The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be performing Farrenc's overture no.2 on Feb.28 & Mar.1 2026, with Samuel Lee conducting.
Chamber works by Franz Schmidt (Quintet in A major with clarinet) and Pfitzner (sextet op.55) will be performed in Ulm on 12 July 2026.
That'll start...
15.1.2026, Helsinki, Finland (Musiikkitalo): Korngold's Cello Concerto op. 37.
18.1.2026 (same venue): semi-unsung Dora Pejacevic's Piano Trio op. 29, and Germaine Tailleferre's Piano Trio.
Neat!
I also see listed a performance of Myaskovsky's 6th symphony (https://www.operabase.com/productions/symphony-no6-op23-344275/en) conducted by Alexander Rudin in Moscow on 7 April, a recital ending with Myaskovsky's 2nd piano sonata (https://www.operabase.com/productions/evgeny-kissin-338437/en) in Toronto played by Evgeny Kissin on 22 May, another Kissin program in Paris (unspecified cellist??) with the same composer's 2nd cello sonata (https://www.operabase.com/productions/evgeny-kissin-piano-336416/en) on 28 January . (Ah, I see that operabase starts charging after the first few uses. That's why...)
January 28 2026 in Stuttgart (https://www.staatsoper-stuttgart.de/en/schedule/a-z/3-chamber-music-concert-2025-26/), string trio by Robert Fuchs (in E minor, Op.61 No.1 - miscalled E major because it has an introduction in that key, but nothing else*), Hans Gál clarinet quintet, and Franz Schubert B-flat piano trio.
Same location, April 29 (https://www.staatsoper-stuttgart.de/en/schedule/calendar/6-chamber-music-concert-2025-26/8759/): Gade's piano trio in F, Bloch's violin sonata no.2, and Enescu's octet in C. Neat concert.
*Which makes as much sense as calling Haydn's Symphony No.104 a symphony in "D minor".
Had a thread awhile ago about Bruckner's 2nd symphony, noting that it was his least performed. This seems cause to briefly note that it will be conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, Dresden Philharmonie, 25 and 26 April 2026. (Link: here (https://www.dresdnerphilharmonie.de/en/concerts-tickets/calendarschedule/eschenbach-mit-bruckner/). Yes, it's the rare 1773 version.)
Augusta Holmès' Pologne and other works will be performed in Mainz on January 7, with Michael Francis conducting the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie - see https://www.mainz-klassik.de/programm-2025/26/rafael-aguirre.
Korngold's Violanta is being performed in January and February (25 Jan.-13 Feb.) by the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Also:
June 3 2026 in Liverpool brings an interesting-looking chamber concert with works by Frank Bridge (phantasy piano quartet, 1910), Fauré (first piano quartet), Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Shades of Silence, and Brahms (first piano quartet). See https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/junyan-chen-piano-tung-auditorium-3-june-2026/422928 (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/junyan-chen-piano-tung-auditorium-3-june-2026/422928) e.g. (About the same program in Leeds on 10 Feb. but with Enescu's 2nd piano quartet in place of the Brahms. Another program with Bridge chamber music has his string sextet and Rimsky-Korsakov's at the Opernhaus in Zurich on 5 January (and a matinée on the 4th.))
Ah, also this from juon.org : 11 January 2026, performance of Juon's first string quartet Op.5 by the Loewe Quartet, @ Kilchberg, C.F. Meyer-Haus.
Picking up this thread after awhile...
A few works by Arnold Bax this year- the piano quartet (1922) in Norwich on March 8th played by the Rossetti Ensemble (with d'Indy's early piano quartet and Mozart's G minor), and also on 5 May at the Mozart Saal of the Konzerthaus in Vienna with works and movements of works for piano quartet by Mozart, Schumann, Strauss, Rubinstein and (the one other full work) Mahler's incomplete quartet; the collection "Femmes de légende", 3 pieces by Mel Bonis, performed with orchestral and piano works by Ravel and Lutoslawski (his earlyish concerto for orchestra), on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at Kulturpalast Dresden; a big program of Bonis' works "Le secret de Mel Bonis" - piano pieces and excerpts from her chamber works (and her whole first piano quartet) at Musée de l'Armée – Invalides, Paris, on 9 Feb. 2026 at 20-00;
(actually, yes, a whole lot of programs with Bonis in them.) One of the more interesting-looking is in Taipei: works by (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/nso-chamber-concerts--where-the-light-is-national-recital-hall-24-may-2026/434178) Heritte-Viardot (piano quartet no.1 in A, Op.9), Bonis (Soir, matin, Op.76), Boulanger (D'un matin de printemps), and Fauré's first piano quintet in D minor Op.89.
