Here is my own list of LPs that have sunk with little trace of flotsam or jetsam but which deserve CD reissue. Forgive me for overlapping with one of the existing suggestions:-
1. Hovhaness - same work as originally suggested but on an alternative all-Hovhaness LP:-
Andre Kostelanetz conducts the music of Alan Hovhaness NYPO?
Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam: narrator: Douglas Fairbanks junior; Carmen Carrozza (accordion)
And God created great whales
Sunrise - Meditation on Orpheus
Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints - Floating World
COLUMBIA M 34537 - 1977 12" LP
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Balfour Gardiner’s Overture to a Comedy (dedicated to York Bowen)
on very early 1955 Argo Record Company Limited mono LP RG 69
London Symphony Orchestra/Richard Austin; with Goldsmiths Choral Union; Alexander Young (tenor)
also these highly attractive and almost impressionistically lush works - Philomela, April and Shepherd Fennel's Dance
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A very beguiling recording and kinetically dramatic version of Glazunov Symphony No 4
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nathan Rachlin.
HMV/Melodiya ASD 3238, 1970s
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Two fine Soviet performances of pre-Soviet concertos on one LP:-
Arensky Piano Concerto in F minor Op 2 /
Arnold Kaplan
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Boris Khaikin
... and the prize work and version - arguably too overpoweringly miked but MY! what a version:-
Scriabin Piano Concerto in F sharp minor Op 20
Heinrich Neuhaus
USSR Symphony Orchestra/Victor Dubrovsky
HMV Melodiya ASD 2607, 1970
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A sensational, warm and then chilly reading - remarkably vivid. Goose bumps all around:-
Alexander Glazunov
The Seasons
Wedding Procession, Op. 21
Finnish Fantasy, Op. 88
Moscow Radio SO/Boris Khaikin
HMV Melodiya ASD2522 1970
(USA only - Melodiya Angel SR-40088)
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My most extreme geeky choice. Two symphonies from the 1960s and 1970s based on middle eastern legendary images and subjects. Hossein seems to have made his living with film music and these luridly coloured scores bear the marks of a cinema score background. Indulgent but .....:-
Aminollah A. Hossein (1905-1983)
Two symphonies (each c.30 minutes) on the French Edici label - in stereo
LP 1. Arya Symphonie
LP 2. Symphonie Persepolis (The Symphony of Persepolis)
Orchestre du Theatre National de l'Opera de Monte Carlo/Pierre Dervaux conductor
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Cover of the Hovhanes/Kostelanetz at cover at
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Rob
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