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Hello markniew,

I've got a copy of the performance of Szeluto's concerto from Ewelina Nowicka too,
but after listening to it twice I don't think that it is a really great piece - the contemporary
concertos e.g. of Bacewicz and J.Fitelberg are much more rewarding.

[GREAT]

Hello Eric,

thanks a lot for that GREAT link  !!!!!!

(and an alternate, streaming, link to the concert with the concerto performance can be found here for the next 3 weeks or so for comparison.)

As German, I would also prefer "Concerto for violin alone" because its more unambiguous, but "Concerto for Unaccompanied Violin" is also OK for me.

There is another piece of this type by the Russian / German / Austrian / Canadian composer Sophie-Carmen (Sonia) Eckhardt-Gramatté
née Fridman-Kochevskaya from 1925. Looking up the title in her worklist on http://egre.mb.ca/sc/, there it is called Concerto for Solo Violin.
To make matters a little bit more complicated, however, there are at least some parts of that work scored for violin and orchestra.

Likewise, there are several examples featuring the piano instead of the violin - first of all Alkan's well known Concerto for Solo Piano (Concerto pour piano seul)
from his 12 Etudes Op.39, and Sorabji's Concerto per suonare da me solo.

I would be interested in the wav-Version as well.

After converting to equivalent lossless flac file(s) of about half the wav-size, I could also upload
these flacs to Mediafire.

I also did mention "... the splendid Der Opernball"

However it seems to be clear by now that substantial parts of the orchestration (and the complete overture?) for Heuberger's "Opernball"
had been done by Zemlinsky.

I could not find a complete catalogue of Ysaÿe's works

The List of Compositions form the English Wikipedia article on Ysaÿe seems to be quite complete.
I have never seen any recordings of Op.29 and Op.32 with orchestra instead of piano (neither commercial
nor broadcasts).

We have a download of the Marteau VC here:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,1543.msg38196.html#msg38196
It's a monster of a piece!

... but it would really need a new modern recording with a better soloist. That would be a great task
for winners of the Marteau competition (and could then be released by cpo years later :-).

@hadrianus

FLAC is a completely versatile digital format for lossless audio - the file size depends on the resolution:
- CDs are 44.1 kHz at 16 bit, you'll get this when ripping your standard stereo CDs, for 70 min. you'll typically need ~300-350MB
   (while .wav files will occupy some 700MB)
- HiRes ("Studio Master") downloads at 88.2kHz or 96 kHz at 24 bit will need about 3x more as compared to CD quality FLACS
   but may have significantly improved sound. There are also 192 kHz & 384 kHz downloads (e.g. from the Norwegian label 2L)
   of even larger size.

[backup]

Some further remarks after my lengthy post some days ago:

A. The points I made there have solely been concerned with digital backup, enabling you to faithfully
   reproduce the original CDs and attaching necessary metadata to it. In response to hadrianus:
   FLAC typically requires about 45% of the size of ordinary stereo .wav files, containig the same information.

B. Concerning sound quality etc. of various digital formats, for me the following hierarchy of criteria is relevant:
   1. Availability of at least some recording of a work (no matter what quality) - this is what we all are looking for at this forum.
   2. Interpretation: I prefer having great interpretations of works, even in bad sound.
   3. Mastering quality - this is a further important point, e.g. the official CD transfer of Westerberg's famous recording
      of Atterbergs 3rd symphony is ways inferior to the original LP.
   4. Resolution - having the choice between different file formats of some recording I normally prefer HiRes file (24 bit FLAC),
       but when the original mastering is of good quality (and no large ensembles are involved, e.g. piano solo), then the
       audible difference indeed can be small even with good HiFi equipment.
       

[I would urge you toget familiar with the FLAC format]

Hello Richard,

1. Before starting your work (something I am doing myself for some longer time now), I would urge you to
get familiar with the FLAC format - this is lossless and contains excatly the identical bits and bytes as your
ripper can get from your CD. Don't make your backups in mp3 format, this is lossy and you will loose some
parts of the original contents of your CDs irreversibly !

2. In order to automate the process, you could try some sort of CD autoloader as sold by Nimbie, e.g. You can
feed this machine with some 20 CDs at once and it will rip them automatically, those CDs containing errors
are sorted out and ejected to a different location than those which are OK.

3. I have got such a Nimbie unit - but if you are concerned with attaching meta data of uniform good quality
to the resulting ripped files (no matter wether mp3 or FLAC), you will end up ripping your CDs manually again
one by one. Editing this meta data will be your most time consuming task (70%) within the whole process.
In case you want to attach a CD cover as well, that can often be found from the AMG database or other repositories,
but for some 10-20% you'll have to search for or even scan it yourself.

4. Concerning the disk space needed per CD, my experience is, that in FLAC format you will need ca. 300MB on average.

5. One further point concerning reliable & durable storage: a company called Millenniata has come up recently with
so-called M-Discs, which are recordable DVDs / BluRays promising to preserve your data for some 1000 years.


So be prepared to start a task that will take you one year ore more for 1000 CDs. If you care about regular backups,
however, it will be worth the efforts.

Best wishes,
                                Martin

will give it a try but this is a CPO not a Naxos recording

CPO digital downloads are often available from eclassical, including booklets in PDF, as is the case with the new Badings release:

http://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art20/4970720-88dc8d-761203766925.pdf

I downloaded the first symphony this morning and will likely spend much of the day listening to it as I'm quite pleased with it. Amazon for some reason doesn't have the cover art and the liner notes included in the price.  Is there a place I can go to that will have this information available? Guild doesn't seem to have it either. Any help would be appreciated.

The booklet can be downloaded from The Classical Shop here
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=GM%207395

And here is another rivalling project from Toccata (Michael Schäfer has started
a series of recordings of Sabaneyev's complete piano works, after recording some
of his chamber music, on Genuin):

http://www.toccataclassics.com/cddetail.php?CN=TOCC0308

played by the magnificent Jonathan Powell, to be released in early December 2015.

This CD almost duplicates the contents of the Toccata CD from July 2014!

forthcoming from cpo

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/dora-pejacevic-saemtliche-klavierwerke/hnum/8445338

with Nataša Veljkoviċ