Greatly enjoying this new release of a old classic interpretation of Brahms 3rd Symphony by Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra released by high definition tape transfers (HDTT) this weekend! Highly recommended! Especially sounding fabulous in DSD 256!
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Definition of an intellectual : someone who can listen this album and NOT think of “University Challenge” or “The horse of the Year Show” [English joke]
Definition of an intellectual [US version]: someone who can listen to the Overture from William Tell and NOT think of the Lone Ranger 
Definition of an intellectual [Austrian version]: someone who can watch the national anthems being sung at the world championship´s final thinking ´Oh, what a genius composition by Joseph Haydn!´
Kashperova is indeed a wonderful discovery, even though she was able to compose relatively few major works. She was extensively covered by BBC Radio 3 in Composer of the Week in 2022, which includes some premieres. I have extracted some background for those unable to access the BBC website.
Leokadiya Kashperova: a forgotten female composer gets her moment. The Russian pianist and composer, admired during her lifetime, has been largely forgotten. Enter Radio 3’s Composer of the Week.
The focus of this week’s programmes is the composer Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), and the series marks the 150th anniversary of her birth. Exceptionally, the series will feature a number of UK premieres. Plus – for the first time in the history of Composer of the Week – the entire week will be made up of specially recorded works. Leokadiya Kashperova: the composer and pianist worked with Stravinsky, Rubinstein and others. For many decades, Leokadiya Kashperova was best known, if at all, as piano teacher to one Igor Stravinsky. Her full story as a musician and composer has finally now been unearthed, through the researches of Dr Graham Griffiths, supported by Radio 3’s Forgotten Women Composers project.
During her lifetime, Kashperova was described as ‘a most welcome phenomenon of St Petersburg’s musical life’. She studied composition with Nikolay Solovyov and piano with Anton Rubinstein, who predicted that she would eclipse all the men at the St Petersburg Conservatory. The contemporary Russian composers Alexander Glazunov and Mily Balakirev favoured Kashperova in the interpretation of their music and she travelled internationally as a soloist, performing her own compositions and others. Before 1917 most of Kashperova’s works were published and heard, but the arrival of the Russian Revolution caused her voice to be silenced. Public performances of Kashperova’s music stopped altogether because of her connections with the gentry. Private performances were rare. She continued to compose – but now without any hope of hearing it played.
‘Her orchestration is remarkably sure-footed, robust and inventive; her lyrical qualities are passionate and gloriously affecting’: Jane Glover on conducting Leokadiya Kashperova’s B minor Symphony
'I was thrilled to be asked to include the B minor Symphony by Leokadiya Kashperova in a programme of music by forgotten female composers. 'I knew little about Kashperova beyond the fact that she had taught the piano to Stravinsky, and was a considerable pianist herself. So discovering the incredible qualities of her own composition through this hugely impressive symphony was a wonderful experience. 'Without question, Kashperova was formidably equipped: her orchestration is remarkably sure-footed, robust and inventive; her lyrical qualities are passionate and gloriously affecting; she has a great sense of structure, even drama; and, above all, her music is completely Russian. 'She includes two Russian themes in the course of the symphony, one in the second movement and another in the finale, and beyond these her whole palette of colour and gesture is steeped in the world of her great Russian symphonic forebears.
‘This lovely work deserves to be heard a great deal, and I felt so honoured and privileged to be part of its reawakening.’
I have not heard this great performance of different compositions from one of the best forgotten composers of the 18th century since years. Today I was in the right mood. Wonderfully!
Kraus is indeed an original and underrated composer. His symphonies are worth listening to as well, especially the performances by Concerto Köln.
Incidentally, living in the UK, I got an error message on the Imgur image you posted, and had to use a VPN to discover which composer you had in mind. Same problem with images posted by @Rugby
Does anyone know if Imgur is restricting access outside the USA, and why?
I am not living in US and had no issue with all images using vpn to access from UK.
I like the performance of Concerto Köln.
Two other favorites of mine:
The four CDs from Petter Sundkvist
This great Haydn performance is including the c minor symphony of Kraus
Absolutely great music. Thanks for the recommendation. Enjoying the symphonies right now.
These works are in my play queue for today;
New release
New release
EDIT:
Sir Donald Runnicles…
what a marvellous name.
It’s the sort of name one may find in a P.G. Wodehouse book…
That’s one heavy day if you make it 
I’m struggling to manage a track ATM
I did make it…
Sorry to hear that
My wife is very ill and even with 24/7 carers she still demands lot of my time
I eventually sat down at 15:00 when some local kids decided to play “Knock & Run”
To add insult to injury at midnight the power went out until about 11 am this morning (I often listen early morning before the rush starts)
I’ll get there - a movement at a time , as long as they are short movements
I’m very sorry to hear that.
Oh dear!
I hope that you do.
All the very best.
Hang in there. Sometimes all you can do is put one foot in front of another.
Managed a bit of Old Testament
This was a nice reference, thanks. Only issue is I bought from Presto and the track order of the digital download doesn’t resemble any of the MusicBrainz or TiVo CD versions, so I reordered the tracks into a three CD set according to https://www.discogs.com/release/18735622-MozartAcademy-Of-Ancient-Music-Christopher-Hogwood-The-Wind-Concertos and manually identified the album, associating with the first CD release, then because the default multi-part composition grouping was all wet, I had to set Edit Album > Metadata Preference > Set Preference for 1 Album > Multi-part composition grouping > Prefer file. Now all is well. I could’ve submitted as a new release using Picard, but didn’t feel like doing so. 
Postscript: I have the misfortune of being a former clarinet player, and I am not totally a fan of Anthony’s Pay’s K. 622 interpretation, where he employs too much tongue in several passages.
For what it’s worth, here is my reference recording of K. 622:
This seems to be the same performance as on:
That cover is a variation of this cover: https://www.discogs.com/release/2429190-Mozart-Karajan-Conducts-Mozart-Concertos-Clarinet-Concerto-Bassoon-Concerto, which had an oboe to represent the clarinet, and the new version has a clarinet to represent the oboe! 
