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About the Vorob'ev, I tried finding out info but will try again. About Thuille -hrm.. there is a recentish book on Thuille (Bernd Edelmann, Bavarian Composers series, in German); a "snippet-view" search @ Google reveals only mention of the F major (1885/6) symphony, but I am likely missing something or it may be a collection of papers and the D minor symphony may just not be discussed in them...

According to a 1923 book about Thuille by one Friedrich Munter (in German) there is only the F major symphony, which was considered a 'masterwork' if not a masterpiece by Rheinberger (Munter sees a subtle diference there, apparently). It only existed in manuscript form when that book was published. 

I second that, I have always been rather fond of this symphony - and not just because it was written by a fellow countryman. The mention of the swiss label Claves in the thread about Max d'Ollone elsewhere on this forum has led me to their catalogue, especially their Basque composers series - and lo' and behold, there was another one-symphony composer: Valentin De Zubiaurre (1837-1914). Listening to a few clips on JPC made me feel I just had to order the CD. UC is a great enjoyment, but it can do strange things to one's purse...

Thanks to the Sveriges radio link provided, thank you Alan, I was able to listen to the CD review programme on Sunday. While the two reviewers - as far as my limited Swedish allowed me to understand - admitted that the composer knew his craft and this was music worth having on CD, it left them rather unmoved. I, on the other hand, felt an immediate rapport with it and immediately ordered the CD from Toccata in Sweden. I was told yesterday that the CD is on its way - can't wait to listen to it.

Yes, please.
Thomas

Deutschlandradio Kultur has scheduled this for rebroadcast tomorrow, Saturday 15 December from 7.05 pm CET

http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/konzert/1920815/

Last night I attended a concert in Bern: The 'Gemischte Chor Bern' and the Sinfonieorchester Ausserschwyz performed Schumann's Requiem and the Schicksalslied by Brahms, plus - and this was my main reason for going -  the Judgement ('Abtheilung II - Gericht')  from Raff's 'Welt-Ende', this was a Swiss premiere. I was absolutely bowled over by Raff's music, especially the orchestral intermezzi with their wealth of contrasts. As often happens, I thought this was music that many more people would enjoy and wondered how one might get more of them to attend such concerts and encourage unadventurous concert organisers to take more risks in trying to educate their (potential) audiences to like unknown music. I would love to hear news of a forthcoming recording or at least a complete performance...

Details of the concert, which will be repeated tomorrow, Sunday 11 November, in Raff's birth place, Lachen, can be found here:
http://www.joachim-raff.ch/004/default.nsf/Aktuell?OpenFrameSet
and here:
http://www.sinfonieorchester-ausserschwyz.ch/

It would appear that the broadcast will be on 1 December - and I'll try my best to record it:

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/soirees_lyriques/emission.php?e_id=26&d_id=515002897

1er décembre 2012 19:08
MASSENET : Le mage.
Enregistré le 09 novembre 2012 au Grand Théâtre Massenet à Saint-Etienne.
 
Opéra en 5 actes. Livret de Jean Richepin. Création le 16 mars 1891

Nouvelle Production, donnée en version concert.

Distribution :

Catherine Hunold, Anahita
Kate Aldrich, Varedha
Luca Lombardo, Zatastra
Jean-François Lapointe, Amrou
Marcel Vanaud, Le Roi d'Iran
Julien Dran, Prisonnier Touranien
Florian Sempey, Chef Touranien
Florian Sempey, Hérault


Chœur Lyrique et Orchestre Symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire
direction : Laurent Campellone
chef de chœur : Laurent Touche

Partenaire associé Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique Romantique française

Ces représentations font l'objet d'un enregistrement discographique, avec le soutien du Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique Romantique française.

Here is the most detailed information about her that I have been able to find - in German only - on the MUGI Musik und Gender im Internet
website. According to this, the Bavarian State Library in Munich holds a collection of letters and other materials, but it is not known where manuscripts of her composition scores are held. There is also a comprehensive entry about her in: 210 österreichische Komponistinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart - Biographie, Werk und Bibliographie. Ein Lexikon. By Eva Marx and Gerlinde Haas. Published by Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2001.

According to the NKFCD liner notes, it was indeed first performed in Oslo (then called Kristiania) in 1882 - it was begun in Leipzig between 1876-79 during the composer's  student years.

A female composer I have long been curious about is Evelyn Faltis (1887-1937), whose Phantastische Sinfonie für Orchester, op. 2a appears to be her only symphony, and for which - according to the article about her on the 'Musik und Gender im Internet' site run by the 'Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater' in Hamburg [http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/A_lexartikel/lexartikel.php?id=falt1887] - she won a prize at the conservatoire in Dresden. Has anyone in the UC community ever come across any of her works?

I'll certainly set the timer on my Sat receiver but I'm quite inexperienced when it comes to uploading... still, one has to start some time.

Thomas

The fifth concert at the 'Theater in Kempten' [http://www.fuerstensaalclassix.de/Festival-2012/Programm.aspx] yesterday featured this:
Emánuel Moór (1863-1931)
Suite op.103a (1909) für Bläserquintett und Streichquintett
Janne Thomsen (Flöte), Olivier Doise (Oboe), Christoffer Sundqvist (Klarinette),
Hervé Joulain (Horn), Jaakko Luoma (Fagott), Geneviève Laurenceau (Violine 1),
Sølve Sigerland (Violine 2), Hariolf Schlichtig (Viola), Jakob Koranyi (Violoncello),
Niek de Groot (Kontrabass)
Deutschlandradio Kultur will broadcast recordings from the concerts tomorrow, 25th September, from 8.03 pm (CET) - the Moór will be on after the news at 9.

Richard Franck's musical estate - including unpublished manuscripts - is in the possession of Prof. Paul Feuchte, the composer's grandson - see [http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/11913814X/Franck+(-Bernoulli)+Richard+August+Adolf]. As I am based in Switzerland - just an hour from Basel, where Franck lived and worked in the early 1880s, I'll try and have a look at what is available in the libraries there.

I must admit I knew only one other female Irish composer apart from Augusta Holmès before I came across this feature - Mary Dickenson Auner. Here's an overview of all six programmes: http://rockfinch.ie/radio/women-of-note

Unless I simply have not found it in the wealth of information in UC, nobody has yet started a list/discussion of unsung composers who wrote just one symphony. I recently listened to a CD again that I had almost forgotten I had - and I thought the only symphony by André Messager (written when he was 22) was actually quite a charming work that merits repeated listening. It is on a Skarbo CD (SK3921), a live recording from 1992 played by the Orchestre Symphonique du Mans conducted by José-André Gendille and probably long since deleted. The couplings are the Allegro Symphonique by Fauré and the Variations Symphoniques by Franck. Does anyone else know this work? I'll also be curious to see what other single-symphony composers UC members come up with.