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A must buy here as well - I find his music fascinating.

I also have a copy of volume 1 - unfortunately, I've not yet had a chance to give it a spin! I note that the ongoing series on Grand Piano has yet to get to most of the material on these discs. When funds allow, I shall buy volume 2.

E.Franck's piano trios are well worth a listen!

Excellent news!

Dratted typos....and I'm currently learning Italian! 

Hi All,
To answer my own question, I hadn't!  I see that a CD of his music has been released on the Tactus label with the title "Opere per pianoforte" and the pianists Massimilliano Genot and Andrea Vigna-Taglianti.  He was court pianist-composer to His Majesty The King of Italy.  Having listened to some parts of it on Spotify, it sounds intriguing!

I still have the Järvi Chandos 5th symphony on my wants list - I really ought to buy it!  I did get his recording of the 2nd a few weeks ago but I've not had time to give it a spin yet.

Good point Alan!

I heard the Andante of the 3rd symphony on "Record Review" this morning on BBC Radio 3 and I have to agree - the music struck me as generally pleasant and my next thought (before I looked at the display on the radio) was "this sounds Dvorakian".

I shall give the whole work a listen at some point but I'm not going to rush out and buy the CD.

Not to worry Gareth!

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Hi all, earlier on in the thread, I did mention Elgin's recording which was available via the Liszt Society. I've not spoken to her in a long time but she is still a member of the society.

Hope this helps.

Excellent! Another Stojowski piece I need to buy!

Years ago, while trawling through the Surrey Heath Arts Library in Dorking, I came across an album of transcriptions made for Wittgenstein (they may have been by him but I can't remember).  It included a horribly difficult transcription of Wagner's Liebestod, as transcribed by Liszt but arranged for left hand only.  I borrowed the book and played through a few of the transcriptions and was very impressed by how much detail was included using only 1 hand.

Excellent news about the Moszkowski! 

I just found out today that the Liszt / Stradal transcriptions disc is due out on the 5th February - far sooner than I had expected

I agree, a complete Moszkowski set would be excellent. As for Respighi, I reviewed volume 1 of the Complete Piano Music (on MusicWeb) and thoroughly enjoyed it.