Maybe a little early, but the 2024-5 seasons have been posted, and there's -some- interesting stuff, it seems.
A concert with Andrée's concert overture (and works by Carl Nielsen and others) is planned for Minneapolis (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/nordic-landscapes-and-portraits-minnesota-orchestra-orchestra-hall-10-january-2025/404819) on 10 and 11 January (repeat) 2025, for example.
And one of Robert Fuchs' string trios (E minor, Op.61 No.1) forms part of a program in Vienna on March 23rd (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/ensemble-wien-musikverein-brahms-saal-23-march-2025/406515).
Dora Pejačević's music features in concerts this year and next. January 29 & 30 2025, in Stockholm, her symphony is being played by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/rozen-yang-royal-stockholm-philharmonic-orchestra-konserthuset-stockholm-stora-salen-30-january-2025/401736).
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, last concert I think, June 5 2025: world premiere by Michael Abels, Tchaikovsky first piano concerto, followed by Leokadiya Kashperova's symphony in B minor, Op.4. (Conducted by Jader Bignamini.) (Also, I see on Facebook that the first studio recording of this work's sessions have just wrapped up in Germany...)
... awhile, but *bump*
This early January 2025 program looks interesting; not entirely within our remit (the last work, Stan Golestan's Arioso, is from 1932) or entirely unsung (Brahms' scherzo from the FAE sonata) but otherwise there are works by Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, Hans Sitt, and George Enescu (concert piece for viola and piano) - played at Wigmore Hall, London (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/tabea-zimmermann-andrei-banciu-wigmore-hall-13-january-2025/412982) on 13 January.
On 25 January 2025 a song recital with works by August Bungert, George Enescu and Felix Draeseke will take place in the house of the Kunstverein in Coburg. The concert is part of an exhibition of paintings by Dora Hitz, who was the favourite painter of queen Elizabeth of Romania (alias Carmen Sylva). It is focussed on songs after lyrics by Carmen Sylva.
A concert in Freiburg Germany on Sunday January 19 features orchestral works by Szymanowski and Zemlinsky respectively: the Sym Concertante with Piano (Sym 4) and the Sinfonietta. The concert also has the "Polish" Sym of Tchaikovsky.
https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/jonathan-nott-conducts-szymanowski-zemlinsky-and-tchaikovsky-swr-symphony-orchestra-konzerthaus-freiburg-19-january-2025/414593
The Bregenzer Festspiele on the shores of Lake Constance, although mainly about opera of course, always feature orchestral concerts as well. In 2025 some unsungs will be played:
On 21 July, The Vienna Symphony conducted by Elim Chan will play 'Trois femmes de légende' by Mel Bonis plus works by Debussy and Ravel.
On 17 August, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leo McFall will play 'Fantasie über Motive aus "Hänsel und Gretel" by Oskar Fried, selected lieder by Alma Mahler and Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony.
For a few (not perhaps many) composers there are worse ways to add to this information, btw, than to check on the website of at least one publisher/distributor of the composer, which sites are sometimes good enough to list past and upcoming performances of such works by the composer as that company/group (e.g. Wise Music Classical, or others) has charge of. :)
An upcoming performance of Myaskovsky's cello concerto in C minor have been announced for New York City, for 17 May. Sam Magill, cello; David Leibowitz will conduct the New York Repertory Orchestra. (Wise Music Classical gives a 2nd performance on 15 February but their calendar (https://www.nyro.org/) disagrees. Nor will the coupling any longer be Messiaen :))
The location is incomprehensible at the former website, but is " Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street - between 6th & 7th Avenues" according to the orchestra's site..
As Piers Lane was mentioned in passing in another thread, I see he's pianist in a concert with cello sonatas by Frank Bridge (D minor), Francis Poulenc, Edmund [Charles Duncan-]Rubbra, and Fauré (1st, D minor), on 16 February 2025 at King's Place, London (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/music-and-war-entente-cordiale-kings-place-hall-one-16-february-2025/411114); Raphael Wallfisch, cello (who has recorded at least several of these works).
