Draeseke Violin Concerto: coupling suggestions, please!

[Alan Howe]

Friends! If a recording were to be made of the newly-orchestrated version of Draeseke's Violin Concerto, what would be an appropriate coupling - say, for an entry in Hyperion's RVC series?

Suggestions, plus reason(s), please!

[eschiss1]

Does it have to be orchestral? (Some of Hyperion's concerto discs have had piano-accompanied works, as I recall. And a new recording of Draeseke's (later) scene for violin and piano would make for a very interesting coupling to the violin concerto, since the first movement of the concerto shares so much material with the Scene, iirc...)

[Alan Howe]

All suggestions are very welcome, Eric. Thanks for yours.

[mikehopf]

It would probably make sense to go for a violin concerto by another Wagner/Liszt inspired composer, say Siegfried Wagner or the ubiquitous Raff. Personally, I'd go for the Litolff Violin Concerto... no obvious connection to Draeseke that I know of, but how many of Hyperion's couplings do make sense?

[Martin Eastick]

If we are not constricted by works that may be relevant to Draeseke, but perhaps (almost) contemporary, I would again suggest the Philipp Scharwenka concerto, which seems to keep getting mentioned, but we are still waiting!.........

[eschiss1]

another thought: Draeseke's pupil Percy Sherwood's concerto.

IMSLP has the score of another Draeseke pupil, Kurt Striegler's Violin Concerto in D minor Op.15 (published in 1913 by Junne.)

[Alan Howe]

Thank you very much indeed for those proposals. Sherwood's VC in F (1902) would be a good choice, but the score in the Bodleian is only a reduction...

[eschiss1]

Hrm. Jürgen Schaarwächter's new book - Two Centuries of British Symphonism - mentions them too but he doesn't mention if he's seen the concertos. (I've heard of Schaarwächter in another connection. From the look of his book, might be worth a thread in itself.)

[MartinH]

Why not another reading of the Draeseke in the piano/violin reduction? Since the orchestration is speculative at best, it might be enlightening to hear it plain.

[Alan Howe]

I suppose that the answer to that is that the reduction is just that - a reduction, not a version actually intended for performance. In any case, the orchestration has been done by an acknowledged and experienced Draeseke expert. 

[eschiss1]

I believe one can (or could?) hear one performance of it plain all the way through on YouTube and/or download that performance from draeseke.org? (Never having seen the reduction in score/part that performance is the basis on which I make my (obvious) comments about the similarity between one recurring themelet in its first movement and &c &c ...)

[Alan Howe]

It (i.e. the reduction) can indeed still be heard at Draeseke.org:
http://www.draeseke.org/news/IDG2009VC/A-08_IDG_Meiningen2009.mp3
http://www.draeseke.org/news/IDG2009VC/A-09_IDG_Meiningen2009.mp3
http://www.draeseke.org/news/IDG2009VC/A-10_IDG_Meiningen2009.mp3

The score can be found here:
http://www.draeseke.org/essays/violinconcerto_ms.htm#m2

[eschiss1]

Oh- checking IMSLP (which also has the reduction in ms) again the (or another) source of the score is Saxon State and University (Digital) Library Dresden. Thanks!

[Alan Howe]

Yes, quite right. Having been directed to it there some years ago by the late Dr Alan Krueck, I managed to get SLUB's permission for the reduction to be copied.

[Alan Howe]

I think an appropriate coupling would be Reinhold Becker's VC1. See this thread:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,3817.0.html