I apologize for not having anything stunning with which to start off this thread, but there seem to be a few things here and there announced. Also apologies if I duplicate anyone else's announcements, I will edit out if so informed.
New Years 2019/20, several performances of Josef Suk's Praga in several locations throughout Prague, conducted by Jakub Hrůša.
January 9-11 2020, Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Suk's Asriel Symphony (and again in Salzburg 30 August).
January 19 - Suk quartet in B-flat op.11, Munich.
January 29-31 - Suk fantastic scherzo, Bartók, Haas (Pavel) Scherzo triste, Janacek Taras Bulba (Prague, Rudolfinum: Dvořák Hall, conducted by Jakub Hrůša). The same conductor is taking the Czech Philharmonic and the Suk scherzo on tour March 3-8 and April 20 in Cologne, Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen, Freiburg, Hamburg.
28 February, in Valencia, @ Palau de la Musica: José Iturbi, Krommer's flute concerto Op.30 and Franz Schmidt's symphony (no.4) in C. (Alexander Soddy conducts the Orquesta de Valencia; Maria Dolores Vivo, flute.)
6 April, Baden-Baden : Suk "quartet in B-flat, Op.31" according to BachTrack.. either a typo for quartet in B-flat, Op.11 or a typo for quartet, Op.31 (which since it starts in G minor and ends in D-flat, and for other reasons, doesn't have one "key" to speak of. (The term "progressive tonality" does -not- apply to all works of this kind, btw...))
Looks like Prague is the place to be at this New Year's Eve.
14. May, 2020. Helsinki (Espoo), Finland.
Tapiola Sinfonietta: Raff – Symphony n:o 3 (Im Walde).
Programme includes Schubert pieces as well as Liszt's Symphonic poem 13, From Cradle to Grave.
https://www.tapiolasinfonietta.fi/en/concert/im-walde/ (https://www.tapiolasinfonietta.fi/en/concert/im-walde/)
For the Raff see: http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7333.0.html (http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7333.0.html)
Interesting song/lieder concert @ Wigmore Hall (https://bachtrack.com/concert-listing/wigmore-hall/louise-alder/06-january-2020/13-00) this coming Monday (Grieg, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Rachmaninov, Sibelius.) On Tuesday evening in the same place, piano quintets by Frühling and Brahms (Stephen Hough/Castalian Quartet) (I wonder if the Frühling's being recorded by someone for release.)
Hrm, also at Wigmore Hall, February 16, cello sonatas by Myaskovsky (no.1 in D) and Rachmaninoff. (The Myaskovsky is also being played in a different recital by different performers in Berkhamsted on February 9. Actually, a reasonable amount of his music in the next few months, including his longest symphony (i.e. #6) (in Manchester, February 1). 70th anniversary of his death might explain that!)
later edit: Howells' clarinet (Rhapsodic) quintet of 1917 will be in a February 7 concert @ CBSO Centre in Birmingham. Spohr's nonet will be performed in Berlin @ February 13 (Kleiner Saal, Konzerthaus). Thuille's sextet op.6 will be heard @ Wigmore Hall Feb. 17 (+ Ligeti, Janacek, Mozart). Bartók's early piano quintet : March 7, Frankfurt am Main, Alte Oper Mozartsaal. Ferdinand Ries' piano quintet in B minor - March 7 at Wigmore Hall (Elizabeth Watts, Nash Ensemble.) Stanford and Parry chamber works are in the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players concert @ March 16 (NYC). Farrenc's sextet @ Sheffield, March 20. Ethel Smyth's string quintet op.1 in E @ Stockholm Konserthuset on Mar. 22. More Farrenc- piano quintet no.2 in E- @ Venice, March 29 (courtesy of Palazetto Bru Zane!! with Bonis' piano quartet in B-flat.)
