part is - " irresistible pathos inspiration, unattainable beauty of the melodic and harmonic side works are always misunderstood by the public, the only consequence of a colorless, solid density of orchestration, persistently annoying auditory nerves very sensitive to music listener beauty ".

*Administrator's Note: My security software advises that the above link is unsafe.

Is there a listing (discography) of the LP recordings made for the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage by Karl Kreuger and the Royal Philharmonic?  I thought I saw one somewhere - but alas, cannot find it.  Maybe as part of Kreuger's The Way of the Conductor: His Origins, Purpose and Procedures (New York, 1958).  A Google search leads to a circular queue of limited results.  Anyone know?

Update: July 18, '16
I found this citation on WorldCat:
Title:   The musical heritage of the United States :the unknown portion /
Author(s):   Krueger, Karl, 1894-1979.
Corp Author(s):   Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage.
Publication:   [New York] : [Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage],
Year:   1973
Description:   237 pages : portraits ; 21 cm
Language:   English
Standard No:   LCCN: 73-179291
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:   Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Music -- United States -- Discography.
Music
Genre/Form:   Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Discographies.
Geographic:   United States.
Note(s):   Includes a listing of the Society's Archive of Recorded Performances, Music-in-America series.
Class Descriptors:   LC: ML200; Dewey: 781.7/73
Responsibility:   by Karl Krueger.
Vendor Info:   Baker and Taylor (BTCP)
Document Type:   Book
Entry:   19740308
Update:   20150921

Otherwise, patiently awaiting Inter-Library loan to come through.  I'm not sure copyright restrictions would allow any independent extraction and listing.

Just announced follow-up to the acclaimed Vol 1

www.mdt.co.uk/overtures-from-the-british-isles-2-rumon-gamba-chandos.html

Looks like a mixture of something old, something borrowed, something new to paraphrase the saying.

How about this for an unsung's unknown?
http://www.mdt.co.uk/albert-eugen-d-aschenputtel-cinderella-symphony-orchestra-jun-markl-naxos.html

I found it here:
http://classique.abeillemusique.com/SACD-Hybride/Classique/CHSA5135/0095115513521/Chandos-Records/Joachim-Raff/Oeuvres-orchestrales-Volume-2/cleart-79870.html

As my grandfather used to say in a moment of puzzlement ; "Was ist dieser?"

Knecht : Le Portrait musical de la Nature - Philidor : Ouvertures Le Jardinier et Son Seigneur, Le Sorcier, Tom Jones & Le Maréchal-Ferrant / Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino - Prague Sinfonia Orchestra - Christian Benda, direction

http://classique.abeillemusique.com/CD/Classique/8573066/0747313306671/Naxos/Justin-Heinrich-Knecht-Francois-Andre-Danican-Philidor/Le-Portrait-musical-de-la-Nature/cleart-79663.html

An interesting future from the Naxos label:
Edvard Grieg - 3 Concerti pour violon et orchestre de chambre (d'après des sonates pour violon et piano)
Concertos n°1, n°2 & n°3 (orch. Henning Kraggerud & Bernt Simen Lund) / Henning Kraggerud, violon - Tromso Chamber Orchestra

Link:
http://classique.abeillemusique.com/CD/Classique/8573137/0747313313778/Naxos/Edvard-Grieg/3-Concerti-pour-violon-et-orchestre-de-chambre-d-apres-des-sonates-pour-violon-et-piano/cleart-69260.html

Tromsø Chamber Orchestra is part of the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra - from what I can tell these pieces were on one of their programs last year.