Ridky wrote only one Overture. This is the op.11 "Predehara" of 1929 and must therefore be the piece uploaded.

Jaroslav Ridky(1897-1956):

Symphony No.7(1955):

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Vaclav Neumann

http://www.mediafire.com/?k5ig0ow2acj5cdw

http://www.mediafire.com/?icnqhkhf51hr5q7

http://www.mediafire.com/?cei5at4oz43qcb3

http://www.mediafire.com/?535h56505o1w09c

Reupload from "Unsung Composers"

Catalogues added for Nino Rota(1911-79), Mieczyslaw Weinberg(1919-96) and Valentin Silvestrov(1937-).

Respectfully, gentlemen, it is not time to just forget what has happened/is happening over on "another forum" ??? ???

That is their business. It is the property of the Administrators and they can do with it as they please. That is their 'legal' right.

Some members were and are clearly unhappy at the changes which have taken place. Some new members here have transferred their loyalties to this forum, others will, quite properly, remain members of both.

I have more reason than most to feel bitter at what happened "over there" and, unliike others, I cannot actually see what is going on because I am forbidden any access to the site.

Albion-a member there for far longer than I- is no longer a member either. That was his choice. He put a vast amount of work into curating and cataloguing the British Music Archive(now available here :) :)); an archive of more historic significance and importance than I think is fully understood.

Speaking personally...I want to put the whole ghastly experience behind me and move on to enjoy membership of this forum and share with other music-lovers in our common enjoyment and appreciation of that greatest of art-forms- MUSIC :) :)

Greetings, Johan :) :)

A much more pleasant experience on here :)

What a super job, Sydney :) :)

I was going to get a friend to make a similar snapshot of the site before it disappeared for "maintenance" but I was too late and it became no longer possible :(

This should obviate the need for those kind people having to repost items from that site. I was about to point out to MVS that all his British uploads could already be found in the British Music Archive which Albion transferred en masse :) :)

Jan Cikker:

Symphony No.3 "Symphony 1945"(1974):

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra(Zdenek Kosler)

http://www.mediafire.com/?5qf2k2t6vmyxpvk

http://www.mediafire.com/?yhln1g242m4caza

http://www.mediafire.com/?4cc4v9ct156vlwe

http://www.mediafire.com/?t57gmi3xzv163zt

Now, between MVS and myself, you have the lot ;D ;D

Jan Cikker(1911-89):


Symphony No.2 "Spring"(1937):

Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra(Ondrej Lenard)   

http://www.mediafire.com/?bnfaqtmzbuc08hh

Variations on a Slovak Folk Song(1980):

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra(Ladislav Slovak)

http://www.mediafire.com/?qg7is4k8k0wqmyf

Symphonic Piece "Epitaph-Upon Old Trench"(1973)

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra(Ladislav Slovak)

http://www.mediafire.com/?s5asvuw8pcvauyv

The symphony is from a 2012 radio broadcast, the other pieces from old LPs. I have seven more works by Cikker which I shall upload when I can ;D

Tadeusz Baird(1938-81) and Lev Knipper(1898-1974) have been added.

Boris Lyatoshinsky(1895-1968) and Alexander Tcherepnin(1899-1977) now added.

This may appear at first as of interest only to myself but.......

over the last ten years or so I have maintained a wish-list of symphonies I could not obtain on cd. That list hung permanently around the 160-180 mark; as symphonies did appear on disc I added others I had read about.

Over the past year-entirely due to the extraordinary generosity of other collectors across the world-my list has now reduced to 69, with ten of these soon obtainable either from other members or once the record companies concerned(cpo in the case of Edvin Kallstenius and Dacapo in the case of Knud-Aage Riisager) get around to releasing their promised complete cycles.

To go from 160/180 to 59 in the space of a year + is so completely unbelieveable that I just wanted the opportunity to yet again express my amazement and my gratitude to those who put the desire to share the music they have collected and to share their love of music before any other considerations of a less noble kind :) :)

Many thanks, Sicmu :) :)

I am hoping that John(Albion) recorded it ???

I suspected that it was your good self back again to keep me right ;D ;D

Latest addition is the well-recorded American composer John Corigliano(1938)-.