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I'll try browsing SBN later to see if I can find locations of scores etc. of Rendano's works in Italian libraries but it's loading very slowly right now...
(It may be my browser, which is doing something weird when it does connect. ICCU SBN is working better but doesn't quite do what I'm looking to do. Returning to Google Chrome from DuckDuckGo is seeming better all the time, or even other browsers.)

Yep, "Concerto no 1 pour piano et orchestre / par Alfred Gradstein ; réduction pour 2 pianos." - hence the never mind - thanks!

What format does Newberry Library have?
Never mind.
In my experience when Worldcat lists Auffuhrungsmaterial it's linking to something like D-NB and also means that the parts may be on rental from whoever owns the publisher (Eschig) (Durand Salabert Eschig)...

Don't forget his nonet, at IMSLP, thanks to Matesic.

Thanks to Cypressdome for uploading two more of Bölsche's works to IMSLP.

January 28 2026 in Stuttgart, string trio by Robert Fuchs (in E minor, Op.61 No.1 - miscalled E major because it has an introduction in that key, but nothing else*), Hans Gál clarinet quintet, and Franz Schubert B-flat piano trio.

Same location, April 29: Gade's piano trio in F, Bloch's violin sonata no.2, and Enescu's octet in C. Neat concert.

*Which makes as much sense as calling Haydn's Symphony No.104 a symphony in "D minor".

I keep hoping for more recordings specifically of the 2nd and 3rd quartets and the cello sonata and intend to promote them as I can ...

The most recent Flury release on Toccata before this, I see, was a comic opera from the very next year. I admire (I do not want to say envy ) the dedication!

Incidentally his 2nd symphony (which I believe there are plans to make the first commercial recording of; I think I uploaded my copy of a radio tape to our uploads, erm, downloads board years ago) is mostly (that is, except for one movement, iirc) orchestrations, but of works probably unknown even to people fairly familiar to the composer- including a piano fugue on a theme by a late pupil of his, which made for a nice opener (I did not know the circumstances.)

I may occasionally agree with that reviewer but am no more inclined to follow or read his reviews than formerly...

Whereas I very much enjoy the wartime 2nd symphony, and it sounds like the first symphony might be along the same lines...

Given how many composers of 20th century British oratorios (Boughton e.g.) were socialists, I'd be careful with generalizations, but...

Please request an elucidation from the author of the article, not from me, as I was clearly quoting it. I assume "best known for" has its usual meaning, known more than for any other thing, which can be a useful relative statement for the least-known of composers, and how well his music is known absolutely is not at issue here at the moment; that said, the author's statement is still asserted, not shown.

Still, if this is what he's best known for (I wasn't aware of it) and not his symphonies (which I still think, pace the spirit of Alan Krueck, also don't have the very best of Draeseke's muse), it makes sure that we get off on the wrong foot from the start. A little like a contemporary article on Beethoven beginning by identifying him with his septet, to give an insufficient analogy (but if an analogy were perfect, it would no longer be an analogy...)

Neat!
I also see listed a performance of Myaskovsky's 6th symphony conducted by Alexander Rudin in Moscow on 7 April, a recital ending with Myaskovsky's 2nd piano sonata in Toronto played by Evgeny Kissin on 22 May, another Kissin program in Paris (unspecified cellist??) with the same composer's 2nd cello sonata on 28 January . (Ah, I see that operabase starts charging after the first few uses. That's why...)