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A work I'd love to see recorded is Saint-Saëns's complete incidental music of La Foi. Only the Trois tableaux symphoniques have been recorded. Judging by the quality of those extracts, I imagine that the whole work contains more great music.

The Symphony is almost like a concerto for cymbals and orchestra. The use of that percussion instrument in that piece is obnoxious big time, and it's a shame because the material of the symphony sounds interesting and well argued, but the excessive use of the cymbals ruined all the experience. The Poème nocturne managed to be more interesting, albeit it doesn't sound particularly "nocturne" to me.

I'm happy to disagree with everyone else about Koechlin's Symphony No. 1. A beautiful, pensive, eloquent, even thought-provoking (an epithet that often comes to mind whenever I hear something by this composer) piece. I don't mind if it doesn't follow a formal symphonic structure/development, that's his own taking on the form after all (in this case it's an orchestration, though). His ear for orchestration and ecstatic harmonic language is second to none. And truth be told, he's a much more interesting composer than many others who are mentioned on this forum (sorry, I couldn't help myself).

From Capriccio. Available from August 1st on:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9770770--zygmunt-noskowski-symphony-no-3

Not sure if these suggestions suit your tastes, but Manfred Honeck made a suite from Puccini's Turandot, whose performance was recently uploaded to YouTube:

He also made a suite from Janacek's Jenufa.

Rather a 'grim' wait for the release of this important work. Wonder how long it'll be before it comes out?

The delay is over. To be released on 24 April:



https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9767943--julius-otto-grimm-symphony-op-19-second-suite-in-canon-form-op-16

Another new release from CPO:

Piano Trio in C major, op. 81
Piano Trio in B-flat major, op. 89
Piano Trio in D major, op. 74

https://www.clicmusique.com/emanuel-moor-trios-pour-piano-storioni-trio-p-113567.html?osCsid=9tk8s617e4000i8u58q51t1rt5

A new recording from CPO:

Symphony in E minor, op. 67 'Es muss doch Frühling werden'
Symphony in F minor, HWV 2.4.4

https://www.clicmusique.com/ferdinand-hiller-symphonies-griffiths-p-113566.html?osCsid=9tk8s617e4000i8u58q51t1rt5

On May 2nd:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9764596--richard-flury-orchestral-music-vol-4

Content:

Symphony No. 2 'Ticino Symphony'
Poème Nocturne

On May 2nd:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9764581--formosa-quartet-plays-the-music-of-george-frederick-mckay

The first two quartets were written in the 1930s and the other two in the 1950s.

More info here.

It seems that it is a misleading title as the real op. 41 corresponds to 2 Lieder für vier Männerstimmen. It should be the op. 6, effectively the Piano Quartet in E-flat major.

The effort of some members to render music via specialized software is rather admirable, but I prefer to wait for proper recordings of the piece in question to appreciate the work in all its glory like in this case.

Another brand new release from CPO:

https://www.eclassical.com/labels/cpo/georg-schumann-ruth.html

I didn't know about the existence of this choral work. Looks quite enticing.

This is the kind of releases I expect: fresh and interesting music, not pieces that have been recorded already.

https://www.eclassical.com/labels/cpo/franz-lachner-symphony-no-4.html

As a filler, CPO included the Andante for brass instruments in A-flat major.

In addition, the webpage includes the booklet.

One of CPO's first releases of this year:

Since cpo now seem to be releasing details of new recordings on YouTube, is there any way of tracking them or are we relying on chance discoveries? Or are we benefitting from a certain amount of inside knowledge on the part of particular UC members?

The magic of using key words when searching for new releases, actually, since the CPO official webpage shows them late.