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The Lucerne Festival performance of the Dukas/Prokofiev/Schmidt program is Thursday, August 30, 1930h. It was to be repeated on Aug. 31 but now another orchestra is scheduled and the BPO is doing a different program on Wednesday, August 29.

The Salzburg Festival performance of the Dukas/Prokofiev/Schmidt program is Monday, August 27, 1900h.

Good news is that neither date would interfere with a London concert in September! It would be great if a Schmidt CD of No. 4 by the BPO could happen, but I agree with Alan Howe that anything more for the BPO with its particular stature and issues is likely too complicated.

There is a positive review by Hugo Shirley of the Berlin Philharmonic concerts conducted by Kirill Petrenko and presented in Berlin April 12-15, 2018 that include Schmidt's Symphony No. 4 here:

https://bachtrack.com/es_ES/review-schmidt-peri-kirill-petrenko-wang-berlin-philharmonic-april-2018

The work was first done by the BPO in 1943, and has not been performed by them since 1960. Neither has Dukas's La Peri, also on the program.

I have read German-language reviews that are equivocal. Looking askance at this so-called "late romantic" work for being behind its time (the early 1930's), they fail to recognize Schmidt's uniqueness. They focus instead on Kirill Petrenko's arrival as head of the BPO in 2019, and in some cases on what the assumed "statement" this program is making about Petrenko's future BPO programming and orchestral style. 

There are arts funding agencies, music information centres, performing rights organizations, classical music broadcasters & the recording industry, performing rights organizations, managements of performing organizations, concert artist managers, unions, organizations of composers and performers. In academia, there's music sociology and a field of historical musicology called reception history. Given the extent to which classical music is publically funded, the descriptive statistics related to this issue ought to become available to us, the musical public. Are they?

I will take them both too, and I support Templeton's comments though unlike him I wasn't at the London performance of Joseph Marx's Eine Herbstsymphonie. I certainly hope there is a recording released of the LPO/Jurowski performance, because after eight hearings of the ASO/Botstein version the sections and motifs are clear and the work strikes me as a masterpiece.  I love the final five minutes (climax and denouement) and suggest that bit as a starting point for understanding.

[5 At The First Chamber Players]

May I bring to your attention an excellent series featuring some of Canada's most outstanding string players.

5 At The First Chamber Players
    String Extravaganza VII

Yehonatan Berick & Csaba Koczo, violin
Caitlin Boyle & Theresa Rudolph, viola
Alastair Eng & Rachel Mercer, cello

Program includes:
Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in a minor for violin, viola & 2 celli
Dohnanyi String Sextet in B flat major

Saturday, March 31, 2018 @ 3:00 pm
First Unitarian Church
170 Dundurn Street South
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Yes, Zu einem Drama is a superb, compact, late Gernsheim concert overture that I like even more than his symphonies. Looking forward to this disc of his concertos.

Franz Schmidt, Symphony No. 4
Paul Dukas, symphonic poem La Peri
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, played by Yuja Wang
Berlin Philharmonic/Kirill Petrenko cond.

Thu, 12 Apr 2018, 20:00
Fri 13 Apr 2018, 20:00
Sat, 14 Apr 2018, 19:00
Tickets go on sale online March 4,8am!