Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>Dave asked:
>
>>BTW, has anyone heard anything about the future of Arte Nova?
>
>I used to get my information from BMG's site but noticed that IRR had
>another site listed:

Thanks for that.  I hadn't gotten the new URL.

>It lists six new releases for August, ...

Sure enough.  Though the site mentions BMG, I wonder how closely they are
still associated with them.  Have they gone independent and are just
distributed by BMG now, I wonder?

>including Liszt's complete music for cello (I didn't know there was any), ...

There's not much.  Aside from a handful of transcriptions, a few lost works
(including a trio and a quintet, apparently), and a few others of doubtful
authenticity, there are nine extant chamber works:

   -  Duo (Sonata) for Violin & Piano, S. 127  (1835, rev 1849)
   -  Grand Duo concertant sur la romance de M. Lafont "Le Marin"
        for Violin & Piano, S. 128  (1835, rev 1849)
   -  "Epithalam zu Eduard Remenyis Vermahlungfeier"
        for Violin & Piano, S. 129  (1872)
   -  Elegie #1 for Cello, Piano, Harp & Harmonium/Cello & Piano/
        Violin & Piano, S. 130  (1874/5)
   -  Elegie #2 for Violin/Cello & Piano, S. 131  (1877)
   -  Romance oubliee for Viola/Violin & Piano, S. 132  (1880)
   -  "Die Wiege" for 4 Violins, S. 133  (?1881)
   -  "La lugubre gondola" for Violin/Cello & Piano, S. 134  (1885)
   -  "Am Grabe Richard Wagners" for Harp & String Quartet, S. 135  (1885)

Alternative instrumentation is shown with slashes.  I have recordings of
all but S.  127 and 133.  Does anyone know of a recording of the violin
sonata S.  127? It's quite possible that the cello set will include some
transcriptions as well.

>some Rosetti symphonies ...

I sure wish they gave enough info on their web site to tell which
symphonies these are.

>Like Evelyn Glennie and James Galway, they seem to be steaming ahead
>despite BMG.  I understand the label is still readily available, in this
>country anyway.

Most releases are readily available here too.  One particularly aggravating
exception is the set of Gernsheim symphonies.  It's been available for
nearly a year in Europe, but as far as I can tell it has still not made
an appearance here.

Dave
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