also (after March), Pierné's piano quintet (with Fauré) @ Montréal, Bourgie Hall, on April 17; another performance of Thuille's sextet (besides the one on Feb. 17 @ Wigmore) at Conway Hall on April 19; Holst's early wind quintet @ Gateshead, April 22; Reger's clarinet quintet @ Bourgie Hall on May 22. (I also see listed the same quartet by Bacewicz being performed by two -different- groups within three days of each other (May 29 and June 1) on two -different continents- (in Baden-Baden; in Minneapolis; not the same concert programs either), which while outside of this group's orbit is coincidentally interesting enough that, well, er, neat. Also I like the piece, so. :) .. ok, ok. Sorry :( )
Also speaking of Louise Farrenc, and of Bru Zane, on 8 March the latter is streaming a live concert from Venice of the violin sonatas of the former.
Farrenc 2 in Philly tomorrow; Dohnanyi symphony 1 in d in Candleriggs Glasgow on February 13.
Choral works by Swiss composers Benno Ammann and Joachim Raff are gonna be performed by Basler Madrigalisten on February 8, 9, 15, and 16 -
Benno Ammann:
Missa Defensor Pacis (1946) (Swiss premiere)
Joachim Raff:
A Kyrie/Gloria Mass (World Premiere)(!)
Ave Maria
Pater Noster
https://www.basler-madrigalisten.ch/termine.html
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2706140029476652&id=509526559138021
Noticed another: Beach's Gaelic symphony and works by others (including Gershwin) , 4 April, York Symphony Orchestra (http://yso.org.uk/)
(Hrm. The Bachtrack listing (https://bachtrack.com/concert-listing/appell-center-for-the-performing-arts-strand-theatre/string-fever/04-april-2020/19-30) for this event has a different program. I may want to- no, I will if I can- write the orchestra to see if (1) Bachtrack has it wrong and they should contact them or (2) their website has an older version that needs updating. Hrm! .. er...)
The Beach symphony is doing quite well in Arizona this year. The Tempe Symphony is performing it Monday, Feb. 17. A month later, the Chandler Symphony is doing it along with Ethel Smyth's Wrecker's Overture. Then the North Valley Symphony is giving the Beach an outing. It's the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage so it was easy to get it programmed. It was I who instigated the first two performances and luckily I get to play bassoon 1 on both. The conductors of the orchestras were ignorant of the Gaelic and knew it by reputation only, never heard a note of it - and both are thrilled with the symphony now. It may not be a Beethoven 5th or Dvorak 9th, but it's pretty powerful stuff. The Wreckers was a tougher sell, but now that we've read it, people really like it.
That's really encouraging, Martin. Just shows what can happen when people are prepared to venture outside their "comfort zone". A pity many are not more adventurous more often.
thought I'd check- two concerts at least with music by Robert Fuchs upcoming.
April 1 2020, 8 pm in Vienna, Musikverein: Gläserner Saal. Duos and trios with viola (Pleyel, Vieuxtemps, Philipp Scharwenka, others) including Fuchs' terzett in C-sharp minor op.107.
May 24, 5 pm, Konzerthall Bamberg, Joseph Keilberth Saal. String trios by Fuchs (in A), Ysaÿe and Beethoven.
Not exactly unsung but these works have rarely been performed in India
Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale (Omphale's Spinning Wheel)
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 "Egyptian"
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Symphony Orchestra of India
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Laurent Petitgirard, conductor
NCPA, Mumbai
01-03-2020
It occurs to me we'll probably be seeing a lot of Vieuxtemps compared to other years if not necessarily a lot absolutely speaking, by the way, this being the 200th anniversary of his birth.
The 2020 Oxfordshire Festival in late May will be showcasing quite a few treats, if all goes smoothly considering Covid-19.
Unsung highlights include:
22 May - World premiere of Elgar's Spanish Lady Comedy Overture
First modern performance of Frederick Hyman Cowen's Symphony No. 4, discussed here:http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7544.msg79238.html#msg79238 (http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7544.msg79238.html#msg79238)
23 May - World premiere of Edgar Bainton's Variations and Fugue in B minor
More info here: https://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2020-oxfordshire-festival/programme.php (https://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2020-oxfordshire-festival/programme.php)
Can't believe these will actually take place as advertised.
