2025 Unsung Concerts

[Alan Howe]

Thanks for these notifications, Auberio, and welcome to Unsung Composers!

I'm sure that Mark Thomas will be interested to read of the upcoming performance of Raff's 11th Symphony, especially in view of the fact that Neeme Järvi has recorded two of the composer's symphonies for Chandos in the past. Details here:
https://erso.ee/en/concerts/neeme-jarvi-and-the-springtime-classics/

[scarpia]

Not many people showed up for Magnard's 3rd Symphony. Botstein thanked us for showing up - he said he didn't expect anyone to show up.

Tonight in Boston a rare performance of Sibelius' opera the Maiden in the Tower. They claim it's the American Premiere.

[Alan Howe]

Not many people showed up for Magnard's 3rd Symphony

Just shows how little people really know of the repertoire - and their unwillingness to try out something unfamiliar.

[Mark Thomas]

I'm sure that Mark Thomas will be interested to read of the upcoming performance of Raff's 11th Symphony, especially in view of the fact that Neeme Järvi has recorded two of the composer's symphonies for Chandos in the past.

It's very heartening that Järvi has continued his enthusiasm for Raff's symphonies, even one of the weaker ones, but I know of no plans for him to continue recording them, unfortunately. Still, it's a beguiling thought.

[semloh]

Plenty of performances of interest to UC at this year's English Music Festival, at Dorchester (Oxfordshire), including premieres. For full programmes, see:
https://englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2025-may-festival/programme.php

[tuatara442442]

When I was searching for Melartin's violin sonatas, I discovered this concert celebrating Erkki Melartin's 150th birth anniversary:
https://holvi.com/shop/KOKONAINEN/product/dd2a26ac570aedee4a1d76224e1efeb2/

May 14th at Hakasalmen huvila, Helsinki, the spotlight is Melartin's First Violin Sonata, Op. 10 from 1899, described as a 40-minute long big work.

This work may quite well be unrecorded. And I found Melartin's piano chamber music in general was little explored.

[tpaloj]

When I was searching for Melartin's violin sonatas, I discovered this concert celebrating Erkki Melartin's 150th birth anniversary:
https://holvi.com/shop/KOKONAINEN/product/dd2a26ac570aedee4a1d76224e1efeb2/

May 14th at Hakasalmen huvila, Helsinki, the spotlight is Melartin's First Violin Sonata, Op. 10 from 1899, described as a 40-minute long big work.

This work may quite well be unrecorded. And I found Melartin's piano chamber music in general was little explored.

The full program, all unsung pieces, is:

• Elisar Riddelin: Ihtiriekko ja Sielunlintu, for solo violin
• L. Onerva: Impromptu Keijujen karkelosta
• Kerttu Wanne: Volatiles
• Helvi Mäkinen: Kotkan ruusu
• Erkki Melartin: Cantilene Op. 44 No. 2
• Erkki Melartin: Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 10, E-dur

The concert overview mentions that all the pieces will be recorded on disc later.

[Alan Howe]

all the pieces will be recorded on disc later.

Marvellous!

[eschiss1]

Agreed. My experience with early Melartin is mixed (symphonies: good. Early string quartet that I heard at the sound branch of NYPL Research Library: not as good as the later string quartets or the symphonies, for example. Make no mistake, was still glad to have heard it even so, just not as good, I though.) -- I've been curious to hear this sonata and look forward to doing so. I think the score and part may be at IMSLP. Glad to hear it's 40 minutes, I like ambitious chamber music in general. (Like some of my recent interlibrary loans. )

(I still remember, from years ago, a phone conversation with a friend-from-internet where he convinced me that yes, I should indeed follow the advice of a Fanfare magazine reviewer and get that Ondine recording of symphonies 5 & 6. -- and yes, tempted to hear the cpo recordings of the better and uncut score editions. Anyhow, that was my introduction to his music, and I am glad of it )
Some of Melartin's piano music has been recorded commercially, and some of it's  been uploaded to IMSLP by Jean Dubé/janno (who was/is a member here, I think!) in performance as well, for which thanks.

Missed a good unsung concert here in Ithaca a few days ago, unfortunately. The one I'm going to tomorrow is of a well-known major octet that I think I've never heard live...

It may be time to create a 2026 page; I see a few (well, one that I notice, but only that one?...) unsung works in concert for 2026 are already being announced online (a Medtner piano sonata in Kansas City. Restraining myself from humming a song, here...)

[eschiss1]

Oct. 5 2025 in Berlin: Sibelius, Madetoia (2nd symphony) and Glière (violin concerto) (see https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/concert/calendar/56413/.)

[eschiss1]

Proms performances: Holmès' Andromède (August 28 2025); Thomas de Hartmann's violin concerto (1943) (August 22 2025). There's a number of works of interest to me I only may be able to hear (depending on whether I can stream them without signing in, etc.) but which aren't sufficiently unsung-and-within-our-remit-necessarily (and the de Hartmann is from 1943 but I recall our discussing it, so I'm just going to assume that one. There are a few others that maybe could have fit that too, like performances of Dukas' La péri, etc. but they might be too impressionistic for our remit.)

[Wheesht]

Marcel Tyberg's String Sextet in F minor will be given its first complete Viennese performance by students of the "mdw", the university of music and performing arts at the Ehrbar Saal on 18 December 2025.

[alberto]

Torino, 24/6/25
Respighi Belkis Queen of Sheba, suite (conduuctor Robert Trevino, OSN RAI).
Torino, 5/9/25 V. de Sabata Juventus , Symphonic poem (cond. Antonio Pappano, LSO)
Tokyo, 11/9/25  I.Pizzetti Concerto dell'Estate (cond.A.Battistoni, Tokyo Phil.)
Torino, 12/9/25 R.Langgaard "Rabbia" (string quartet n.3 orchestrated by T.Dausgaard), cond. T.Dausgaard, OSN RAI
Torino, 20/11/25 Alma Mahler Five orchestral lieder (orch. C. and D. Matthews), F.Barron mezzo, cond. E. Tjeknavorian, OSN RAI