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Is anyone aware of any analysis that has been done of all works ever performed at the Proms?  Ideally it would be a list I could put into Excel showing:

Work - Composer - Composer nationality - date first performed - other performances - orchestra/soloist/conductor

No, jasthill. Since volume 17 or 18 they hasn't rely on Northern Flower to publish the albums, and the rest albums are on their official website for free streaming and downloading only. The previous releases by Northern Flowers are still available on streaming platforms, though.

Damn, so only Mp3s are available? That sucks. Especially since it looks like the Gliere is messed up and track 5 is missing as a download.

I can download it normally @Terrapon - has this problem persisted for you?

The Goedicke and Gliere wartime music albums have now been officially released (plus Stravinsky and Krein albums) on the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra website and can be downloaded track by track directly from there:

https://spb-orchestra.ru/muzyka-voennoj-pory/

I would say "25 Years of October" or "To the 25th Anniversary of the October Revolution"

By the way, the Goedicke Op.72 piece is called "25 Years of October", not "25th October".    IE - it was written for the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Regarding "Zapovit", by Gliere: the word means "Testament" in Ukrainian, and was the title of a poem by Ukraine's most popular poet Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861). If you search for the word Zapovit on this forum you will find a lot of Ukrainian composers have written a work on this poem, including Lysenko, Barvinsky, Verbytsky, Hladkiy, Lyatoshynsky, Lyudkevych, Revutsky and others.

When I die, then bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
Amid the wide, boundless steppe,
Where the fields are full of grain;
Where the Dnipro's rolling waters
Down its steep banks roar and glide.
There I want the cliffs and rivers
And the endless fields beside
To be seen and heard around me.

When from Ukraine
The blood of enemies
Is carried into the deep blue sea,
Then I will leave
The hills and fertile fields—
And fly away to God,
To pray... but until then
I know no God.

Bury me, then rise and break
Your heavy chains, and with
The blood of tyrants, wicked,
Water the soil of your freedom.

And in the great, new,
Free family of the people,
Do not forget me
With a quiet, gentle word.

For those, such as me, who can't listen to vkvideo (is it blocked in the UK?), the rutube alternative links are as follows:

https://rutube.ru/video/6a5a48c28c3881ef383981553f3cd153/ - Goedicke

https://rutube.ru/video/8fe62b3cd46ace7ed76ad7bb369605cf/ - Gliere

https://rutube.ru/video/33999b3b79c74 - Krein

Sadly, the tracks are not split out one by one, the whole album is on each link.

(Plus also Stravinsky - https://rutube.ru/video/7f02a6740fc05204eff4a3e63041d5d5/?r=wd
4 Norwegian Impressions; Ode; Ballet Scenes; Firebird Ballet Suite, 1945 version)

If anyone has the kit to record music off the website as an mp3 for these 4 links I'd be incredibly grateful! (I can only do it from YouTube links. Audacity makes my laptop seize up.)

I have listened to the Goedicke all the way through and it's particularly good.

Any idea about the question I asked regarding the recordings Eric or did you just want to show everyone that you know there is a Gregorian and a Julian calendar?

I recently came across the Russian composer Venedikt Venediktovich Pushkov (1895-1971).  He is extremely low profile but his violin concerto and his opera The Storm ("Groza" in Russian) have been recorded.

I learnt this from this radio link to a Russian radio programme - https://staroeradio.ru/audio/50811 - it contains substantial extracts from each work: 8 minutes of the violin concerto, and 15 minutes of the opera.

Violin Concerto - at 10m45s to 18m33s
The Storm opera - at 19m44s to 33m57s

Both are late-romantic in style, and the violin concerto in particular sounds like an attractive work.

Annoyingly, there is no trace or mention of these recordings anywhere else - not on youtube, vk.com, intoclassics.net (I have posted on their forum to ask), classic-online.ru, not on the Melodiya website, nothing.

So I thought I would post here to ask if anyone knows anything.

There is a Russian wikipedia page on him: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пушков,_Венедикт_Венедиктович:
Venedikt Venediktovich Pushkov ( 1896–1971 ) was a Soviet composer and teacher. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957).

Born in Saratov on October 19 (31), 1896, into a teacher's family.   

In 1920 he entered the Barnaul Music School [ 3 ] . From 1922 to 1925 he studied at the Saratov Conservatory in the composition class of L. M. Rudolf . In 1929 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in the composition class of V. V. Shcherbachev .

He taught at the 2nd Music College (1926-1929), at the Central Music College (1927-1931), at the workers' faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory (1930-1931), at the Leningrad Conservatory (1935-1938; 1946-1953; 1962-1969; from 1935 - associate professor).

In 1942-1943, Pushkov, while in evacuation, led music theory classes at retraining courses for composers and melodists in Dushanbe .

He died on January 25, 1971 in Leningrad.

Works
Among the major works by V. V. Pushkov are the opera "The Storm" based on A. N. Ostrovsky, and a concerto for violin and orchestra. He also wrote a piano trio, romances, and songs based on poems by classical and Soviet poets. Pushkov is the author of the vocal-symphonic cycle "In the West" and the symphonic suite "Lermontov." The composer also wrote the suite "Masquerade" for symphony orchestra based on his music from the film of the same name.

