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Thank you, Mark. I think I may have found out what it could be: I normally use a VPN (ExpressVPN) and perhaps there is something there that makes the VPN and the UC website somewhat incompatible. I never had this problem until a couple of weeks ago, though, so UC worked fine with the VPN on.
I could also try getting support from ExpressVPN, I have found their customer service to be just that, real customer service. Failing that, I will have to remember to de-activate the VPN before posting...

Over the past couple of weeks I sometimes got the error message below when I clicked on 'Unread Posts' or tried to post something myself. Could it be a login problem, and has anyone else come across this message? It has become more frequent recently.

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Are the COTW programmes usually available for re-listening on BBC Sounds?

By the way, COTW is to be moved to late afternoon, see the latest article by the Spin Doctor, "Accessible Music", on the Europadisc website.

My pleasure, 4c. It was only when I received the Bru Zane newsletter recently that I realised there was such a possibility.

Isn't he just ... and seeing his name on this upcoming release makes me really look forward to it.

The Bru Zane mediabase may have some information - but perhaps you have already tried it.

I am happy to read that, Alan. My copy is on its way from Poland and now I am even more looking forward to receiving it.

On a trip to Vienna two weeks ago, I visited the excellent Gramola shop on the 'Graben' and bought a copy of the double CD with music by students of Bruckner. It will be interesting to compare the two recordings of Caro's Piano Trio.

Good point.

Thank you.

The recording of the entire cycle for the Mirare label is in the pipeline but currently no date has been set. Perhaps this thread should be moved to the Recordings & Broadcasts section at some point.

A physical CD is available to order from the Polish Chamber Music Association by bank transfer.

Julius Bürger [anglicised to Burger] (1897-1995) grew up in Vienna and studied composition with Franz Schreker. He is one of many composers forced into exile by the rise of Nazism. In the very last years of his long life, he saw the fulfilment of a long held wish: to experience his music being performed. Baritone Ryan Hugh Ross brought out an album recently: A Journey into Exile – The Lieder of Julius Burger. There is a half-hour documentary about the making of that album on the Rediscovered Beauty website and also a biographical article.

Title duly amended to eliminate any confusion.

Emil Robert-Hansen was a Danish cellist and composer who wrote two symphonies, concertos for cello and for piano,  chamber music and also stage works, according to his Wikipedia entry.
A performance of his 1910 Trio for Flute, Violin and Cello in 3 movements is on Youtube (link to first movement).

Bertrand Roth was a Swiss pianist and composer. He lived in Germany from childhood, first in Plauen, then in Leipzig as a student, and then in Dresden for 45 years. He was a pupil of Liszt, who recommended him to Raff, and the latter engaged him as a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory. After Raff's death Roth became one of the founders and co-directors of the new Raff Conservatory in 1882. In 1900, he had a concert hall built as an annexe to his villa in Dresden. This could seat over 100 people. He  organised regular concerts and especially promoted performances  of works by new composers. By the time the 'Musik-Saal Bertrand Roth' closed its doors for good in 1930, 280 performances with works by 250 composers had been held there.

As a composer Roth started late, when he was already around 40. He wrote mostly lieder and piano music. In 1998, the Swiss pianist Fritz Ruch issued a CD with piano works for the Swiss Pan label. This has long been deleted but a copy is currently available on ebay. A biography of Roth also by Fritz Ruch and also published in 1998 makes for fascinating reading. The appendix contains the names of all those composers who had works performed in Roth's salon. Top of the list by number of performance are names such as Reinhold Becker (11), Felix Draeseke (14) and Albert Fuchs (5).