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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

Laurence Equilbey conducted Emilie Mayer's piano concerto (soloist David Fray) coupled with Schubert's 9th last week. It will be broadcast May 5th by France Musique then available on replay.
A CD of EM's piano concerto and first symphony will be available in 2026 (Warner Classics-Erato).

Of course, if one was so minded you could use readily available free software to convert YouTube video into mp3 and download to your computer, allowing you to listen to the music without any ads. Or even burn to disc. I merely point out the technical possibility!

Lots of such free and legal software exist and are very easy to find! Of course you get 128k mp3 files, which is pretty low quality.
You can then decide whether you really want the work in higher quality.
But it's more or less what you get from a radio broadcast and it's good enough to listen in your car.

I assume the same as any streaming service. Every view is SOME manner of money, even if it's a small amount.

Same with spotify: either you accept commercial interruptions or you pay a subscription fee. In any case the agreement is between the streaming company and the publisher.

A performance ot Madetoja's "The Ostrobothnians" has been posted on arte.tv. It is from the National Opera of Finland under Kaapo Iljas (12 december 2024). It is watchable in France and in Germany, maybe elsewhere.
If anybody is interested, I can upload the video and the English subtitles (1.8 GBytes).

Howard Griffiths' vol.2 (cpo) contains Symphony No.8 in C minor (unnumbered by Potter), i.e. the later of the two in that key, and Symphony No.2 in B flat (also unnumbered by Potter).
Note: original post now corrected.

I just wanted to emphasize that the C minor symphony in this recording is the one from 1826, his No. 3 and not No. 8 from 1834 (according to the booklet).

[Moderator's note: please see the above post which explains about the numbering problem.]

Potter's symphonies numbering is a nightmare!
He wrote two symphonies in C minor.
From Griffiths's vol. 2 booklet:
First one in 1826 revised in 1847, which is his third symphony (also known as number 6)
Second one in 1834, his eighth (available on youtube)
The second volume of Griffiths's contains the first one.

Moderator's note: please see the above post which explains about the numbering problem.

Timing is consistent with recording by Quatuor Parisii for Bru Zane: 1st movement 7:20 without repeats. The exposition is 100 bars long and development + recap 130 bars (Plus or minus one...)

I'm not a musicologist, so the following reflections are based on my personal impressions as well as booklets included in various CD's.
Start with Saint-Saëns 3rd (1886). This well known work made a great impression on Widor, who warmly praised Saint-Saëns's talent as on orchestrator. Widor's answer was his own 3rd symphony Op. 69 (https://youtu.be/mjCWX1xRUZk?si=b9YQZDcEs7ItCwhq), with organ and in two distinct parts as Saint-Saëns (1893). Widor's was performed in Paris in 1895, with Vierne at the organ. I don't think that the structure of Vierne's symphony (four movements in two parts) and the closeness of the theme of the scherzo to that of Widor's 3rd scherzo are coincidental.
It can be added that Vierne's symphony is dedicated to Gabriel Fauré.
Still missing is a recording of his Ballade for violin and orchestra Op. 52.

... and Boëllmann and Vierne...

Just watched the youtube teaser. I'd listened to Chausson many times but I'd never realized that the call of the trombones at 1:55 then 2:06 (teaser timings) is identical to the theme of Dvorak's 9th finale. Is it a coincidence ? Chausson's is from 1890 and Dvorak's from 1893...

Robertson's version is definitely incomplete, missing nos 1, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 22 of the ballet. The order on the record is not the right order either...

May I suggest Georges Onslow's String Quintet No32 in D minor Op78. One of his last string quintets dating from the early 1850's, this surely has to be one of his finest works. One slight problem here though is that it is written for two violas which may be offputting to those considering the aspects of programming etc. Nevertheless this is a fine work which deserves to be better known and is representative of this composer at his very best - it certainly awakened in me an interest in string chamber music which had previously been dominated by piano-orientated repertoire. Apart from the unusual instrumentation, I'm afraid I cannot offer much with regards to difficulty etc., but the parts are readily available from IMSLP. Also, at present, there does not appear to be a modern recording - the only one dates from 1980's and was originally issued on LP. 

I've seen the CD (coupled with quartet Op.8 N°1) by Gérard Jarry et al. for sale on ebay. It's still dowloadable from various sites. It's available on youtube, for those interested.

Fortunately, in the recent years, all of Magnard's music has been recorded, except his operas Yolande (only the reduction for voices and piano has survived and, contrary to Guercoeur, Ropartz did not reorchester it) and Berenice (available as mp3 from a performance in Marseille in 2001).
To me, his masterpieces are his last two symphonies, the Chant funèbre, the violin sonata and the string quartet.

The "listen" button redirects you to the page of the concert. Then click on "MDR KULTUR Konzert" below the picture. The cello concerto starts at 5:05.