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Yeah, I'm not really objective because I do not hate many pieces and most of them I forgot just because I don't like them...
But, there's an exception that I don't want to talk openly... avant-garde and experimental music.

[1.- Sergei Bortkiewicz - "Der Chinese" from Marionettes Op.54]

I don't consider myself and expert in music but I've been years hearing and practicing piano so I think that I can say that these 3 works are not really good

1.- Sergei Bortkiewicz - "Der Chinese" from Marionettes Op.54
I picture Bortkiewicz composing this piece as him being impatient because he don't know what more add to the set and then he takes some augmented chords and some cites from his his 1st Concerto and makes this thing... that doesn't even sound like chinese at all!
(P.D.: I feel bad for roasting my favorite composer, BUT I REALLY HATE THAT PIECE  )

2.- Max Jentsch - Konzertetüde Op.28 No.4
A really hard-to-process piece... only hear it. It's not really pleasing at all, altough it makes a really clever use of chromaticism, it's too repetitive and EXAGERATEDLY LONG. I really think that those chromatic semi cadenzas are really obnoxious because they cut short the flow of the music and are not really suitable for a "concert etude" because it's not really for practice but for recitals and concerts. However, I think that my opinion could change if some human interpretation makes this piece shine, not like a MIDI that is not making justice to the piece.

3.- Henri Ravina - Elegie Op.22
How could a lament be so joyful!? Only hear the piece, at least how it beings. But, still, the piece doesn't even has a change of mood. Did the composer chose a bad title? Or the editors messed up the title? We can't know...

It's my subjective opinion... I think that I could have chosen better pieces to go in the wastebasket but most pieces that I remind are the ones I like.

Sorry but I had to remove all the videos from mt YT account (well excepting one) so you should see my digital realisations on my MuseScore profile page

I totally liked it! I heard it from begin to end and I (think that) added to my favorite concerti playlist on YouTube.

Yeah, that's something dissaponting... I also tried searching some Surinamese composer's pieces but I only found interpretations, not scores. I will really like to find someday the Mazurka of Helstone!

niceeeeee! I really will like learning it... if I have time

Abelone Gurine Solberg, also known as Lona Solberg (or Elise Brown) was a norwegian composer born the 11th of december of 1825 and died the 17th of november of 1920. Possibly one of the first women composers of the norwegian romantic era; she composed more than 40 pieces, mostly miniatures for piano but also some songs with texts of Andreas Munch, Jørgen Moe and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. She was rejected in her lifetime by her "poor ability to compose good pieces", a really rude commentary. I have been uploading some of her works (15 for now) to IMSLP from the National Library of Norway and I really think she deserves some attention. Her pieces tend to be a little bit repetitive or not very original but are very enjoyable and playable for beginners and intermediate piansits. Those pieces show that even when the musical society of the time rejected her, she continued composing and playing. Thanks!
The user ErlingI from MuseScore has written a better biography than mine, also check her IMSLP page for her pieces and more information: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Solberg,_Lona

Worklist: https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Lona_Solberg

Woow! I knew of Helstone but not of Saavedra. Thanks for sharing this information! Do you have access to any piece by Surinamese composers?

Charles-Auguste Petit (or Anatole Petit) is, in my opinon, one of the most obscure figures on academic french music of the XIX century.
His name isn't found elsewhere except from BnF (wich features only 5 of his pieces), a website where there's a short biography and a reference to an Overture (ernestreyer.com) and a japanese article about a piano competition (https://web.archive.org/web/20160416084001/https://www.piano.or.jp/report/02soc/ued_chpn/2008/11/28_5252.html). There are other few mentions, like on here https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1178896g/f149.item.r=anatole.zoom#, but are not really helpful on determining critical aspects about his life or his musical production.

Charles-Auguste Petit was a french pianist and composer born the 16th of february of 1818 in Paris and died probably before of after 1864. He studied in the Paris Conservaroty under the tuition of Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann and studied there between 1831 and 1836. He participated in some piano competitions (1831, 1834, 1835, 1836) and obtained first prize in 1831 solfège competition and 1836 piano competition after lot of trial and error. He was somewhat popular composer and one of his works, an Overture, was premiered in 1855. By 1864 his musical publishing vanished and with that all trace of his life. He composed "concertos (No.1, Op.8 ), etudes (Op.7) and salon pieces (2 collections of pieces, mazurka)".
There are some people named like him as a ballet dancer, a guy just named like him and a guy that made... goat cheese?
I really want more info for a more complete biography and probably some notice of more publications. Thanks for reading!

Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160416084001/https://www.piano.or.jp/report/02soc/ued_chpn/2008/11/28_5252.html
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1178896g/f149.item.r=anatole.zoom#
https://opengauquelin.org/person/petit-charles-1818-02-16
https://ernestreyer.com/personnes/anatole-petit/
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16408442n/PUBLIC
https://ernestreyer.com/articles/athenaeum-francais-1855-02-10/ (search near the end of the article)
https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_Works_by_Anatole_Petit (I made that worklist, so that's not an actual souce but I put it if ou want to check his works)

I will hear them tomorrow, thanks for sharing! I was in the search of an interpretation of Gedicke's ballade, as he is one of my favorite post-romantic russian composers and the ballade is my favorite piano genr

It's done! I uploaded the parts to IMLSP, only we have to waint util they pass copyright review

I definitively think that Zubkov's recording is the best by his improvised cadenza 
Also, the other pianists play the Allegro part on the first movement too slow. I think the other most solid interpretation is that of Shadrina. This one is well played, as talking about the piano but I definitively like more thw other two. Though... it will be really great if David Porcelijn record his piano concerto no.1, as he played very well his 3rd concert!

Wow! I didn't found that parts when I was searching that concerto... I'll do the possible to upload them to IMSLP.

It's nice that Bortkiewicz it's not the only composer they have played. I wish that in my country some day they can play one of these obscure pieces.

Also, if anybody can check the score on MuseScore please give me your opinon about my edition.