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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 February 2010

Number of items in this month's catalogue: 2

MELISMA update: For all of you who ordered any of the January titles 01L002-01L008: On Jan. 12 Melisma, back from their month-long Christmas holiday, blithely shipped the order they said they’d shipped on Dec. 18. It arrived in New York on Jan. 17 and sat there for four days because Melisma did not provide the receiver’s phone number so that they could tell him that customs duties needed to be paid. Then, when the shipper went to customs to pick it up, he found it severely damaged, filed an insurance claim and, as of Jan. 25, I’m waiting to find out how the replacement shipment will arrive. Anyone out there want to be in the record business?

View the February 2010 catalogue.