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It's a very enjoyable CD, though it's a very weird one -- the physical release has a mere 9 tracks, whereas the digital one has a single track for each variation.

Did anyone else buy this?

I did, and it's really enjoyable! Maybe not the deepest music in the world no but *shrug*

Incidently I was wondering how I even found it, and I guess it was this thead? Heh.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9267899--saint-saens-piano-works-paraphrases-and-transcriptons-vol-1
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9267900--camille-saint-saens-piano-works-paraphrases-and-transcriptons-vol-2

In a fantastic recording too. By my estimation, almost two hours of the four and half hours of music is music/arrangements I don't have (and 50+ minutes of what remains is the Bach transcriptions).

No, it was more of an awed statement.

Another one? That's like, number four in five years...

I own all the nineteenth century clarinet concerto recordings that Klocker made (or ,at least I think I do!). The mention in this thread that he might have composed a number of his discoveries has gnawed at me. Can anyone point me to the evidence about this allegation or mention the pieces that are potentially spurious?  I hope that they aren´t his Rossini renditions.

No evidence, just that 1) I've seen it written before (do not remember where, might have even been an Amazon review) and 2) There seem to be NO other sources for at the least the Haydn and (some of) the Rossini pieces.

I remember reading that Klocker may have pulled a Kriesler and composed some of the pieces that he supposedly discovered that seem to have no other references (there's a similar disc of Haydn as well, for instance).

I've looked hard and deep trying to figure out the mess that is Rossini's clarinet music, including the Klocker recorded stuff. Unfortunately there's no good definitive source that I know of for Rossini's catalogue.

Indeed, only if Amazon is the one actually making the CDR ("on demand") will they note it's a CDR.

Those YouTube uploads are automatic, done by a bot controlled by Naxos (who is Ondine's distributor).

The Toccata CD doesn't have the greatest sound quality either, so that might make it a good replacement on that count as well.

Finally getting around to listening to this and wow, this is great stuff. Bendix had quite the penchant for melody that I didn't expect.

Regardless, it's a fine piece of music. Some great tunes buried in there as one might expect from Sullivan.

Clarifying this a bit: the new Slobodeniouk BIS CD contains only one movement of Sibelius' Suite, the 1897 version of Lemminkäinen in Tuonela,  op 22#2  or, post 1939, op 22#3

To clarify more:

'Lemminkainen and the Maidens of the Island' has versions from 1896, 1897 and 1939. 1897 is supposedly "not performable".
'Lemminkainen in Tuonela' has versions from 1896, 1897 and 1939. The 1896 version has some part lost which were reconstructed by Colin Davis, and 1897 is this new recording (which again, used to be considered "not performable").
'The Swan of Tuonela' has versions from 1896, 1897 and 1900 but only the 1900 one survives.
'Lemminkainen's Return' has versions from 1896, 1896 and 1900, all of which survive intact.

Including a world premiere of the specific version of the Sibelius....previously it was listed as "Not performable"....I wonder why the booklet doesn't go into detail about why this has changed, and if anyone had a hand in reconstruction or whatever.

With that in mind, the only piece I have is the Klami, so for sure I'll check this out (and at the least, would have to get the Sibelius digitally for completion purposes).

There's also this CD which also has the 'Happy Birthday Variations' by Peter Heidrich which does similarly....and includes a nice arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Elegy as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WioXQLBxEYI&list=OLAK5uy_lBZKsUgxpv4nXr5otTNy56BeR_Ewf0mcI which