2026 Unsung Concerts

[FBerwald]

Marc-André Hamelin is set to perform Marx's Romantic Piano Concerto with Tonkünstler Orchestra at Musikverein Vienna on 5th June, 2026. The program also includes Brahms Symphony No. 4 (details)

[eschiss1]

Hamelin's performing schedule this year is very interesting but (aside from the Marx, regarding which yay!!) often no longer in ways that are within this forum's orbit, or I would mention them, since they include works _I_ am very interested in and am glad to see more performances of (hint: Mieczyslaw Weinberg.)

[Rainolf]

During the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen some more seldom heard pieces will be performed:

6.6.2026:
Hermann Goetz: Piano Quintet
Nymphenburger Streichersolisten
Julian Riem

https://www.richard-strauss-tage.de/event/kammerkonzert-i-3/

12.6.2026:
Richard Strauss: Canons and Fugues, Improvisations and Fugue on an Original Theme
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Piano Quintet
Ensemble SineQuaNon

https://www.richard-strauss-tage.de/event/kammerkonzert-iii-3/

[eschiss1]

I don't think I've seen this mentioned, but Thuille's sextet will be performed in Toronto, March 9, by Angela Hewitt with members of the Toronto Symphony. (From her Facebook page and also Hughsroomlive.com.)

[Wheesht]

On 8 March, the Worthing Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Gibbons with soloist Arta Arnicane, will perform a concert, 'Women of Note', with works by Doreen Carwithen, Lucija Garuta, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Madeleine Dring and Ruth Gipps.

[semloh]

Wheesht - That's a creative and perhaps brave programme. I hope it's a great success. Were I in Worthing, I would go

[eschiss1]

Lalo's Le roi d'Ys is presently in the middle of a performance season (21 January-29 March) in Strasbourg and Mulhouse (see Opera national du Rhin's Page for the remaining performances and information.) This is not the same ensemble etc. as performed and released it on Palazzetto Bru Zane last September... but on the other hand, a new recording and a new production independently? within months of each other is not bad.

On March 13th in the Staatstheater Nürnberg Martin Sturfält, piano, Tobias Ringborg, conductor, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Stenhammar's 2nd piano concerto and Sibelius 2nd symphony. (Like the Lalo opera, the Stenhammar's not as unknown as some works, but unlike the Sibelius, I've never heard it live before. On the other hand, there's almost no chance I'd be in Nürnberg then, either...)

[eschiss1]

Next week the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players have a concert of Cherubini (string quartet no.2, also known as his symphony but with a new slow movement and reduced/reworked for quartet), Büsser (Appassionato for viola and piano), Demersseman (concert piece for clarinet and piano) and Chausson (piano quartet).

CMS Lincoln Center's next program, March 19, is Družecký G minor oboe quartet, Loeffler Cornemuse, & Widor piano quintet no.1 in D minor. Someone's probably mentioned that. I see a notice somewhere that on April 26 they have some Raff planned, but I can't find this confirmed.

If you live near Haverford College in Pennsylvania (I think I applied there early action and was turned down- that or Swarthmore. No, I think it was Haverford. I and a recent former President of the US were both rejected by Haverford * ) they have a concert on March 24 which is a bit of a miscellany but looks to be an interesting one, with preludes by Catoire and quite a few piano works by mostly underknown composers. (I think me I shall follow the pianist, Matthew Bengtson - a Associate Professor of Piano Literature at U Michigan School of Music, who has what looks like an interesting series on Exploring Repertoire online, btw - on Facebook...)

*I did not, however, go on to become President of Harvard Law Review... or anything to do with Harvard beyond visiting their terrific co-op a few times where, if I recall- it might have been the MIT one nearby?- I bought my copy of the Chandos CD of Bax's piano quintet and 2nd string quartet, back then...

[Jonathan]

Farrenc's Overture no.1 gets an airing in Harrogate on the 5th July at 3pm.  Other works are Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Brahms first symphony.

[Wheesht]

Vienna, Konzerthaus, tonight, Friday: Baritone Konstantin Krimmel and piano accompanist Ammiel Bushakevitz

present an evening of well-known romantic songs as well as rarities: In the first half of the programme, the »Songs of Travel« by Ralph Vaughan Williams on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson from 1904, known as the »British Winter Journey«, will be heard alongside Robert Schumann's Five Songs op. 40 on poems by Adalbert Chamisso. Before songs such as »Feldeinsamkeit« and »Die Mainacht« by Johannes Brahms, Krimmel has included Romanian songs by Eusebius Mandyczewski from 1885 in the programme. Mandyczewski, born in Czernowitz in Bukovina in 1857, studied musicology with Eduard Hanslick in Vienna, where he became friends with Johannes Brahms and was archivist and head of the collections of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde from 1887 to 1929. His songs are orientated towards the song tradition à la Schubert and Brahms.

Programme
Robert Schumann
Fünf Lieder op. 40 (1840)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel (1904)
Intermission
Eusebius Mandyczewski
Lăcrimioare »Maienglöckchen« op. 7/3 (Rumänische Lieder)
Măndrulita »Holdes Mädchen« op 7/7 (Rumänische Lieder)
Cinel-Cinel »Rätsel« op. 7/14 (Rumänische Lieder)
Mormentul »Das Grab« op. 7/16 (Rumänische Lieder)
Omul singuratic »Der Einsame« op. 7/18
Johannes Brahms
Auf dem Kirchhofe op. 105/4 (1886)
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht op. 96/1 (1884)
Feldeinsamkeit op. 86/2 (1877–1879 ?)
Wie bist du, meine Königin op. 32/9 (1864)
Die Mainacht op. 43/2 (1864)

[Wheesht]

Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène for orchestra, mezzo soprano, tenor and baritone, for which she won the Prix de Rome, will be performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, in an orchestra concerto as part of the Bregenz Festival on 27 July.

[Ilja]

On 5 July, Max Bruch's oratorio Odysseus will be played at the Kölner Philharmonie. Almost sold out, by the looks of it, but we're going! Performers are the Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein, KonzertChor Stuttgart, Stuttgart Vokal-ensemble, Frauenchor BonnSonata, Mädchen- und Frauenchor der Schola Cantorum Leipzig and the Philharmonie Südwestfalen led by conductor Bernhard Steiner.

[Wheesht]

On 11 October, Richard Flury's Piano Quintet will be played by
Timon Altwegg, piano, Georg Jacobi, violin, Sergey Chesnokov, violin, Ulrike Lachner, viola, Eva Simmen, violoncello
in a commemorative concert to mark the 130th anniversary of the composer's birth at the Museum Blumenstein, Solothurn, Switzerland.

[tuatara442442]

Just spotted a performance of Eugenio Visnoviz's Violin Sonata in the immediate past, alongside works by Dvorak and Smetana, with Valentina Danelon playing the violin and Cristina Santin on piano. It was held on Mar. 26th in Gallarate, Italy at their Teatro del Popolo.
Apparently, the duo was reprising what they have performed in the past years. They took the Visnoviz sonata into their repertoire.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hozyeqdts/?mibextid=WC7FNe

[scarpia]

Yannick Nezet Seguin programmed a symphony by Rita Strohl a few weeks ago. It was the North American premier of Strohl's Symphony of the Forest. Tomottow Symphony New Hampshire is doing something even more obscure - Mabel Daniel's work "Deep Forest". Looks like this is no American premiere - I see a youtube vid of the piece by the Concordia Chamber Orchestra in Rochester.