His contribution to film music is significant. He wrote music for more than 40 films, including such well-known ones as " Peasants " (1935), " Seven Brave Men " (1936), " Golden Taiga " (1937), " Teacher " (1939), " The Fourth Periscope " (1939), " The Defeat of Yudenich " (1940), " The Big Family " (1954), " My Dear Man " (1958), and " Hot July " (1965).

Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1940).
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957).



The Staroe Radio link above says:
Venedikt Venediktovich Pushkov (October 19 [31], 1896, Saratov – January 25, 1971, Leningrad) – Soviet composer and teacher. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957). From a family of teachers. He began his music studies in 1920 at the Workers' and Peasants' Conservatory (now the A.K. Glazunov Children's Music School No. 1). In 1922-1925, Venedikt Pushkov studied at the Saratov Conservatory, studying composition with L.M. Rudolf. In 1929, he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, studying composition with V.V. Shcherbachev. In 1926-1929, he taught at the Second State Music Technical School of the Leningrad Regional Department of Public Education. In 1927-1931 he taught at the Central Music College (now the St. Petersburg Music College named after M.P. Mussorgsky), in 1930-1931 he was a teacher at the workers' faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory, in 1935-1938; 1946-1953; 1962-1969 he was a teacher at the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1942-1943, Venedikt Pushkov, while in evacuation, directed music theory classes at retraining courses for composers and melodists in Dushanbe.

Released today.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9846331--de-hartmann-esther

I see that there is a CD of his Lieder:



https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8050012--mandyczewski-lieder-gesange-and-waltzes

The first work I have listed above is a substantial piece, 90 minutes long, and I am liking it a lot. Rich, melodic and "full-bodied" (the sound quality is poor, it's a live youtube recording, but that's no reflection on the music).

Mandyczewski has been mentioned a few times in passing on this forum.  Depending on which source you read, he was Austrian (Eusebius Mandyczewski), Ukrainian (Євсевій Мандичевський/Evseviy Mandychevskiy, or Romanian (Eusebie Mandicevschi) - and no reason why he couldn't have been all at once. He was born in Chernivtsi (google it if you want to see photos of a beautiful city), the capital of the Bukovina region which over the centuries has repeatedly changed hands between the Polish-Lithuanian Grand Duchy, Moldavia, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary - and now split between Romania and Ukraine (and previously USSR).  A large part of his output seems to have been liturgical and chamber/solo piano.  However I have come across a few works of his for full-scale chorus+orchestra. From the youtube links below, it seems there is (was?) an annual "Mandyczewski-Days" Festival in Chernivtsi, so it's possible that more works may appear as time goes on.  The first one below is attractive, and with an opening overture.

Cantata - У Буковому краї (also called В краю Буків)  / In the Land of Buk (can also translate as In the Land of Beech Trees - from which Bukovina gets its name) - has a rather good orchestral overture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZMsmMsmzQ


Шкільна кантата / School Cantata:
https://youtu.be/5zkYg7CVbn4?si=7daKs2J4f3eVMaET


Cantate "Der Harmonie Gewalt" (1882)
https://youtu.be/4aRcEikuztM?si=2GlVscOPLa8bBmWW

There are two performances on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlIEWitmlQg   and

https://youtu.be/sIAxOz9qISI?si=RalhDkN2rLkDq-LF - 1. Moderato assai
https://youtu.be/Hqi47YDwgyo?si=l10Vimj65KXk7nOs - 2. Andante
https://youtu.be/NM8vjg_AV9U?si=KhpUB1g6EsSkP9Hc - 3. Allegro non troppo

Information on this obscure composer seems only to be in Russian, so you will need google translate.  Here are some links with information on his tragically short life, cut short by an NKVD firing squad in 1938. See also the first youtube link above which has a long description of the piece.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Парфёнов,_Николай_Гаврилович

https://muzobozrenie.ru/poslednij-adres-nikolaj-parfenov/

https://www.mosconsv.ru/ru/person/9101

https://mus.academy/articles/1938-god-v-sudbakh-arfistov-bolshogo-teatra

https://prabook.com/web/nikolai.parfenov/1034392

As for the Harp Concerto, a hidden 2024 commercial release exists. It is the first three tracks of this album:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n2615y-UDlzG34Kext9TeGUCx4ObFPci4&si=nS0hRR8--faUBop_

Nice find Robert!

It's so frustrating when youtube has listings like this but doesn't name the composer!  Full details, with composer names (!) can be found on https://www.discogs.com/release/32440845-Various-150-Anniversary-The-Harp-Class-Of-The-Moscow-Conservatory

There's another harp concerto by a composer I haven't encountered before from "our" era - Nikolai Parfyonov (1893-1938) - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Парфёнов,_Николай_Гаврилович (there's no English page so you'll need google translate). ALso a brief entry on discogs, what a sad brief life: "Nikolai Parfenov is a Russian harpist and composer.
He was born on October 10 (October 22, new style) 1893 in the city of Kursk in the family of the singer and teacher G. V. Parfenov. He began to study the harp (under Ф.Ф. Шоллар) and singing at the Court Singing Chapel in St. Petersburg. In 1917 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (class of A. I. Slepushkin) with a large silver medal. On June 20, 1938 he was arrested on charges of counterrevolutionary activity, sentenced to death by firing squad by the collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on October 3, 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in March 1957. He died in 1938 in the city of Moscow (according to other sources - in 1942 in Novosibirsk or Kursk)."