Keep hoping! Let's pray this ends soon - at least so we can have some summer music festivals. And get musicians back to work so they can get paid!
It won't end that soon. And there will be restrictions on movement, I'm sure.
Can't believe it also.
The UK government seems to think that some restrictions will need to be in place for a year to prevent a resurgance of the infection.
Exactly. The EMF 2020 festival won't take place for months, I'm sure.
I was expecting most concerts, even audienceless (streamed live or otherwise) orchestral concerts to be cancelled with longterm consequences for the habits of concert making and concert going, but instead groups are adapting, I see online live concerts broadcast over Facebook (probably players are maintaining space etc)... and as the captions say they believe in the importance of music and musicmaking [especially] in times like these.
A strong if secular Amen here.
If it's still happening (not cancelled yet, anyway) a concert with Xaver Scharwenka's piano quartet in F Op.37 on May 16 in Marion, Massachusetts, USA - New Bedford Symphony Chamber Music Season (https://nbsymphony.org/chamber-series-season/).
Less obscure, postponed from a cancelled concert in April, but worth hearing live, a performance of Reger's clarinet quintet (and Ravel's string quintet) in Montréal , Bourgie Hall - on May 22 (https://bachtrack.com/concert-listing/montreal-museum-of-fine-arts-bourgie-hall/paris-1900/22-may-2020/18-30). (Hopefully, again, won't be cancelled- goes without etc)
Similarly, May 28-31 in Los Angeles at Walt Disney Concert Hall- Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (begun 1900-3, completed 1910-11.) (Gustavo Dudamel conducting. Not an especially obscure work anymore, but well within our parameters and worth a mention.)
This is beginning to feel like whistling in the wind in light of what I hear the BBC just reported, but hopefully these concerts will be at worst delayed.
Anyhow, currently scheduled Patrick Hemmerlé has a concert called Night Winds in which, naturally, he is performing Medtner's piano sonata in E minor along with other works, on May 31 at London's Pushkin (not Tyutchev, for some reason) house (see here (https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/night-winds-patrick-hemmerl-in-recital)) (3 pm local time.)
(Bachtrack already has some summer 2021 chamber concerts of interest listed, including one with Enescu's octet in Munich, btw, and a very interesting-looking recital from Kissin June '21... Here's hoping.)
Another thing - in June, the West Cork Chamber Music festival contains performances of Amy Beach's string quartet and Taneev's C major (ends-in-minor) string quintet (op.16). Good programming :) (again, hopefully, if it happens. If it's postponed (today they're talking 6 months? Que sera sera and a'that, I know.), hopefully the concerts still happen, just at a later date- it's -still- good programming...)
The Oxfordshire Music Festival has predictably been canceled. The bright side is that many of the artists scheduled have confirmed to be involved in the festival next year, so hopefully we will still be treated to some world premieres.
As noted earlier, the Oxford English Music Festival in Dorchester Abbey should have been happening now (22-25 May), featuring Cowen's 4th Symphony, Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto (soloist Rupert Marshall-Luck), and VW's Willow Wood. What a truly wonderful programme.
I'm a bit late with this, but still - some fascinating material has been, and is being, made available online. See;
https://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2020-online-festival/programme.php (https://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2020-online-festival/programme.php)
If Corona is good for one thing regarding concerts, it may be this: In our (amateur) university orchestra, the programming has become rather adventurous for our 2020 concerts, knowing that many spectators would rather be a problem than desirable.
