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Dear friends,

For some reason, the latest version of my "Music for Piano and Orchestra: The Recorded Repertory," posted on my university's server, is no longer found easily on standard browsers. Instead, old, out-of-date copies posted on mirror sites pop up. If you wish to access the latest version, usually updated every day, please bookmark this URL: http://www.siue.edu/~aho/discography/Discography.pdf

Thanks,
Allan Ho

I am aware of four archival recordings of the Mackeben pc. As Ilja states, only the Seidemann appears to be complete:

Julius Bassler/Studio-O Berlin/Werner Eisbrenner (abridged; e.g., missing 3'29" between 10:09 and 10:10)
Julius Bassler/SWR SO Stuttgart/Harry Pleva (abridged)
"Rainer Carell" [Siegfried Stöckigt]/Leipzig Radio SO/Adolf Fritz Guhl (abridged)
Herbert Seidemann/Munich Radio O/Rudolf Alberth (complete)
 

Capriccio will be releasing a CD with Kashperova's Piano Concerto, Op. 2 and Symphony, Op. 4.  The performers are Oliver Triendl/Radio SO Berlin/Anna Skryleva.  It will be interesting to compare Triendl's performance in the pc with Alexandra Dariescu's (heard on the BBC series on the composer in 2022).

It's great that Darrel is working on the Wurm pc.  The composition date is not cited in the Grove work list, but the pc was premiered by the composer on 5 Nov. 1887 in Berlin (see the concert program reproduced at https://www.overgrownpath.com/2018/06/first-woman-to-conduct-berlin.html).

There are two recordings of Impressions from an Artists's Life.  Long ago, the International Piano Archive offered an LP (IPA 2003, not commercially released) featuring Ernest Schelling/Chicago SO/Frederick Stock (recorded 28 Nov. 1936, but with cuts in the score); perhaps copies are still available.  More recently, a performance by Ludmil Angelov/Sofia PO/Gabriel Bebeșelea (27 June 2019, complete) aired on Romanian Radio.

I would like to encourage anyone with an interest in hearing unrecorded piano concertos such as this to support Darrel Hoffman's "Forgotten Piano Concertos" Patreon account (mentioned previously by "promusician").  I joined today. It takes a lot of time and effort to realize these scores and we are very fortunate that someone is making it possible for us to hear this music.  On his Patreon account Darrel lists the many interesting works he has in progress or planned.  Let's encourage him to continue this valuable project.

Ivan Ilić's recording of the Reicha piano concerto has not been released yet by Chandos, but I assume this live performance by Jan Bartos and the Prague Radio SO under Vojtech Spurny also uses the now complete original score, given the date (19 Sept. 2024), rather than the earlier completion by Krupka:

https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/el-pianista-jan-bartos-interpreta-reicha-entre-beethoven-i-haydn-sota-la-direccio-de-vojtech-spurny/audio/1232139/

 

Since Martin Eastick mentioned the ms of Bache's piano concerto in g minor (1850) being in RAM, please note that Darrel Hoffman posted his realization of that score on YouTube last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZFbcrjwyU&t=313s

Thanks Darrel.

The cpo release of Adolf Busch's pc (Florence Millet/Vogtland Philharmonie Greiz Reichenbach/David Marlow) has been posted on youtube and will, apparently, be out eventually on CD.  It is coupled with his piano works.

I was surprised to see the cpo recording of the Gernsheim pc (Oliver Triendl/Philharmonisches Staatsorcherster Mainz/Hermann Bäumer) posted on youtube.  I guess it has been or will be released. Also included is the Cello Concerto and Zu einem Drama.

Roberto Prosseda's CD of rare Italian piano concertos (Hyperion CDA68458, with the London PO under Nir Kabaretti; to be released 31 Jan. 2025) includes the following works.  Unfortunately, only the first fits the timeframe of UC:

Guido Alberto Fano:  Andante e Allegro con fuoco (1900)
Luigi Dallapiccola:  Piccolo concerto per Muriel Couvreux (1938-41)
Silvio Omizzolo:  Concerto (1969)
Cristian Carrara:  War Silence (2015)

The Triendl recording of the Ansorge Piano Concerto will be released by Capriccio in March 2025 as CD5511.  The coupling is von Sauer's Concerto 1.  A brief excerpt of the Ansorge and the cover of the CD is now at https://soundcloud.com/user-592952001/conrad-ansorge-piano-concerto-in-f-major-op-28

Video of the Borowski pc is now on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ92pMJTOVM

Looks like Toccata Classics will not be releasing the CD of the 3 Curiel piano concertos.  It was listed as 0338 in the TC pipeline for years, but has now been deleted.  Rodolfo Ritter, the piano soloist, also has told me that TC is not releasing it.

Since "4candles" mentioned the Fumagallis, there's a nice performance of Disma Fumagalli's Concerto, Op. 108 on YouTube played by Orazio Sciortino (pf, cond.) and the Cameristi della Scala (11 Nov. 2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9yVy3RqrTY

I suspect Prosseda's new CD might include Guido Alberto Fano's Andante e Allegro con fuoco (1900) since he performed that with the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva under Nir Kabaretti on 29 Oct. 2022.