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It having been on a wants list for a few years, I finally bought the MDG CD of Hans Weisse chamber works - his Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Sonata, both from the 1920s. I don't recall seeing anything about him here and he really is properly Unsung: there doesn't seem to be a lot known about his compositional output, but he is well known as a student of Schenker and a leading exponent of Schenkerian analysis which he introduced into America from 1930 onwards. He was born into Jewish family in Vienna in 1892. What I can say is the Quintet, in particular, is a lovely work in a late Brahmsian mould, at 43 minutes long, a major composition. I recommend.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hans-Weisse-Clarinet-Quintet-Sonata/dp/B07FSWS47B

I don't think that this has been flagged up yet, but Johanna Müller-Hermann is to be Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 beginning on Monday 6 March. Her teachers included Labor, Zemlinsky and Foerster and she went on to a distinguished teaching career of her own at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium. Full details of the five programmes (including much music that I've not yet heard) can be found here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jlgh

I'm new here, so forgive me if he's not quite suitable for discussion, but I was pretty impressed by the late Israel Yinon's recording of Ben-Haim's first symphony for cpo a few years back (the second has just been released by cpo too, but I don't have it yet). But I see there's recording of his 1933 oratorio Joram on Helicon, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Just wondering if anyone knows this and can recommend it. The blurb says it's written in the tradition from Bach>Mendelssohn>Brahms, but can if anyone can flesh that out a bit?

Many thanks