Also, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players (https://www.jupitersymphony.com/) concerts for this half of their season, in NYC, are fairly interesting, with works like Max Brauer's sextet, Zarebski's quintet, a string trio by Lipinski, Widor's first quintet, Lalo's string quartet (revised), and other works among the programs.
That's such an adventurous programme, Eric. Wow!
... it would be if it were one concert. To be fair, that's spread throughout this half-season . But I still agree.
Just found this:
Date: Sunday 16 March 2025, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: The Great Hall, University of Leeds
Tickets: Free / Pay as you feel
Doors: open from 2:30pm
Conductor: Ben Crick
Conservatoire Orchestra
Cello soloist: Val Welbanks
Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps
Marie Jaëll - Cello Concerto
Franz Schubert - Symphony no 8, D759, "Unfinished"
I've never heard the Jaell Cello concerto!
Best regards
Jonathan
February 6: Myaskovsky's cello sonata no.2 in A minor (1948, but nothing un-Romantic about this piece) (also: cello sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev) is being performed by David Finckel and Wu Han at Chamber Music Northwest, at the Old Church, Portland Oregon. see This Link (https://cmnw.org/concerts-events/2024-25-season/david-finckel-wu-han/2169)...
Jonathan- I think the Jaëll work may be on YouTube. Worth one's time, as I recall.
Quote from: eschiss1 on Tuesday 21 January 2025, 17:10Jonathan- I think the Jaëll work may be on YouTube. Worth one's time, as I recall.
Thanks eschiss1 - I will have a look for it!
There's also a performance of Alkan's Symphony for solo piano in London, further details at:
https://keyboardtrust.org/event/julian-chan-at-steinway-hall-london/
Shame it's too far for me to get to.
On 1 February the Alkan symphony is also part of a recital at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Pierre-Boulez-Saal in Berlin.
Also: another rare opportunity to hear Klughardt's Schilflieder live, in a concert that also includes Juon's trio-miniatures, at Hohhaus-Palais Lauterbach, Eisenbacher Tor 1, Lauterbach, Hesse, 36341, Germany. See Bachtrack.com (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/marchenerzahlungen-hohhaus-palais-lauterbach-25-january-2025/411863) (this is on 25 January, 19:00 local time.)
Ah, also this. New production of Magnard's Guercœur, by the Frankfurt Opera, in Frankfurt am Main, for 8 days between Feb. 2 and Mar. 8. See their website (https://oper-frankfurt.de/en/season-calendar/guercoeur/).
Bachtrack lists a performance of Magnard's cello sonata in Wigmore Hall on 27 May, together with (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/gary-hoffman-david-selig-wigmore-hall-27-may-2025/415634) the first sonata of Saint-Saëns and the cello sonata of Melanie Bonis. (Incidentally her flute sonata was performed here in Ithaca last season and a trio of hers is scheduled to be performed- by a different group, I think- here in a couple of months :). Quite liked the flute sonata, hoping to catch the next concert...)
Was curious whether any Reger has been programmed for this year (not unsung but arguably undersung, though I realize he is at best controversial on this forum) - his string trio no.1 is being performed at the smaller room of the Konzerthaus in Berlin on 5 April by the Vogler Quartet (with Grieg's G minor quartet and Kodály's violin & cello duo),
his early 3 choruses op.6 are in a program on March 19th at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, with works by Elgar, Rachmaninov, Boulanger, Brahms, Ravel, Fauré, and the middle-aged Daniel Elder (b.1985) (see their schedule (https://www.teatrosancarlo.it/spettacoli/fabrizio-cassi-coro-sancarlo/))...
some other works of his are in concerts too, it's true.
A few more maybe interesting concerts:
Hermann Grädener's first string quartet (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/gringolts-holscher-sigl-francis-julia-clemens-hagen-konzerthaus-mozart-saal-7-april-2025/400189) is featured in this Viennese concert on 7 April 2025 in the Mozart-Saal.
Intriguing chamber and song concert (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/fatma-said-sabine-meyer-malcolm-martineau-wigmore-hall-23-june-2025/415553) on 23 June at Wigmore hall with works by Mendelssohn, Franz Lachner, Louis Spohr, and others.
