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And the Saint-Etienne Opéra has announced Auguste Mermet's Roland à Roncevaux, as part of its 2026-27 season.  Most probably a CD recording for the French Opera series to follow.

We are also waiting for the publication of Delibes' Jean de Nivelle (which was recorded in Budapest some months ago).

Bru Zane have just issued their promised recording of Charles Silver's opera La Belle Au Bois Dormant (details and audio extracts here). Silver was a pupil of Massenet, and the audio extracts sound very promising. Has anyone yet had the chance to listen to the whole work?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_liDGxzxkoL9FKpXtAmSLvMFbW2izAq3is

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k_KpG-ecBQzHrENuahnZ8E7pJAUY5qrrs

"Worth tracking down" but unfindable.
The only excerpt from that CD I was able to find  on YT is the Korngold aria (Ich ging zu ihn).
Very frustrating indeed not to be able to hear the remaining tracks...

Hi All,
I've just noticed that the ARS produktion label has produced a CD of early piano works by Rheinberger, played by the Jürg Hanselmann who recorded the 10CD boxed set of the Complete Piano Music (now on the Carus label).

I'm not able to find anything out about the music at all so I guess I will have to buy the CD!

Best regards
Jonathan

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPIdqN_7VXxEu8PWt0uY-jyZOnr12IcUQ

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ldvpNecqkn6NrbUM1keUYk4l3usxpOA8M

The album can be heard on YT :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lhwzlLekX6_WzrTDdLGnyouvAcpkQAw48

(like ALL other new albums).

It's the ballet Callirhoé and the 1st Orchestral Suite, which MAY one day be recorded... But it all seems very uncertain at this point.  No definite plans.

Yes, another forgotten yet prolific female composer. I can't find mention online of any performance or recording of any of her music. 

There was to be a concert of her Cello Concertstück, by Xavier Phillips and the Rouen Opera Orchestra, on Dec 5 and 6th, but the cellist announced his withdrawal for health reasons.  The piece will be replaced by a Prokofiev 3rd, but I overheard that the Folville piece has been or will be recorded and issued in 2027.

It is Hahn's Mignouminek, composed in 1943. Mignouminek was the name of Hahn's dog.
This work was recently recorded by Nathanaël Gouin. I did not know that it has been already recorded by Doyen. 

I guess no one knew ! But the false title of "3rd Etude" on Doyen's album raised my curiosity....
Thanks so much for solutionning this mystery !
(By the way, Nathanael Gouin presents his recording as a "world premiere" of the work.  Not sure he was himself aware of Doyen's recording.)

Hello curious ones !
I ran into this little mystery while comparing sources.
In this album recorded ages ago by Jean Doyen, it lists one track as being a 3rd Hahn Etude, when Hahn's catalogue only knows 2.  The third piece certainly sounds like an étude, but assuredly not by Hahn.
Any piano specialist could have a clue ?
Thanks for your help !
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfVI6dJ_wsY&list=OLAK5uy_n8x-ebbpPLJc6u4-aYK__3hV74xEX3Jlk&index=12

https://www.discogs.com/fr/master/1801042-Jean-Doyen-De-Vincent-dIndy-%C3%80-Reynaldo-Hahn

The first in the new Grand Piano series covering all seven of Raff's piano suites should be released this October. It features the Suites Nos.1, 3 and 5, played with verve and sensitivity by Korean pianist Hyelim Kim. Some friends may have Alexander Zolotarev's recordings issued in 2004 by the now long-defunct AK Coburg label but, on the evidence of her performance of the Suite No.3 available on YouTube, Kim's performances will totally eclipse them. Speed is by no means everything, but Raff's music is generally on the sprightly side and in each of these works Kim shaves a significant amount off Zolotarev's rather "safe" timings:

Piano Suite No.1: 12:31 > 11:06
Piano Suite No.3: 16:31 > 15:19
Piano Suite No.5: 36:57 > 31:10

The second CD in the series will be recorded in November, so we can expect volume two to be released about a year after this one reaches the shelves.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nXRz31uawyRQTmyKAAUqd2LANQK_g67pg

I only knew Huré's chamber music (his Cello Sonata in F), and it's very worthwhile.  Will lend an interested ear to that piano and orchestra piece !!!

Erlanger Leretour has offered, on his YT channel, a few Muse Sound orchestrations of totally forgotten pieces, which are really worth discovering :
https://www.youtube.com/@erlangerleretour3964
The main bulk of them concern several scenes of this magnificent opera, praised by Dukas following its 1932 creation at the Paris Opera, Un Jardin sur l'Oronte.  But some other realizations are really worth exploring to.

The Ascanio Association, which initiated the resurrection of 2 previously unknown operas (Ascanio by Saint-Saëns, and La Sorcière by Camille Erlanger) under the baton of Guillaume Tourniaire, has announced 2 major projects for the coming years : Bachelet's Un Jardin sur l'Oronte (title still undisclosed, but we know from other sources) and Pierné's Vendée.

And the complete album here on Youtube :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzsJzjYydiua4JwwJaopU2HVaQ2-yBfn0

The Barenboim  CD can still be ordered on amazon.de and the download is still on sale at Presto.

and for free here :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-Dq7CQE-0Kqs2xx0Sq0jy0EE_64hVj7g