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I've been getting to know these trios lately. They really are very impressive pieces indeed. Quite challenging at first but they soon reveal their secrets. They are highly melodic, clearly structured and very impressively worked. There are also all sorts of melodic references between movements so each trio is well unified.

Pleased to be of assistance! You may know that the Sinfonia Concertante's authenticity, certainly in the form in which it has come down to us, is in doubt. ( Wikipedia goes into great detail about this. ) It may not be by Mozart at all so may be by an "unsung" and even unknown composer! Whoever wrote it, it is a wonderful piece and I find it hard to believe that Mozart did not have a hand in it at some point.

The music from the Swedish film is an arrangement of the slow movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra, K. 297b.

I agree that the piano concerto is a fine piece and this is a splendid recording of it. The 'cello concerto, though, surely benefits from the faster speeds that Alban Gerhardt adopts on the Hyperion disc. I'm not sure that I would describe it as a "taut" work but Gerhardt's performance makes it sound so and is more compelling.

Plasson and Gergiev are excellent. Viotti has tightened up the drama by reorganising the arias. His is an Italianate performance which works well on its own terms. Lloyd-Jones is also excellent. Over 30 minutes' worth of music has been excised, though, and there is one disastrous cut.

Massenet's star has probably risen more rapidly than any other composer's in recent years. Naxos has just released a new recording of "Herodiade" from Deutsche Oper. It will almost certainly be not entirely complete, though, as it's on just two discs. Should be worth investigating, though.

Introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXovC3tSPE8

and a sung extract ( from 5' 12" ) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HlH3hib-WM&t=312s

No 4 is "Cavalleria Rusticana" medley
No 8 is "The Pirates of Penzance" medley

Thanks, Alan.

Great news. Are they downloads only, though?

Excerpts available here. The finale oF Bronsart's concerto is taken at quite a lick. The orchestra sounds lean but perhaps more on its toes than a full symphony orchestra might be.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9615307--henselt-bronsart-piano-concerto

Well done for promoting what is my favourite and, I think, Glazunov's best symphony. I'm not surprised it brought the audience to its feet. I hope they went out and got hold of a recording of it. That's how unsung music begins to get sung.

Thanks for doing this. I know that many of us retain an affection for this disc and still regard it as the definitive performance in spite of that over enthusiastic timpanist! My copy is badly bronzed but still plays perfectly.

It was the 200th anniversary of Franck's birth last year so the symphony did get a performance at the Proms. Previous to that it had been performed six times since 1980 but it was not performed in the 1960s and 70s. Perhaps there is a suggestion of a trend in the right direction then.

There has been a certain amount of snobbery over this symphony, perhaps because it's too tuneful for a "serious" symphony. I used to have an old book of record reviews which ignored it because the author did not wish to promote music he "personally disliked". R-K's Scheherazade suffered the same fate.

I live near Exeter and the Exeter Symphony Orchestra ( amateurs, of course ) performed it a couple of days ago.

I started a thread on this subject a while ago. Your thread has exactly the same heading as mine and your post duplicates mine word for word. Why? If you're interested in this topic, please refer to the earlier thread. Any comments, moderators?

Yes. The Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma was disbanded in 2014.