Speaking of Spohr one can hear his 6 German Songs (Op.103), and works by Clement, Schubert and Beethoven on 17 March at the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/jupiter-symphony-chamber-players-blazing-stars-good-shepherd-faith-presbyterian-church-17-march-2025/411229) in New York City (Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church on W. 66th Street. I recommend their programs in general...)
Also at Wigmore Hall, but on 7 March (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/gary-hoffman-david-selig-wigmore-hall-7-march-2025/413101) (forget if this has been mentioned), a concert with cello sonatas by Godard, Fauré and Debussy...
Ooh (edit) one more thing, added 5 February. On 23 March, Itamar Zorman and Ieva Jokubaviciute (https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/zorman-jokubaviciute/) perform a recital with, among other works, Pejačević's Slavonic violin sonata, at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
From 25 to 27 March 2025 the XVII International Conference "Traditions of Silesian Musical Culture" will take place in Wroclaw, Poland. One part of the event is a piano recital of works by unsung Silesian composers. Charlotte Steppes plays music by Eduard Franck, Arnold Mendelssohn, Hermann Buchal and Günter Bialas.
Thank you, Rainolf!
My father came from Silesia and I've long been interested to hear anything by Hermann Buchal. (Though I don't expect to hear one of his symphonies.)
Masha Dimitrieva, the pianist who did a great job in promoting the music of Gordon Sherwood, talked in an interview a year ago about her interest in Buchal and her intention to record his piano music.
Some interesting-looking other stuff shows up by him in library catalogs, thanks for mentioning...
Also, tomorrow, Ithaca College is performing Saint-Georges' L'amant anonyme.
Tomorrow, Sunday 16 March, members of the Osnabrücker Sinfonieorchester will give a chamber concert. Two horn trios are programmed, one by the contemporary Norwegian composer Trygve Madsen and the Horn Trio Op 28 by Joseph Holbrooke. I will not be able to visit but I thought some of you just would like to know about this rare occasion.
https://m.regioactive.de/konzert/4-kammerkonzert-violine-horn-klavier-osnabrueck-theater-2025-03-16-mcVsKwJZ7H
Kindly notified by fellow-member ilbravo:
On Wednesday, the 26th, there will be the (probably rare) opportunity to hear both Reubke's piano sonata and the organ sonata in one concert.
Place: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Performing Artists: Iveta Apkalna Organ and Herbert Schuch Piano
Further information and the complete programme:
https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/programm/iveta-apkalna-herbert-schuch/21770
Organized by Palazzetto Bru Zane a concert by Aurélien Pascal (cello) and Josquin Otal (piano) featuring the cello sonatas by Camille Chevillard and Jean Huré, plus shorter pieces by Louis Dumas and Charles Lecocq.
This is to take place in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay at 12:30 on April 29, 2025. This is a replay of the same program given in Venice last October. The Venice performance was recorded and is available on the Youtube channel of Palazzetto Bru Zane https://youtu.be/PiZ0pood5h8?si=0ejE6GFbgM0Nn6Lg (https://youtu.be/PiZ0pood5h8?si=0ejE6GFbgM0Nn6Lg)
This weekend at Bard Leon Botstein is conducting his TON orchestra in Magnard's 3rd Symphony. Also the Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 which you don't hear much.
On May 17 the Brookline Ma Orchestra will play Zdenêk Fibich's Symphony No. 2.
The programme of the 39th edition of "Rarities of Piano Music" at Schloss vor Husum in northern Germany in mid August is now available on the the festival website (https://piano-festival-husum.com/programme-2025/?lang=en).
At the Estonia Concert Hall, Talinn (Estonian National Symphony Orchestra)
25 April Artur Lemba: Symphony no 1
30 April Louise Farrenc: Overture no 1
09 May Joachim Raff: Symphony no 11 (Winter) + Cavatina from 6 Morceaux, Neeme Jarvi conducting.
Thanks for these notifications, Auberio, and welcome to Unsung Composers!
I'm sure that Mark Thomas will be interested to read of the upcoming performance of Raff's 11th Symphony, especially in view of the fact that Neeme Järvi has recorded two of the composer's symphonies for Chandos in the past. Details here:
https://erso.ee/en/concerts/neeme-jarvi-and-the-springtime-classics/
Not many people showed up for Magnard's 3rd Symphony. Botstein thanked us for showing up - he said he didn't expect anyone to show up.
