2026 Unsung Concerts

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The 1957 1-act opera "Jäiset liekit" (Les flammes gelées) by Armas Launis will be performed in Espoo, Finland, on 2 July 2026 (venue accessible via easy connections from the airport or central Helsinki). This will be its world premiere.

It was the last opera by Launis, intended for television, but never orchestrated. It tells a story of a slave longing for his northern homeland, set in time of Ancient Rome. Launis was inspired to compose the work after seeing the memorial stone of Septentrion in Antibes, near Nizza.

https://www.urkuyofestival.fi/konsertit/jaiset-liekit

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Nadia Boulanger's fantasy for piano and orchestra (1912) will be performed at the Proms in the afternoon on 5 August.

Glazunov's saxophone concerto  will be performed by the Augusta Symphony (Georgia, USA) on May 9th.

The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g.  May 7 one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.

[tpaloj]

The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g.  May 7 one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.

Thank you for the tip! Interesting, enterprising programming. It takes over 2 hours by train to get there from Helsinki, so it's not that convenient to reach.

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More interesting stuff from the schedule of the Hungarian National Philharmonic. On 30 May, several works including Dohnányi's Concertstück. On 26 November, A concert of Ries' 1st and Spohr's 3rd...

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Heilbronn, Germany, 9 June, 19.00 CET:

Chamber music concert:

JOACHIM RAFF
Klaviertrio G-Dur op. 112

BENJAMIN GODARD
6 Duettini op. 18

IWAN KNORR
Klavierquartett Es-Dur op. 3

Ingmar Lazar, piano
Zohar Lerner, violin
Götz Engelhardt, violine & viola
Adriana Schubert, cello

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Nadia Boulanger's fantasy for piano and orchestra (1912) will be performed at the Proms in the afternoon on 5 August.

Glazunov's saxophone concerto  will be performed by the Augusta Symphony (Georgia, USA) on May 9th.

The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g.  May 7 one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.

I just heard the Glazunov saxophone concerto in Brattleboro VT a few weeks ago. Coming up in Ottawa this weekend is Coleridge Taylor and Farrenc. I will have to pick one or the other. The Ottawa Chamber Orchestra is playing Farrenc's Symphony no. 3. At the same time a group called The Ewashko Singers is performing the Ottawa premiere of the Te Deum in F and Endymion's Dream  by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.