Unsung chamber music: which pieces should get heard more often?

[Ilja]

Ah, my mistake (evidently). Worth exploring, by the sound of things, and quite different from what I'd expected.

[Vitaly]

Well, Glier's chamber is very, very good: four quartets (First is marvelous), Octet and three (one) Sextets. I just can't understand how come the First and Second have not been recorded in USSR since Gliere was not only Russian but prominent Soviet composer, whose name I well remember from my music school some 45 years ago.

[Pyramus]

Berwald and Arriaga quartets. I think the Berwald septet is fairly well-known but his piano trios and quintets are not - the piano writing is sometimes a bit clumsy. 

[SV340450843]

Hello! I will give my recommendations:

I think Robert Alexander's "Badener" (String Quartet Op.173a No.1) needs some attention, it's a very nice and tender piece, especially the first movement. That was the first piece of Alexander that I ever "heard"; I have a partial transcription of the entire 4 movements on MuseScore but it will be really nice if some quartet wants to play it. It was the first piece I begun to transcribe because casually it was the first score on his document collection No.1 

Also, the Piano Quintet of Luis Humberto Salgado is a very good piece and I think that is the only of that genre that was composed by a ecuadorian composer. It's not actually that "romantic" but it has its romantic moments. Salgado was more eclectical than avant-garde, but his tendencies went also for that side sometimes (as when he composed the "Sanjuanito Futurista" a folk piece but using dodecaphonic series. If you decompose it from a simpler point of view, the piece is simply succesions of scales of D major, E major and A.flat major and then the second section is atonal chaos.)

The Piano Quintet by Károly Agghazy is another gem of the genre. Agghazy was a student of Liszt that was very nearer to him, Liszt even praised his ability. The complete piece is available on YouTube in 3 parts.
Agghazy also has very nice pieces as "In the foresr" Op.42