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One of only a few recordings of Leopold Godowsky's complete Triakontameron suite - a suite of 30 piano pieces each written in a day, is being issued by Centaur performed by Dainius Vaičekonis on 26 July.

(Wikipedia: "Triakontameron is a suite of 30 pieces in six volumes for piano composed from 1919 to 1920 by Leopold Godowsky; each was written in a single day, and all are written in three-four time. " - additionally, no.11, Alt-Wien, composed in Seattle 8 August 1919, is perhaps his most famous piece.)

Vaughan Williams' 1914 opera Hugh the Drover, first performed and recorded in 1924, is being reissued in a celebratory rerelease (of the premiere) with other works of his by Albion Records on June 28th.

Don't know if this upcoming Lyrita recording is news to people, but it's announced for July 5. Looks neat.

Werner Hink, an Austrian violinist whose recordings included participating in the 1965 LP of (Wührer's arrangements) of Franz Schmidt's (very lovely) first two piano quintets (in G major, and in B-flat with clarinet) on Preiser, died on the 21st.

(As well as being part of the Vienna String Quartet - according to the obituary, he founded it in 1964 - for a considerable part of their existence - and also, rather more recently, violinist in a recording of Czerny's Op.224 No.1 (quartet for piano and strings, as opposed to one of Czerny's quartets for 4 pianos, which he also did write...). Undeniably most of his recordings were more standard repertoire and/or outside our temporal orbit, but those two stand out for local purposes )

The following CD is apparently to be released by Naxos in late July: Naxos 8.574507 - Dietrich symphony, violin concerto and overture in C (confirmed by Presto Classical), with Christoph König conducting the "Solistes Européens Luxembourg" (?) and violinist Klaidi Sahatçi.

In July 2024, according to Presto, a disc of Enrico Bossi's 2 violin sonatas performed by Emmanuele Baldini and Luca Delle Donne will be issued on Naxos. (I know offhand of only one other recording of these two works together.)

Per Isitdownrightnow the site's been down over a week. Unfortunate.

A recording (possibly the first?) of the first two of van Bree's 4 string quartets (in A, published around 1833 (Simrock) and in E-flat, ca.1840 by Theune) was released in February on MDG. The 3rd quartet (D minor) was recorded years ago, the 4th is apparently unpublished and unrecorded.

The Tapiola Sinfonietta has been posting to YouTube recordings of some of the 8 symphonies by Beethoven's (piano) pupil Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838), whose complete symphonies have been recorded once, on cpo.
presto announces that May 3 will see the release of a new intended Ries cycle on Ondine from Janne Nisonen and the above mentioned Tapiola Sinfonietta. (Ondine describes the recording as first in a new cycle.)

of Charles Stanford's music is an exact duplicate (same narration, music, etc) of an earlier Stanford COTW, or a new one? Thanks

Just saw Viardot-Garcia's 2-act operetta Le dernier sorcier to a libretto by Turgenev (and orchestrated by Eduard Lassen) at Ithaca College. There's a 2005 recording of this 1989-rediscovered work but it completely flew under my radar- unfortunately. Terrific work and production.

This isn't a new broadcast, but I don't think it's been mentioned here before, nor to my knowledge has this work yet received a commercial recording (unlike the quintet in D from 1926 on Hanssler.)
See Das Else Ensemble spielt Kahns Quintett op54.

The SWR2 Music of the Week podcast for this week is Ariane Matiakh conducting the Orch. of Gast in Mayer's last surviving symphony, in a concert from last September.

who I've asked about previously (quite awhile ago) - a premiere recording of some of his chamber music came out just last year. (Probably the first recording of any of his chamber music, I'm guessing.) I have not (yet) heard it. Has anyone here?

Last year, Albion Music released a compilation disc devoted to works of Vaughan Williams, including his Serenade to Music (and so titled) intended to be released as near as possible to the 150th anniversary of his birth- Musicweb gave it a good review here. 
Presto Classical has announced a followup themed disc, this time of historic recordings, including what looks like the premiere (1938) recording of the Serenade, of music by various composers with vocal contributions by the various dedicatees of the Serenade, to be issued on 22 March - see here - that also looks very interesting (ALBCD059, not 053, in this case.) Also a description of it on this page. (Quoting Propermusic.com - "This album - uniquely - comprises 18 newly remastered tracks from 78 rpm records, including the Serenade to Music itself, and one track featuring each of the sixteen named singers, as well as one singer (Keith Falkner) who would have been among their number had he not been abroad at the time.")
Not at the center of our often repertoire-centered approach but possibly, I think, of some real interest.

I'm guessing that the series on Toccata Classics will get to this work (the first volume, released recently, contains his sonata in D minor of 1901), but until it does, I thought I'd link the digitized manuscript, at U. Frankfurt, of his sonata in G major (dedicated to Jelly d'Aranyi, and it's among his last works, as he finished revising it in April '16 and died at the Somme in November...) that I just noticed.

and most recently came up in the Franke thread, so since I was asked to post it separately, one site that contains a list or (in this case) database form for searching Furtwängler's concert performances is Furtwangler.fr - list of concerts.

I was reminded of the older "Composers who wrote just one symphony" thread by something I noticed when searching dorkily through the Gewandhaus orchester archives and noticing that Albert Dietrich's 1870-published symphony was supposed to have been performed as early as 14 December 1854 under Rietz. Was that the same D minor symphony (if maybe in an earlier revision) as the one that exists today, the now-lost C major symphony, or whoknows?... The description in NZM on page 283 (22 December 1854 issue) isn't very helpful, though presumably the Gewandhaus archives have other sources in determining what work was played - sometimes. Then again, sometimes mistaken assumptions are made. I wonder what by Dietrich was played in 1854?

While there may not have been many, there were apparently some. Otto Lohse conducted the 3rd symphony at the Gewandhaus in January 1922, for example (in a concert with Lalo's symphonie espagnole and possibly the world premiere of Graener's Variations on a Russian Folksong, Op.55). Does anyone know anything about him, about the reception the symphony received at the time, etc.?

An interesting-seeming new CD out January 19th from Toccata Classics containing original works and arrangements (e.g. of a Boëly string quartet and Holmès' Pologne) is described here at Toccata and also, here at Presto.