It's only mid July but as it is my birthday today, I have decided to look forward rather than reminisce about what might have been...
The Swiss Orchestra have just announced concerts for May 2023: Swiss Dreams (https://swissorchestra.ch/swiss-dreams/) with Hermann Suter's Violin Concerto and George Templeton Strong's Le Livre d'Images, Suite Nr. 3. It is to be hoped there will be a radio broadcast.
The Suter violin concerto is a truly beautiful work. How nice to know it is being performed in concert.
Indeed it is.
Happy birthday, Thomas!
... and my own Naxos recording (of 22 yers ago) of Templeton Strong's Third Suite was a world premiere. However, it seems that Mrs Wüstendörfer premieres an "original version" for chamber orchestra of its third movement. This movement was incomplete and I edited myself.
This lady conductor is heawily celebrated in all media as being a discoverer of unknown Swiss music. I was doing this for some 35 years, but in my country nobody cared to celebrate my own pioneering activities. On the contrary: I met with a lot of hostilities.
Those of us who are really interested in unsung repertoire recognise your great achievements. Your legacy is assured.
Well put, Alan, and absolutely true.
Seconded!
Hear, hear. You have achieved a huge amount with very little help or encouragement. And we are all, as a result, in your debt.
From his own website: http://adrianomusic.com/styled-15/index.html
ADRIANO, conductor - a Discography of 44 CDs
* Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
** Moscow Symphony Orchestra
*** Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
+ Swiss composer
MARCO POLO (12 CDs)
01. 8.223347 (1991)*
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
Aretusa - La sensitiva - Il tramonto (arr. Adriano) - Quattro liriche dal poema paradisiaco di Gabriele d'Annunzio
(orch. Adriano)
Faridah Subrata, mezzo-soprano
02. 8.223348 (1991)*
8.557820 (2005 Naxos reissue)
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
Variazioni sinfoniche - Preludio, corale e fuga - Ouverture carnevalesca - Burlesca - Suite in mi maggiore
03. 8.223346 (1991)*
8.570742 (2008 Naxos reissue of La pentola magica only)
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
Le astuzie di Colombina - Sèvres de la vieille France - La pentola magica
Ludovit Ludha, tenor; Jakub Francisi, treble
04. 8.223595 (1994)*
8.570742 (2008 Naxos reissue)
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
La primavera (cantata) - Quattro liriche su poesie popolari armene (arr. Adriano)
Miroslav Dvorsky, Richard Haan, Jana Valaskova, Denisa Slepkovska, Slovak Philharmonic Choir
05. 8.223717 (1995)*
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
Lucrezia (complete opera)
Michela Remor, Stefania Kaluza, Richard Haan, Ludovit Ludha a.o.
06. 8.223742 (1995)*
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
La bella dormente nel bosco (complete opera)
Adriana Kohutkova, Jana Valaskova, Guillermo Dominguez, Richard Haan a.o.
07. 8.223508 (1993)*
8.550980 (1993 Naxos Patrimoine reissue)
JACQUES IBERT (1890-1962)
La ballade de la geôle de Reading - Trois pièces de ballet (Les Rencontres) - Féerique - Chant de Folie - Suite
Elisabéthaine
Daniela Kubricka, soprano; Slovak Philhamonic Choir
08. 8.223854 (1996)**
JACQUES IBERT (1890-1962)
Diane de Poitiers (2 Suites) - La Licorne (complete)
09. 8.223853 (1996)**,
8.550980 (1996 Naxos Patrimoine reissue)
SYLVIO LAZZARI (1857-1944)
Symphonie en mi bémol - Tableaux maritimes
10. 8.225134 (2000)**
ALBERT FAESY (1837-1891) +
Götz von Berlichingen - Der Triumph der Liebe - Sempach - Columbus
11. 8.225156 (2001)*
8.570873 (2008 Naxos reissue)
MARIO PILATI (1903-1938)
Concerto in do maggiore per orchestra - Tre pezzi per orchestra - Suite per archi e pianoforte - Alla culla
Tomáš Nemec, pianoforte
12. 8.225234 (2002)*
ERNEST FANELLI (1861-1917)
Tableaux Symphoniques (d'après Le Roman de la Momie de Théophile Gauthier)
LOUIS-ALBERT BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY (1840-1910)
Rhapsodie Cambodgienne
MARCO POLO/ NAXOS FILM MUSIC (15 CDs)
13. 8.223134 (1987)*
8.557486 (2004 Naxos reissue)
ARTHUR HONEGGER (1892-1955) +
Les Misérables (suite) - La roue (ouverture) - Mermoz (2 suites) - Napoléon (suite)
14. 8.223181 (1989)*
8.557486 (2005 Naxos reissue)
ARTHUR HONEGGER (1892-1955) +
Les Misérables (complete)
(Gran Premio del Disco "Ritmo" 1992)
15. 8.223466 (1993)*
8.570979 (2008 Naxos reissue of titles 2 & 5)
ARTHUR HONEGGER (1892-1955) +
Farinet ou L'or dans la montagne (suite) - Crime et châtiment (suite) - Le déserteur (fragment symphonique) -
Le grand barrage (image musicale) - L'idée (complete)
Jacques Tchamkerten, Ondes Martenot
16. 8.223467 (1993)*
8.570979 (2008 Naxos reissue of titles 2 & 3)
ARTHUR HONEGGER (1892-1955) +
Mayerling (suite) - Regain (2 suites) - Le démon de l'Himalaya (2 movements symphoniques)
