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The music's not really impressionistic. It's late romantic.

I'm with Gareth on this.

Thanks for all the sleuthing, Richard and Eric.

In short, Colin: yes.

...unless they started at 2500 and are working backwards. Mine is 2404 and it arrived two days ago.

Here's a link to the old thread:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,283.msg3159.html#msg3159

I haven't listened to the piece yet, Gareth, but the sleevenote says that the piece can be performed with chorus, although it is omitted here.

...from Nimbus:
http://www.mdt.co.uk/rontgen-julius-piano-music-volume-1-mark-anderson-nimbus-records.html

Quite right, Mark.

..a bit like spending all that money I haven't got...

The Symphony No.1 in F minor is very much of its period (1870); the first movement reminds me somewhat of Svendsen, which may seem rather odd, but probably reflects their shared commitment to the broadly conservative tradition which one might describe in both cases as 'Leipzig plus'. The slow movement, scherzo and finale are similar in style to, say, Saint-Saëns or Godard (not to say Mendelssohn or Raff - one should never underestimate the latter's influence in this period).

Still this is extremely attractive and vigorous stuff, with not a note wasted. Again, not an undiscovered masterpiece, but well worth anyone's attention.

This is a must-buy for admirers of late romantic music in general and Dubois in particular. The 31-minute 2nd Symphony in B minor (1912) begins for all the world like Night on Bare Mountain, but soon establishes itself in the meaty tradition of Franck, Dukas and Chausson - with Wagner always featuring in the background somewhere. Often Elgar doesn't seem very far off either. It's all rather grand, sonorous and affecting. OK, it could have been written twenty years before - but who cares? It's all about the music. In any case, the majority of composers pre-WW1 weren't radicals, modernists or iconoclasts - they were like Dubois, i.e. plying the trade that they knew, And remember: Dubois (1837-1924) was of the generation of Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak, so what would one expect?

More anon...

...join me there, Gareth. Still, the music's good!

Yes: No.4 is a fine piece.

Yes: good news, Aramiarz!