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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 2008

Number of items in this month's catalogue: 2

Last month’s cover item (Wagenaar) is still unavailable but at least we have news: Etcetera did run out of it (faster than they expected to). They took a few weeks to schedule a repressing but this is being done as of today (June 30). That’s the good news; the bad news is that shipments from that source to their U.S. distributor are being switched from air to sea because of the fantastic price rises in fuel and import/security charges. Earliest they’ll be here is not until early August.

View the July 2008 catalogue.