Today sees what seema to be a complete performance of Korngold's Schneemann Pantomime - 2d act yet unrecorded - in Munich (Munich philharmonic orchestra). Same orchestra, next week Friday and Wednesday, plays a newly-constructed suite of Korngold's Devotion film music (among other American compositions, including the resurrection of Theo Mackeben's "symphonic ballade" for Cello and orchestra (1946, but sure about our remit)).
No worries about Mackeben's Sinfonische Ballade; it's a thoroughly romantic piece (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr3PM6O_YcI). Some might think, excessively so.
Further posts about Mackeben and Korngold's Schneemann have been moved into their separate topics. Please keep the discussions here focused on the subject of Unsung Concerts.
On 15 March pianist Charlotte Steppes plays a recital in Naunhof (near Leipzig) which includes the Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp minor by Hermann Buchal (1884-1961).
https://charlottesteppes.com/konzerte/
Ms. Steppes will record a selection of Buchal's piano music in autumn 2026.
Hans von Bülow's symphonic poem Nirvana will be played during the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 13 June. Rémy Ballot conducts the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.
https://www.stuttgarter-philharmoniker.de/4522.html
Emilie Mayer's string quartet in G minor is being played tonight 1/23/2026 in Hong Kong - see this link (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/simply-quartet-in-my-life-tai-kwun-centre-for-heritage-and-arts-jc-cube-23-january-2026/432852).
Today and tomorrow @ Montpelier France there's a concert with (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/messe-du-couronnement-orchestre-national-montpellier-occitanie-opera-comedie-23-january-2026/432192) Atterberg's mid-period suite no.3, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and Mozart.
Also later today are piano trio works (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/trio-concept-elbphilharmonie-recital-hall-23-january-2026/430602) by Rachmaninoff, Ernest Bloch, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Giulia Lorusso and Clemens Thomas in Hamburg at the Elbphilharmonie.
(That Mackeben's symphonic ballad is also being performed today in Munich I think has already been noted!)
Members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia will perform Spohr's nonet (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/spohrs-nonet-royal-northern-sinfonia-the-witham-25-january-2026/431807) on 1/25/26 at the Witham, Barnard Castle, North-East, UK.
More Pejacevic, in Norwich (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/kaleidoscope-chamber-collective-john-innes-centre-25-january-2026/425133), also on the 25th, with works by Bonis (not one of her piano quartets so-named), Fauré and Brahms (all, I believe, works for piano quartet?)
Also, on 1/26, a program with wind quintets by Reicha (E-flat, Op.88 No.2) and Klughardt (Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists (https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/gulbenkian-orchestra-soloists-fundacao-calouste-gulbenkian-main-auditorium-26-january-2026/431558), @ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: Main Auditorium, Lisbon, Portugal).
Josef Labor's piano quintet in E minor is the sole work on this (https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/soup-with-piano-quintet/20260529-1215/) program at Konserthuset Stockholm, Grünewald Hall, 12:15 local time, 29 May 2026.
Marc-André Hamelin is set to perform Marx's Romantic Piano Concerto with Tonkünstler Orchestra at Musikverein Vienna on 5th June, 2026. The program also includes Brahms Symphony No. 4 (details) (https://www.tonkuenstler.at/de/konzerte/brahms-marx/39417)
Hamelin's performing schedule this year is very interesting but (aside from the Marx, regarding which yay!!) often no longer in ways that are within this forum's orbit, or I would mention them, since they include works _I_ am very interested in and am glad to see more performances of (hint: Mieczyslaw Weinberg.)
During the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen some more seldom heard pieces will be performed:
6.6.2026:
Hermann Goetz: Piano Quintet
Nymphenburger Streichersolisten
Julian Riem
https://www.richard-strauss-tage.de/event/kammerkonzert-i-3/
12.6.2026:
Richard Strauss: Canons and Fugues, Improvisations and Fugue on an Original Theme
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Piano Quintet
Ensemble SineQuaNon
https://www.richard-strauss-tage.de/event/kammerkonzert-iii-3/
I don't think I've seen this mentioned, but Thuille's sextet will be performed in Toronto, March 9, by Angela Hewitt with members of the Toronto Symphony. (From her Facebook page and also Hughsroomlive.com (https://hughsroomlive.com/event-details/?slug=angela-hewitt-with-tso-woodwinds).)
On 8 March, the Worthing Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Gibbons with soloist Arta Arnicane, will perform a concert, 'Women of Note', (https://worthingsymphony.org.uk/#concerts) with works by Doreen Carwithen, Lucija Garuta, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Madeleine Dring and Ruth Gipps.
Wheesht - That's a creative and perhaps brave programme. I hope it's a great success. Were I in Worthing, I would go :)
Lalo's Le roi d'Ys is presently in the middle of a performance season (21 January-29 March) in Strasbourg and Mulhouse (see Opera national du Rhin's Page (https://www.operanationaldurhin.eu/en/spectacles/saison-2526/opera/le-roi-dys) for the remaining performances and information.) This is not the same ensemble etc. as performed and released it on Palazzetto Bru Zane last September... but on the other hand, a new recording and a new production independently? within months of each other is not bad.
