2024 Unsung Concerts

[Justin]

An exciting program coming up on 1–2 January & 29–30 June 2024 for the Swiss Orchestra.

Swiss Orchestra Tour #8

Paul Juon (1872–1940)
5 pieces for string orchestra op. 16

Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
Sonata in G minor «Teufelstrill» (arranged by Fritz Kreisler)

Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Prelude and Allegro Variations on a Theme by Corelli Liebesfreud Schön Rosmarin

Paul Juon (1872–1940)
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano (version for violin and orchestra) Op. 28 No. 3 Berceuse

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Holberg Suite op. 40

George Templeton Strong (1856–1948)
Chorale on Theme by Leo Hassler

I'm happy for the inclusion of an orchestral work by Templeton Strong, and my excitment was generated by Adriano's wonderful recording with Naxos.

January 1: Langenthal
January 2: Zurich
June 29: Andermatt
June 30: Davos

https://swissorchestra.ch/en/

[eschiss1]

Mayer's 7th symphony is in a program on April 30th and May 2 2024 @ Maison symphonique, Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare.

[alberto]

Torino, Teatro Regio Orchestra, 30 march 2024, Respighi Vetrate di Chiesa (cond. Diego  Ceretta)
Torino, Teatro Regio April 2024 seven performances of Puccini Le Villi (cond. Riccardo Frizza)
Apparently the only previous performances were in 1884.
Torino, 31 May and 1 June, Respighi Concerto Gregoriano (Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin, Daniel Harding, conductor, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI).

[eschiss1]

More Fuchs, e.g.: his clarinet quintet in Vienna on 21 March 2024 with works by Felix Mendelssohn (quartet no.1 in E-flat Op.12) and Mozart (Prussian string quartet no.22 in B-flat, K.589), with the Artis Quartet (whose recordings are very fine, I think...) see here...
the clarinet quintet again, on 26 May 2024 in Hamburg, with d'Indy's trio with clarinet op.29 and a divertimento by Ponchielli, performed by members of the Hamburg Symphony- see this link.
Reinecke choral works - Sommertagsbilder & Belsazar - are being performed in Leipzig by the Gewandhaus choir and camerata lipsiensis on 15 June- see description. One of 6 concerts between 9 March and 15 June 2024 in Leipzig listed by Bachtrack with works by Reinecke- some share a flutist (Katalin Stefula) but not sure how much otherwise they're a connected series so much maybe as a celebration of his 200th birthday?

[modthryth]

I've posted before, but if you are in America, I'm gradually putting together a map of concerts filterable by composer/piece. It currently covers 266 orchestras for the 23/24 concert season. Much lower hit rate for composers of interest to folks here than it would be if I covered Europe--but on the other hand, the small Longmont Symphony Orchestra in Colorado restored Reicha's G Major symphony for a performance last year, which for me at least is about as exciting as it gets, so it's still worthwhile to browse! Let me know if you find any particularly exciting concerts.

https://www.classicalconcertmap.com/

[eschiss1]

Just noticed that a work by Heinrich Molbe will feature in two concerts next February- his "Air arabe, Op.77" - to be played by the ASMF Chamber Ensemble with well-known soloists, first in Palm Beach, Florida, then in Asheville, North Carolina (USA, if there's any question). Poulenc's oboe/bassoon/piano trio is also in both concerts, while they differ in the presence of Glinka's Trio pathétique in one vs. Françaix's Divertimento and Mozart's piano and wind quintet in the other. See February 7 in Palm Beach, February 11 in Asheville.

[Rainolf]

Aris Alexander Blettenberg will play piano music by Felix Draeseke and August Bungert on 9 April 2024 in Munich:

https://events.in-muenchen.de/muenchen/aris-alexander-blettenberg-r2512191469.html

There is no information, yet, which works will be performed, but its possible that the pianist will play Draesekes Sonata op. 6, of which he is a champion for years. Bungert has composed only one major piano work, the Variations op. 13.

[Wheesht]

The New Year's Concert at the Meiningen Staatstheater, Germany, will include Stanford's second piano concerto with Finghin Collins (who made an excellent recording of it for Claves back in 2010) and the Staatskapelle Meiningen. The concert is to mark the centenary of Stanford's death and will be repeated on 7 January 2024. The full programme is as follows:

Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge
Charles Villiers Stanford: Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 in c-moll, op. 126
Walzer und Polkas der Strauss-Familie
Bill Whelan: Suite aus "Riverdance"

[scarpia]

Mayer's 7th symphony is in a program on April 30th and May 2 2024 @ Maison symphonique, Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare.

Before that the Metropolitan Orchestra under Yannick will be performing the Halvorsen violin concerto. This weekend!

The Conservatory Orchestra at Bard was supposed to be doing Ethel Smyth's Mass in D in December but it's not listed on the site anymore.

[eschiss1]

Could you consider duplicating the info about the this-weekend concert in the 2023 concerts thread? Thanks!

[ewk]

28 Jan 2024: The Münchner Rundfunkorchester (the second orchestra the Bavarian Radio has next to the better-known Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is going to play two early operas by Rachmaninoff – of course not completely unsung, but I think they can both be considered a rarity for a live performance:

Francesca da Rimini
Aleko

(7 pm, Prinzregententheater Munich)

[eschiss1]

Quartets by Amy Beach and Charles Tomlinson Griffes will feature in a concert in Binghamton, NY, USA February 11, 2024.

[Jonathan]

Hello All,
In January, the clarinettist Robert Plane and the pianist Tim Horton will be playing an eclectic programme (including some works well outside the forum remit) in The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Here's the programme:
Robert Plane | 11am, 28 January 2024

Witold Lutosławski - Dance Preludes
Pamela Harrison - Drifting Away for Clarinet and Piano
Brahms - Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1
Eleanor Alberga - Duo from Dancing with the Shadow
Josef Holbrooke - Eilean Shona, Op. 74
Josef Holbrooke - Selection from Mezo-Tints, Op. 55
Paquito D'Rivera - The Cape Cod Files

Hope this helps!
Best regards
Jonathan

[Jonathan]

And later in the same location, the pianist Clare Hammond is playing this very interesting programme:

Sunday 24 March at 11am, The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate

Hélène de Montgeroult - Etudes No. 62, 67, 104, 110, 111
Ravel - Miroirs
Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, Op. 21
Edmund Finnis - Youth
Coleridge-Taylor - 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 3 'Take Nabandji'
Coleridge-Taylor  - 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 8 'The Bamboula'
Coleridge-Taylor - 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 10 'Deep River'
Isaac Albéniz - Iberia Book 1, No. 1 'Evocación' and No. 2 'El Puerto'
Isaac Albéniz - IIberia Book 2, No. 3 'Triana'

Best regards,
Jonathan

[Ilja]

The Staatstheater Cottbus (southeast of Berlin) will see a concert by the Philharmonisches Orchester Cottbus and ancillary forces on June 21st and 23rd, which includes, amid a selection of  Stamitz and Bruckner works, the Festival Overture in G for orchestra, choir and organ by Mathilde Kralik von Meyerswalden. A work, by the way, that ends in what used to be the melody to the Austrian and is now the German anthem.

More information here, and a rather bad privately recorded video of the work here.