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Funnily enough when I was looking at this after you first sent it me I thought there were footprints of Tchaikovsky? I didn't dare say it but I still think it after re-listening.

[Aus der Wanderzeit]

 Forot to say I'm also looking at the score of Aus der Wanderzeit op42 (1890) which looks interesting too.

Thank you Mark - I might well press on with this work - written in his early thirties I think (but I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm off the mark - I usually am)

I do find his music has moments where there is a real depth of feeling, often quite intense. On the other side of the coin there is much that is on the edge of being hundrum.  Maybe this is why his music has never been recorded? There again this judgement could be levelled at any composer to a degree.

Anyway let's see.

1. Symphony in B minor, WoO — 1866 ( a student work written when he was 17yrs - unpublished)

2. Symphony in C major, Op. 9 — 1876/77 (the Adagio is from this work)

Adagio (2nd mov) from Symphony No. 2 (1876)

LINK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JobunwFG9uE

[AUGUST 2026 UPDATEArthur Hervey (1855-1922)]

AUGUST 2026 UPDATE

Arthur Hervey (1855-1922)

On the Heights

William Henry Speer (1863-1937)

Rhapsody

Wilfred Worden (1915-1979)

The Lost Cantaref

LINK:  https://britishcomposers1850-1950.blogspot.com

[JULY 2026 UPDATE]

JULY 2026 UPDATE

1. Percy Pitt

Ballade for violin and orchestra

2. Howard Carr

Symphony No 1 - 1st movement

3. Arnold Foster

"Autumn Idyll" for strings

LINK:  https://britishcomposers1850-1950.blogspot.com

Anything to enrich recordings by Borowski is a thumbs up for me - and with John McLaughlin Williams conducting we're in safe hands.

Quite fond of a well-managed theme and variations myself,

As am I 

Aha!  I thought the Rudorff was  composed and first performed in 1879.......

I think it was completed in 1879 and first performed in 1881

[Arnold Krug's Symphony (1876)]

Thanks for the comments.

Yes Ilja, I think "testing the waters" is about spot on. The final movement, a theme and variations (never liked these in a symphony particularly with one or two obvious exceptions) is a bit of a let down to be honest. This symphony could possibly be called a student work - but maybe that's not fair for a man in his late thirties with a great deal of experience behind him.

Another interesting work from this time which I'm looking into is Arnold Krug's Symphony (1876) - there's some quite powerful stuff in there and it has a symphonic expansiveness which I didn't expect.

Sorry this has ended up in the wrong area ..... 

[I've moved Reverie's digital realisation of Rudorff's 1st Symphony to the Digital Realisations board here - Mark]

Well I hope it's been worth the wait -  here is my realisation:



RUDORFF -  1st SYMPHONY:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vLlNTPlTNo

Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century piano teaching. Glorified by some and villified by others, he left copious theoretical writings which today are little studied by serious pianists and teachers.

 
Most of his professional life was spent at the RAM. He served as a sub-professor there from 1876 to 1880, and became an assistant professor of pianoforte in 1880, before being promoted to professor in 1884.

His orchestral works were all written between the 1870s and 1890s before he focused instead on piano technique and teaching. They include two symphonies, some concert overtures and several piano concertante works. They were all forgotten for many years, resurfacing at a Sotheby's manuscript auction on 30 November 2006, won by the Royal Academy of Music.

"In May" dates from 1883 but it had to wait until 1902 for it's first performance by the  Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

There are no recordings of his orchestral music.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOcdViyXxMg

[LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS0p_7iJMs]

Strap yourself in - this is a fast ride ! (But with a passage of "calma amorosa" in the middle)

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS0p_7iJMs