Garofalo is probably Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, 1886-1962. His symphony no. 1 is also his "Romantic Symphony of St. Louis", from 1914 or so, a holograph of which - about 50 minutes of music- can be seen at the American Music Center. It's scored for 3322/4431/timpani, percussion/organ and strings. I suspect that's the symphony on the Marco Polo CD... The American Music Center also has a violin/piano reduction of his 40-minute violin concerto in d minor. Other works by him there include a Danza bizzarra for piano, a danzi di fate, a Notturnino dall'oper Il giocoliere (Atto secondo) (for orchestra, lasting about 5 minutes), a symphonic poem "Ireland", a piano solo Mazurka da concerto, and "Vespero" for violin and orchestra. Another recording of the Romantic Symphony exists, on Romanza Classics RC 1001 (from 1998), with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joel Spiegelman (apparently according to http://www.ascap.com/playback/2001/february/concert.html the same forces will be performing the work on the Marco Polo CD, so I'll admit to some confusion... new performance or rerelease?) Luis Gianneo - Argentinean - wrote also a sinfonietta (homenaje a Haydn), a flute sonatina, a Lamento quichua y criolla (previously recorded by the Solistas de Buenos Aires, cond. Alberto Epelbaum, on Qualiton LP, 1972, and in arrangement on a Dorian CD in 1995), siete piezas infantiles para piano, an Argentian suite for mandolin & orchestra (recorded by Jacob Thomas, mandolin, and the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra (notes by Harry Halbreich) on an Oryx LP around 1969,) Obertura para una comedia infantil (for orch), El Tarco en flor (symphonic poem), Cuatro composiciones para piano, Tres danzas argentinas, Caminito de Belen (the little road to Bethlehem) for piano, Villancico (also for piano), La Danz de las liebres (voice & piano), and a Variaciones sobre un tema de tango (for orchestra) among other works. According to http://members.tripod.com/~ostinato/about.html there are plans to release Gianneo's complete piano works on Marco Polo (3 CDs, of which this would then be the first, funded by the Fundacion Ostinato whose webpage that is. They apparently also co-produced the Ginastera piano concerti CD on Naxos, according to that same webpage (well, good- I'd been hoping for a new release of the 2nd concerto.) Still looking for biographical information on Gianneo himself... born and died in Argentina, Jan. 9 1897(8?)-(Aug 16?) 1968... students included Marta Lambertini...conservatory named after him in Mar del Plata... Dec. 97 Recs International Catalog lists a Koch Discover release (920268) with his violin sonata, by the way. It describes him as one of the "principal founders of the Argentinian national school of composition,...greatly influenced by the folk melodies of the native population of Tucuman province in his native country". I think there's every reason to assume it's the same Gianneo:) Eric Schissel