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The most famous case, perhaps, is La Mer by Debussy.

And there are more sinfoniettas that could have done without the diminutive. I'm thinking of E.J. Moeran's Sinfonietta, rather his Second Symphony.

Another case is Bohuslav Martinů. Some of his later orchestral output could easily be regarded symphonies, natural successors to his Sixth, Fantaisies symphoniques. In particular his Frescoes of Piero della Francesca ('Symphony No. 7'), The Parables ('Symphony No. 8') and Estampes ('Symphony No. 9' - or a higher number, taking into account other works liks the Toccata e Due Canzoni as well. 

There is a version of "Lonely waters" (with voice) performed by Ann Murray, Jeffrey Tate and the ECO- EMI 64200 (couplings: Moeran "Whythorne's Shadow", G.Butterworth and Bax). A Cd I like a lot.

My favourite version too. And indeed: possibly the best Jeffrey Tate ever did - a wonderful cd that I've always cherished as something special.

Just in passing, that's a CD I've loved for at least two decades (besides the Moeran, Butterworth, & Bax works it also includes Bridge's "There is a Willow...").  My favorite renditions of every one of these pieces.  I've never forgiven the Gramophone (and Penguin Guide) reviewers for unjustly (IMO) panning it over the years. The original "Lonely Waters" is quite lovely.

My words.

Why hurry? Five previous Röntgen releases on CPO are still waiting to be played.   

Stanley Bate's Viola Concerto would get my vote.

Mine too.  All four of his major compositions released by now on Dutton - the Third and Fourth symphonies, the Second Piano Concerto and the Viola Concerto - reveal a highly gifted composer, IMO. One of the very few real discoveries that were made in the last few years.

Just read the first post. Hahaha!

You almost convince me to play it again. 

  Sins are there to be forgiven, but ... 

No problem with people enjoying it, of course. Speaking for myself, I tend to agree with the Hurwitzer's verdict: "a faceless work that the composer was right to dismiss." 

As probably all of you know, there are many more details in Michael Barlow and Robert Barnett's quite substantial essay 'STANLEY BATE - Forgotten International Composer' on Musicweb: http://www.musicweb-international.com/bate/index.htm.

The line that intrigues me most is "Glanville-Hicks claimed he wrote a dozen or more symphonies ...". 

Enjoyed it. Your posts prompted me to delve my Holmboe cd's from the shelves and play the oboe concerto (had forgotten I own this particular cd). So: many thanks indeed for a happy listening experience! 

Found it. Szymon Laks, Music of Another World. Translated from the Polish by Chester A. Kisiel (Northwestern UP. Illinois 1989/2000).

From the back cover: 'Rejected for publication in Poland because its potrayal of the Nazis was "too sympathetic", Music of Another World presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria of Auschwitz.'

For myself I'm very fond of a brief oboe concerto that's not yet in the repertoire- Vagn Holmboe's earlyish one from his set of 12 concertos for small orchestra and (in most cases) solo or groups of instruments (8 and 10 are concertos for orchestra).  The first movement opening especially catches a certain mood and the rest isn't half bad A little after our bailiwick/coverage area but rather good and affecting, I think.

Thnx for reminding us twice.  Convincing enough to urge me to play it; the version with Gordon Hunt and the Aalborg SO under Owain Arwell Hughes on BIS. Lovely piece.

In my cd collection I have Viola Concertos by:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (Romance and 'Flos Campi' with wordless chorus and small orchestra)

Don't tell me you don't have the handful-or-so versions available of Vaughan Williams' Suite for Viola and Orchestra (1933/34). The viola was, after all, his own instrument. 

I know, however, that you don't have the Portugalsom/Strauss cd with Braga Santos' lovely Viola Concerto. A shame for any self-respecting BSE, but there it is. 

I suddenly realize that I read his book - memoirs - about Auschwitz and the music he made there. A story one couldn't imagine.

Another, one that I really love, is the Concertino for oboe and string orchestra (1970) by Hendrik Andriessen, found on a NM Classics cd with orchestral works by Andriessen (père) and featuring the Netherlands Radio CO under Thierry Fischer with Henk Swinnen oboe. It nicely fits into the Bach-inspired 'oboe plus strings' category, like so many modern oboe concertos.