On March 13th in the Staatstheater Nürnberg (https://www.staatstheater-nuernberg.de/en/spielplan-25-26/sibelius-stenhammar/13-03-2026/1930) Martin Sturfält, piano, Tobias Ringborg, conductor, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Stenhammar's 2nd piano concerto and Sibelius 2nd symphony. (Like the Lalo opera, the Stenhammar's not as unknown as some works, but unlike the Sibelius, I've never heard it live before. On the other hand, there's almost no chance I'd be in Nürnberg then, either...)
Next week the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players have a concert of Cherubini (string quartet no.2, also known as his symphony but with a new slow movement and reduced/reworked for quartet), Büsser (Appassionato for viola and piano), Demersseman (concert piece for clarinet and piano) and Chausson (piano quartet).
CMS Lincoln Center's next program, March 19, is Družecký G minor oboe quartet, Loeffler Cornemuse, & Widor piano quintet no.1 in D minor. Someone's probably mentioned that. I see a notice somewhere that on April 26 they have some Raff planned, but I can't find this confirmed.
If you live near Haverford College in Pennsylvania (I think I applied there early action and was turned down- that or Swarthmore. No, I think it was Haverford. I and a recent former President of the US were both rejected by Haverford :D * ) they have a concert on March 24 (https://www.haverford.edu/events/2026/03/24/music-conversation-matt-bengtson-piano-0) which is a bit of a miscellany but looks to be an interesting one, with preludes by Catoire and quite a few piano works by mostly underknown composers. (I think me I shall follow the pianist, Matthew Bengtson - a Associate Professor of Piano Literature at U Michigan School of Music, who has what looks like an interesting series on Exploring Repertoire online, btw - on Facebook...)
*I did not, however, go on to become President of Harvard Law Review... or anything to do with Harvard beyond visiting their terrific co-op a few times where, if I recall- it might have been the MIT one nearby?- I bought my copy of the Chandos CD of Bax's piano quintet and 2nd string quartet, back then...
Farrenc's Overture no.1 gets an airing in Harrogate on the 5th July at 3pm. Other works are Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Brahms first symphony.
Vienna, Konzerthaus, tonight, Friday: Baritone Konstantin Krimmel and piano accompanist Ammiel Bushakevitz
Quotepresent an evening of well-known romantic songs as well as rarities: In the first half of the programme, the »Songs of Travel« by Ralph Vaughan Williams on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson from 1904, known as the »British Winter Journey«, will be heard alongside Robert Schumann's Five Songs op. 40 on poems by Adalbert Chamisso. Before songs such as »Feldeinsamkeit« and »Die Mainacht« by Johannes Brahms, Krimmel has included Romanian songs by Eusebius Mandyczewski from 1885 in the programme. Mandyczewski, born in Czernowitz in Bukovina in 1857, studied musicology with Eduard Hanslick in Vienna, where he became friends with Johannes Brahms and was archivist and head of the collections of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde from 1887 to 1929. His songs are orientated towards the song tradition à la Schubert and Brahms.
Programme
Robert Schumann
Fünf Lieder op. 40 (1840)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel (1904)
Intermission
Eusebius Mandyczewski
Lăcrimioare »Maienglöckchen« op. 7/3 (Rumänische Lieder)
Măndrulita »Holdes Mädchen« op 7/7 (Rumänische Lieder)
Cinel-Cinel »Rätsel« op. 7/14 (Rumänische Lieder)
Mormentul »Das Grab« op. 7/16 (Rumänische Lieder)
Omul singuratic »Der Einsame« op. 7/18
Johannes Brahms
Auf dem Kirchhofe op. 105/4 (1886)
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht op. 96/1 (1884)
Feldeinsamkeit op. 86/2 (1877–1879 ?)
Wie bist du, meine Königin op. 32/9 (1864)
Die Mainacht op. 43/2 (1864)
Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène for orchestra, mezzo soprano, tenor and baritone, for which she won the Prix de Rome, will be performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, in an orchestra concerto (https://bregenzerfestspiele.com/en/concerts/orchestra-concerts/dalia-stasevska) as part of the Bregenz Festival on 27 July.
On 5 July, Max Bruch's oratorio Odysseus will be played at the Kölner Philharmonie (https://www.koelner-philharmonie.de/en/events/max-bruch-odysseus/5000). Almost sold out, by the looks of it, but we're going! Performers are the Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein, KonzertChor Stuttgart, Stuttgart Vokal-ensemble, Frauenchor BonnSonata, Mädchen- und Frauenchor der Schola Cantorum Leipzig and the Philharmonie Südwestfalen led by conductor Bernhard Steiner.
