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The second string quartet in D seems to be at British Library at Yorkshire's Library Reference Collections (www.worldcat.org is a reasonably good resource for locating these things, though it's well-known so I mention it just in case.) His opera Sanna is in vocal score at Arizona State University. U California Berkeley has "Die letzten Tage von Thule". No idea who has full scores of the operas; presumably his estate, or possibly the publisher of the vocal scores. Possibly.

(The C minor quartet has recently been republished - 1997 - by Amadeus-Verlag, I think, making it easily his most accessible score anyway.)

There were 9, of which one is lost, apparently permanently.  They're nos. 1 in F op. 12, 2 in D you know, 3 in D op. 62, 4 in C minor you know, 5 in Eflat op. 105, 6 in D from 1823, 7 in G minor from 1824, and 9 in C from 1830.  Wyn-Jones in his book The Symphony in Beethoven's Vienna mentions them briefly, saying among other things that the 3rd seems to be an attempt to capture the success of the second (his descriptions are more detailed than that, from what little I can read on the Google-books available pages; I think the local university library has the book and will check the whole thing there. I know of no other book offhand aside from Padtra's catalog of all of Krommer's works that would even possibly have anything such as a thematic incipit for the 5th-9th symphonies.) There are recordings, that I know of, only of nos. 1, 2 and 4, but I may be forgetting.

Eric

The link http://www2.rozhlas.cz/archivy/index.php?HLEDPO=632110
describes a performance and studio recording (for Czech Radio) of a brief C major symphony by Franz Krommer.  The only C major symphony I know of is his 9th from 1830 (see the list in the Krommer Wikipedia article, for instance), a symphony that's described in the book "The symphony in Beethoven's Vienna" - in a page viewable in Google Books - as "ambitious" - which does not imply 10 minutes long. Does anyone know if there's a misprint somewhere, a misattribution, or something else going on? This is a minor question, not of much interest, but I am interested.

(I have a simllar question also of just passing interest about a possible 5th string quartet by Robert Fuchs, but I'll let that pass for the time being.)

Eric

The concerto's slow movement- but just its slow movement- has been broadcast from an earlier recording (of the complete concerto, coupled with op. 56 die Weihe der Nacht; label "Kuma", 2008 recording, Mario Schwarz cond., Lisa Shnayder vn., Collegium Musicum St. Gallen), I assume, over Radio Swiss Classic a few times already. Quite nice minor-mode songful piece.  (If that earlier recording is commercially available then the cpo is not a premiere, I guess.)

Eric

Not a Boulez lover, but definitely a Schoenberg, Babbitt and Sessions enjoyer, adorer and etc., does that count?  There are some composers I think will land in the dustbin of history (i expect to be proven wrong, but why else to make predictions if not to chance a guess?) but not those three (nor Webern or Berg either.)

Eric

I thought Cherubini's symphony was an arrangement/expansion of a string quartet, not an opera overture? Maybe it's both?

Eric

Glad to see the Widor and Rosenhain concertos included, among other works.  (BSB has a score of Rosenhain's piano sonata in f, and IMSLP has a few other works uploaded, but Worldcat lists only one recording, of Katsaris playing a solo piano work called Morceau de concert sur un thème de La reine de Chypre. I don't think I've seen or heard the concerto yet, at that.)
Eric

(JB) Foerster quartets? Lots of good news in that list, yes. (I've seen his quartet no. 4, anyway, but heard several other works of his, including a few of his symphonies.) Their list for 2011 will probably be better still, in the meanwhile this selection is remarkable enough.

Hope they are not yet done with the music of Benjamin Frankel, some of whose chamber music might well make a good release still and has yet I think, to be commercially recorded anywhere (his piano quartet, 2nd violin sonata and 2nd string trio, I think, among those works. Or the Catalogue of Incidents.)

(That said ! -- I like Telemann too and what I've heard of cpo's earlier music line in general, and wouldn't be without the best of that either; only a few labels recording vocal music by the Bach family- aside from Bach- and from his contemporaries- now, and cpo is one of them, along with Capriccio etc., I gather. Anyway. Capricious digression.)

Eric S.

Welcome back aboard, Eric!

Thanks!  (Oh, and now I do notice the thread about the new recording of Noskowski's string quartets. Ask and, etc.!)

The symphony no. 2 in C minor is from 4 years later (1879, or rather 1875/9); I thought I'd read on a translation of a Polish site that it was available on a limited-edition LP at one point, but now I'm not at all sure. I agree that, judging from the BBC broadcasts, the 3rd symphony is very good stuff. It's good to see that the new recording is labeled volume 1.

Also two string quartets written, etc., but aside from the 3rd symphony I think I've heard only a tone poem and maybe the piano quartet once.
Eric S.