Tonight in Boston a rare performance of Sibelius' opera the Maiden in the Tower. They claim it's the American Premiere.
Quote from: scarpia on Tuesday 15 April 2025, 17:06Not many people showed up for Magnard's 3rd Symphony
Just shows how little people really know of the repertoire - and their unwillingness to try out something unfamiliar.
Quote from: Alan Howe on Monday 14 April 2025, 19:22I'm sure that Mark Thomas will be interested to read of the upcoming performance of Raff's 11th Symphony, especially in view of the fact that Neeme Järvi has recorded two of the composer's symphonies for Chandos in the past.
It's very heartening that Järvi has continued his enthusiasm for Raff's symphonies, even one of the weaker ones, but I know of no plans for him to continue recording them, unfortunately. Still, it's a beguiling thought.
Plenty of performances of interest to UC at this year's English Music Festival, at Dorchester (Oxfordshire), including premieres. For full programmes, see:
https://englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2025-may-festival/programme.php
When I was searching for Melartin's violin sonatas, I discovered this concert celebrating Erkki Melartin's 150th birth anniversary:
https://holvi.com/shop/KOKONAINEN/product/dd2a26ac570aedee4a1d76224e1efeb2/
May 14th at Hakasalmen huvila, Helsinki, the spotlight is Melartin's First Violin Sonata, Op. 10 from 1899, described as a 40-minute long big work.
This work may quite well be unrecorded. And I found Melartin's piano chamber music in general was little explored.
Quote from: tuatara442442 on Saturday 10 May 2025, 05:24When I was searching for Melartin's violin sonatas, I discovered this concert celebrating Erkki Melartin's 150th birth anniversary:
https://holvi.com/shop/KOKONAINEN/product/dd2a26ac570aedee4a1d76224e1efeb2/
May 14th at Hakasalmen huvila, Helsinki, the spotlight is Melartin's First Violin Sonata, Op. 10 from 1899, described as a 40-minute long big work.
This work may quite well be unrecorded. And I found Melartin's piano chamber music in general was little explored.
The full program, all unsung pieces, is:
- Elisar Riddelin: Ihtiriekko ja Sielunlintu, for solo violin
- L. Onerva: Impromptu Keijujen karkelosta
- Kerttu Wanne: Volatiles
- Helvi Mäkinen: Kotkan ruusu
- Erkki Melartin: Cantilene Op. 44 No. 2
- Erkki Melartin: Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 10, E-dur
The concert overview mentions that all the pieces will be recorded on disc later.
Quote from: tpaloj on Saturday 10 May 2025, 11:31all the pieces will be recorded on disc later.
Marvellous!
Agreed. My experience with early Melartin is mixed (symphonies: good. Early string quartet that I heard at the sound branch of NYPL Research Library: not as good as the later string quartets or the symphonies, for example. Make no mistake, was still glad to have heard it even so, just not as good, I though.) -- I've been curious to hear this sonata and look forward to doing so. I think the score and part may be at IMSLP. Glad to hear it's 40 minutes, I like ambitious chamber music in general. (Like some of my recent interlibrary loans. :) )
(I still remember, from years ago, a phone conversation with a friend-from-internet where he convinced me that yes, I should indeed follow the advice of a Fanfare magazine reviewer and get that Ondine recording of symphonies 5 & 6. -- and yes, tempted to hear the cpo recordings of the better and uncut score editions. Anyhow, that was my introduction to his music, and I am glad of it :) )
Some of Melartin's piano music has been recorded commercially, and some of it's been uploaded to IMSLP by Jean Dubé/janno (who was/is a member here, I think!) in performance as well, for which thanks.
Missed a good unsung concert here in Ithaca a few days ago, unfortunately. The one I'm going to tomorrow is of a well-known major octet that I think I've never heard live...
It may be time to create a 2026 page; I see a few (well, one that I notice, but only that one?...) unsung works in concert for 2026 are already being announced online (a Medtner piano sonata in Kansas City. Restraining myself from humming a song, here...)
