2022 Unsung Concerts

[eschiss1]

Belatedly?
Let's see...
Florence Price's piano concerto at Atlanta Symphony Hall, March 3 & 5 2022 (the soloist Michelle Cann making her local debut.)

Medtner: piano quintet, June 21 @ Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal, Berlin ; violin sonata no.3, May 1 @ Conway Hall, London.

Stanford: clarinet sonata (probably?), June 30, St Nicholas Church, High Bradfield, Sheffield; Requiem, July 2, Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Augusta Holmès: La nuit et l'amour, March 25-27, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, and also Mar. 25 @ Ulster Hall, Belfast and May 27-8 @ Usher Hall @ Edinburgh (different performers entirely and different rest of the 3 programs).

Apr.2, Halle aux Grains, Toulouse:
Holmès, Augusta (1847-1903)   Andromède, symphonic poem   
Jaëll, Marie (1846-1925)   Ossiane   
Bonis, Mélanie (1858-1937)   Femmes de Légende   
Boulanger, Nadia (1887-1979)   La sirène

June 9 @ Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao: Holmès Andromède.

Edit:
also, April 3 - Vorisek symphony in D, Philharmonia Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša conducting, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. (With Beethoven 9 as the other work on the program.)
April 24 - Enescu and Mendelssohn string octets @ Palais Montcalm: Salle Raoul-Jobin, place d'Youville, Quebec, Canada. (Same program, different performers May 6/7 @ Mozart-Saal in Vienna.)
April 29 - Enescu pastorale-fantaisie, Ries piano concerto no.5 in D, Beethoven sym. 6 @ Festsaal, Baden bei Wien; same program and performers on May 1st in the Musikverein in Vienna.)

This Monday (Feb.21) in New York City at the Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, another concert from the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, including Hummel's quintet and Bruch's octet. Their March 7 concert will feature Nepomuceno's 3rd string quartet and Oswald's piano quintet, both of which have been mentioned in this forum.  (Even better on Mar. 21, with works by Kahn, Thieriot, Kummer and Volkmann.)
If you're nearer Prague instead, a March 12 concert (Prague Academy of Music) contains Smetana's D minor quartet and Novák's piano quintet played by the Zemlinsky Quartet (and Marek Kozák, piano).
Mar. 18: Coleridge-Taylor's opus 1 piano quintet heads up a concert at Wigmore Hall which Elgar's piano quintet concludes. (2 songs by Amy Beach inbetween.)
Mar. 20: Amanda Maier-Röntgen's piano quartet and Fibich's quintet at Konserthuset Stockholm.

[Rainolf]

The International Brucknerfest Linz will present a great deal of unsung masterpieces in September and October. There is a focus on Franz Schmidt, Richard Wetz and Heinrich Kaminski:

https://www.brucknerhaus.at/programm/internationales-brucknerfest-linz-2022

4 September, Ansfelden Parish Church:
Heinrich Kaminski String Quintet in F sharp minor (casalQuartett with Niels Mönkemeyer, viola)

20 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Songs by Zemlinsky, Weigl, Wetz, Marx and Wellesz (Ludwig Mittelhammer, bariton, and Helmut Deutsch, piano)

23 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
George Enescu Piano Quartet No. 1, Franz Schmidt Piano-Clarinet Quintet No. 2 (Fauré Quartett and Matthias Schorn, clarinet)

25 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Baby-Serenade, Viktor Ullmann Piano Concerto, Karl Weigl Old Vienna, Egon Wellesz Symphony No. 4 (Dmitry Shishkin, piano, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Constantin Trinks, conductor)

27 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Fritz Kreisler Sting Quartet in A minor (Minetti Quartett)

30 September, Mariendom Linz:
Richard Wetz Requiem (Mária Celeng, soprano, Nikolay Borchev, bariton, Prager Philharmonischer Chor, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Eugene Tzigane, conductor)

1 October, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Gottfried von Einem Bruckner-Dialog, Richard Wetz Violin Concerto (Chouchane Siranossian, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Eugene Tzigane, conductor)

6 October, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Heinrich Kaminski Dorische Musik, Arnold Schönberg Cello Concerto after Monn, Franz Schmidt Symphony No. 2 (Christoph Heesch, violoncello, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner, conductor)

9 October, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Franz Schmidt Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme from Fredegundis (Hansjörg Albrecht, organ)

[eschiss1]

... I hope this is one of those festivals that gets recorded. Most of those works have been recorded, but quite a few (Wetz's Requiem, Wellesz's G minor Austrian symphony no.4...) once only commercially and not much more often in broadcast, such a thing would be a welcome one.

