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Some intriguing 'works in progress' from Reverie's magic computer workshop:

1. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫:  Symphony (1864) - 1st mov (from opening)
2. 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐳 𝐊𝐚𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧: Cello Concerto (1899) - 1st mov (from opening)
3. 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐠:  Drei Episoden (1907) - 3rd mov "Liebesgluck" (from opening)
4. 𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩:  5th Symphony (1937) - 1st mov (final section)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKuZzIM3BS0

...announced as a 2024 release at Oliver Triendl's website:
https://www.oliver-triendl.com/english/diskografie-einzelansicht.php?cd=1711567479#einzel
(Her dates: 1875-1953)

[John FOULDS]

An absolutely spellbinding collection from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos (which I had missed):
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8658344--british-tone-poems-volume-2

Review here:http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Oct/British_tone_v2_CHAN10981.htm

Contents:
John FOULDS (1880-1939)
April-England, Op.48 No.1 (1926, orchestrated 1932) [8:15]
Eric FOGG (1903-1939)
Merok (1929) [8:40]
Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)
By the Tarn, Op.15 No.1 (1916) [4:48]
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)
Harnham Down (ed. James Francis Brown) (1904-07) [8:35]
Dorothy HOWELL (1898-1982)
Lamia (1918) [14:27]
Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)
Rêverie (1903) [6:22]
Patrick HADLEY (1899-1973)
Kinder Scout (1923) [6:51]
Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)
Mêlée fantasque (1921, revised 1937) [11:16]

...forthcoming from Naxos, these are all very late works (1905; 1912; 1915):
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/violin-sonatas-nos-4-6/hnum/11798990

Now out from Bru Zane:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9557584--louise-bertin-fausto

This surely ought to be issued commercially:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g85TEYKVulc

Our friend Darrel Hoffman has posted his MIDI realisation of this work here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fma4mGkFT_s
This is a good opportunity to get an idea of the music, for which we must be grateful. However, I personally find it trying to listen to and wish that a better realisation could have been made with a more sophisticated computer program.

...recently released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project - which I noted from this appreciative review:

<<Jones' Violin Concerto was originally intended for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg but she sustained an injury to her arm in the lead-up to its premiere in 2016; Jones was fortunate indeed that Anne Akiko Meyers was available and managed to learn the new work in just six weeks. As for the present disc Michael Ludwig makes an accomplished soloist. The initial theme is reminiscent of that which opens Korngold's wonderful concerto; it's supported by forceful yet austere accompaniment. This Andante con moto movement unfolds slowly and with pleasing inevitability, its heart-on-sleeve content unabashedly romantic and intense. Jones certainly has a way with melody which easily finds a route into the listener's memory. At the core of the movement is a modest cadenza which is challenging but eschews superficial showiness. This music may not be earth-shatteringly novel but why should it be? It is satisfying, well-made and seems sincere and heartfelt. A gently tolling bell (clearly one of this composer's favourite textures) dissipates to reveal another appealing Korngoldian idea in the central slow movement; this is developed with great care and delicacy before the bell returns to herald a more playful central section prior to the recurrence of the wistful atmosphere at the movement's core. The mood, design and style of this music might seem a tad conventional to some ears, and Jones' influences may at times seem a bit obvious, yet it's indubitably an approachable and impressively crafted piece . The finale gets going in a vivacious moto perpetuo manner. Ludwig projects a gloriously sweet tone as it unfolds. It is easy to see why the concerto was such a hit at its premiere –it holds one's attention through its coherence and memorability. Only time will tell if this continues to be the case after repeated hearings.>>
https://musicwebinternational.com/2024/03/s-jones-three-concertos-bmop-sound/

It's a most beautiful work which I heartily recommend. The toughest movement is the finale, rather in the manner of Barber, i.e. after two outstandingly lyrical and expressive movements. I took a real punt on this release on the strength of the MusicWeb review - I'm very glad that I did!
https://www.bmop.org/audio-recordings/samuel-jones-three-concertos  (CD)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9611549--samuel-jones-three-concertos  (download)

...hard to find online, but the CD's available direct from Maguelone:
https://www.maguelone.fr/en/home/129-hahn-sonate-et-concerto-pour-violon-3770003584100.html
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8174088--hahn-violin-concerto-violin-sonata (download only)

Is there a more beautiful 20th-century violin concerto than this? OK, there's the Barber, Walton and, of course, the Korngold. And probably many others. But oh, the Hahn! What a gorgeous piece it is - especially in this live recording featuring violinist Denis Clavier with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine (now called the 'Orchestre national de Metz' in eastern France) conducted by Fernand Quattrocchi.