Jacques Tchamkerten, Ondes Martenot; Slovak Philharmonic Choir
17. 8.223315 (1990)*
8.572226 (2009 Naxos reissue)
ARTHUR BLISS (1891-1975)
Christopher Columbus (suite) - Seven waves away (3 pieces for orchestra) - Baraza (piano concerto) -
Men of Two Worlds (5 excerpts)
Silvia Capova, piano; Slovak Philharmonic Male Choir
18. 8.223287 (1990)*
8.557607 (2005 Naxos reissue)
JACQUES IBERT (1890-1962)
Macbeth (suite) - Golgotha (suite) Chanson de Sancho (orch. Adriano) - Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte
Henry Kiichli, bass; Jacques Tchamkerten, Ondes Martenot; Slovak Philharmonic Male Choir
19. 8.223399 (1991)*
8.557549 (2005 Naxos reissue)
FRANZ WAXMAN (1906-1962)
Rebecca (selections)
20. 8.223314 (1993)*
ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903-1978)
Battle of Stalingrad (suite) - Othello (suite)
Jana Valaskova, soprano; Slovak Philharmonic Choir
21. 8.223535 (1994)*
8.572718 (2012 Naxos reissue)
BERNARD HERRMANN (1911-1975)
Jane Eyre (complete)
22. 8.223682 (1998)*
ERIK NORDGREN (1913-1992)
The Bergman Suites: Women's Waiting - Smiles of a Summer Night - Wild Strawberries - The Face - Garden of Eden
23. 8.223765 (1996)**
8.557707 (2005 Naxos reissue)
GEORGES AURIC (1899-1983)
La Belle et la Bête (complete)
24. 8.225066 (1999)*
GEORGES AURIC (1899-1983)
Orphée - Les Parents Terribles - Thomas l'Imposteur - Ruy Blas (suites)
Jacques Tchamkerten, Ondes Martenot
25. 8.225070 (2000)**
GEORGES AURIC (1899-1983)
Lola Montez - Notre-Dame de Paris - Farandole (suites)
(Nominated for the Cannes Classical Awards 2001)
26. 8.225136 (2001)*
GEORGES AURIC (1899-1983)
La Symphonie Pastorale - Macao - Du rififi chez les hommes - Le salaire de la peur (suites)
27. 8.223897 (2002)**
8.570238 (2006 Naxos reissue)
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
The Fall of Berlin (complete, original version) - The Unforgettable Year 1919 (suite)
NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS (3 CDs)
28. 8.559018 (1999)**
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG (1856-1948)
Symphony No.2 "Sintram" - Chorale on a theme of Leo Hassler
29. 8.559048 (2002)**
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG (1856-1948)
Die Nacht - Le Roi Arthur
30. 8.559078 (2002)**
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG (1856-1948)
Ondine - D'un cahier d'images (Suites I-III)
STERLING (6 CDs)
31. CDS-1049-2 (2002)**
HEINRICH SCHULZ-BEUTHEN (1838-1915)
Sinfonie Nr.5 "Reformationshymnus" - Die Toteninsel - Neger-Lieder und Tänze - Abschiedsklänge
32. CDS-1052-2 (2003)**
HERMANN SUTER (1870-1926) +
Sinfonie in D-Moll
HANS JELMOLI (1877-1936) +
Drei Stücke für Orchester
33. CDS-1053-2 (2003)**
PIERRE MAURICE (1868-1936) +
La nuit tous les chats sont gris (Overture) - Pêcheur d'Islande – Francesca da Rimini – Daphné – Perséphone - Fugue
34. CDS-1057-2 (2003)**
EMILE JAQUES-DALCROZE (1865-1950) +
Suite de danses – Poème alpestre – 13 petites variations sur « La Suisse est belle » – Suite de ballet (« Sancho »)
35. CDS-1065-2 (2005)**
EMILE JAQUES-DALCROZE (1865-1950) +
Janie (Ouverture et Danses) – 1914, Impressions tragiques – Tableaux romands
36. CDS-1059-2 (2004)**
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Symphonie No.3 d-moll
INEDITA (2 CDs)
37. PI 2743 (2008)***
ADRIANO (*1944) +
Concertinos for Piano and for Celesta – Obscure Saraband – Cryptic Sketches
(Sylvia Capova, Tomas Nemec, Marek Vrabel, Slovak Brass Quintet and Slovak Symphony Ochestra)
38. PI 2757 (2010)**
MARIO PILATI (1903-1938)
Preludio, Aria e Tarantella - Quattro canzoni popolari italiane – Bagatelle – Divertimento per ottoni
NOTE:
Adriano's orchestration of Respighi's "Sei piccoli pezzi", for four-hand piano, newly entitled "Sei piccoli pezzi per
piccola orchestra" has been recorded in 2007 on the INEDITA label, catalog number PI 2632. Roberto Diem Tigani
conducts the Sassari Symphony Orchestra
GUILD (6 CDs)
39. GMCD 7306 (2006)**
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Symphonie No.9 F-Dur - Aus dem Buch Hiob (Symph. poem)
40. GMCD 7320 (2008)**
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Symphonie No.5 Es-Dur – Symphonie No.10 B-Dur
41. GMCD 7372 (2011)**
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Symphonie No.6 C-Dur – Symphonie No.7 D-Dur
42. GMCD 7395 (2013)**
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Symphonie No.1 h-moll – Ouvertüre zu einer Jubiläumsfeier
43. GMCD .... (2014)**
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Symphonie No. 4 – Rhapsodie für Orchester
44. GMCD 7409 (2014)***
FRITZ BRUN (1878-1959) +
Klavierkonzert – Variationen – Divertimento
Tomáš Nemec, piano
I have a digitized version of the Brun works that was? is? available over Amazon, a very fine set (which added as a bonus some recordings of a few of the same works conducted by the composer.)
