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That is correct, but it's the only way (as far as I know) to hear this concerto.

It took me almost seven years, but if anyone is interested: a recording of Albert Wolff's Flute Concerto is available at https://zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl/program/urn:vme:default:program:2101608140126577431?q=albert+wolff+fluitconcert

Very interesting, thank you for this post. I have two very small modifications: the composers name is Adolphe Biarent and the conductor here is Sylvain Vouillemin.

Dear Blaine,
You were right, it is Otar Taktakishvili, the first violin concerto in f minor. Many years ago I bought a recording by Liana Issakadze with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. Although the sleeve mentions it is the second concerto, it is actually the first, as the album dates from 1980 and Taktakishvili wrote his second violin concerto in 1985.
BUT the recording here is something special as it starts with the finale (allegro tranquillo e cantabile), then the third movement (moderato cantabile) and the short second movement (presto leggiero) before we move to the finale again, which is indeed beautiful, but so is the real opening of the concerto, omitted in this recording.
Best wishes,

The Württemberg recording is now on Youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOjeqidz0Y
Enjoy...

Glad that Kuusisto belongs here. The little I know of his music is that it sounds truly romantic and so maybe a little outdated for the time when it was written.

Finnish composer Taneli Kuusisto (1905-1988) wrote during World War II a symphonic ballad on Lake Ladoga: "Laatokka".
Does anyone knows more about this piece? For the Finnish the lake was very special as it was part of the Karelian region that was annexed to the Soviet Union in 1945.

Thank you, I'll give it a try.

Indeed, but long sold out...

In the recent past some of Bruch's oratorios have been recorded. In 1993 even his three hours during Achilleus was recorded. However, this recording has long been deleted and on the internet I only found the nine minutes of "Aus der Tiefe des Grames", sung by Emmi Leisner. Who knows where you can hear more or who has a recording for the download-section of this website?

Thanks Simon for the link. Lovely music, reminding me, indeed, of the flute concerto. So come on, conductors and orchestras!

Many years ago I heard the Flute Concerto by the French composer and conductor Albert Wolff (1884-1970). I even taped the work and I remember it as fine music in the tradition of Fauré. Not highly original, but good to know.
Some forty years later, the cassette is long deleted and as far as I know, Wolff's reputation as a composer never really made it.
I know he wrote some operas and a symphony, but I am keen to hear some more of his music and hope to find a recording of the concerto after all these years.

Another (Dutch) third came to my mind: the third symphony of Jan van Gilse. Van Gilse (1881-1944) wrote it in 1908, relatively short after finishing his studies with Engelbert Humperdinck. Two of the five movements contain a soprano-solo. The music is greatly influenced by the German late romantics and could be family of works by Reger or Wetz. The dark colours make it an interesting work, although a little long. Van Gilse's fourth and last symphony is even better, but this topic is about third symphonies. On the CPO-label the four symphonies are well served by the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Porcelijn.

Reasons, you are right. The Zweers (indeed, there is a 'new' Sterling-cd with the performance of this symphony by the Residentie Orkest under Hans Vonk. A very nice performance, though with some cuts in the finale) may be not the greatest symphony ever, but it shows the composer at his best. Zweers wrote mostly vocal music, but here he proves to be able to write broad melodies and his orchestration reminds sometimes of Bruckner. Together with the only symphony of Johannes Verhulst Zweers's third could be the called the best Dutch symphony of the 19th century. However: orchestras almost never perform it.
Van Hoof, Belgian composer, was oldfashioned when he wrote his third at the end of World War II. His symphonies are very melodious, mostly light hearted and well wrought. Again: not one of the desert island disks, but music that is worth hearing.
Finally the De Jong. De Jong, Dutch by birth, Belgian, or better Flemish by choice, was a prolific composer, who enjoyed a long life and wrote music almost upto his death. The third (as is the fourth) is a work of his old age and was composed as hommage to the composer's parents. De Jong wrote some fine tunes, but the qualilty of this symphony is the melancholy. In a sense this is music of a long gone past, revived by a 85 year old composer, still working in a tradition that a younger generation (in those years) would be pleased to bury. De Jong made his statement very well and as some of the avant-garde of the seventies sounds outdated, De Jong's symphony still stands.

I could mention several third symphonies that already figure in these pages, but as far as I know, nobody came up with the third by the Dutch composer Bernard Zweers: "Aan mijn vaderland" (To my fatherland). Certainly not the best (third), but then, which symphony is? Zweers's symphony can be heard on Youtube in a performance from the seventies in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkzNJ0wLCxU
Other unsung third symphonies that are well worth to be heard are Jef van Hoof's from 1945 and the symphony No. 3 by Marinus de Jong, composed in 1976 but truly romantic.