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Interesting, this makes the fourth CD from BIS with the Sibelius Lemminkäinen suite. Four versions of the suite are referenced in the notes of the current CD 1895, 1897, 1901, 1939.
Perusing the BIS Lemminkäinen Suite history we have...

Clarifying this a bit: the new Slobodeniouk BIS CD contains only one movement of Sibelius' Suite, the 1897 version of Lemminkäinen in Tuonela,  op 22#2  or, post 1939, op 22#3

This 2021 cpo release appears to be an exact reissue of the 2001 recording of the concerto issued on Acte Prealable AP0219 with identical violin and piano couplings recorded 2010:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Apr/Rozycki_VC_AP0219.htm
I the meantime, Janusz Wawrowski's edition of the Concerto appeared on Warner earlier in 2021, coupled with the Tchaikovsky concerto:
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/phoenix

Some of this has been discussed in a related thread:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7541.msg79204.html#msg79204

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra NOW have programmed William L. Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony for a September 2021 concert. A concert in November will include George Frederick Bristow's Symphony No. 4 Arcadian. Even though an audience is anticipated to be present, one performance of each will be live-streamed.

See: https://www.theorchestranow.org/events-tickets/

While I was at it, I'm also adding a broadcast performance of Fried's Die Auswanderer that predates the Foremny/Berlin recording by year or two: Nikša Bareza, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, Christine Gloger, speaker (15 Mar 2007)
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,8373.0.html

The broadcast of Fried's Trunkene Lied (Reihl, Junge Orch NRW, Scherer, Linde, Hamann - 25 May 2015) is in the Downloads section:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,8372.0.html

The mentioned concert/recording of "Das Trunkene Lied" (Nietzsche, the same text that Mahler used in his 3d symphony, 4th movement) seems to have taken place, but only a description is available, the recording itself not anymore. It seems it was not published on CD, I at least cannot find it. It seems it was all amateur forces, but it seems to all that exists – did anyone happen to record or download the radio airing?

I have a copy of this 25 May 2015 performance from the Philharmonie Essen. As I recall the performance is quite OK (University choirs and 'das junge orchester NRW'), but, in the end, I found that at 50+ minutes the work overstays its welcome. I will dust it off and listen to it anew and place in the Downloads section if there's interest.

...and yet how many people have ever heard it performed live?

I was present at the Botstein/TON performance from December 2018 (now online) in a concert that also included Rimsky-Korsakov's First Symphony:
https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=134335&date=1544659200
First times (and most likely one-and-only) for both works for this listener.

It tells me that there's a very weak editorial policy with regard to booklet content and quality.

Imagine how much further time an adequate editorial/translation policy would add to their release schedule! 

An article in the Danish newspaper Politiken from November 2017 discusses future plans of Den Jyske Opera and hints that La Vendetta may be in the offing, but that the only opera that is firmly planned is Enna's Kleopatra, which indeed was produced last year. As Mark rightly points out, it is unusual that the currently anonymous performance, which from the audio quality is likely of recent vintage, could fly so beneath the radar of unsung opera fanatics. The direct quote is:

"Ved præsentationen af den kommende sæson på Den Jyske Opera her til eftermiddag blev sløret således løftet for en ny plan om i de kommende år at genoplive danske operaer, der er gået i glemmebogen. Som eksempel nævner Den Jyske Opera operaen 'La Vendetta' af komponisten Asger Hamerik, der i sin tid havde premiere på La Scala i Milano.

I første omgang bliver det dog operaen 'Kleopatra' af August Enna, der får premiere i Musikhuset Aarhus i foråret 2019, hvorefter den sendes på turné rundt i landet."

https://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/art6219064/Dansk-operascene-ans%C3%A6tter-unge-internationale-sangere-og-genopliver-glemte-danske-operaer

This recording is listed in the Draeseke discography https://draeseke.org/discs/ as:

SWR Classic Archive SWR10600 [Digital Download]
Jost Michaels [clarinet], Maria Bergmann [piano]
21 December 1981, SWR Studio 5, Germany

The link to the download ( https://ml.naxos.jp/album/SWR10600 ) is to Naxos Japan but the recording appears to be available from Naxos, and NML, in other countries as well as Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Clarinet-Sonata-B-Flat-Major-Op/dp/B08645ZPT2/

The Draeseke discography lists 7 complete recordings of the Clarinet Sonata, plus one of op 38 in its alternate guise for Violin and Piano.

Other than serving as a Raff cheerleader, I found nothing of value in Mr. H's error-filled take on the Sinfonietta. I was, however, surprised to learn (or merely be reminded) that the Joho/Basel (Tudor) is the sole commercial recording. Though this Swiss Composers LP:
Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, Leopolda Casella, conductor, (CTS 34), 1971
is noted on raff.org ( http://raff.org/records/discog/lp.htm ) as well as in the discography section of this thesis: Lyon IV, James Fuller, "Joseph Joachim Raff: A Biographical Sketch and a Conductor's Analysis of his Sinfonietta, Op. 188" (2014). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2701.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/217398701.pdf

While several Youtube videos of performances of the Sinfonietta are available, I have added one audio contribution in the Downloads section to help fill the void: Raff - Sinfonietta op 188 (Dorian & Roundtop Quintets - live performance 17 Jun 2000)
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,8056.0.html

A more lively live performance (Dorian Quintet, Roundtop Quintet - recorded in concert 17 June 2000) has been added to the Downloads Section:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,8056.0.html

FWIW, the notes on the 2018 Lyrita reissue [REAM 2139] of the Cameo Classics' recording of the work state:
The second movement, called Elegy, has the following note: 'Killed in action near the
South Pole, 28 March, 1912', a reference to Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Terra Nova
Expedition to the South Pole. Scott and his companions died in March 1912 at their
camp in One Ton Depot, near the South Pole, and this movement, which is in the style
of a dirge, was written in August of that same year. The cor anglais, making its first and
only appearance in this work, is here given an important solo part which rises to a
memorable climax towards the end.
Those notes are by Michael Laus, the conductor of the 2011 recording of the 'Thalassa'.

That MusicWeb review also indicates that an "Uppsala Rhapsody op.24 [10.45]" is contained on this CD - too much cutting and pasting and inadequate proofreading methinks.

Review here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Oct/Reinecke-orchestral-v1-5551142.htm

I read the novel years ago but unfortunately can't now remember title or author. The Lenore march is constantly being whistled and hummed by the hero as a popular tune, a sort of leitmotif, but that's it's only role.

More unfortunately, I can recall both the author (Jessie Fothergill) and the title "The First Violin: A Novel" 1896

Available from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29219 among other online sources - consult at your own risk.