Thanks for your long-term loyalty, dear friends :-)
The Brun set still sells very well as a "physical" box (although I don't get a Cent of royalties).
On Youtube everybody can listen and download for free - a very unloyal thing indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kRIeSTQ72UT8TNnpUIy6TUgz2e7yg86Zs
Extraordinary. Why on earth do record companies allow (or do) this on YouTube? Taster tracks, yes - but whole works!!! I simply do not understand it.
Their naive (or stupid) argument is "for promotional purposes". As you note, Gareth, they could "promote" using excerpts... Especially considering that CD companies usually moan for decreasing sales...
Nowadays, companies can monetize such streamed videos. It's still peanuts compared to the physical product, but it has the advantage of building up over time and hardly requiring any investment post-recording. However, I find that classical labels don't tackle this particularly efficiently. For instance, posting separate tracks instead of a whole work (as "official" channels usually do) as a single video means that it takes longer to garner income.
The detriment to CD sales is exaggerated, I think. The use of physical carriers for music is decreasing rapidly anyhow, and fast - particularly among the under-50s. Among my students, I don't know of a single one who even owns a CD player (although there are a few LP aficionados); and most friends in my own age group (around 50) that still have one rarely use it. Unfortunately, the existing streaming options hardly favor classical music - either for the consumer or the producer.
I'm still buying CDs - but only because because I haven't got the time to digitise them. Maybe I'll digitise my favourites and call them 'Al's Pals'...
Brilliant Classics has its -own- (not "Topic:") channel on YouTube which is also full of full recordings (interspersed with commercials, if one has the free version of YouTube; I prefer to stream (Amazon Music) or purchase the recordings) (see https://www.youtube.com/c/brilliantclassics.)
Coming back to the original topic of this thread – I just noticed that renowned violinist Julia Fischer (is she considered world-elite outside Germany? My feeling is that here in Germany, she is considered top-notch, maybe in the second row behind the unchallengeable Hillary Hahn, together with maybe Janine Jansen) is going to perform the
Mieczysław Karłowicz Violin Concerto
in Warsaw on 27&28 Jan 2023 together with the Warsaw Philharmonic / Andrey Boreyko. (https://filharmonia.pl/en/repertuar/110th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-witold-lutoslawski-64343074)
Very nice to see this piece performed by such a renowned artist. I have no idea how much it is performed in Poland, but you would never see it performed in Germany, i fear. Let's hope Mrs. Fischer is going to export it from Poland some day.
A less-known but not unknown work, Franz Schmidt's string quartet no.1 in A, will feature (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/kammermusik-kunstler-im-wettstreit-kunsthistorisches-museum-bassano-saal-12-january-2023/368839) in a Vienna concert 12 January 2023, played by the Arioso Quartet.
QuoteJulia Fischer (is she considered world-elite outside Germany...?)
Oh, definitely!
14 April 2023, Helsinki, Finland- concert containing Farrenc symphony 3 (I never thought that her symphonies would start receiving multiple performances) and a Fanny Mendelssohn string quartet.
Horst Hegel, former leader of the Osnabrücker Sinfonieorchester, performed a rare violin concerto each season during the 1990s. That's how I came to know and love the Karlowicz concerto. Osnabrück in the nineties was a hot spot of rare repertoire. GMD Jean François Monnard had a special agenda: he conducted every piece only once during his tenure. The poor Mozart-Beethoven-Brahms-Bruckner-Tchaikovsky-loving community had to rely on the occasional guest conductor for the standard fare. I largely stopped going to concerts after his departure.
(Sorry for the lengthy side-trip.)
re the Karlowicz, that should be 27&28 maybe. Bachtrack even lists another work of his, Episode at a Masquerade, 28/29 January 2023, same location (later in the day on the day the 28th.)
