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Ah. The Koch was, I'm reminded, reissued on CD. And also, a Discogs entry for the original LP, has 31:15 (not 32:07) divided into 13:25 / 10:04 / 7:40 for the three movements/sections of the concerto. cpo is longest in the first movement, followed by the new Naxos, followed by Maile/Lopez-Cobos speediest (if complete) on Koch; in the second movement cpo is again longest, followed by Maile on Koch, followed by the upcoming recording; in the finale, the new recording seems to be slowest at 8:55, followed by cpo at 8:48, followed by a speedy (assuming not cut?) Maile at 7:40.

Does anyone have timings for both of the older commercial recordings of the violin concerto, the better to compare both of them with the new one ? (Edit: According to Amazon, the Koch recording had total length 32:07, but the label didn't subdivide. Still, that information may be available elsewhere. Presto gives 34:02 for the cpo recording, divided as: Allegro 14:41, Adagio espressivo 10:33, Allegro molto vivace 8:48. And the new recording, indeed, is 31:48 divided as 14:08/8:45/8:55 - rather briefer in the Adagio. Will see if I can find out anything about the 1982 Koch recording.)

One of only a few recordings of Leopold Godowsky's complete Triakontameron suite - a suite of 30 piano pieces each written in a day, is being issued by Centaur performed by Dainius Vaičekonis on 26 July.

(Wikipedia: "Triakontameron is a suite of 30 pieces in six volumes for piano composed from 1919 to 1920 by Leopold Godowsky; each was written in a single day, and all are written in three-four time. " - additionally, no.11, Alt-Wien, composed in Seattle 8 August 1919, is perhaps his most famous piece.)

Unless Op.7, or Op.13 - or Op.17..., or some early unpublished/WoO work, or- something- is Ballade No.1

Most of the IMSLP worklists at least begin in progress (often compiled out of material from Worldcat and publishers' catalogs etc.), even if --- optimally --- later they're compared to, and rationalized with, more authoritative worklist publications.

Vaughan Williams' 1914 opera Hugh the Drover, first performed and recorded in 1924, is being reissued in a celebratory rerelease (of the premiere) with other works of his by Albion Records on June 28th.

Don't know if this upcoming Lyrita recording is news to people, but it's announced for July 5. Looks neat.

Werner Hink, an Austrian violinist whose recordings included participating in the 1965 LP of (Wührer's arrangements) of Franz Schmidt's (very lovely) first two piano quintets (in G major, and in B-flat with clarinet) on Preiser, died on the 21st.

(As well as being part of the Vienna String Quartet - according to the obituary, he founded it in 1964 - for a considerable part of their existence - and also, rather more recently, violinist in a recording of Czerny's Op.224 No.1 (quartet for piano and strings, as opposed to one of Czerny's quartets for 4 pianos, which he also did write...). Undeniably most of his recordings were more standard repertoire and/or outside our temporal orbit, but those two stand out for local purposes )

There is, tangentially, a new Langgaard recording coming out in July, but that's for the other board (if it even fits in this group after all- it's his opera (apparently the 2023 Berlin being released on video), which may not be within our orbit. Hrm.)

Both works are on the cpo disk, and the violin concerto was recorded on a Koch Schwann LP (later CD) 40 years ago (wait, ... yes, I was alive then, too.) The overture in C _may_ be new to recording? But I'm guessing it's neat to have new recordings of the first two works- it's not like they're over-recorded.

The following CD is apparently to be released by Naxos in late July: Naxos 8.574507 - Dietrich symphony, violin concerto and overture in C (confirmed by Presto Classical), with Christoph König conducting the "Solistes Européens Luxembourg" (?) and violinist Klaidi Sahatçi.

I adore the brief 11th and 12th symphonies...

It didn't exactly begin as a concerto/fantasia. See DaCapo: "The symphony was begun in 1915 in the form of a solo piano work which Langgaard expanded so that, at the beginning of 1916, he was able to finish the work under the title Symphony No. 3, "La melodia". Despite the genre designation it is a classic piano concerto." This version, performed in 1918, is lost, and was longer than the revised version (rev. 1925-33) that is the only surviving version.

That said, I know of only two modern recordings (maybe only two recordings at all), Bamert's and Penny's. The 3rd, 4th and 5th symphonies have been more fortunate in receiving more than 2 recordings apiece.

And Presto has "add CD to basket" and a separate price therefor.

Was there an old publication? The only Loeffler octet Worldcat lists is a wind octet by Alfred Loeffler...