Of course we do not know whether it can take place, but if we are allowed to rehearse, we might at least stream the concert to the internet:
4 July:
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
Beach Gaelic Symphony
14 October:
Tchaikovsky Violin concerto
Suk Scherzo fantastico
Taneyev Oresteia Overture op.6
Best wishes,
Ewk
Also, a heads up that the Bard Music Festival ("Nadia Boulanger and her World") in Annandale, New York will not be held this August, nor the production of Chausson's "Le Roi Artus" that was set for July. Both are postponed until next summer.
This concert that looks like it's still planned for next Friday the 19th (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/la-septima-de-beethoven-orquesta-de-valencia-palau-de-la-musica-jose-iturbi-19-june-2020/321435) in Valencia, Spain (works of Ries and Beethoven) looks kind of interesting. Hope it's still on, Ries in live concert is rare enough.
Edit: adding in this June 19 live performance of Busoni's piano concerto (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/macelaru-levit-wdr-symphony-orchestra-kolner-philharmonie-19-june-2020/333195) with Igor Levit too (and the WDR Symphony, Christian Macelaru conducting in Cologne) (Levit's recent series of podcasts about Beethoven's sonatas, btw, may be very much worth hearing if one understands spoken German. In any case, I hear good things about his playing :). The intersection of podcasts and less -sung- music is interesting- I've found live podcast performances of Medtner's [lovely] quintet and such things just by a bit of searching - but - that might be worth a whole other thread. )
(Alas, a listed Paris performance of Bonis, Strohl and Fauré cello works has "cancelled" next to it. Hopefully postponed!)
The 2020 West Cork Chamber Music Festival has not so much been cancelled as been replaced by a soon-to-come streamed collection of remote concerts, I see. (I'm glad; whenever I've been able to catch even some of it on the radio (remotely over BBC) it's a terrific festival.)
Whether they will be the same concerts- whether eg Bowen's viola fantasy (which was planned for 2 July) will still be played, for example- I don't know. The website is here and promises to update (https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-music-festival/).
A number of concert venues are already opening up, it seems. That said, there are still a number of cancellations and postponements, including the Aug. 30 Suk Asrael/Petrenko that was scheduled for Salzburg (guessing the whole or much of the festival is cancelled or postponed).
That said, this (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/mauro-peter-helmut-deutsch-brucknerhaus-15-september-2020/335872) song recital with works by Herzogenberg, Friedrich Gernsheim and others on September 15 in Linz (Austria) is worth tracking for those who live anywhere near there- if it's still on as the date approaches a few weeks from now, it sounds interesting.
Adding: if you're near Stockholm on September 23 or 24, this concert (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/tchaikovsky-symphony-no-5-royal-stockholm-philharmonic-orchestra-konserthuset-stockholm-stora-salen-23-september-2020/338649) with Helena Munktell's (by-1898?) (rev. at some point and revision premiered 1919, then pub.1922) tone-poem Bränningar looks interesting enough...
did I mention Rufinatscha piano quartet's in A-flat is intended to be performed by the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players October 26 (2020) (New York City)? [edited possessively or anyway apo-strophically.)
Thanks, Eric. Here's an assessment of that work:
Rufinatscha's second essay in the piano quartet genre is the Piano Quartet in A Flat. It dates from 1870, thirty-four years after the first, when he was a very different person and composer than in his youth. First it must be mentioned that the opening Allegro Energico movement and the Allegro Moderato finale share the same material from the corresponding movements of Rufinatscha's Piano Trio from 1868, a piece that had itself reused the adagio from his piano concerto. So at this time the composer, whose production had declined precipitously as he got older, was also recycling earlier material more frequently. The Adagio second movement is one of Rufinatscha's last great slow movements (along with that of his second string quartet from the same year), and shows the composer has not lost his melodic gift. It sounds like a heartfelt elegy to lost youth and hope. A rather dark Scherzo follows, with a disquieting trio which is repeated twice. While the finale shares themes from the piano trio's finale, the mood is darker, lacking the high spirits of the earlier work. The two piano quartets are on a marvellous Tyrol Museum disk played by the Gasteig Trio accompanied by Marlies Nussbaumer on piano.