Quote from: britishcomposer on Friday 26 August 2022, 17:58Horst Hegel, former leader of the Osnabrücker Sinfonieorchester, performed a rare violin concerto each season during the 1990s. That's how I came to know and love the Karlowicz concerto. Osnabrück in the nineties was a hot spot of rare repertoire. GMD Jean François Monnard had a special agenda: he conducted every piece only once during his tenure. The poor Mozart-Beethoven-Brahms-Bruckner-Tchaikovsky-loving community had to rely on the occasional guest conductor for the standard fare. I largely stopped going to concerts after his departure.
(Sorry for the lengthy side-trip.)
The same happened with Bamert at the Residentie Orkest (The Hague) in the late 90s and early 2000s, when they performed and recorded a sizeable chunk of the Dutch romantic repertoire. Unfortunately, these periods of repertory innovation rarely last long before orchestras return to the standard fare. That is why initiatives such as Botstein's ASO/OrchestraNow are so valuable.
The non-standard repertoire requires special advocacy - and therefore special advocates. And they're rare.
Ok, as I should have mentioned here instead, the Raff Sinfonietta is being performed in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on 1 April 2023, with works by Gipps (Seascape, 1958) and Mozart (Gran Partita). See Winds Unleashed (https://www.ncorch.co.uk/nco_events/winds-unleashed/).
Quote from: eschiss1 on Tuesday 06 September 2022, 17:07Ok, as I should have mentioned here instead, the Raff Sinfonietta is being performed in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on 1 April 2023, with works by Gipps (Seascape, 1958) and Mozart (Gran Partita). See Winds Unleashed (https://www.ncorch.co.uk/nco_events/winds-unleashed/).
Gracious! It's good to see that the NCO is still thriving, and offering innovative programmes. I was totally unaware of the Buxton Festival. Thanks, Eric.
Botstein programmed Suk's Fantastic Scherzo last month at a TON concert at Bard. Later this month is Walter Braunfels' Sinfonia brevis and Hugo Kauder's Symphony No. 1. I never heard of Kauder. The symphony was composed between 1920 and 1921 so it's a bit too modern for this forum. The idiom is supposed to be conservative so I have hope it will be good.
Black composers are getting heard - Petite suite de concert, Op. 77 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was played at the Crane school a couple of weeks ago. William Grant Still's 4th Symphony is on the program for the Springfield Symphony in January. Also Florence Price's Piano Concerto which I heard at SPAC in August. Black + woman = highly programmable these days. The Price 3rd Symphony was on the program last weekend in Lexington MA.
Louise Farrenc Symphony # 3 is also coming up in Springfield. The Symphony # 1 was played in Montreal by the Metropolitan Orchestra and will also be played by the bigger OSM later.
Some good old Russian music is on the program in Gatineau Quebec next month - the Arensky Symphony # 1.
Edit - I forgot to mention the Amy Beach Symphony. Nashua has it in their repertoire and I've heard them play it twice. UMass orchestra will tackle it tomorrow. They usually play pretty well.
We had recordings of works by Kauder (including the symphony in our Downloads (Uploads?) Boards back when. Otoh, at least one of his many string quartets- no.12?*- (according to NYPL's Kauder archives he wrote 30), which I browsed at NYPL decades back was -very- austere (and intriguing.) (The first 4 (1921-27) are on- Centaur maybe, there's another recording somewhere with nos.4&14.)
* Can be perused here (http://www.hugokauder.org/music/scores/).
The Kauder work, his Oboe Concerto is still available to download from our old archived Downloads Board here (https://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,1345.msg25487.html#msg25487).
just fund out that the same day Botstein is doing Kauder there is a performance of the Volkmann Symphony in Waltham. Bummer! Botstein's TON orchestra is better that Waltham's community orchestra so the decision is pretty easy.
I did some searching and found a Symphony Pro Musica that is performing Chadwick's Jubilee on 11/5 and 11/6. I don't know them. Their facebook page says they are a high-level, ambitious volunteer community orchestra. I will probably check it out. The alternative is the Verdi Requiem in Cambridge.
Max Bruch's Symphony No. 3 is coming up this winter in Concord. Boston Symphony is doing the Stenhammar Serenade. I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.
Quote from: scarpia on Wednesday 23 November 2022, 20:44I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.
Amherst or Boston?
A note: there's still a _2022_ Unsung Concerts thread where, arguably, reports on December 2022 concerts upcoming (and the reports on November 2022 concerts upcoming above, assuming they were not on November 2023 concerts) fit better than they do here.
Raff's octet is apparently scheduled for June 18th in the Chamber Music Room in Luxembourg, while the Sinfonietta is due on June 19th at Stratford-on-Avon's Town Hall.
Other possibly interesting 2023 concerts include, but aren't at all limited to...
a concert this Sunday that contains Philipp Jarnach's op.10 string quintet (composed 1918, published 1920- a little over our bar, sorry) - anycase in Hamburg, see https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/signum-quartet-nils-monkemeyer-elbphilharmonie-kleiner-saal-8-january-2023/368900 (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/signum-quartet-nils-monkemeyer-elbphilharmonie-kleiner-saal-8-january-2023/368900). Anyone in NYC on January 23 may want to catch Sir Arthur Sullivan's almost never-played string quartet in D minor (a work believed to be lost) (see this listing (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/jupiter-symphony-chamber-players-queue-for-brits-good-shepherd-faith-presbyterian-church-23-january-2023/372665).) (Still waiting for Moscheles' quartet to be performed, but don't miss Sullivan's :) )
On Jan. 22 in Budapest Dohnanyi's Suite op.19 (and Liszt's Prometheus, and Rach's piano concerto 2) are the program when Levente Török conducts the Miskolc Symphony (Anton Gerzenberg, piano).
