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There will be a performance of the Braunfels Te Deum in Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie on June 23th with well known soloists Camilla Nylund,Soprano and Klaus Florian Vogt,Tenor with the Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra and CPE.Bach.Chor.Hamburg under the direction of Hansjörg Albrecht.

For further information see: https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/cpebachchorhamburg-klaus-florian-vogt-camilla-nylund/27625

The "Legend of Tournemire" in Germany is going on. After "La Légende de Tristan", the theater of the city of Ulm staged the very last opera of Tournemire " Le petit pauvre d'Assise" as another world premiere. See here for further information: https://www.theater-ulm.de/spielplan/stuecke/le-petit-pauvre-d-assise-franziskus-aus-assisi

With sincere respect for the mostly critical or skeptical statements and judgments  of Tournemire' s  music in this thread, I  nevertheless would like to underline the fact, that there are on the other hand some real Tournemire enthusiasts out there like our dutch friend here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U2NKWPNL8A

It might be easy to find this kind of enthusiasm a little bit weird and funny. But for me personally I must admit  that my admiration of this composer and his music has grown over the years continuously.  His most significant music for organ seems to me widely acknowledged  and accepted -so there is no need of propagation here.

But  the 8 Symphonies seem  to me an unsung catalogue of works which is quite unique in French music ( and maybe in European music of that time).  What do we have here (in my ears)?

No 1-3: late romantic gems in the tradition of C. Franck;  colourfull, vigorous, enjoyable and full of tunes.
No 4 and 5:  on the way to a more abstract and modern view of nature and romanticism and to a personal style which is clearly distinctive at the first bars.
No 6-8:  for me masterpieces of modern religious music  - and in my opinion,  although not a religious person,  breathtaking and deeply touching. There is a  cantata dealing withe the horrors of war and the utopia of redemption (No 6),  the evolution of a (christian) civilization as a kind of ballet (No 7) and a profound, eloquent and  - optimistic -  requiem without words in a distinct modern musical language.

In my present state of musical understanding I would prefer any symphony by Tournemire to any symphony by Mahler or Shostakovich.


And:  ,,La Legende de Tristan" is in my ears stylistically very near to the symphony No 7. Inspired, gripping, dramatic -  and in the end visionary.   

There will be a (chamber) concert in the Elbphilharmonie (Recital Hall) on 9 October with a work of another unsung composer who is very much acclaimed in this forum: Ferdinand Thieriot. Soloists of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra play his wind quintet a-minor op. 80. The rest of the programm is also not standard repertoire (besides Beethoven...).
For further information: https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/philharmonic-chamber-music-recital/17945

Hallo from Hamburg to everyone in the Forum.

Just to prevent disappointments: the concert will not be held in the "Elbphilharmonie", but in Hamburg's former existing historic concert hall called "Laeiszhalle". If you go to the link in the post of Mark Thomas and scroll down, you will get an impression of it. It is a very charming venue with excellent acoustics and very suitable for romantic symphonic music.
Look also here: https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/laeiszhalle