[ewk]

I just stumbled over the last concert of Julia Fischer's residency with the LPO:
https://tickets.lpo.org.uk/events/julia-fisher-plays-elgar (13 April Royal festival hall)

It features Elgar's violin concerto (well not exactly unsung, surely much more in the repertoire in the UK than here in Germany where it is a relatively rare feat, although there are performances here and there also by top soloists)

but then, in the second half:
Enescu Symphony 2

I hope this gets a recording, as the Mozart concertos of Fischer's residency were video streamed live...

Is anyone going to attend the concert?

Best wishes! ewk

[eschiss1]

Hope so, it sounds like a good concert.
Late in April in Liverpool (April 25) there will be a live performance of Max Bruch's string quintet in E-flat, along with works by Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht op.4) and Ian Stephens.
Later this month (Mar. 27/Apr.1) at Volksoper Vienna will be Zemlinsky's Kleider machen Leute (not sure if that's been mentioned.) The same composer's first quartet (A major) will be performed by the Symphony4Vienna quartet on March 31 at the Bassano-Saal (Vienna, again.)
Late May (through June 2) the same ensemble (Christian Thielemann/Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Julia Kleiter and Christian Gerhaher) are performing Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony in Zürich, Dresden, Budapest, Graz, Vienna, Paris (different programs.) (Gerhaher will join a different soprano, orchestra and conductor- Petrenko- in Berlin for the same work, plus works by Leone Sinigaglia and Ervin Schulhoff, June 9-11.)

[eschiss1]

Hrmm, here's another - a concert containing the first movement of Raff's 8th symphony, and Hans Huber's Summer Night, in the larger room of Vienna's Concertverein, played by the Collegium Musicum Basel on March 19 7:30 pm (local).

[Wheesht]

And here's another Swiss concert, by a very enterprising school that is well known in Bern for the high quality of its choral concerts, the "Gymnasium Neufeld".

[Gareth Vaughan]

How very nice to see that they are doing excerpts from Suter's "Le Laudi", which is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I know (IMHO). Altogether, a most attractive and enterprising programme.

[Wheesht]

I agree – and I intend to go to that concert.

[Jonathan]

I know Alkan is not particularly unsung but the young British pianist Mark Viner is playing his "Le Festin d'Esope" (Op.39 no.12) in a concert as part of the Wensleydale Concert Series on Saturday, 13th August 2022 at 19:30.  Details are available on the Wensleydale Concert Series website.  It's not far from Asygarth Falls for those who know Yorkshire!

As an aside, if you do go, I will see you there 

[Gareth Vaughan]

Alkan may no longer count as "unsung" but he still doesn't get heard very much in the concert hall, so congratulations to Mark Viner for programming that important work.

[Rainolf]

In Chemnitz, Saxonia, Germany, an interesting a cappella choir concert will take place soon:

1 July 2022, 19:30

Kreuzkirche Chemnitz

VDKC CHORFEST »SINGEN BAUT BRÜCKEN«

Großer Chor der Singakademie Dresden
Michael Käppler, conductor

Kammerchor Chemnitz
Wolfgang Richter, conductor

Max-Klinger-Chor Leipzig
Peter Kubisch, conductor

OTTO REINHOLD - Altdeutsche geistliche Gesänge
EDMUND KRETSCHMER - Jubilate Deo op. 35
EDMUND KRETSCHMER - Laudate Dominum op. 17
EDMUND KRETSCHMER - Oster-Motette
FELIX DRAESEKE - Beati quorum via op. 57/2
FELIX DRAESEKE - Psalm 93 op. 56

https://singakademie-dresden.de/konzerte-karten/01-07-2022-vdkc-chorfest.html

[Rainolf]

150 Years of Franz Liszt Hochschule Weimar, Jubilee Concert

18 June 2022, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, 19:30

Waldemar von Baußnern: Champagnerouvertüre für großes Orchester
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester fis-Moll op. 10
Karl Dietrich: Memorial für Streichorchester
Wolf Günther Leidel: »Der Flamme entgegen« (Uraufführung)
Franz Liszt: »Orpheus« Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 4

Anika Vavic, piano
Staatskapelle Weimar
Eugene Tzigane, conductor

https://www.nationaltheater-weimar.de/de/programm/stueck-detail.php?SID=2928

[eschiss1]

I forget if this has been mentioned anywhere? Dennis Russell Davies, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, December 12 2022, Raff symphony no.3.

[Alan Howe]

Raff 3 concert, mentioned by Eric (above):
https://oper-frankfurt.de/en/season-calendar/4-museumskonzert-2022/23/?id_datum=3109