Bachtrack says Robert Kahn's trio-serenade op.73 will feature in 3 concerts this year, which is interesting. Given that they hardly list all concerts that happen during the year, that's even promising.
I notice that two works by Farrenc are being performed on January 12th - her 3rd symphony in Pamplona, her 2nd overture in Atlanta Georgia.
Quote from: John Boyer on Friday 25 November 2022, 21:16Quote from: scarpia on Wednesday 23 November 2022, 20:44I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.
Amherst or Boston?
Amherst.
This Sunday I get to hear a piece by Teresa Carreño at Sanders in Cambridge. Their website describes it :
"The Venezuelan-American composer Teresa Carreño wrote a Romantic take on the Classical suite during a stay in the Alps. Her intoxicating Serenade for strings conveys all the charm of the Austrian lakeside village where it was written."
oh, this is interesting too- Chicago Symphony Orchestra, February 1- concert opening with Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha Overture...
January 14th in Springfield MA they are playing William Grant Still's 4th Symphony.
Cellist Raphaela Gromes is playing two concertos in this attractive programme (https://staatstheater-augsburg.de/5_sinfoniekonzert_reprise_classique) in Augsburg in February.
HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803 – 1869): Ouvertüre zu »Béatrice et Bénédict«
MARIE JAËLL (1846 – 1925): Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester in F-Dur
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835 – 1921): Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 a-Moll op. 33
LOUISE FARRENC (1804 – 1875): Sinfonie Nr. 3 g-Moll op. 36
Two cello concertos is one concert? That must be something of a modern first.
That's what I thought. Of course, the Jaëll is fairly short, but still... It does make sense to feature teacher and student in the same concert, though.
It's an example of refreshingly adventurous and intelligent programming. I'm impressed.
Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Leipzig, 25 February, 19:00
The International Draeseke Society has arranged a concert to commemorate the 110th aniversary of Felix Draeseke's death in the Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Leipzig. Pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg will play a varied program where music of Theodor Kirchner (200th birthday in 2023) is included, too:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Präludium und Fuge C-Dur KV 394
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sonate F-Dur Hob.XVI:23
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonate As-Dur/Es-Dur D 557
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Alla Ingharese quasi un Capriccio op. 129
Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903)
Capricen op. 27 Nr. 1-3
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Arabeske op. 18
Felix Draeseke (1835-1913)
Sonata quasi fantasia op. 6
https://www.edvard-grieg.de/events/konzert-zum-110-todestag-von-felix-draeseke
Adolf von Henselt's Piano Concerto is on the program this weekend at Bard.
The first concert at the Ardkinglas Estate* of 2023 will have the Duo Arnicans (Florian Arnicans, cellist and Arta Arnicane, piano) performing, besides works by Felix Mendelssohn and Jānis Ķepītis (1908-89), the fairy tale op.8 for cello and piano by Paul Juon on 19 February.
*on the shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland.
A piano trio by Juon will figure in a concert by the Sierra Chamber Society on June 11, 2023, at Grace Presbyterian Church, 2100 Tice Valley Blvd, Walnut Creek, California. The preceding concert (April 16) has Karol Szymanowski ("Carl Szymanovsky" - fair enough!)'s first string quartet and an unidentified string quintet ("with double bass" - ?) by Spohr, in addition to a violin sonata in G minor I've never heard of by Felix Mendelssohn (though this could be a typo too, based on the other things, and their listing Beethoven's A minor violin sonata with the opus number that belongs to Beach's work in that key, etc. Not encouraging.)
They played the same programme at the Museum of Fine Arts in Olten, Switzerland, on Sunday morning, 29 January, and very good it was, too.
I need to be less prolific with my edits. I assume you mean the Duo Arnicans? Thanks :)
Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine is touring and will be playing the Thomas de Hartmann Violin Concerto at UMass on Friday 2-10. the New England Philharmonic is also having a go at in on May 7.
The Piano Concerto Op. 61 and the First Symphonic Poem Op. 50 will be played on March 18 at UMass.
The Cello Concert is on the program May 13 in Springfield MA.
There is a website of the Thomas de Hartmann Project:
https://thomasdehartmannproject.com/upcoming-events/
Quote from: eschiss1 on Tuesday 07 February 2023, 20:59I need to be less prolific with my edits. I assume you mean the Duo Arnicans? Thanks :)
> Yes, I do mean the Duo Arnicans. When I wrote my reply, your post ended with the note about the location in Scotland... ;)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be performing Pejacevic's symphony this weekend! Along with ultra-rare Mussorgsky and Grieg (haha).
https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/22-23-winter/night-on-bald-mountain
BTW, I am working on a concert database and interactive map that might be of interest to you all, though it is in its early stages: classicalconcertmap.com. Forgive the self-promotion (though this will be free and open permanently, no commercial ambitions here).
