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No, but he's too often 'unseen', i.e. visually unsung.

Oh, and the piece is definitely within our remit! Why wouldn't it be? Because it was written in 1950?

Well if you say it it, then it is.

His Piano Concerto is one of my all time favorite pieces and one of the only pieces I try to buy every recording of (five I know of, including an arrangement for Piano, Theater Organ, and Percussion).

Of course Leroy Anderson is neither unsung nor really within the forum's 'remit'.

He is one of my favorite composers granted,...

I never found the CD at an easy to buy from place, but pretty sure I've seen it on the 'usual suspects' for streaming/downloading.

I absolutely love the previous Naxos CD with his music as well as a disc that has many of his family (including a mere one of his pieces) but ooof, 'antiquated' sound can get grating. The 'Satie played on an 1890 Erard' or whatever I heard was just hard to listen to.

Also for some reason the digital platforms title the release "excerpts" but I see no indication it's cut or whatever, in that article or in the artwork.

So I dunno if this is the same recording mentioned earlier in this thread, but a 1975 live performance has finally been released on CD:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8906382--johann-strauss-ii-ritter-pasman

Will go nicely with the recent Naxos disc for violin and orchestra.

Never heard of Schreker or that work. I love the Zemlinsky so this might be worth looking into....

A few days ago I saw someone talking about something a parent did "in the days of CDs" as if it was a long time ago.

https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=GP859

Never heard of this guy, but the blurb waxes poetic about him.

Anyway, this is some great stuff. Melodic late 19th century character pieces....I  can never get enough of those heh.

Honestly I'm not really feeling either volume. I do enjoy the piano works disc I already have (and there seems to only be only shared work between that and the new discs, Op. 50) but I dunno, nothing too stand out otherwise on these.

Huh. I have a piece for wind ensemble called Waltz and Allegro by 'Anton Vranicky'. Always hate it when composers have multiple romanizations like that...

Finally getting around to listening to this. Never heard of Wranitzky but this double viola concerto is utterly wonderful.

Interestingly, this work was on none of the three big so-called-complete boxes released at the end of 2019. Unheard Beethoven gives this info:

"Hess 15, Piano Concerto #6 in D, as completed by Nicholas Cook (first movement), was recorded by Roberto Diem Tigani and the Sassari Symphony Orchestra, with Maurizio Paciariello on piano, was released in 2005 as a hybrid SACD in volume 4 of the series Beethoven Rarities, on the now-defunct Inedita label from Italy, PI2352. This disc had limited circulation and today is an extreme rarity.

A revised version of Nicholas Cook's completion of Hess 15 Piano Concerto #6 in D, with a cadenza and a different conclusion by Hermann Dechant was released in 2019 on OEHMS Classics, OC 1710, performed by Sophie-Mayuko Vetter, with Peter Ruzicka conducting the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. It bills itself as the world premiere recording, which is true from the standpoint of this edition. This CD can be obtained here."

That looks like a very nice disc. The overture to Raymond is a favorite, and pretty rarely recorded, and I only know of one recording of the Delibes.