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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 )

There is, tangentially, a new Langgaard recording coming out in July, but that's for the other board (if it even fits in this group after all- it's his opera (apparently the 2023 Berlin being released on video), which may not be within our orbit. Hrm.)

Both works are on the cpo disk, and the violin concerto was recorded on a Koch Schwann LP (later CD) 40 years ago (wait, ... yes, I was alive then, too.) The overture in C _may_ be new to recording? But I'm guessing it's neat to have new recordings of the first two works- it's not like they're over-recorded.

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.

I adore the brief 11th and 12th symphonies...

It didn't exactly begin as a concerto/fantasia. See DaCapo: "The symphony was begun in 1915 in the form of a solo piano work which Langgaard expanded so that, at the beginning of 1916, he was able to finish the work under the title Symphony No. 3, "La melodia". Despite the genre designation it is a classic piano concerto." This version, performed in 1918, is lost, and was longer than the revised version (rev. 1925-33) that is the only surviving version.

That said, I know of only two modern recordings (maybe only two recordings at all), Bamert's and Penny's. The 3rd, 4th and 5th symphonies have been more fortunate in receiving more than 2 recordings apiece.

And Presto has "add CD to basket" and a separate price therefor.

Was there an old publication? The only Loeffler octet Worldcat lists is a wind octet by Alfred Loeffler...

Do you mean the coupling Lekeu+Chausson specifically? Separately, Presto lists at least a half-dozen physical CDs of the Lekeu, and.. something like 2 dozen of the Chausson work? (I'm assuming you don't mean this specific recording, it's just come out.)

re alternative versions of the 3 numbered symphonies, I forget if I've heard Lintu's set, but I think I've heard Foster's set on EMI and a couple of others too. Fortunately this triple of symphonies has had several very good advocates and recordings over the years (despite very, very belated publication, in the case of symphonies 2 and 3, both published around a half-century after they were composed.)

I'd insert early 1800s (unless you mean the decade). Italian chamber music toward the end of the 19th century- or even after 1860 or so, judging from manuscripts available online- continues a tradition of good melody with, in some composers, a serious interest in working-through (Durchführung, to adapt a term).*

*(I mistrust the word "development"; give me a "fantasia-development" that doesn't actually quote any of the movement's themes over a "developmental" repetition of themes that halts the piece in its tracks and misses the -dramatic- point of what the middle section's actually supposed to do- I'm looking at you, Dvorak symphony 9 finale e.g.- any day.)

While some early Myaskovsky (including parts, but not all, of his lovely and passionate 2nd symphony, and maybe some of the 3rd as well) makes me think of Scriabin's symphonies, symphonic Scriabin doesn't make me think of Wagner in the same way. (There really are composers who do, though...)