Quote from: modthryth on Thursday 23 February 2023, 13:03Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be performing Pejacevic's symphony this weekend! Along with ultra-rare Mussorgsky and Grieg (haha).
https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/22-23-winter/night-on-bald-mountain
Nice. When I retire I may travel around the country hearing these rare pieces. Detroit is a bit out of my range now. Bard isn't though. Gade's Hamlet Overture is on the program April 17. Unfortunately it's the Community Orchestra playing and they are not nearly as good as the TON or conservatory orchestras.
on April 20 and 22, at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, the Pomeriggi Musicali orchestra will perform Mehul's Symphony n.1.
The orchestra is a very good medium-sized ensemble,frequently beefed up according to the repertoire, founded after WWII.
This concert will be conducted by Benjamin Bayl.
It's worthy to notice that the orchestra is going through a very happy period, thanks to the current Chief Conductor, James Feddeck (Georg Schumann on cpo).
got my ticket for the 20th..very eager to finally hear some Mehul live!
On March 24th and 26th, a very rare chance to hear the wonderful Korngold symphony, performed here in Milan by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano (formerly known as Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi), conducted by Giuseppe Grazioli at the Auditorium di Milano.
it's going to be paired with some Suppé and Lehar trifles (the concert is titled "Vienna Sinfonica"), but there's also Korngold's Straussiana, which I never heard but sounds fun.
The renowned Gewandhaus orchestra (Leipzig, Germany) has some interesting pieces in its 2023/24 season (please excuse also noting the 2024 concerts in this thread):
Mainly quite some Reinecke, celebrating his 200th birthday:
- 5 Nov.: Reinecke 3rd Symphony (seems that the Music university orchestra takes over for this concert)
- 2 March 2024: piano (duo) music (opp. 24, 86, 193, 275, 125)
- 9 March 2024: "Musical fairytales by Reinecke" (a family concert)
- 17 March 2024 Wind Sextet op 271
- 7 April Fantasiestücke op. 22 (Vl and piano), Drei Fantasiestücke Vla and piano op. 43, Trio Piano Clarinet Viola op. 264
- 2+3 May 2024: Flute concerto (Susanna Mälkki, Katalin Stefula)
- 25/26 May 2024: "Die Wilden Schwäne", scenic production
- 28/29 May 2024: a children's concert with Reinecke works for String quartet
- 2 June: String quartets Nos. 2&4
- 15 June: "Sommertagsbilder" Choir+orchestra op. 161; Oratorio "Belsazar" op. 73
Apart from this, there is:
- 8/10 Sep 2023: Berwald Symphony No. 2 (Singulière); Tone poem "Remembering the Norwegian Alps" (Blomstedt conducts)
- 5/6 Oct: Chausson Symphony (a well-recorded, but relatively seldomly performed work I believe)
4/5 Apr 2024: Berwald "Elfenspiel" (Elf play) (Blomstedt)
- 13/14 June: 2d Symphony "Hakon Jarl"
Bern, 2 May 2023, Yehudi Menuhin Forum
Cello solo recital with Julius Berger:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite in G major BWV 1007
Adolf Busch: Prelude and Fugue in D minor op. 8b
Walter Courvoisier: Suite in B minor op. 32/2
J. S. Bach: Chorale prelude "Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden" (arr. J. Berger)
Max Reger: Suite Nr. 2 in D minor op. 131c
https://regerbern23.ch/cellorezital-julius-berger/
A not uninteresting-looking concert at Wigmore Hall, London on 5 October:
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) Six studies in the form of canons, Op.56
Enescu, George (1881-1955) Piano Quartet no. 2 in D minor, Op.30
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Prelude and Fugue for String Quintet
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Quintet for Strings in G minor, K516
Here are some violin concertos that are unfortunately played far too rarely and of which there are few recordings. Is there a live performance somewhere in this year 2023 or 2024?
Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876 - 1909): Violin Concerto in A major op. 8 (1902).
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915): Concert Suite for violin and orchestra in five movements op. 28 (1908/09)
Felix Weingartner (1863 - 1942): Violin Concerto in G major op. 52 (1911)
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860 - 1945): Violin Concerto in E minor (1918)
Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936): Concerto gregoriano (1920)
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886 - 1962): Concerto ottocentesco (1927)
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947): Concerto pour Violon et Orchestre (1928)
Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967): Concerto for violin and orchestra (1932-33, rev. 1935)
Richard Flury (1896 - 1967): Violin Concerto No 2 (1940)
Ernst John Moeran (1894 - 1950): Violin Concerto (1942).
In order to get to know these concertos better, I have created a completely non-commercial homepage. There you will find information about the genesis of each concerto and a listening guide.
https://unbekannte-violinkonzerte.jimdofree.com/--3/
Several of these concertos, e.g. Respighi's, have performances listed at such sites as Bachtrack in the upcoming 12 months. As to violin concertos, don't forget Mr. Broeker's site (https://tobias-broeker.de/).
