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You have reminded me though of the flute concerto and concertino of Wilms. Any opinions? Underrated Dutch composer who I don't see mentioned much even here; Concertzender Hilversum did do a series of his music that's still audible online or I'd have heard a lot less of his music than I have.
Eric

By Mozart, I assume you mean the trumpet concerto of Leopold.  His son never composed a trumpet concerto.

(edited quote above)
To be picky, Wolfgang Mozart did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Mozart)

Wondering if anyone had any new news on this front. I do notice that there's a new recording (available rather than forthcoming, I think) of the early classical violin concertos of Touchemoulin, a composer who I know from his flute concerto sometimes broadcast over BBC.  And (again assuming I'm not the only one here interested, but not quite sure) a check at MDT reveals that a recording of Boris Tchaikovsky's violin concerto (or a reissue??) is listed as forthcoming. (Actually this CD may have come out in 2006 according to Worldcat. I'm not sure!)
(I forget, what was the consensus on Weingartner's violin concerto released a couple of months back? Was there any mention of Knipper's recently released, or of Jaques-Dalcroze's? Memory's not so good, seriously. Or of Ferdinand Ries', at that.)

MDT also shows Danacord's Danish violin concerto series continuing with Enna's and Lange-Muller's violin concertos in volume 3, among other works.  Anyhow, attempting to restart an old thread, possibly to little point (apologies) but it did seem worthwhile subjectively...
Eric

I remember making a MIDI file of the first movement of the first trio, while having the score on loan (this was before IMSLP and having the works easily downloadable to one's desktop!) and being delighted by its melodies and workmanship.  I expect much of this release...

The German Wikipedia has a brief article (in German of course) on the symphony here - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/4._Sinfonie_(Büttner)

I'll stick my hands up for the flute concertos of Vagn Holmboe, and one of the two by M. Weinberg (I've only heard one so far...) (and their respective trumpet concertos, of course! And the trombone and tuba concertos of the former, and Hindemith's trumpet and bassoon concerto too- maybe my ears are more forgiving, or something. Even those though are for example). 
As to the MacFarren, don't know- Worldcat lists only a piano reduction by Natalia MacFarren, and that only at one library. The work has unfortunately not gotten around much.
Eric

A complete list of Emanuel Moor's works, with opus nos. and publishers where known, can be found at
http://www.emanuel-und-henrik-moor-stiftung.de/Emanuel/works.shtml by the way. -
Eric

Is the radio recording of the Gernsheim concerto the February 2008 (editing in, sorry) recording made by Oliver Triendl? Of curiosity...
Eric

Last I checked though the score that was uploaded to IMSLP for symphony 5 was barely legible, more like a microform. Maybe a better scan has been uploaded since.

The entry I found for the Bate does say it's a private tape, but it may be a mislisting for the viola concerto.  (Evidence against: the viola concerto is from 1944-46, the violin concerto listed in iLink is from 1950. According to http://www.musicweb-international.com/bate/index.htm , that would be the 3rd concerto; the first is from the 1930s, the second is from 1943. 1953 is indeed the premiere date, as below. This does give dates for your list, I suppose...)

All iLink says is, that Antonio Brosa is the violinist, Richard Austin, cond., London Symphony, tape from about 1953. I'm guessing it might be the premiere, and it's most likely the 3rd violin concerto.
Eric

Question- do you use http://cadensa.bl.uk as a resource? They list a concerto by Stanley Bate as recorded, for instance, though they don't say which one it is (just that it was composed in 1950) or who's conducting. It's the sound archive library catalog of the BBC (now known as iLink.)

Eric

The Violin Concerto is an astonishing piece too - unfortunately it's only come down to us in violin and piano form. One of the truly great VCs, though, and word has it that it's being orchestrated by a Draeseke expert...

There is or was a video (three- one for each movement) on YouTube of parts of that violin concerto in piano reduction, and on the basis of those, I can't wait, myself.

I haven't heard Christus so it is probably offtopic to say so, but what I have heard of his chamber music- especially the two string quintets, that cello sonata, the two viola alta sonatas - has seemed to have the strongest - my opinion - future possible hold on the repertoire; moreso to my ears (again) than the orchestral music of his I've heard, though that has grown on me.  Both quintets are worth a try.  (All on the AK Coburg label again. I've heard the piano quintet on MDG once and believe it has the same qualities- lyrical, apparently Schubert-influenced? while being clearly of its time, for example- as well.)

Eric

Well, never forget www.worldcat.org ...

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The work of listing 1894-2006 violin concertos is complicated in my opinion by all those concertos that were written for doctoral dissertations, stored in libraries and never performed or recorded (perhaps a few are worth rediscovering, I do not doubt; Prokofiev's first piano concerto and Myaskovsky's first symphony were doctorate works too, of course. So I don't mean to imply otherwise. But a cursory scan with a clever search, of, say, the New York Public Library catalog at http://catalog.nypl.org reveals a ... lot... of violin concertos written in the inter-war years, for example, by, I think, completely unfamiliar names.)

Eric