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Hello!
Are there any Russian-speaking musicologists here in the forum? I need some help searching the Russian-language databases RGALI, "Rossijski Nacional'ny Muzej Muzyki," rusneb.ru, and others. THX for reply!
Walter

Actually, there is a serious point to be made about Hyperion's RVC series - namely that it contains a rather small number of previously unrecorded concertos. In 13 volumes, there have only been six - those by Stanford, Somervell, David (Nos.4 & 5), Cliffe and d'Erlanger. To my mind, that's not really adventurous enough, considering that (off the top of my head), the following VCs have yet to be recorded:

Rietz
Litolff
Gernsheim 1 & 2
Thieriot 1 & 2
Hiller
R. Becker 1 & 2
Huber 1 & 2
P. Scharwenka
J.M.Weber
Krug
Jongen
Fitelberg
Sinigaglia
Moór (various)
Bortkiewicz
Marteau

Now, admittedly, I haven't checked the availability of parts and scores, but still....

A new Mockup:

Of course, Fleisher has a copy of the printed full score by Offenbach (1920) and a complete set of parts of this outstanding work (also, incidentally, full score and parts of Kaun's 1st piano concerto, Op. 50). These two were on Mike Spring's list of candidates for Hyperion's RPC series. Too bad they never got round to doing them.

The information is incorrect. I asked for it at the time. The Full Score was published in 1924, the piano score (Fleisher) in 1920..Only the piano reduction is available there, no full score and no parts. Such false information is often found because, as in this case, two piano scores (solo part and orchestral part) are present during cataloging. In the past, some librarians have created the misleading information that solo, parts and orchestral parts are available. I have often come across such misleading information

https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00063592/1935a.pdf

Surprisingly, in 1935 there was still little or no sign of the Nazis' cultural conformity at the Tonkünstlerfest. There are many names of European composers there that even I have never heard of. Unbelievable! For example Eric Westberg

https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/westberg-eric/

a very important Swedish composer during his lifetime, who has fallen into oblivion even today in music-interested Sweden, or the flemish composer Jan Blockx. Wow!😮

The two protagonists have already been discussed here in the forum. In 2009, Hugo Kaun's truly fantastic 2nd Piano Concerto in c-minor was published by me. I am in possession of one of the few original full score. It is the composer's dedication copy to the dedicatee. According to my research at the time, there is only one other score in the Berlin State Library. The publishing archive of the publisher André (Offenbach) was completely destroyed by fire during the 2nd ww.
It´s now a mystery to me why this concerto was still being performed. I have offered it to many people in Germany and America in recent years. In 2007, I made two mock-up audios. They sound pretty awful, but when reading the score (I posted the version for two pianos on IMSLP at the time), one cannot escape the genius of this work. The powerful chord strokes are reminiscent of Tchaikovsky's concerto, but that is certainly not a bad influence.
It is interesting that many passages sound like early Hollywood film music. In the year this piano concerto was composed, his son Bernhard Kaun (1899–1980) was already orchestrating Wagner's heroic epic (Music by Gottfried Huppertz, Orchestration by B. Kaun) for the film Die Nibelungen (Part 1: Siegfried, directed by Fritz Lang). Some time later, Bernhard Kaun composed his first film scores for Dracula and other horror films.

H. Kaun's preference for smooth 9 chords is unmistakable here too, but it is not annoying (as in some of his other works). Nor does the melody and its development take a back seat to the complex harmony. I have included the preface to the new edition here. (You can use online tools to translate it). So, if you know a talented pianist and the perfect orchestra, go for it. It would be a great addition to the Hyperion series.

https://app.box.com/s/fg9qktsgvf58tbj8gc5sgg18c0uxmzoq

https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.2%2C_Op.115_(Kaun%2C_Hugo)

Dear Friends of romantic music!
Sorry for this YouTube fake. But the cup of coffee should have immediately made anyone suspicious!
Okay, an irritation of a ,,special kind". But please guess who else wrote this Zeroth Symphony. (The composer was 23 years old, when he wrote it!)

No Brahms (Although Brahms was one of this composer's role models, he was in correspondence with him), no AI, no Zielke, no Thieriot. Listen to his 2nd Mvt.of 5

https://app.box.com/s/qie4jooma8pk2947yk547e2rlo5kitmx

This symphony is based on the "ideé fixe", as already used by Berlioz in his Symphonie Fantastique. The multiple division of the strings (tenfold divisi in the second movement) is also borrowed from Berlioz. The work was performed several times with great success by the composer himself. Note: The composer learned to conduct from none other than Hans von Bülow. The composer did not get it published due to his young age and withdrew it completely in 1900.

You'll find out for sure!

The violin concerto was recently published by the German music publisher AlbisMusic. It will be performed in 2022 in Copenhagen. Here's the 3rd Mvt (mockup with Sibelius&NotePerformer). https://app.box.com/s/oagu7rg8nadvnf8flhbt9flhasq22kt5 His "Tone Billeder" about the awakening of the big city can be seen and heard here. Charlie Chaplin would have had his joy! https://youtu.be/W2HWkdANwK4