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It was cancelled because funding for the chorus failed to materialise. The local authority is hard up and felt it wasn't justified. The manuscript and parts survived the bombing of Darmsdtadt in 1944 and had been restored for the occasion. The organisers hope for an autumn performance.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur 22.06.2024 @ 19:05

Konzert
Gewandhaus Leipzig
Recording from 15.06.2024

Carl Reinecke

Sommertagsbilder op. 161, Konzertstück für Chor und Orchester

Belsazar op. 73, Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Anja Pöche, Soprano
Nora Steuerwald, Alt
Florian Sievers, Tenor
Bernhard Hansky, Bass
GewandhausChor
camerata lipsiensis
Conductor: Gregor Meyer

The opera will be broadcast on 1 June at 19:05 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur

A recording from 07.04.2024

Ethel Smyth
,,Der Wald", Musikdrama mit einem Prolog und einem Epilog in einem Akt
Libretto: Ethel Smyth

Eine Frau – Hanna Larissa Naujocks, Mezzosopran
Landgraf Rudolf – Samueol Park, Bariton
Jolanthe – Edith Grossman, Mezzosopran
Heinrich – Sangmin Jeon, Tenor
Peter – Erik Rousi, Bass
Röschen – Mariya Taniguchi, Sopran
Ein Hausierer – Zachary Wilson, Bariton
Ein Jäger – Hak-Young Lee, Bariton
Chor der Wuppertaler Bühnen
Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal
Leitung: Patrick Hahn

Given the time allotted for the broadcast I guess Schönberg's Erwartung will be included.
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A resuscitation job for Bru Zane then!

The original ballet music of La tentation from act one of Thais is on Naxos 8.573123 with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Patrick Gallois. All twenty four minutes sixteen seconds of it!

In Germany I can only find this one:

Gerhard Rehm conducting: Mechthild Georg (Mezzo-Soprano); Kurt Widmer (Baritone); Balinger Kantorei; Catholic Church Choir Empfingen; Wiesenstetten Church Choir; and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saëns' Déjanire is on the way! To be released on 12th April 2024.

See bru-zane.com/en/pubblicazione/dejanire/ for details.

 BERTIN's Fausto (Rousset, concert on June 20th 2023 at the TCE in Paris) will be released in the usual form on 26 January 2024.

 "only sketches" in this case means a particella which is generally sufficient for an orchestrator to complete the work. Any volunteers?

Emilie Mayer's Overtures

According to the composer she wrote twelve overtures up to 1857 but it is known she wrote three after 1857, so as in some literature the she may well have composed fifteen in total.
Before 1857
Overture No 2 in D major
Overture No 3 in C major
Overture in D minor
Overture in C minor (only sketches)
Overture in E major (subsequently used as the Overture to the singspiel Die Fischerin.
After 1857
Overture to Faust, op. 46
Ouverture serieuse (lost)
Overtura giacosa (lost)

The Konzertstück II für Klavier (linke Hand) und Orchester will be broadcast this evening on Deutschlandfunk Kultur at 22:00 CET.

I have tried several times to find some information about the proposed releases of Déjanire and Lancelot but have been unsucessful. There's a short excerpt of the concert performance of Déjanire in youTube. There are now three excerpts from Lancelot in youTube, two of which probably make up the complete first act as they are labelled scenes I and 2. The third is an excerpt from act 4.

After the successful première of 'Lucrezia Borgia' in Milan in 1833 a performance at the San Carlo Opera in Naples was barred by the censor. The opera was first transformed by Romano Felice and Gaetano Donizetti into 'La cena della vendetta', then 'Elisa Fosco', as well as 'Adelina' before Donizetti's final attempt to convince the censor with 'Dalinda' in 1838 failed. In this final attempt Donizetti even wrote a completely new third act. With the fifth 'thumbs down' from the censor Donizetti gave up and 'Dalinda' was forgotten. Until yesterday evening (14 May 23), when the Berlin Opera Group produced semi-staged première of the critical edition by Eleonora Di Cintio published by Ricordi  to resounding applause.

The story is transferred to Persia at the time of the Third Crusade at the end of the 12th century.
Cast:
Dalinda - Lidia Fridman, soprano
Acmet - Paolo Bordogna, bass-baritone
Ildemaro - Luciano Ganci, tenor
Ugo d'Asti - Yajie Moreno Garic, mezzo-soprano
Six other male characters
Chorus & Orchestra of the Berlin Opera Group
Conducted by Felix Krieger
How much of Lucrezia survived the changes, omissions, end expansions demanded by the censor I cannot say. I feel the result is a fully fledged Donizetti opera that can stand the competition from Lucrezia Borgia.

Hulda will be released on 23 June, Ariane on 8 September and Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems by Henri Duparc, Alfred Bruneau, Charlotte Sohy, Ernest Giraud... with the Orchestre national de Lyon, conducted by Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider on 20 October

Deutschlandfunk Kultur 27 May 2023 at 19:05

Felix Weingartner

,,Orestes", Oper in drei Teilen nach der ,,Orestie" des Aischylos

Broadcast of a recording from 20 May 2023 in the Theater Erfurt
 

Agamemnon, König von Argos – Kakhaber Shavidze, Bass
Klytaimnestra, seine Frau – Ilia Papandreou, Sopran
Orestes – Brett Sprague, Tenor
Elektra – Daniela Gerstenmeyer, Sopran
Kassandra, Tochter von König Priamos – Laura Nielsen, Sopran
Athene – Candela Gotelli, Sopran
Opernchor des Theaters Erfurt
Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt
Leitung: Alexander Prior

Felix Weingartner was one of the most famous conductors of his time, but he also frequently composed symphonies, chamber music and stage works. For his opera, he chose Aeschylus's "Orestia", the oldest surviving stage trilogy in theatre history. The opera "Orestes" was written not long before Richard Strauss's much more radical "Elektra", which is based on the same material and whose success prompted Weingartner's albeit ambitious work to be forgotten.