I've also found one interesting way to browse for people who may be performing a work is to be clever with keyword searches on Instagram. There's a gratifying amount of interest out there, I think. (One video reel there is a violinist, about 27 weeks ago alas but it is there and enthusiastically commented on, practicing the finale of the Karłowicz concerto.)
On 8 August, Prom 32 will contain works by Holst, Grace Williams (her violin concerto of 1950) and Dora Pejačević's overture in D minor (op.49, 1919).
On 17 June in Brussels (and I think the same concert 8 June in Bruges), is a concert with Mortelmans' 1917 Elegie no.1 (In Memoriam), Brahms' first symphony and the first (https://www.emic.ee/failid/Upload/pdf/tubin_viiulikontsert-nr-1-d-duur_vl+sumf-ork_klaviir_n-de_emf435.pdf) (1941) of Tubin's violin (https://www.emic.ee/?sisu=kasikirjad&mid=230&lang=eng&action=view&id=5083&tid=7704) concertos. Looks like a terrific concert.
Yes, and good to see the Proms airing something British other than the usual 'Last Night' fare!
Teatro Regio, Torino, next September and October seven performances of Halevy La Juive (cond. Daniel Oren, protagonists Gregory Kunde (69 years) and Msriangela Sicilia).
The last performances (in the same theatre) were in 1885.
Pejacevic songs, 9 August 2023 at the Royal Albert Hall, with other songs by Mahler-Werfel and orchestral works by Weber and Rachmaninov.
30 August: Anna Ovsyanikova, violin, will perform violin and piano music by Mathieu Crickboom (among others featured in the concert) at St Mary Le Strand Church in London - see Ticketsource (https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/strand/st-mary-le-strand-church/hidden-gems-concert-violin-and-vocal-recital/e-pxgzpg).
Edit: 25 July 2023: a choral (and instrumental) concert containing works by Kosenko (nocturne-fantasia op.4), Lyatoshynsky (Melody and Dance from Op.25), Bortkiewicz (prelude Op.33 No.7) and quite a few others at Gloucester Cathedral (Muzika Lyra (violin, voice/guitar, piano trio) and the Saint Cecilia Singers). Part of the 3 Choirs Festival. Found on BachTrack but also see 3Choirs.org (https://3choirs.org/events/a-feast-of-slavic-music).
Also, tonight in London (Proms concert, simultaneous broadcast)- Coleridge-Taylor's violin concerto. (His Ballade was in Monday's Proms which will be rebroadcast in the Radio 3 Afternoon Concert on Friday.)
Rachmaninoff's still somewhat rarely performed symphony The Bells is part of Prom 16, broadcast 26 July.
These concerts have already happened- if someone's already posted them before they did, I apologize and will edit or delete this comment - since the West Cork Chamber Music Festival took place late June-early July this year. Going to try to remember before it happens next year.
Of the works there, most relevant to us is a performance of Emilie Mayer's string quartet in A major by the Ardeo Quartet on 27 June (so about a month ago), and perhaps Enescu's 3rd violin sonata on 31 July. (The rest of the program has much of beauty from Baroque to early-20th-century works and at least interesting more recent things, I think.)
Also, Alkan's 2nd chamber concerto will be part of the last concert (Oct. 1 2023) in this year's Indian Summer in Levoča concert series (with Jonathan Powell, pianist.) (See Concert programme for 2023 (https://lblfestival.eu/2023-2/).)
Speaking of Alkan, several works this season, including his Op.1 Steibelt variations in a concert in Edinburgh (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/yeol-eum-son-queens-hall-edinburgh-15-august-2023/385358) on 15 August.
Even sooner, on 13 August, a concert with Robert Fuchs (1847-1927)'s 2nd piano quartet, Op.75 in B minor of 1904 (which was performed by the Seattle Chamber Music Society back on July 11... is something up?) will take place in Rosendal, Hordaland, Norway (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/rosendal-festival-concert-10-kvinnherad-kyrkje-13-august-2023/387181) at Kvinnherad Kyrkje with works by Brahms and Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen (1853-1923).
Another concert (!!!) with the Fuchs 2nd piano quartet, on 24 October, in Hamburg, will also contain Hans Gàl's string quartet no.1 Op.16 (excerpts only), Rott's string quartet in c, Maria Bach's "Volga" piano quintet, and Wolf's serenade. My! Other details here (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/ndr-chamber-music-concert-elbphilharmonie-kleiner-saal-24-october-2023/389312)!
Ah, just noticed this:
the Diogenes Quartet is performing Friedrich Gernsheim's string quartet no.4 in E minor (which they haven't yet recorded for cpo, or at least if they have, it hasn't been released) on 8 October 2023 in Mertingen, Alte Brauerei (https://diogenes-quartett.de/musik-verfemter-komponisten/?lang=en), with works by Felix Mendelssohn and Erwin Schulhoff.
As a regular lurker but regrettably infrequent contributor, I hope you will forgive a little self-promotion here. On 5 October, I will be discussing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Nourmahal's Song" at the RCM. This will be followed by its first ever public performance (fortunately not by me, I hasten to add!).
This work was discovered in our Library last year - previously unknown to scholars of Coleridge-Taylor. Its fascinating history involves an orchestration by Louise Kirkby Lunn's son and an attempted performance conducted by Sir Henry Wood, which Coleridge-Taylor's own son, Hiawatha, pulled the plug on at the last minute.
