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I used to buy Louis Spohr symphonies there.  My lasting memory is how prohibitively expensive they were!!

Henry Stave?  Harold Moore's?

A number of young composers have dedicated their First Symphony to their musical hero, and some have achieved a fair measure of success in so doing. Nils Gade's First followed on from his Echoes of Ossian overture in telling a story of innocence and derring-do,as a tribute to Mendelssohn. Charles Ives composed a hauntingly beautiful homage to Dvorak on the occasion of the latter's return from America in the slow movement of his First.

Scherber falls into this category of success. Taking,I believe, Bruckner's Ninth as a starting-point, he has distilled his admiration into 30 minutes of loving respect. Maestro adriano has brought Scherber's First to life with palladian limpidity and we are greatly in his debt. This is a must-buy for me!

Simon from Dutton has confirmed that I could,in theory,buy it, but I would be liable to VAT in Spain. He advises against a direct purchase, and suggests that I get someone to courier it over from the UK.  I have also read the shipping notes, which hint of considerable delays on arrival in Spain.  All this accords with experiences I had in trying to obtain Dutton CDs during lockdown.   I do not intend to repeat them,and will just have to wait  for Presto or jpc,or,eventually, to bite the bullet of a more expensive Amazon purchase with the certainty of delivery.

Thanks,Alan.  I have sent them an email, on the offchance that they might ship to me.  If they tell me that they certainly don't ship to Spain, then I will report back.

Dutton won't sell directly to Spain, and I am having to wait until Presto or jpc list it. Other Amazon offerings are pricy.

I have long had the LP of Zukerman playing the Fifth in my collection, and,fairly recently,acquired the famous 1935 recording of Haifitz in the Fourth.   But it has been severely cut, about 20% of the orchestral music excised,which might have been acceptable in its day,but is really not now,especially when Vieuxtemps was a decent orchestrator.   However, I have just been re-listening to the transcendent, world-class, Misha Keylin in the Naxos series (especially the Second Concerto), and,showy and superficial it might arguably be, but it works a treat!

I have just ordered the Naxos CD of Keylin ,playing the First and the Fourth. The Fourth is six minutes longer than Haifitz's bowdlerised performance. The reviews are too good to ignore.

Many, many, thanks, Alan ! I had completely overlooked the Sauer performance by Marshev.  I have purchased it, and i am listening to it now. As you say, superb!

I have it! And, somehow, it's not been plagiarised !

The Friedrich Muller concertante work for hunting horn and clarinet is pretty decent. The second movement is very reminiscent of the Adagio from Beethoven's Ninth.

Well,I have now played through the Ysaye. Some sixty or seventy years ago, I played the part of "Everyman" in the mediaeval morality play, and my school performance was described by a well-intentioned critic as "audible".  So is the Ysaye....................

Ok,it is not offensive to the ear, but it sounds like three separate compositions cobbled together,and without a trace of originality.

I received yesterday from Presto Music this CD on the Accent label. I particularly liked the second  Sinfonia Concertante, in F major, on the cusp of Romanticism,for flute,oboe,bassoon,horn and orchestra. The CD has been around for about a year and is played with great affection by Harmonie Universelle, a name previously unknown to me.  I don't know the precise date of the Clarinet Concerto ( yet another discovery by Klocker), but the other two works were apparently composed in 1814 or shortly thereafter.

The CD arrived in tandem with the Ysaye E minor violin concerto, which I will now try to get to grips with.

I am very pleased to hear all of this and, particularly, that the baton should indeed now be handed to the German press. It's wishful thinking, but it would be splendid if the CD containing Woelfl and (especially) Kauffmann could be re-issued with the correct attribution, as it is a fine recording of an excellent symphony, and it would be a shame if a by-product of our investigations results in permanent suppression of such lovely music.

The Symphony is a fine work, and I too am glad that this Wikipedia article gives him his due.

The later works leave me cold,although I understand why they are there. But,if only they had paired the Kovarovic with the Synphony by Blodek!  Moody,melodic,and melancholic,it is scandalously overlooked.