Oct. 5 2025 in Berlin: Sibelius, Madetoia (2nd symphony) and Glière (violin concerto) (see https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/concert/calendar/56413/.)
Proms performances: Holmès' Andromède (August 28 2025); Thomas de Hartmann's violin concerto (1943) (August 22 2025). There's a number of works of interest to me I only may be able to hear (depending on whether I can stream them without signing in, etc.) but which aren't sufficiently unsung-and-within-our-remit-necessarily (and the de Hartmann is from 1943 but I recall our discussing it, so I'm just going to assume that one. There are a few others that maybe could have fit that too, like performances of Dukas' La péri, etc. but they might be too impressionistic for our remit.)
Marcel Tyberg's String Sextet in F minor will be given its first complete Viennese performance by students of the "mdw", the university of music and performing arts at the Ehrbar Saal (https://exilarte.org/en/concert-series-echo-of-the-unheard-december-18th-2025-works-by-marcel-tyberg) on 18 December 2025.
Torino, 24/6/25
Respighi Belkis Queen of Sheba, suite (conduuctor Robert Trevino, OSN RAI).
Torino, 5/9/25 V. de Sabata Juventus , Symphonic poem (cond. Antonio Pappano, LSO)
Tokyo, 11/9/25 I.Pizzetti Concerto dell'Estate (cond.A.Battistoni, Tokyo Phil.)
Torino, 12/9/25 R.Langgaard "Rabbia" (string quartet n.3 orchestrated by T.Dausgaard), cond. T.Dausgaard, OSN RAI
Torino, 20/11/25 Alma Mahler Five orchestral lieder (orch. C. and D. Matthews), F.Barron mezzo, cond. E. Tjeknavorian, OSN RAI
Coming this Friday June 13, and Saturday June 14, in Berlin, Adalbert Ritter von Goldschmidt's Musikdrama DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN (1876). It seems that it haven't been mentioned yet. There are some excerpts available on YouTube, including this interesting Overture to the third act.
More details about the coming live performances here:
https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/repertoire/777-die-sieben-todsuenden
Thanks. Fascinating - apparently Liszt thought it was a 'Meisterwerk'.
Felix Draeseke song concerts
Following the presentation of the new 3-volume edition of Felix Draeseke's songs during the annual conference of the International Draeseke Society in Coburg, two concerts will take place in Bad Rodach and Leipzig where a selection of the songs can be heard. They will be sung by Julia Oesch, mezzo-soprano, and Gotthold Schwarz, bass (the former Thomaskantor of Leipzig). The pianist is Wolfgang Müller-Steinbach, editor of two volumes of the edition.
Saturday, 21 June 2025, 17:00, Coburg, Gymnasium Casimirianum: Presentation of the edition.
Sunday, 22 June 2025, 11:00, Bad Rodach, Jagdschloss: Concert, date 1.
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 14:00, Leipzig, Grieg-Begegnungsstätte: Concert, date 2.
http://www.the-new-listener.de/index.php/2025/06/11/die-gesamtausgabe-der-lieder-felix-draesekes-praesentation-und-konzerttermine/
Thanks very much indeed for this notification.
String Quartets by Arnold Bax (no.1 in G), Sir James MacMillan and the piano quintet of Johannes Brahms played by the Collenbusch Quartet in Dresden, Germany, on 23 November (https://www.dresdnerphilharmonie.de/en/concerts-tickets/calendarschedule/collenbusch-mit-brahms/).
Quote from: tpaloj on Saturday 10 May 2025, 11:31The concert overview mentions that all the pieces will be recorded on disc later.
This as the second installment of the violinist's album
Unrecorded. on Alba label
Two Mayer performances, her overture no.3 on June 29 at 6:30 pm in London, her symphony no.2 in E minor in Heilbronn at 7 pm on July 13.
(This from the Ries & Erler website. Which mentions that a Spohr symphony 2 performance took place on June 8th in Braunschweig...)
Hopefully of interest: the site also mentions FE Fesca's symphony no.3 in D, to be performed 4 pm November 8 in Bayreuth, and 5 pm in Rosenheim November 9. In Basel, Kalliwoda's overture no.2 op.44 will be performed in Basel at 5 pm also on November 9. (Haven't checked -where- in those cities, yet.)