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Apr/Rufinatscha_article.htm (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Apr/Rufinatscha_article.htm)
As noted in another thread, and this year especially, it's wise to distinguish "programmed" from "performed"- (I agree!). Even this late in the year, a neat-looking concert which would have contained music of Ferdinand Ries (in Berlin on 1 November - the overture to a Ries opera, plus Hummel and Schumann) has been cancelled :( (However, as yet, this (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/amsterdam-sinfonietta-soloists-and-david-kadouch-schuberts-trout-quintet-concertgebouw-recital-hall-24-april-2021/335521) 24 April 2021 concert in Amsterdam containing Ries' piano quintet in B minor is still on. Hopefully! )
Meanwhile, in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, on 12 October, a song recital containing songs by Ireland, Bax, Britten, Weir and Venables is partially of interest to us and of interest to some of us, so may be worth noting.
Maybe most interesting to us is this concert of Reicha's string quartet in C minor (https://www.classicalevents.co.uk/concerts/candid-arts-trust-islington/14-october-2020/19-30/string-quartets-by-reicha-janacek-and-dvorak) on 14 October in Islington, with other works?
Looking at Novello/Wise Music's website, I see upcoming performances of Rozycki's piano concerto on 16 October 2020 in Rzeszów, Poland, of Goossens' oboe concerto on 4 October in Washington DC's Lisner Auditorium, to name two works...
From Sikorski's website, Myaskovsky's cello concerto (I think we still regard this as Romantic, but I'll edit this out if I'm wrong) is being performed again December 7 in Berlin at the Konzerthaus. (Dirk Wucherpfennig conducting.) Gounod's petite messe solennelle "Sainte-Cécile" in a modern chamber arrangement is being performed tomorrow in Munich.
Acc. to UE, Mahler's early Totenfeier is getting an outing on the 11th in Nagano, Japan (not under conductor Nagano) with the Nakano-Kumin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuta Takahashi; Zemlinsky's Mermaid is being performed (or broadcast, maybe it's happened already?...) on 22 & 23 October with Petrenko conducting the Danish Radio Symphony in Copenhagen, it seems this will be or is being streamed (https://drkoncerthuset.dk/event/krivine-lille-havfrue/)?... (See UE performance calendar (https://www.universaledition.com/performance-calendar) which has a few other streaming links, including to an upcoming performance of Szymanowski's 1st violin concerto.) They also mention an upcoming performance of Jenufa on 17 and 30 January (and 23 March) 2021, and more Janacek (Makropolous Case) in March.
btw while a Bachtrack listing for some LPO/Jurowski concerts this autumn lists them as cancelled, the LPO's own website lists them as on but with no live audience, just streaming live, if I understand- so the performance of Enescu's 3rd symphony (+Bach and Kats-Chernin) (a favorite of mine and, I hope, ok for this forum...) scheduled for December 2 is still on but will be online-only, for example.
btw, this November 7 (https://www.classictic.com/en/albert_becker__mass_in_b_flat_minor_at_berliner_dom/77118/917724/) performance in Berlin of Albert Becker's B-flat minor mass might be interesting.
Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart is being performed in Tokyo at Suntory Hall (Yomiuri Nippon Symphony - concert changed but not presently cancelled unlike some others) on October 16 (concert listing (https://www.suntory.com/culture-sports/suntoryhall/schedule/detail/20201016_M_3.html).)
Already mentioned this in another thread, but the Berks Sinfonietta in Reading, Pennsylvania will have a digital concert performing Raff's Sinfonietta on November 21.
https://www.berkssinfonietta.org/concerts (https://www.berkssinfonietta.org/concerts)
Belatedly, I see that the Bruocsella Symphony in Belgium intended to - did? - have a performance of Raff's Sinfonietta back on 5 December 2020, too. (https://bso-orchestra.be/season/2020-2021 (https://bso-orchestra.be/season/2020-2021).)