This release has taught me two things: first, that I have missed out on a fabulous work (no doubt others here already know it!); and secondly, that I must never underestimate the ability of less well-known performers to scale the heights in particular recordings - because this is a classic instance of a release which I would probably have passed over thinking it might be too 'provincial' to bother about. Not every recording has to feature a world-renowned soloist and conductor!

Anyway, enough of my failings. I heartily recommend this CD, coupled with a Romance, Nocturne and Sonata for Violin and Piano by the same composer.

...just released on Naxos, coupled with the much more familiar Piano Quartet No.1 by Fauré:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9556983--melodies-infinies-faure-enescu-piano-quartets

Absolutely superb! A three-movement late, late-romantic piece dating from 1908 lasting 42 minutes. Wow! Talk about stretching the bounds of tonality - not to mention those of chamber music. I'm surprised no-one's tried orchestrating this. The slow movement's simply sublime.

[Flourish for Glorious John]

...from Dutton, featuring:

Flourish for Glorious John (1957)

Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1896–1902 rev 1904)
edited by Graham Parlett (2011)

The Steersman (1906)
words by Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
realised and orchestrated by Martin Yates (2022)

The Future (ca. 1908)
words by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
completed and orchestrated by Martin Yates (2019)

World Premiere Recordings [The Future, The Steersman]

Lucy Crowe, soprano [The Future]
Jacques Imbrailo, baritone [The Steersman]
Andrew Von Oeyen, piano [Fantasia]

BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus/Neil Ferris chorusmaster [The Future, The Steersman]
conducted by
Martin Yates
Thomas Payne (assistant conductor)
https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLX7411

This is included in an inexpensive 2-CD set on Capriccio of chamber music by three generations of the Tcherepnin family. It is an extensive 38-minute work in four movements dating from 1902 with a seemingly inexhaustible fund of melody and invention in a late-romantic idiom. Well worth investigating!

Here's a fun piece, dating from 1878:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PwcaR4UOFY

From this 2-CD reissue:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7989094--rheinberger-symphonic-works

If you compare, say, Reger's late Violin Sonata, Op.139 (from 1915) and Senfter's Violin Sonata, Op.26 (dated somewhere between 1914 and 1918), the kinship is obvious. However, it's difficult not to sense that the pupil (Senfter) is sometimes pushing slightly harder at the boundaries of tonality than the master - and that this is the direction in which she would go further over time, without crossing over into atonality. Senfter's music, very beautiful, seems to say 'this far and no further'.

I was going to post this in the Senfter thread, but decided that the music deserved a thread of its own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-ckm7kgJk

It's gorgeous, isn't it? And it gives us an important context for the discussion of Senfter's music. Reger wrote this in 1903, well before Senfter entered Reger's composition class at the Leipzig Royal Conservatory in October 1908. The difference, I think, is that, while Reger's use of constantly evolving chromaticism here is very obvious, somehow he manages not to lose us 'in the sludge', as Dave Hurwitz would put it. And this - i.e. 'getting lost 'in the sludge' - is the difficulty I have with Senfter's orchestral music.

Clearly, I need help...

From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesang_der_Verkl%C3%A4rten

<<The work was first performed in Aachen on 18 January 1906 by the municipal choir and orchestra (Städtischer Gesangverein and Städtisches Orchester), conducted by Eberhard Schwickerath. A. von der Schleinitz reported in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik:

It is not enough to call Reger's Opus 71, the ink still wet on its pages, the strangest and weirdest thing that has ever resounded in notes. With its dauntless accumulation of huge masses of sound, its unbridled and randomly modulating counterpoint, its strange harmonies leaping over every commonly accepted connecting link and progression, its audacious agglomeration of ugly sounds rarely interrupted by melodic flow, and its difficulties for every participant, far exceeding anything known to date, it may well reach the outermost limit of musical expression altogether, just as it sometimes seems to be an absurd game played with musical forms by a master whose command of his craft borders on genius.>>

An opera, first published in 1823:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/der-taucher-oper-in-zwei-akten/hnum/11765624

Another release from SPMK, a 2-CD set containing:
Zelenski Piano Trio in E major, Op.22
Szeluto Piano Trio in D major, Op.81
Fitelberg (Grzegorz) Piano Trio in F minor, Op.10


https://spmk.com.pl/en/publikacja/zelenski-szeluto-fitelberg/

...forthcoming from Bru Zane:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9607252--saint-saens-dejanire

...forthcoming from Orfeo:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9600529--franz-schmidt-fredigundis

...forthcoming from Cristian Măcelaru, conducting the Orchestre National de France (on DG):
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9607401--enescu-symphonies-nos-1-3-romanian-rhapsodies-1-2