Dec.7: some Rott lieder somewhere in NY (city, I assume), at 3 pm; will try to fill in details... (several performances of his symphony will be taking place during the 2025-6 season.)
Did anyone mention that there's a program with Weingartner's symphony no.2 today (Yangju City Symphony Orchestra, cond. Seung You Park - might be some people on this site who live in South Korea or near enough by)... and also according to Breitkopf's website, Klengel's E minor cello concerto is being performed on the 29th in Macao (Symphony Orchestra of Sacred Heart Canossian College, cond. Jimson Hoi
Macao, Macao Cultural Centre).
Universal Edition:
Zemlinsky's 1897 Symphony in B-flat is getting an outing in Switzerland, reformierte Kirche, Horgen, Jascha von der Goltz conducting the Sinfonia Nota Bene, on the 27th and again in the same place on the 29th.
Braunfels: Vorspiel und Prolog der Nachtigall | 1913 (from the opera) will be performed on Saturday 28th, Theater am Domhof, Osnabrück Germany, Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester conducted by Daniel Inbal (with unspecified? soprano.)
Smyth's concerto for violin and horn will be performed on 5 July conducted by Mark Heron (Southwell Minster, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Nottingham) (according to Wise Music Classical).
Sorry if any information here is duplicated stuff, will try to go over and remove from this post any that is...
btw: concert of Lili Boulanger and Zemlinsky on October 11 at the Vienna Musikverein:
"Lili Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique (1914-1917)
für Tenor, Chor und Orchester
Lili Boulanger: Psaume 130 ,,Du fond de l'abîme" (1914-1917)
für Altsolo, Chor, Orgel und Orchester
Alexander Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Symphonische Dichtung (1902-1903)
nach einem Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen".
Markus Poschner, Vienna Singverein, ORF Austria orchestra with Claudia Mahnke and Paul Schweinester vocal soloists and Robert Kovacs, organ. Source (https://rso.orf.at/en/programm/5100).
Hrm. Fauré's Pénélope may or may not be considered too sung. Anyhow, that's being performed several times in Munich this season, starting this Sunday 13 July at the Bavarian State Opera.
Quote from: eschiss1 on Thursday 10 July 2025, 20:34Fauré's Pénélope may or may not be considered too sung
It's unsung - no question. Thanks!
Speaking of Taneyev, only a few concerts with his music are mentioned by BachTrack - one has his prelude and fugue for piano, plus sonatas by Myaskovsky and Schumann, and Prokofiev's Visions fugitives, at Carnegie Hall played by Daniil Trifonov on December 13th. (The other two are both in 2026.)
The George Enescu International Festival takes place late next month in Bucharest. His octet will be performed on the 27th, I see, and his early 1st cello sonata on the 31st. Bentoiu's completion of his 4th symphony is scheduled for September 4th, and the cello Symphonie concertante for September 7th.
Couple of other things :)
Bruch's octet (and Mendelssohn's) will be performed 7 October at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
Juon's Kammersinfonie in B-flat (and Glinka's Trio pathétique) will feature in a 31 October concert at Theatre Winterthur.
Enescu's octet will also be played @ Wigmore Hall 17 December with works by Dvorak & César Franck.
Here's (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/gunther-groissbock-julius-drake-carnegie-hall-zankel-hall-7-december-2025/426601) an interesting concert scheduled for 7 December, Zankel Hall, New York City NY - songs by Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, Hugo Wolf and Hans Rott. (Günther Groissböck, bass, Julius Drake, piano.)
