Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D will be performed by the St. Cecilia Chorus at Carnegie on Sunday, April 14, 2013. A wonderful, characteristically full-blooded piece with some rarely encountered Tchaikovsky rounding out the program:
http://www.ceciliachorusny.org/ (http://www.ceciliachorusny.org/)
David
That is great news indeed! We never seem to hear anything of Smyth in the recording world these days. I long for a recording of 'The Boatswain's Mate' and 'The Prison'
I see that the Laval Symphony in Quebec is performing the Smyth Mass next year in May. But they are saying it is the North American premiere. Oops.
http://www.osl.qc.ca/site-web-de-losl/concerts/hors-serie/memoires-feminines.html (http://www.osl.qc.ca/site-web-de-losl/concerts/hors-serie/memoires-feminines.html)
Also on the program the rarely performed Hiob Cantata by Fanny Mendelssohn.
Excerpts from Smyth's The Prison will be performed in NYC in July.
You can get The Boatswain's Mate on the Digital Gramophone label or download it from Qobuz.
Other operas on the same label include: Schwanda the Bagpiper; Abu Hassan; Djamileh... all sung in English. They are probably 1950s recordings of English National Opera.
The Boatswain's Mate is a brand-new recording, though.
Sorry, I was mistaken, the version of the Boatswain's Mate on Digital is an old BBC recording. However, a brand new recording has been made and is supposed to be released in June by Retrospect Opera. They say they will be registering with Amazon.