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Never thought I would get to hear that played in a live concert. But last night at Bard College a student- Dongfang Ouyang - performed it with the American Symphony lead by Leon Botstein. What a treat! Added bonus was that I got to hear a relatively new piece called Stroke by Joan Tower - while sitting right next to her. According to her it's going to be recorded by Naxos later this year. Can Joan Tower count as an unsung composer? One more performance of the same concert tonight at Bard. Highly recommended listening.

Herbert Blomstedt --oops you already mentioned him. Looks like you missed Paavo Bergland though.

I've seen a CD of his Robin Hood opera on the naxos label. The review on amazon did not inspire me to buy though. "The music is pleasant, tuneful and thoroughly forgettable. " Maybe if I see it in a super cheap bin somewhere.

I just got a recording of his 3rd Symphony at a used CD shop and listened to it a couple of times. Very Russian, tonal and accessible - not at all modernist. The way I like my Russian music. Also has some other cool stuff - Gutsul Rhapsody, Volga Rhapsody,  and Carpathian Rhapsody on the disc. I'm sure I have a recording of his 2nd Symphony somewhere - but I can't locate it. I am sure I bought it a few years back. 

Any other fans of Boiko? Any rare recordings of his stuff? I can't find any indication that his 1st Symphony has been recorded.

Julius Conus for his violin concerto. I found this short bio of him:

Julius Conus (Juli Eduardowitsch Conyus or Konius) was a French violinist and composer born on February 1, 1869 (Brahms was 36 years old.) He was actually born in Moscow since his family had migrated to Russia in the early 1800s. Today, he is remembered for his violin concerto in e minor, although he wrote other music, though not much.

http://pronetoviolins.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

The American Symphony lead by Leon Botstein will be performing Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Violin Concerto No. 2 this coming February at Bard College. If the weather is good I will go.

Youtube has a complete performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6gnEAtsUIs

I think "Metamorphosen" may be the ballet score written for Diaghilev and staged under the title of "Midas". It is generally [the ballet, that is] regarded as a failure but to hear the score would be incredibly interesting. Along with Hahn's "Le Dieu Bleu" and Rieti's "Le Bal", it is an important missing gap in the Diaghilev discography.

Yes - there were 5 parts:
Introduction
Coronation of the Statue of Jupiter. Dance of the Phoenician Slaves.
Pan
Apollon. Dance of the Muses.
The Transformation of Adonis. Round Dances of the Sylvan Gods.

Not exiting ballet music, but lush and well orchestrated. Similar to the Rimsky suite from The Invisible City of Kitezh that preceded it on the program.

There is a bit of Steinberg's ballet  Till Eulenspiegel( Dance of the Buffoons and Dance of Gillina) available conducted by Mravinsky on Brilliant Classics in a box with other Russian works.

I also just found a youtube performance of his 4th Symphony. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63FSLpVe9YQ

The only Wolf-Ferrari opera I have heard is Sly. I really like that one. Giordono's Siberia and Madame Sans-Gêne are really good. Mascagni could be my favorite verismo opera composer though - Amica, Isabeau, Parisina, Iris, Le Maschere, Silvano, and Guglielmo Ratcliff in addition to Cav. I'm going to have to check out I Gioielli della Madonna now.

I'm kind of tempted to bring some recording equipment.

...which would be illegal, of course.

I only said I was tempted. I am salivating as I type this message, drool all over they keyboard...

Jarvi's recordings of the first two symphonies "not great, but not bad either"? Heavens, to what are you comparing them? In my book, they are pretty terrific and I'm most grateful to be able to listen to them.

A pity, yes, that neither Jarvi or anyone else have released (so far as I know) commercially available recordings of the remaining three sumphonies and other orchestral works - including I see a Violin Concerto. Wonder what that is like?

Great being late Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Rachmaninov, and Kalinnikov.

I ordered the Marco Polo recording from the record store (this was before Amazon existed) when I read about it in Fanfare back when it came out. It's a cool piece, but the orchestra sounded pretty scrawny. If I ever see that Conifer recording I will snap it up. I have the other MP Ippolitov-Ivanov CDs too. I would love to have recordings of the rest of his output. I see that another recording of Mtzyri on the ASV label.

I have the two recordings that Jarvi made of the 1st and 2nd Symphonies. Not great, but not bad either. I am a big fan of anything Russian though. I kept waiting for recordings of the rest of his symphonies to come, but it never happened. Now I see that the American Symphony under Botstein is doing the Metamorphosen, Op. 10 from 1913 in concert Saturday. It has not ever been recorded as far as I know. I'm kind of tempted to bring some recording equipment. It must be pretty good if Botstein is doing it.

I was there too. The tenor part sounded difficult to sing. I wonder if that's why it isn't done more often. It was quite a tasty treat, eh?

I have only heard the Rachmaninoff 3rd Symphony once in concert. The only time I heard Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony was in Springfield a few years back. It got huge ovation.

Taneyev's opera The Oresteia is going to be staged at Bard College in upstate NY later this month.  I have the Belorussian State Opera recording - very rare. Got a great deal on it in a shop in Montreal. It's a wonderfully grand opera.