2024 Unsung Concerts

[4candles]

Very pleased to say I will be attending a rare concert outing of Charles Stanford's Piano Concerto No.2 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Friday evening, given by the Ulster Orchestra and Irish pianist Finghin Collins. Also included in this concert - part of the BBC Radio 3 Summer Invitation series - is Chausson's symphonic poem Viviane, Op.5.

Other unsung works coming up in Belfast include Erich Korgold's Märchenbilder, Op.3 (August), Busoni's Concertino for Clarinet and Small Orchestra (November), Louise Farrenc's Overture No.2 (January 2025), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade (February '25), and Arensky's Variations on a Theme By Tchaikovsky (May '25).

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[eschiss1]

Jordi Savall & Le concert des Nations (hopefully not at 18th-century appropriate pitch...!) are performing symphonies by Schubert, Schumann and Bruckner (no.8, G minor, and "Nüllte") in Linz at the Brucknerhaus on September 12th, 7:30 pm. (From the description of the concert:

"In January 1869, shortly after his appointment as professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Anton Bruckner began work on a symphony in D minor, which he counted in the autograph as "No 2", which is why its outdated designation as the "zeroth" is not only misleading but simply wrong.")
See Concert description (strong implication that the works are being performed with no extra completion beyond the editing they've typically received.)

[eschiss1]

The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players Concert Schedule 2024-5 is now up.
First concert of the season, Sept. 9, has Hans Huber's trio (sonata) for 2 violins and piano, Reinecke's wind sextet, Jadassohn's nocturne and Robert Schumann's piano quintet.

[Wheesht]

The first time ever that an orchestral work by Taneyev is played in the Vienna Konzerthaus, this Saturday: Symphony no. 4.

[Alan Howe]

Extraordinary, but a good choice.

[eschiss1]

I see that other highlights of this year's Jupiter season include, besides Le Beau's piano quartet later this month, Dyck's piano trio of 1910 (Nov. 25), one of Robert Kahn's violin sonatas (on Dec. 16), Thuille's sextet (Feb. 3), Stanford's nonet (Feb. 17), Zarebski's quintet (Apr. 14), Brauer's sextet (Apr. 28), e.g. (which extends into 2025, apologies.)

(Some of these works are their only appearances by their composers that I know of this season, but Thuille's sextet is being performed Nov. 23, Salle Cortôt, Paris, too, with a tone poem by Richard Strauss- whether the sextet is being done in orchestral arrangement or each work is being done in its original garb I know not.)

[eschiss1]

Not sure this one's been mentioned.
15 December, London Symphony Orch., Antonio Pappano conducts Bax's Tintagel, Elgar's cello concerto (with David Cohen) and (to start with) VW symphony 9 (not in our remit, but if we're limited to all-Romantic - or even all-Romantic, all-unsung -  concerts this list will be a lot shorter. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a choice )

[Alan Howe]

Good to have Tintagel, though. It's one of Bax's most stunning masterpieces.

[Jonathan]

Hi all,
I've just found out about this https://latemusic.org/looking-for-carl-fruhling/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGI1KBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ939-pYv5rojx9dqgz_MJGh7QEiwfvDDvXKIEaaqCHYnN6sJQ63buCKrQ_aem_AoMAYFH4HbA0_Z6WqOniGA

Which is in York next Saturday.  Annoyingly, I have a prior engagement so won't be able to go.

Best regards
Jonathan

[Ilja]

On Saturday, 30 November, the Piano Trio in E flat Major by Fritz Kauffmann (whose Symphony in A minor was once nicked by Hans Franke) is to be performed in his hometown of Magdeburg by the MDR Piano Trio. The other work played on the evening is Dvorak's Dumky trio.

More information here. Tickets can only be bought at the venue one hour before the performance. Bring cash.

[Alan Howe]

A work by Kauffmann is quite a find. Thanks, Ilja.

[Rainolf]

Felix Woyrsch's oratorio (or "mystery") Da Jesus auf Erden ging (When Jesus Walked on Earth) will be performed by the Monteverdichor Würzburg and the Jena Philharmonic, conducted by Matthias Beckert, on 7 and 8 December 2024 in the Neubaukirche in Würzburg:

https://www.monteverdichor.com/konzerte.html

[Alan Howe]

Felix Woyrsch's oratorio (or "mystery") Da Jesus auf Erden ging (When Jesus Walked on Earth) will be performed by the Monteverdichor Würzburg and the Jena Philharmonic, conducted by Matthias Beckert

I wonder whether cpo will record this...

[Rainolf]

This seems not to be the case, but it is possible that the performance will be recorded and published on the Monteverdichor's Youtube channel like the Pierné-Zilcher-Woyrsch Christmas concert last year:

Gabriel Pierné: The Children of Bethlehem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9JAzhhjZTE
Hermann Zilcher: Night Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPTgMRX15ts
Felix Woyrsch: The Birth of Jesus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24iP71of8Y&t=6s

[Rainolf]

At the Grieg Begegnungsstätte in Leipzig a lecture-concert with songs and texts by Ethel Smyth will take place on 5 December. Mary Louise Detterer reads from Smyth's memories on her time in Leipzig. Ayda-Lisa Agwa, voice, and Manami Honda, piano, perform Smyth's songs:

https://www.edvard-grieg.de/events/zartliche-tone-des-widerstands---ein-ethel-smyth-abend