2026 Unsung Concerts

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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be performing Farrenc's overture no.2 on Feb.28 & Mar.1 2026, with Samuel Lee conducting.
Chamber works by Franz Schmidt (Quintet in A major with clarinet) and Pfitzner (sextet op.55) will be performed in Ulm on 12 July 2026.
That'll start...

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15.1.2026, Helsinki, Finland (Musiikkitalo): Korngold's Cello Concerto op. 37.

18.1.2026 (same venue): semi-unsung Dora Pejacevic's Piano Trio op. 29, and Germaine Tailleferre's Piano Trio.

[eschiss1]

Neat!
I also see listed a performance of Myaskovsky's 6th symphony conducted by Alexander Rudin in Moscow on 7 April, a recital ending with Myaskovsky's 2nd piano sonata in Toronto played by Evgeny Kissin on 22 May, another Kissin program in Paris (unspecified cellist??) with the same composer's 2nd cello sonata on 28 January . (Ah, I see that operabase starts charging after the first few uses. That's why...)

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January 28 2026 in Stuttgart, string trio by Robert Fuchs (in E minor, Op.61 No.1 - miscalled E major because it has an introduction in that key, but nothing else*), Hans Gál clarinet quintet, and Franz Schubert B-flat piano trio.

Same location, April 29: Gade's piano trio in F, Bloch's violin sonata no.2, and Enescu's octet in C. Neat concert.

*Which makes as much sense as calling Haydn's Symphony No.104 a symphony in "D minor".

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Had a thread awhile ago about Bruckner's 2nd symphony, noting that it was his least performed. This seems cause to briefly note that it will be conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, Dresden Philharmonie, 25 and 26 April 2026. (Link: here. Yes, it's the rare 1773 version.)

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Augusta Holmès' Pologne and other works will be performed in Mainz on January 7, with Michael Francis conducting the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie - see https://www.mainz-klassik.de/programm-2025/26/rafael-aguirre.

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Korngold's Violanta is being performed in January and February (25 Jan.-13 Feb.) by the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Also:
June 3 2026 in Liverpool brings an interesting-looking chamber concert with works by Frank Bridge (phantasy piano quartet, 1910), Fauré (first piano quartet), Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Shades of Silence, and Brahms (first piano quartet). See https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/junyan-chen-piano-tung-auditorium-3-june-2026/422928 e.g.  (About the same program in Leeds on 10 Feb. but with Enescu's 2nd piano quartet in place of the Brahms. Another program with Bridge chamber music has his string sextet and Rimsky-Korsakov's at the Opernhaus in Zurich on 5 January (and a matinée on the 4th.))

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Ah, also this from juon.org : 11 January 2026, performance of Juon's first string quartet Op.5 by the Loewe Quartet, @ Kilchberg, C.F. Meyer-Haus.

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Picking up this thread after awhile...
A few works by Arnold Bax this year- the piano quartet (1922) in Norwich on March 8th played by the Rossetti Ensemble (with d'Indy's early piano quartet and Mozart's G minor), and also on 5 May at the Mozart Saal of the Konzerthaus in Vienna with works and movements of works for piano quartet by Mozart, Schumann, Strauss, Rubinstein and (the one other full work) Mahler's incomplete quartet; the collection "Femmes de légende", 3 pieces by Mel Bonis, performed with orchestral and piano works by Ravel and Lutoslawski (his earlyish concerto for orchestra), on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at Kulturpalast Dresden; a big program of Bonis' works "Le secret de Mel Bonis" - piano pieces and excerpts from her chamber works (and her whole first piano quartet) at Musée de l'Armée – Invalides, Paris, on 9 Feb. 2026 at 20-00;

(actually, yes, a whole lot of programs with Bonis in them.) One of the more interesting-looking is in Taipei: works by Heritte-Viardot (piano quartet no.1 in A, Op.9), Bonis (Soir, matin, Op.76), Boulanger (D'un matin de printemps), and Fauré's first piano quintet in D minor Op.89.

[ewk]

Today sees what seema to be a complete performance of Korngold's Schneemann Pantomime - 2d act yet unrecorded - in Munich (Munich philharmonic orchestra). Same orchestra, next week Friday and Wednesday, plays a newly-constructed suite of Korngold's Devotion film music (among other American compositions, including the resurrection of Theo Mackeben's "symphonic ballade" for Cello and orchestra (1946, but sure about our remit)).

[Ilja]

No worries about Mackeben's Sinfonische Ballade; it's a thoroughly romantic piece. Some might think, excessively so.

Further posts about Mackeben and Korngold's Schneemann have been moved into their separate topics. Please keep the discussions here focused on the subject of Unsung Concerts.

[Rainolf]

On 15 March pianist Charlotte Steppes plays a recital in Naunhof (near Leipzig) which includes the Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp minor by Hermann Buchal (1884-1961).

https://charlottesteppes.com/konzerte/

Ms. Steppes will record a selection of Buchal's piano music in autumn 2026.

[Rainolf]

Hans von Bülow's symphonic poem Nirvana will be played during the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 13 June. Rémy Ballot conducts the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.

https://www.stuttgarter-philharmoniker.de/4522.html

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Emilie Mayer's string quartet in G minor is being played tonight 1/23/2026 in Hong Kong - see this link.
Today and tomorrow @ Montpelier France there's a concert with Atterberg's mid-period suite no.3, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and Mozart.
Also later today are piano trio works by Rachmaninoff, Ernest Bloch, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Giulia Lorusso and Clemens Thomas in Hamburg at the Elbphilharmonie.
(That Mackeben's symphonic ballad is also being performed today in Munich I think has already been noted!)

Members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia will perform Spohr's nonet on 1/25/26 at the Witham, Barnard Castle, North-East, UK.

More Pejacevic, in Norwich, also on the 25th, with works by Bonis (not one of her piano quartets so-named), Fauré and Brahms (all, I believe, works for piano quartet?)

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Also, on 1/26, a program with wind quintets by Reicha (E-flat, Op.88 No.2) and Klughardt (Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists, @ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: Main Auditorium, Lisbon, Portugal).

Josef Labor's piano quintet in E minor is the sole work on this program at Konserthuset Stockholm, Grünewald Hall, 12:15 local time, 29 May 2026.