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A new recording has just been released under Capriccio -
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/jeanne-d-arc/hnum/11906097

It is the 2013 Salzburg Festival live performance under Manfred Honeck and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Cast: Juliane Banse, Martin Gantner, Pavol Breslik, Johan Reuter, Ruben Drole.

I also see that Honeck and Banse already recorded this opera w/ the Swedish Radio Symphony that was released on Decca in 2010. Since that recording was a 2001 performance (the premiere I read!), I wonder how would this performance would compare to the earlier recording? It's also my first time hearing about this opera for some reason, considering that I already know Braunfels and his spectacular Die Vögel and Te Deum!

the principal issue I had with the Mahler Academy was the avoidance of vibrato

This is my biggest issue right now in romantic HIPs. This is an entire can of worms that I don't want to get into but the Mahler Academy 9th has the musicologist Clive Brown as their consultant, who is one of the main advocates of the "vibrato-less" approach to HIPs (which I personally don't subscribe to - especially in romantic music). Strings would simply sound thinner if played with minimal to no vibrato, no matter how many violinists you can hire.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9361848--hans-rott-symphony-no-1-mahler-blumine-bruckner-symphonisches-praludium

Deutsche Grammophon's new upcoming album features Hans Rott's Symphony, Mahler's Blumine, and the spurious Symphonisches Präludium played by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hruša. To be released on October 14th 2022 according to prestomusic.

Yet another Hans Rott Symphony recording to be heard, but what I'm most interested in here is the Symphonisches Präludium. Current consensus suggests that this work was sketched by Bruckner as an orchestration exercise for his student Rudolf Krzyzanowski. However, virtually all performances of this piece uses the "Mahlerian" orchestration by Albrecht Gürsching (who falsely thought the piece was by Mahler). Only 1 commercial recording of Krzyzanowski's original orchestration exists (by a School Orchestra!)

I wonder if this new recording will finally use Krzyzanowski's original, or use the Gürsching like all others.

Complete Programme here: https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/klassik/2109845-Prag-ehrt-oesterreichischen-Komponisten-Alexander-Zemlinsky.html

CONCERT 1:
Johannes Brahms: Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello in A minor, op. 114
Alban Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 5
Alexander Zemlinsky: Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello in D minor, op. 3

CONCERT 2:
Alban Berg: Three pieces from the "Lyric Suite"
Alexander Zemlinsky: Six songs after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op. 13 
Arnold Schönberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 for 15 solo instruments, op. 9

CONCERT 3:
Alexander Zemlinsky:  String quartet No. 2, op. 15
Arnold Schönberg: String quartet No. 2, op. 10

CONCERT 4:
Alexander Zemlinsky: String quartet No. 3, op. 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, ,,Dissonance"

CONCERT 5:
Alexander Zemlinsky: Malva, opera fragment, instrumanted by Antony Beaumont
Alexander Zemlinsky: Hochzeitsgesang
Alexander Zemlinsky: Frühlingsglaube and Geheimnis
Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, op. 18

Some other concerts:

• Schmidt 4, (Petrenko)
• Stenhammar 2 (Blomstedt)
• Pfitzner Palestrina Preludes (Janowski)
• Taneyev 4 (N. Järvi)

BPO's Digital Concert Hall is now free for everyone for a few weeks - You can watch their Schmidt 4 performance here https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/51178

The back cover says the 1999 one was the Borodin, and the Kalinnikov was from 1993 (which I assume the same live performance uploaded on youtube?)

"The Franz Schmidt Project has been set up by Jonathan Berman to record all four of Schmidt's symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. These will form the backbone of a far reaching project to perform and promote the music of Franz Schmidt leading to his 150th Birthday in 2024."
Website here: http://www.loganartsmanagement.com/jonathan-berman---the-franz-schmidt-project.html

The First Symphony seems to have been already recorded in January and clips from the recording sessions are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROr8pOE1iA

Hiroshi Kodama and the Osaka Symphony has recorded several obscure works as well. https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?i=music-artist&rh=p_32%3A%E5%85%90%E7%8E%89%E5%AE%8F
Some notable ones inclde Wetz 2, Taneyev 4, Atterberg 6, Glazunov 5, and several others.

The full score of Der Ewige Feuer has been digitized

I didn't know about this, Thank you! 
Also searching further, the score of his first opera Judith has been digitized as well: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN863434150

His 2nd opera Das Ewige Feuer was performed recently in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Pf9Oly5_0

Choral works by Swiss composers Benno Ammann and Joachim Raff are gonna be performed by Basler Madrigalisten on February 8, 9, 15, and 16 -

Benno Ammann:
Missa Defensor Pacis (1946) (Swiss premiere)

Joachim Raff:
A Kyrie/Gloria Mass (World Premiere)(!)
Ave Maria
Pater Noster

https://www.basler-madrigalisten.ch/termine.html
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2706140029476652&id=509526559138021

A week too late - violinist Michaela Paetsch performed Raff's 2nd Violin Concerto on November 23 and 24 with the Ensemble Instrumental de La Neuveville! https://eineuve.ch/post/189229885537/inspirations-de-lailleurs

It's cliche at this point but Im Walde will always be my favorite. It is one of the works by him that I first encountered and loved (Also, is anyone familiar of this live performance of it by a Japanese Orchestra? https://youtu.be/Jl6GdVS6bkM)
Other than that, The Winter, Autumn, and the 2nd symphonies are quite high as well.

https://www.konzerthaus.de/de/programm/berliner-cappella-kammersymphonie-berlin-maike-buhle/4096

Lili Boulanger's Psalm 130 & Pour les funérailles d'un soldat and Raff's Psalm 130(!) at the Berlin Konzerthaus November 21