On 11 October, Richard Flury's Piano Quintet will be played by
Timon Altwegg, piano, Georg Jacobi, violin, Sergey Chesnokov, violin, Ulrike Lachner, viola, Eva Simmen, violoncello
in a commemorative concert to mark the 130th anniversary of the composer's birth at the Museum Blumenstein, Solothurn, Switzerland (https://museumblumenstein.ch/event/konzert-2026-10-11/).
Just spotted a performance of Eugenio Visnoviz's Violin Sonata in the immediate past, alongside works by Dvorak and Smetana, with Valentina Danelon playing the violin and Cristina Santin on piano. It was held on Mar. 26th in Gallarate, Italy at their Teatro del Popolo.
Apparently, the duo was reprising what they have performed in the past years. They took the Visnoviz sonata into their repertoire.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hozyeqdts/?mibextid=WC7FNe
Yannick Nezet Seguin programmed a symphony by Rita Strohl a few weeks ago. It was the North American premier of Strohl's Symphony of the Forest. Tomottow Symphony New Hampshire is doing something even more obscure - Mabel Daniel's work "Deep Forest". Looks like this is no American premiere - I see a youtube vid of the piece by the Concordia Chamber Orchestra in Rochester.
The 1957 1-act opera "Jäiset liekit" (Les flammes gelées) by Armas Launis will be performed in Espoo, Finland, on 2 July 2026 (venue accessible via easy connections from the airport or central Helsinki). This will be its world premiere.
It was the last opera by Launis, intended for television, but never orchestrated. It tells a story of a slave longing for his northern homeland, set in time of Ancient Rome. Launis was inspired to compose the work after seeing the memorial stone of Septentrion in Antibes, near Nizza.
https://www.urkuyofestival.fi/konsertit/jaiset-liekit (https://www.urkuyofestival.fi/konsertit/jaiset-liekit)
Nadia Boulanger's fantasy for piano and orchestra (1912) will be performed at the Proms in the afternoon on 5 August.
Glazunov's saxophone concerto will be performed by the Augusta Symphony (https://augustasymphony.com/event/symphonic-dances/) (Georgia, USA) on May 9th.
The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g. May 7 (https://www.lprorkesteri.fi/fi/Ohjelmisto/Kevatillan-oboekonsertto) one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.
Quote from: eschiss1 on Sunday 26 April 2026, 22:26The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g. May 7 (https://www.lprorkesteri.fi/fi/Ohjelmisto/Kevatillan-oboekonsertto) one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.
Thank you for the tip! Interesting, enterprising programming. It takes over 2 hours by train to get there from Helsinki, so it's not that convenient to reach.
More interesting stuff from the schedule of the Hungarian National Philharmonic. On 30 May, several works including Dohnányi's Concertstück (https://www.filharmonikusok.hu/en/koncertek/a-magyar-klasszikus-zene-napja-in-memoriam-kocsis-zoltan-3/). On 26 November, A concert of Ries' 1st and Spohr's 3rd (https://www.filharmonikusok.hu/en/koncertek/ries-mozart-cherubini-spohr-attilio-cremonesi/)...
Heilbronn, Germany, 9 June, 19.00 CET:
Chamber music concert (https://www.pyramide.hn/event-detail-standard/?tx_pitticketshop_list%5Baction%5D=show&tx_pitticketshop_list%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_pitticketshop_list%5Bevent%5D=755317&cHash=3bc6f73370cfc7a26d36079b140305aa):
JOACHIM RAFF
Klaviertrio G-Dur op. 112
BENJAMIN GODARD
6 Duettini op. 18
IWAN KNORR
Klavierquartett Es-Dur op. 3
Ingmar Lazar, piano
Zohar Lerner, violin
Götz Engelhardt, violine & viola
Adriana Schubert, cello
Quote from: eschiss1 on Sunday 26 April 2026, 22:26Nadia Boulanger's fantasy for piano and orchestra (1912) will be performed at the Proms in the afternoon on 5 August.
Glazunov's saxophone concerto will be performed by the Augusta Symphony (https://augustasymphony.com/event/symphonic-dances/) (Georgia, USA) on May 9th.
The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g. May 7 (https://www.lprorkesteri.fi/fi/Ohjelmisto/Kevatillan-oboekonsertto) one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.
I just heard the Glazunov saxophone concerto in Brattleboro VT a few weeks ago. Coming up in Ottawa this weekend is Coleridge Taylor and Farrenc. I will have to pick one or the other. The Ottawa Chamber Orchestra is playing Farrenc's Symphony no. 3. At the same time a group called The Ewashko Singers is performing the Ottawa premiere of the Te Deum in F and Endymion's Dream by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.