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Hope you appreciate the more important aspects of my posting as its description...

I've seen your video of Brun's cello concerto - it is a fantastic work. I am looking forward to get the CD recording soon.
Claudius Herrmann gives a really committed performance, and I have always been fascinated by his recording of Reinecke's cello sonatas (with Saiko Sasaki  on cpo).

[1913]

hadrianus@Vimeo ...

This is my video essay about the recording Tomas Nemec and I were doing in 1913 in Bratislava ....

I had not expected that you have recorded the piano concerto such a long time ago - sound and video quality
are quite fascinating for that age :-)

The label is "Musique en Wallonie", and it is not really as old as jerfilm claims (released in 2014)

see e.g.

http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/antoine-quatuor-et-sonate-oxalys/5425008314730

                   

There is an All-Busoni CD from Music&Arts with Carlo Grante
playing smaller accompanied piano works, see e.g.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Busoni-Works-Orchestra-Carlo-Grante/dp/B005GSWL6W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434781169&sr=8-1&keywords=grante+busoni

and

http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/novitacd/grante.html

[I am not aware of a single component out of the box fulfilling the demands for enjoying a large collection of digital files of classical music]

I have faced this problem (not with Bose) myself for a longer time - my short conclusion is:

    I am not aware of a single component out of the box fulfilling the demands for enjoying a large collection of digital files of classical music

But you have several options to assemble a system yourself that will do a great job:

The central piece of this system will be the music server software - in my opinion the best one for classical music is Minim Server
               http://minimserver.com/
which should be installed on some kind of a NAS, where your files are located. Minim Server also allows you to browse your
collection folder based - more on this below.

Then you need some renderer component (often called Network Player) to which the music is streamed, which is then output to
your HiFi equipment (amp, headphones, ...). There are plenty of these nowadays, ranging from 250.-€ to 1000.-+, you should ensure that
gapless playback and all of the common formats (codecs) - at best in HiRes - are supported. Some Network Players also support attaching
USB disks directly, so that you don't need any NAS - depending on the player software/"operating system" browsing of your collection might
be as cumbersome as on the Bose system mentioned above.

Depending on the renderer, it is quite convenient to control it with some separate controller software/device - Bubble UPnP on an Android
tablet is currently my favourite one, you can easily browse your huge collection with it and let the music be played on a renderer of your choice.

Most music servers depend on tagging - this can be quite cumbersome for organizing a large collection of classical music. One of the main
problems (some servers even aren't aware of the "composer" tag!) is that the concept of "composition/work/piece" - which in classical music normally
consists of several movements/tracks - is missing. You could substitute this with the available tag "album", but it tends to become annoying
if you have hundreds of albums called "Symphony No.2". If you have several recordings of the same work, maybe even in different performances
by the same artists, the situation becomes even worse.

Logically, I prefer a search tree of the form (optional elements in square brackets):

      [alphabet range] - composer - genre - [workgroup] - work - [performer] - [performance] - track

eg.  [A-B] - Brian - Symphonies - [Symphonies No.1-6] - Symphony No.1 - Boult - Mvmt.1..N

or perhaps with performer and work reversed, if you want to have all performances of Stanley Pope together in one group.
For myself, I have realized such a scheme folder based, which is easier than by tags. Minim Server can display this folder structure directly,
you can even switch to tag based browsing in any subfolder.

Thanks as well, Richard.

At first I had some difficulties locating the relevant site where the digital edition can be purchased,
since we are in April now with a new current volume - so for all others interested, this is the link for all volumes:

http://amadeus.ezpress.it/arretrati.php?id_man=123456809&codicerivista=AMA

and here for the topic of our thread:

http://www.ezpress.it/riviste.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=3299

As I haven't purchased this volume yet, one further question - what is the bitrate of the mp3 files I'll get?

Best,
              mjkF

[male]

@Balapoel

....
Esposito, Michele   1855   1929
....

This Italian / Irish composer was male !

.... available in somewhat better quality (mp 320) and MUCH cheaper here:

http://play.google.com/store/music/album/American_Symphony_Orchestra_Miaskovsky_Silentium_S?id=Bbbhle5v7aoqa35msfectpst4ju

Thank you for bringing this work to our attention!

                                                             mjkF

After my dissapointing experiences with Falletta's (highly praised) 'Ilya Murometz' I am not so excited about this announcement.
We already have a superb recording of 'The Haunted Palace' from Chandos (Sao Paulo SO / YP Tortelier).

A long time ago I had an LP with a French recording of this work coupled with other symphonic works inspired
by E.A.Poe (Caplet's 'la Mort rouge' and some Debussy).

Thanks a lot, Eternalorphea.

I've just realized that the music for this YT videos (as well as Ivo Maček's Romantic Trio) are from a 2CD album released by the Croation label Cantus.
Do you have an idea where to buy this album as CDs? (mp3 downloads are available from major platforms such as Amazon or Google Play.)

mjkF

Still missing is a recording of her 1st piano trio Op.15.

For some reason, unfortunately this recording isn't yet available for download at classicsonline.com.

but it is available from Qobuz in standard or even HD quality since Feb. 3rd.

A new recording containing some of Jongen's chamber music for wind instruments has been released recently
from Phaedra (from where downloads as mp3 or flac are available as well):

               http://www.phaedracd.com/en/cd-s/in-flanders-fields/product/149-in-flanders-fields-vol-85


               

I've discovered it thanks to a new review on MusicWeb from today

               http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Jan/Jongen_wind_92085.htm

Being a violin afficionado myself - not as excessive as our member 'violinoncerto' - I am afraid that
I have to agree with every word Mark Thomas has just written.

Jongen has composed much wonderful music, especially for piano and for chamber ensembles,
and I like his Suite for viola & orchestra very much, but his early works for violin & orchestra are
quite dissapointing. The piece I like most from this album ist the Lazzari, but I wouldn't miss it.

... and there is - of course - Sigrid Trummer's recording of the PC on the CD 'Frauentöne vol.1'



released by RE NOVA CLASSICS (RNC 990909). I've listened to some excerpts of this
interpretation on YT (from one of Corentin Boissier's channels), but haven't been pleased.