2025 Unsung Concerts

[Rainolf]

Felix Draeseke song concerts
Following the presentation of the new 3-volume edition of Felix Draeseke's songs during the annual conference of the International Draeseke Society in Coburg, two concerts will take place in Bad Rodach and Leipzig where a selection of the songs can be heard. They will be sung by Julia Oesch, mezzo-soprano, and Gotthold Schwarz, bass (the former Thomaskantor of Leipzig). The pianist is Wolfgang Müller-Steinbach, editor of two volumes of the edition.

Saturday, 21 June 2025, 17:00, Coburg, Gymnasium Casimirianum: Presentation of the edition.

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 11:00, Bad Rodach, Jagdschloss: Concert, date 1.

Sunday, 29 June 2025, 14:00, Leipzig, Grieg-Begegnungsstätte: Concert, date 2.


http://www.the-new-listener.de/index.php/2025/06/11/die-gesamtausgabe-der-lieder-felix-draesekes-praesentation-und-konzerttermine/

[Alan Howe]

Thanks very much indeed for this notification.

[eschiss1]

String Quartets by Arnold Bax (no.1 in G), Sir James MacMillan and the piano quintet of Johannes Brahms played by the Collenbusch Quartet in Dresden, Germany, on 23 November.

[tuatara442442]

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

This as the second installment of the violinist's album Unrecorded. on Alba label

[eschiss1]

Two Mayer performances, her overture no.3 on June 29 at 6:30 pm in London, her symphony no.2 in E minor in Heilbronn at 7 pm on July 13.
(This from the Ries & Erler website. Which mentions that a Spohr symphony 2 performance took place on June 8th in Braunschweig...)

Hopefully of interest: the site also mentions FE Fesca's symphony no.3 in D, to be performed 4 pm November 8 in Bayreuth, and 5 pm in Rosenheim November 9. In Basel, Kalliwoda's overture no.2 op.44 will be performed in Basel at 5 pm also on November 9. (Haven't checked -where- in those cities, yet.)

Dec.7: some Rott lieder somewhere in NY (city, I assume), at 3 pm; will try to fill in details... (several performances of his symphony will be taking place during the 2025-6 season.)

Did anyone mention that there's a program with Weingartner's symphony no.2 today (Yangju City Symphony Orchestra, cond. Seung You Park - might be some people on this site who live in South Korea or near enough by)... and also according to Breitkopf's website, Klengel's E minor cello concerto is being performed on the 29th in Macao (Symphony Orchestra of Sacred Heart Canossian College, cond. Jimson Hoi
Macao, Macao Cultural Centre).

Universal Edition:
Zemlinsky's 1897 Symphony in B-flat is getting an outing in Switzerland, reformierte Kirche, Horgen, Jascha von der Goltz conducting the Sinfonia Nota Bene, on the 27th and again in the same place on the 29th.
Braunfels: Vorspiel und Prolog der Nachtigall | 1913 (from the opera) will be performed on Saturday 28th, Theater am Domhof, Osnabrück Germany, Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester conducted by Daniel Inbal (with unspecified? soprano.)
Smyth's concerto for violin and horn will be performed on 5 July conducted by Mark Heron (Southwell Minster, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Nottingham) (according to Wise Music Classical).
Sorry if any information here is duplicated stuff, will try to go over and remove from this post any that is...

[eschiss1]

btw: concert of Lili Boulanger and Zemlinsky on October 11 at the Vienna Musikverein:

"Lili Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique (1914-1917)
für Tenor, Chor und Orchester
Lili Boulanger: Psaume 130 ,,Du fond de l'abîme" (1914-1917)
für Altsolo, Chor, Orgel und Orchester
Alexander Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Symphonische Dichtung (1902-1903)
nach einem Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen".

Markus Poschner, Vienna Singverein, ORF Austria orchestra with Claudia Mahnke and Paul Schweinester vocal soloists and Robert Kovacs, organ. Source.

[eschiss1]

Hrm. Fauré's Pénélope may or may not be considered too sung. Anyhow, that's being performed several times in Munich this season, starting this Sunday 13 July at the Bavarian State Opera.

[Alan Howe]

Fauré's Pénélope may or may not be considered too sung

It's unsung - no question. Thanks!

[eschiss1]

Speaking of Taneyev, only a few concerts with his music are mentioned by BachTrack - one has his prelude and fugue for piano, plus sonatas by Myaskovsky and Schumann, and Prokofiev's Visions fugitives, at Carnegie Hall played by Daniil Trifonov on December 13th. (The other two are both in 2026.)

The George Enescu International Festival takes place late next month in Bucharest. His octet will be performed  on the 27th, I see, and his early 1st cello sonata on the 31st. Bentoiu's completion of his 4th symphony is scheduled for September 4th, and the cello Symphonie concertante for September 7th.

[eschiss1]

Couple of other things
Bruch's octet (and Mendelssohn's) will be performed 7 October at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
Juon's Kammersinfonie in B-flat (and Glinka's Trio pathétique) will feature in a 31 October concert at Theatre Winterthur.
Enescu's octet will also be played @ Wigmore Hall 17 December with works by Dvorak & César Franck.

[eschiss1]

Here's an interesting concert scheduled for 7 December, Zankel Hall, New York City NY - songs by Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, Hugo Wolf and Hans Rott. (Günther Groissböck, bass, Julius Drake, piano.)

[Wheesht]

On 23 September the Swiss Orchestra conducted by Lena-Lisa Wüstendorfer, with Alexander Boldachev, harp, is playing a concert, 'Swiss Summer Nights', in Olten:
Paul Juon (1872 - 1940) Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester, Op. 16
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) Violin concerto no. 2 'L'esstate', Op. 8 / RV 315
Paul Juon Berceuse (version for strings), Op. 28 Nr. 3
***
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Eine kleine Nachtmusik, KV 525
Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912) Méditation aus «Thaïs» (Arr. for violin and harp)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) Danse macabre (Arr. for strings and harp)
George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948) Chorale on a Theme of Leo Hassler

[Simon]

The Gesellschafthauss Magdeburg is including in its 2025-2026 season a concert featuring two piano trios (Op. 9 and Op. 20) by Fritz Kauffmann (1855-1934).

https://www.gesellschaftshaus-magdeburg.de/files/cms/Saison%202025_2026/Saisonprogramm%202025-26.pdf

[eschiss1]

btw juon.org keeps good track of concerts of Paul Juon's music, past and future. His first string quartet is being performed by the Loewe Quartet both next year and also in a few days from now (12 August 2025, Evangelische Kirche Bergün, Abendmusik Bergün) ; the 2nd piano quartet op.50, by the Alas (Aias?) Quartet on 26 October 2025 @ Fischingen, Bibliothek Kloster Fischingen, Kultur Kloster Fischingen; the trio-miniatures on 8 November 2025 @ Ollon, Temple d'Ollon, Autumne Musical d'Ollon by the Zeitgeist Trio. (The wind quintet Op.84 of 1930 is listed in there, performed in Zermatt, Switzerland in September, but, y'know.)

[Ilja]

The Swiss Orchestra and Lena-Lisa Wüstendorfer are to perform Hans Huber's First Symphony in D, "Wilhelm Tell" (1882) on 30 November in Andermatt. The concert also features performances of Rossini's Guglielmo Tell overture and Tchaikovsky's B flat major piano concerto, the latter performed with Olga Scheps as the soloist. More information and tickets here.