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I like Otto Nicolai's Fantaisie avec Variations brillante sur Norma (Bellini) for piano and orchestra (about 17 minutes long).  Quite a few versions on youtube.

I wonder if his family are aware?  Or his (estate) lawyers for that matter!

Another place to try could be the successor to Dartington Hall School where he seems to have spent most of his career.

According to wikipedia:

After the school's closure, a number of staff and students set up Sands School which still carries some of the principles that Dartington once had.

The Dartington estate also hosts the Dartington Music Summer School & Festival - which "was a department of the Dartington Trust. It was replaced in 2024 by ChoralFest"...these could all be avenues of enquiry maybe?

An obituary on MusicWeb says:

Although he won some success as a composer; with a number of publications and broadcasts, the fact remains that he was probably better known in Russia than in Britain, and in his latter years he worked hard to try to achieve wider recognition in this country, something which he never quite succeeded in but richly deserved.

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Mar03/Moore_obit.htm

The Concerto for Clarinet and Strings is referenced here:
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/concerto-clarinet-and-strings-4

Where might one find the score of T Moore's concerto?

This is more plausible than some might think: when russians are taught the Latin alphabet, there is a very weird way that they write lower-case r. It looks like a curved v! See the image below, though that doesn't totally capture it.  (Handwriting is a very strict thing there, almost all russians have identical handwriting in both Cyrillic and Latin.) So not inconceivably a russian could have written Moore T and someone else read it as Moove T.

The section of the review quoted by Alan above which is about the Barvinsky reads as follows:

Following her CD "Winter Whispers – Ukrainian Piano Tales" (2024), Ukrainian pianist Violina Petrychenko once again provides a feast for the ears full of new impressions of Ukrainian music with a world premiere recording. This time, together with Ukrainian musicologist and conductor Volodymyr Syvokhip  and the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, she performed  two piano concertos by Ukrainian romantic composers.

This is how Vasyl Barvinsky's  (1888-1963) Piano Concerto in F minor sounds with the movements Maestoso, Andante non troppo and Allegro moderato. Barvinsky worked on this from 1917 until its completion in 1937. He incorporated Ukrainian folk melodies and folkloristic elements into his romantic-tonal music. After a dramatic introduction that seems to build to the highly dramatic, his music changes into something lively and lively, almost cheerful. The change in intensity from contemplative to dramatic, booming passages is impressive, interpreted with emotion and intensity by Violina Petrychenko. Everything is woven into a dialogue between orchestra and piano, which is subtly differentiated and recorded in impressive sound quality, making the smallest nuances audible. The piano's depth of sound, the melodic passages in the piano and strings, the imitations of the piano and orchestra alike, which lead to an echo effect, but also the thematic motifs that recur, are what make the piano concerto and its interpretation so appealing. The piano is ensnared by a warm orchestral wave in which it seems to literally unfold.

https://www.operius.de/post/ukrainische-musik-von-barvinsky-und-kosenko-l%C3%A4sst-aufhorchen-violina-petrychenko-bringt-2025-erneu

The Barvinsky too - all its qualities are fully brought out in this recording, which was not the case with previous recordings, when it sounded more like a nice-enough piece badly played.  With this recording we can now hear what a fine concerto it actually is (and its story is tragic too - Barvinsky had to "consent" to the destruction of all his work, before being sentenced to a gulag in Mordovia: he recreated the score in a 2-piano version which decades later was re-orchestrated by others).

I've always found the first movement of the Kosenko fairly Rachmaninovian, which is no slight to it as its own voice also shines through.  Movements 2 and 3 less so (and acc to the sleeve notes they were constructed many years later from Kosenko's sketches).

Many thanks TerraEpon!

I have two recordings:
- Andrej Hoteev/Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow/Vladimir Fedoseyev (Koch label), from a 4-CD box-set of all his works for piano+orchestra. The cover explicitly says "Unabridged original versions", so that seems to be clear.

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!

My CD has just arrived, very much looking forward to getting home this evening and listening.

Only that I've seen people in the creative sectors use Patreon and Kickstarter very effectively.

https://www.patreon.com/en-GB

https://www.kickstarter.com/

A thought: invite these Ukrainians (orchestra, conductor Volodymyr Svokhip and soloist Violina Petrychenko) to perform the Kosenko at this summer's Proms: they'd go down a storm.

Hear hear! Could it echo or even surpass that moment in August 1968 when the USSR Symphony Orchestra appeared at the Proms on the same day as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring.

You think the controller of Radio 3 would have the imagination to do that? Dream on!!!

Perhaps we could design a Ukrainian evening for BBC 3 controllers.

Mine would be:

Lysenko - Taras Bulba overture
Skorulskyi - Mykyta Kozhumiaka (Mykyta the Tanner) symphonic poem-story
Kosenko - Piano Concerto
Bortkiewicz - Symphony 1 or 2
encore piece 1 - Skorulskyi - Adagio of Mavka and Lukas for violin and orchestra from "A Forest Song" ballet
encore piece 2 - Hulak-Artemovsky - Ukrainian Dances from the opera "The Cossack over the Danube"

A separate Ukrainian evening could be devoted to Gliere's "Ilya Muromets" Symphony No.3 (is that still the subject of the longest thread on here (deservedly so)?!)

I think I know Alan's next comment...

His Symphony No.7 was recorded with the Sczeczin Orchestra under the composer's baton; and his "My Grandchildren" suite was recorded by the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra, again under his baton.  His Violin Sonata has also been recorded.