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I'd put the Walton at No.1 simply because of its originality. Anyway, back to the Bowen...

Very, very sad news. Thanks, Adriano, for letting us know.

...and even if it were true - which it isn't - why does it matter?

MusicWeb's Nick Barnard gets the Rudorff badly wrong:

The Third Symphony recorded here was first performed - by the Berlin Philharmonic - in 1911 but in all regards it could easily have been composed fifty years earlier.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Jan/Rudorff_sy3_7774582.htm

Really? In 1861? Prior to Brahms? Oh dear...

I still have a very soft spot for Le Désert

An oasis of positivity, maybe? 

Then it's a coincidental resemblance, I think...

It all goes back to David's faux-orientalism which I find dreadfully pale. I rather thought his music must all be salon stuff, but these piano trios are right in the mainstream...

The Symphony's a rather knotty piece. I don't think it'll win many new friends, but it has a certain fascination...

Having previously dismissed David's chamber music, I decided this evening to download the Marco Polo recording of Piano Trios 2 and 3. I am currently listening to No.3 and am already kicking myself for having persisted for so long in my sniffy attitude to this wonderful music.

Trio No.3 in particular has an almost Schubertian breadth of utterance. Marvellous! Now for the string quartets - has anyone heard them?

I haven't listened to the other pieces yet. On the CD tracks 1 to 4 are the Symphony and 5 to 7 the coupling.

Oh, and by the way: it seems to me that Woyrsch and Brun are near neighbours, musically speaking.

The 3rd Symphony is in my view much more interesting than Nos.1 and 2: its idiom (unsurprisingly for 1928 when it was premiered) is considerably more dense and chromatic, yet there is a purposeful feel about the music throughout what is often a stormy work. Not easy or particularly grateful listening - and often right on the edge of UC's remit - this is well worth worth exploring. But expect to be challenged!

Now: if cpo can do Woysch justice, what about Wilhelm Berger...?

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Sorry, Jerry. This is an old thread that pre-dates the tightening of UC's remit. Höller's music no longer fits here, I'm afraid. In any case, all I can find is this...
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Karl-H%F6ller-1907-1987-Kammermusik-Vol-1/hnum/3647529
...which includes a Trio in C minor for violin, cello and harp, Op.34a.

Wilhelm Berger String Quintet in E minor, op. 75 (1899). Details here:
http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/berger-string-quintet.htm

It could be that Jadassohn's tuneful classicism will respond better to craftsmanship rather than inspiration, but I agree that Yinon offers the latter - in spades.