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Here is an article from Liverpool Daily Post by Peter Spaull, For the record collector who thinks they have everything. Two of the albums mentioned are PILATI, M.: Concerto for Orchestra and SIBELIUS, J.: Night Ride and Sunrise / Belshazzar’s Feast Suite / Kuolema

… I had not heard of Mario Pilati until I found the new Naxos disc of his orchestral music. He was 35 when he died in 1938, by which time his music was heard across Europe…

Three of his 10 Concertos show a romantic composer who wrote light tuneful music, but looked forward to the fireworks which were to come from Paganini…

… these Naxos discs, an exciting Sibelius programme from Pietari Inkinen and the New Zealand Orchestra, with a wild Night Ride and Sunrise, and some short orchestral pieces whose titles may not be familiar, but whose music certainly is…

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