2025 Unsung Concerts

[Jonathan]

Only just found this out thanks to Bru Zane's latest email - there is a recital including some obscure composers in Toulouse shortly:

MON 15 SEPTEMBER — 8 PM
CLOÎTRE DES JACOBINS, TOULOUSE
Romantic Treasures
Piano pieces by FARRENC, CHOPIN, BIZET, L. GUILMANT, HELLER and ALKAN
Célia Oneto Bensaid piano

Apparently, the same programme is being played in Venice on 09 April 2026.

[Wheesht]

The final concert in this year's edition of the annual Martinu Festival in Basel, Switzerland, will feature Songs for Soprano and Orchestra by Leopold van der Pals, coupled with Martinu's The Epic of Gilgamesh and works by Mozart and Dvorak. The concert will be recorded and broadcast by Swiss radio SRF2 Kultur and by Deutschlandfunk.

[ewk]

Franz Lachner's oratorio "Moses" is going to be performed near Munich on 11 October in an amateur performance:
https://www.agv-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/moses/
 
Teresa Boning, Sopran
Michael Birgmeier, Tenor
Thomas Ruf, Bariton
Jussi Järvenpää, Bariton

Junger Chor des Akademischen Gesangsvereins München [Young choir of the Academic singing club Munich], STEFAN GRÜNFELDER (dir.)
accompanied by an ad-hoc orchestra.

[Wheesht]

The choir of Gymnasium Bern Neufeld in Switzerland has a long established record for adventurous programming, and their upcoming concert is no exception. It includes three extracts from Alice Mary Smith's Ode to Passion (1882) in what will very probably be a Swiss premiere.

[scarpia]

Alexandre Guilmant's 2nd Symphony on November 15th in little Groton MA. Maestro Hangen says it's really an organ concerto, but doesn't say why he is doing it. They don't have a real organ in the hall. They have this virtual organ that sounds pretty good. And it's a lot less expensive than a real organ.

[eschiss1]

In Berlin, DSO Berlin in fact, on November 30:
the following...

Hans Gál
Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Violoncello

Erwin Schulhoff
Five Pieces for String Quartet

Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Quartet in B flat major

[scarpia]

Very few people showed u for the Guilmant in Groton.

Next up at the Boston Symphony we get to hear the Violin Concerto by Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell. So a lot of people should be there. I know Bell recorded it last year so it's good that he's playing it live too. I still have to get that recording.