To whet your appetites, a recording is available on YouTube already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjCgBe4YHGo
The talk/performance itself is free to attend: https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=2800916
I will be attending a concert in a month here in Ithaca (October 13) with Florence Price's first string quartet in it played by the Dover Quartet (also Haydn & Shostakovich.)
Pianist Simon Callaghan announced a few days ago that the London Piano Quartet will be performing the two piano quartets by Ernest Walker (and other works by Bridge and Schumann), on October 29, at the Balliol College Music Society. I certainly wish I could be there to hear that performance!
btw, yes, I know one's had enough Price as a general thing, but I've not heard much of her music myself, so when I hear her string quartet in this concert this week it will at least be new to me. :)
It'll give you the opportunity to judge for yourself whether her music really is special enough to deserve all the attention she is currently getting.
Frankly, I think a lot of her music sounds very similar. As I said elsewhere, her Piano Concerto shows off the characteristics of her style in fewer than 18 minutes - which is sufficient for me.
Also, since her string quartet no.1 apparently lasts about 15-18 minutes, it has the same advantage of brevity as has the piano concerto. (Unless those 15-18 minutes manage to be more formally long-winded within. I'll find out tomorrow!)
The PC's definitely not long-winded!
Not what I meant. I meant the string quartet, for all its brevity, might conceivably be repetitive, etc. and less "tight" than the equally brief PC. (I -could- go listen to videos of both today and compare before I go to the concert and remove - or not - the "might" before I attend the concert, of course.) (Anyhow, apologies, digressing from the topic :D)
Doesn't matter. Do report on the String Quartet!
First movement reminded me of Dvorak, Zemlinsky and Schmidt (his 1925 first string quartet- I wonder when it received its US premiere?), tonally speaking. Pretty good... Second (slow/dance combined) movement didn't interest me as much. Finale missing or never written.
The other two works in the concert were works I'd heard often but not recently (Haydn op.74/3 in G minor) and not often and not recently (Shostakovich quartet no.9 in E-flat) and both grabbed my attention as did their performances. (Edit: which is still pretty impressive to me, I've known, more or less, both those works for 3 decades or so.) Very happy to have gone.
The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is currently touring the UK.
https://nsou.com.ua/en/ (https://nsou.com.ua/en/)
The unsung piece they are playing regularly is Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No.2 (and sometimes his Grazhyna Ballade, Op.58)
Other works ks they are performing include Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4, Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1, Richard Strauss's Don Juan, Sibelius's Symphony No.1 and Finlandia, Liszt's Mazeppa, Maksym Berezovskyi "Ukrainian Symphony".
18 Oct - Croydon (Fairfield Halls)
19 Oct - London (Cadogan Hall)
20 Oct - Guildford
21 Oct - Basingstoke
22 Oct - Cardiff
24 Oct - Birmingham
25 Oct - Cambridge
26 Oct - Bradford
27 Oct - Manchester
28 Oct - Perth
29 Oct - Edinburgh
31 Oct - Middlesborough
2 Nov - Sheffield
3 Nov - Liverpool
4 Nov - Nottingham
5 Nov - Norwich
Würzburg, 9 and 10 December 2023, Neubaukirche
The MonteverdiChor Würzburg and the Jena Philharmonic, conducted by Matthias Beckert, will perform the following Christmas concert:
Gabriel Pierne: Les enfants à Bethléem
Felix Woyrsch: Die Geburt Jesu
Hermann Zilcher: Abend senkt sich nieder
https://www.monteverdichor.com/konzerte.html#start
Sorry placed this into the 2024 thread :-X (new member so I'm still learning the ropes). The same here for Nov 29 & 30 this year.
2023 not 2024 but... RPO (Cardogan Hall) will play the UK premiere of Ida Mobergs "Sunrise") with Tito Muñoz conducting. Moberg died in obscurity in 1947. Our society is preparing all her orchestral scores to be distributed freeware within a couple of months and this piece was the first one I typeset in 2017.
Nov 29 & 30, for all you Londoners over there.
https://www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eventdetail/2044/191/sibelius-violin-concerto
From my FB feed and concerning my nearest concert hall:
The countdown to the Winter Concert is officially on! Come in and get out of the cold this December 17th for an evening of wonderful music at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York University!🎅🏻❄️🎶
Programme to include:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No.2
Tickets available on our website as usual... see you there!
I don't know the Coleridge-Taylor at all!
Best regards
Jonathan
Quote from: Jonathan on Saturday 02 December 2023, 19:47From my FB feed and concerning my nearest concert hall:
The countdown to the Winter Concert is officially on! Come in and get out of the cold this December 17th for an evening of wonderful music at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York University!🎅🏻❄️🎶
Programme to include:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No.2
Tickets available on our website as usual... see you there!
I don't know the Coleridge-Taylor at all!
Best regards
Jonathan
I'd love to, Jonathan. It's a most enjoyable concert programme, York is a beautiful city, and I'd really enjoy some cold weather as a relief from the heat of North Queensland!