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An unknown late romantic ballet?

Gimme gimme gimme.

Interesting concept. There's a couple good pieces of music away from the classical sphere in that, so it'll be interesting to see what's a good take away....

Now I remember all the controversy surrounding this work, hence the odd "297b" Köchel number, K.297 being the familiar Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and this being what might be termed the Mostly Mozart Sinfonia Concertante.

No, K 297 is Symphony No. 31,

A myriad of works have a catalog with a letter in them. Most of them are simply later attempts to place them in chronology (for instance, Symphony 31 is also K 300a). If by 'the familiar' one you mean the Violin, Viola and Orchestra one, that's K 364/K 320d.

K 297b is the work as we know it today, however the original, which is lost, is K 297B.

The consensus a century or so ago used to be, I think, that the version we actually have is possibly/probably an arrangement of a lost original version (but still by Mozart) for a -different- collection of soloists (that was Alfred Einstein's view), but I can believe that the consensus has changed since the 1950s...

There's a number of differing views. Robert Levin even wrote an entire book on the piece where he argues that some unknown person only had the solo parts and wrote the orchestral music and cadenzas from scratch. He also made a reconstruction of the original based on this.

The other is a Naxos CD, with Bernd Glemser/Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit.  Annoyingly the website doesn't say if it's the original or the Siloti.  Does anyone know off-hand? I've long since got rid of my hard-copy CDs and their booklets!

I'[ll just link it then
https://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/files/tchaikovskydisc-2024-08.pdf

It's about as thorough as it even possible.
That recording (which is one that I have as well) is fully the original.

Just wondering: how many recordings of PC2 are of the original, non-Siloti version?

About 50 according to the discography from Tchaikovsky-Research, though this includes some with small cuts and a couple with the second movement being Siloti's, but there's a separate section for Siloti's version.

Listening to it now. It's....enjoyable in a "it delivers what it's trying to deliver" way if that makes sense? Meanders with the same big tune a lot and feels like someone trying to write an archtypical piece of music in the style its trying to emulate. At the same time it has a sort of....very obviously written in the last 50 years in that it almost sounds like some versed in pop music trying to write a classical concerto.
I can see why some here would dislike it.

Of course, if one was so minded you could use readily available free software to convert YouTube video into mp3 and download to your computer, allowing you to listen to the music without any ads. Or even burn to disc. I merely point out the technical possibility!

Sure, But the at that point you're lossy converting a lossy file, which is pretty bad quality.

It's perfectly legal, of course, and I said before that I don't understand the economic strategy of putting out all these recordings online for free, but there it is.

I assume the same as any streaming service. Every view is SOME manner of money, even if it's a small amount.

LOL copy protected CD? What?

It's on the normal streaming services so it should be reletively easy for people to check out.

I'd always hoped for a final Liszt New Discoveries disc from Leslie Howard.  He's certainly performed some of the recently discovered pieces at the Wigmore Hall but I suspect the whole Universal takeover means it won't happen.

Shame as I received my Liszt Society journal last week and there is a substantial work in there that needs recording!  (It's an early version of the Salve Polonia from the incomplete oratorio "St. Stanislaus")

I've been wondering about the lack of one for a little while now. There's quite a number of Album leafs that even have scores on IMSLP that seem too recent for Howard to have recorded.

I would love to see a video of how exactly 6 pianos plus orchestra are coordinated. Seems I recall reading about a Czerny polonaise/piece for 8 pianos...

Gottschalk wrote a couple pieces for 16 (!) pianos and orchestra, and one for 13, though they are lost.
There IS an extant piece for three pianos, 10 hands, and orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMWF5BdLJs

Interesting. Wonder if there's anything that isn't on this disc:
https://archive.org/details/cd_the-symphonic-works_bonis-mel-bucharest-symphony-orchestra

They've been niche for a while now.
Someone on another site about the Chandos store closure linked this article here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2018/05/07/the-short-unhappy-life-of-music-downloads/ -- from over six years ago.

I actually would really like to know what #7 is myself...

EDIT: Listening to the whole thing it seems to be a medley as well and I don't recognize or only vaguely recognize most of it.