On 23 September the Swiss Orchestra conducted by Lena-Lisa Wüstendorfer, with Alexander Boldachev, harp, is playing a concert, 'Swiss Summer Nights', in Olten:
Paul Juon (1872 - 1940) Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester, Op. 16
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) Violin concerto no. 2 'L'esstate', Op. 8 / RV 315
Paul Juon Berceuse (version for strings), Op. 28 Nr. 3
***
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Eine kleine Nachtmusik, KV 525
Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912) Méditation aus «Thaïs» (Arr. for violin and harp)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) Danse macabre (Arr. for strings and harp)
George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948) Chorale on a Theme of Leo Hassler
The Gesellschafthauss Magdeburg is including in its 2025-2026 season a concert featuring two piano trios (Op. 9 and Op. 20) by Fritz Kauffmann (1855-1934).
https://www.gesellschaftshaus-magdeburg.de/files/cms/Saison%202025_2026/Saisonprogramm%202025-26.pdf
btw juon.org keeps good track of concerts of Paul Juon's music, past and future. His first string quartet is being performed by the Loewe Quartet both next year and also in a few days from now (12 August 2025, Evangelische Kirche Bergün, Abendmusik Bergün) ; the 2nd piano quartet op.50, by the Alas (Aias?) Quartet on 26 October 2025 @ Fischingen, Bibliothek Kloster Fischingen, Kultur Kloster Fischingen; the trio-miniatures on 8 November 2025 @ Ollon, Temple d'Ollon, Autumne Musical d'Ollon by the Zeitgeist Trio. (The wind quintet Op.84 of 1930 is listed in there, performed in Zermatt, Switzerland in September, but, y'know.)
The Swiss Orchestra and Lena-Lisa Wüstendorfer are to perform Hans Huber's First Symphony in D, "Wilhelm Tell" (1882) on 30 November in Andermatt. The concert also features performances of Rossini's Guglielmo Tell overture and Tchaikovsky's B flat major piano concerto, the latter performed with Olga Scheps as the soloist. More information and tickets here (https://andermattmusic.ch/en/event/tell-swiss-legend/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=bachtrack.com&utm_campaign=listinglink).
Only just found this out thanks to Bru Zane's latest email - there is a recital including some obscure composers in Toulouse shortly:
MON 15 SEPTEMBER — 8 PM
CLOÎTRE DES JACOBINS, TOULOUSE
Romantic Treasures
Piano pieces by FARRENC, CHOPIN, BIZET, L. GUILMANT, HELLER and ALKAN
Célia Oneto Bensaid piano
Apparently, the same programme is being played in Venice on 09 April 2026.
The final concert (https://martinu.ch/programm/the-epic-of-gilgamesch-rundfunkchor-berlin-neues-orchester-basel/) in this year's edition of the annual Martinu Festival in Basel, Switzerland, will feature Songs for Soprano and Orchestra by Leopold van der Pals, coupled with Martinu's The Epic of Gilgamesh and works by Mozart and Dvorak. The concert will be recorded and broadcast by Swiss radio SRF2 Kultur and by Deutschlandfunk.
Franz Lachner's oratorio "Moses" is going to be performed near Munich on 11 October in an amateur performance:
https://www.agv-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/moses/ (https://www.agv-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/moses/)
Teresa Boning, Sopran
Michael Birgmeier, Tenor
Thomas Ruf, Bariton
Jussi Järvenpää, Bariton
Junger Chor des Akademischen Gesangsvereins München [Young choir of the Academic singing club Munich], STEFAN GRÜNFELDER (dir.)
accompanied by an ad-hoc orchestra.
The choir of Gymnasium Bern Neufeld in Switzerland has a long established record for adventurous programming, and their upcoming concert (https://gymneufeld.ch/organisation/fachschaften/musik/) is no exception. It includes three extracts from Alice Mary Smith's Ode to Passion (1882) in what will very probably be a Swiss premiere.
Alexandre Guilmant's 2nd Symphony on November 15th in little Groton MA. Maestro Hangen says it's really an organ concerto, but doesn't say why he is doing it. They don't have a real organ in the hall. They have this virtual organ that sounds pretty good. And it's a lot less expensive than a real organ.
In Berlin, DSO Berlin in fact, on November 30:
the following... (https://www.dso-berlin.de/en/concert/kammerkonzert-claerchens-ballhaus-30-11-2025/)
Hans Gál
Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Violoncello
Erwin Schulhoff
Five Pieces for String Quartet
Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Quartet in B flat major
Very few people showed u for the Guilmant in Groton.
Next up at the Boston Symphony we get to hear the Violin Concerto by Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell. So a lot of people should be there. I know Bell recorded it last year so it's good that he's playing it live too. I still have to get that recording.