Now that the BBC Proms 2018 listing has been released, I'd be interested to see what people are looking forward to, unsung-wise.
Personally, I think it's a shame they're only performing the Prelude to Act 2 of Smyth's 'The Wreckers' (Prom 24).
Parry's Symphony no.5 (called Symphonic Fantasia when published by Goodwin & Tabb in 1922) in prom 17 doesn't get out live much, afaik. And Lili Boulanger's "Pour les funerailles d'un soldat" (Prom 41) looks interesting. (The one Prom I went to had two of her psalms - 24 and 130 - together with Sibelius 2 and Debussy's La Mer. (Tortelier and BBC, 1999.) The Boulanger psalm settings were especially wonderful. Psalm 130 - Du fond de l'abime - is being performed again this year, in fact, in Prom 44 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/enp6gw) on August 15. Her chamber music is in Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 8 on September 3.)
As already noted, Prom 66 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/enzp8g) on 1 September has Schmidt's 4th symphony.
For me, I have noted also Prom 66 (Dukas and Schmidt AND Petrenko and the Berlin Philh !!!!!!!!)... The same day (afternoon) a concert with a concert version of Trial by Jury and music by contemporary composers. The Sept 2 prom (Strauss) looks interesting too...
And also Mahler 8th (July 22) and Turangalila (July 18th), and maybe Debussy/Stravinsky (July 26th).
Schmidt 4 is about the best the Proms can do for UC-remit music this year. It's all very depressing. Parry 5 was done a few years back.
I see Morfydd Owen's Nocturne is getting an outing. She's very unsung. I am really surprised about that piece of programming. There is also, I see, a performance of Holst's Ode to Death, which is hardly ever done anywhere. Plenty of Vaughan Williams and Holst, which is good for me. It's not a bad Proms season overall. Much better than some of recent years.
But nothing from the riches of the unsung 19th century repertoire...
No. Agreed. Largely the same old stuff.