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For 28 years Records International has specialized in bringing unusual repertoire to collectors of classical music. We assume that you already have enough versions of the "standards" and know them well enough to be curious about what else was going on at the same time as such giants as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky were creating their masterpieces.

What was going on then? Who else was composing in their shadows?

How about Heinichen, Myslivicek, Vorisek, Raff and Rubinstein?

Or Kuhnau, Kraus, Spohr, Fuchs and Gretchaninov?

Which composers of our century are worthy to stand alongside the masters of the classical world?

Each month we offer dozens of new titles, many world premiere recordings, others the only available CD versions, but all of them fascinating repertoire, demanding rediscovery.

Here's a website that we strongly suspect will be of interest to a lot of you -

Classical Lost & Found: Forgotten Music By Greats & Great Music By Forgottens

Classical Lost and Found (CLOFO.com) and its CROCKS Newsletter tell you about new classical recordings of forgotten music by great composers and great music by forgotten composers. Exceptional sounding discs for the audiophile are also noted.

Notes for July 2009

Number of items in this month's catalogue: 9

You’ll see several releases this month on the Arcana label. This French baroque specialty company, run by Michel Bernstein, left U.S. distribution around 1999, so everything we offer has never been available in the U.S. before. Bernstein died in 2007 and it’s unclear whether Arcana will produce any new recordings. The last of their acclaimed Haydn string quartet cycle with the Festetics Quartet is part of this first release from their new American distributor (it’s not unusual repertoire so we’re not offering it but if you see this and want the disc, just let us know). It’s more likely that, like Lyrita, this will be an opportunity only to access the ten years or so of their catalogue not available in the U.S. Even so, it’s a great one. We’ll attempt to offer every Arcana release, as they become available, since 1999.

View the July 2009 catalogue.