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Unfortunately, the performance of the Gudrun Overture in Coburg on Draeseke's 190th birthday was canceled. Due to the death of an orchestra member, the program was changed and the deceased trombonist's favorite piece, approximately of the same length, was played instead.
Although the artistic directorate is just as familiar with Draeseke's published song collections as with the newly published orchestral works, there appears to be little ambition to perform his works, even in his hometown.
While the Draeseke Society is nominally based in Coburg, it has only a few members there, everyone an older person, so its lobby in the local music scene is apparently too small to exert sufficient influence.

One can only hope that the situation will improve at least by the 200th anniversary in 2035.

I would also like to thank you, Mark, for the benevolent mention of my work. I am particularly pleased when my efforts to achieve a certain basic interpretative quality are recognized - this takes more time than purely digitizing the score.
Of course, I can't compete with the professional level of Steffen Fahl.
With the publication of "Lake Thun", the score and part editions of Draeseke's purely orchestral works are now completed.

Indeed, 'episodes' is the better wording than 'movements'. In fact, the 'unsymphonic' form with its roots in the Lermontow poem (I likewise didn't know before) was one of the triggers to do this work.

Yes, undoubtedly a Draeseke, realisation is from the manuscript on IMSLP/ Saxonian State Library Dresden.
Draeseke was 26 y.o. at this time, and I presume, after he came in contact with the "Neudeutschen Schule" he wanted to be frantically novel.

The former channel "Lost and Sound" now is named "Ascended from Silence".

Hi Christopher, that was pure chance while nosing around in unknown orchestral music yet again. First time I read about the symphony in a user comment to Rudolf Karel's eponymous work. Then I checked Napravnik's IMSLP list and found the score. A few minutes on the piano let me go on.
Later I came across with the opera of Rubinstein and the stories of Lermontov and Vrubel.
I perceive the symphony as witty and like to hear it in total and with all the instruments at long last.
It would be interesting to compare it with the remaining three.

What do you think, should I add subtitles with lines from the basic Lermontov poem to the video?

I really would like to know if someone has access to a score of his other symphonies, regardlees of whether printed  sheets or a manuskript.

There are two pieces on my youtube channel:

Academic Festival Overture op. 63:  https://youtu.be/DH5fK4oJD_g

Feenzauber WoO 36:  https://youtu.be/YHhzguDYkS0
This is not the same post as by user 'tpaloj'. We had the same idea at almost the same time without knowing this from each other and he was faster, but my redition is a pretty bit faster.

Put this Symphony online today.

https://youtu.be/OhqYEAYp8Zo