10 concert works we need to hear again
mainOur list of works we never need to hear again continues to attract readers’ comments, almost five years after posting.
Here’s something different: works that used to be played with some regularity in our major halls but which orchestras are, for one reason or another, not putting on their current programmes.
We need to hear them again.
Here are 10 that I miss.
1 Cesar Franck, Symphony in D minor
2 De Falla, Nights in the Gardens of Spain
3 Mozart, Haffner Symphony
4 Kodaly, Dances of Galanta
5 Copland, clarinet concerto
6 Bohuslav Martinu 6th symphony
7 Vaughan Williams 5th symphony
8 Darius Milhaud, Creation du monde
9 Borodin, In the steppes of central Asia
10 Malcolm Arnold 5th symphony
Now add your own.
UPDATE: OK, so here are 10 more
Very much agree with this list, except to confess I have never heard the Copeland and Hartmann concertos.
The Copland clarinet Concerto is a marvellous work!
Stravinsky, Symphony in C.
Ugh, ghastly idea….a well-deserved oblivion. Stravinsky, the most overrated of 20C composers needs a well-deserved rest.
And the early Symphony in E flat which, admittedly has more of an affinity to Borodin’s Steppes (a splendid work) than his later output.
I love Borodin’s ‘In the Steppes of Central Asia’.
I would like to add Salvador Bacarisse: Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra in A Minor, even if it’s just the 2nd movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrdyhx-nA_g
VW 9 rather than No 5, plus Brian Symphonies 5, 10, 16, 30, any of McCabe’s piano concertos plus his 3rd Symphony and, of course, Harold Truscott’s Elegy for strings which finally had its UK premiere in Malvern last year.
I’d also prefer VW9, Guy, but it was never played as much as 5, and now both are silent
Norman – fly across the pond to Boston Jan 10-12, where you can here the RVW 5th with the BSO as conducted by Sir Andrew Davis….also on the program is music by Harbison and Mozart’s 24th piano concerto.
VW 5 next week in Boston
Sir Andrew Davis conducts VW5 next week in Boston
Sir Andrew Davis seems to be the RVW ambassador to the USA. I’ll be at Symphony Hall in Boston next week to hear him conduct the 5th with the BSO. He did the 9th in Chicago a couple of years ago, the only time I can remember a major American orchestra playing it.
I think Andrew Davis does a very good job with these works. Anyone in the Boston area would be wise to attend.
No.5 does crop up in quite a few amateur circles. The Ludlow Orchestra programmed it last year and I’ve conducted it twice with the Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra over the past 15 years.
I bumped into Andrew Manze a few years ago when he was doing a VW symphony cycle in Glasgow and he said he was programming VW with an orchestra in Scandinavia and the players were very enthusiastic.
The Truscott is a gem!
The Truscott is a gem with only one recording I believe.
I too lament the disappearance of the Franck and the de Falla but surprised Borodin is on the list and have done that quite a bit recently.
My suggestions:
Arnold 4,
Ibert Ouverture de la Fete,
Roussel Symphony No. 4,
Moeran Symphony in G minor
and George Lloyd’s Fourth Symphony
+1 for Roussel’s Fourth
Honegger’s Symphonies, too, seem to have dropped off the map. Or maybe I need to get out more.
I would favor Lloyd’s fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth symphonies over the fourth. To me this is when Lloyd really finds his voice and mission as a symphonist and a composer with something to say.
Two works that I shamelessly admit I’ve only heard live under my own direction, and would dearly love to hear as an audience member: Holst’s “Egdon Heath” and Khachaturian’s Symphony No. 2.
Outside of UK you almost never hear any symphonies by Vaughan Williams, Bax, or Moeran – despite the obvious quality of their works.
Also: I’ve never had the chance of hearing a Schnittke piece in an orchestral concert.
Very true about Bax – so lucky that my first mentor was absolutely a Bax fanatic.
Miške (In the Forest), symphonic poem for orchestra by the Lithuanian composer Ciurlionis, a magnificent tone poem that would grace any concert hall.
I was lucky enough to respond to a postcard notice of an add on concert a few years ago at Carnegie Hall by Mikhail Pletnev and the RNO which included Borodin’s ‘In the steppes of Central Asia’ and I absolutely fell in love with that piece. I have seen it show up on programs 2 or 3 times since at Carnegie Hall or in the programs of the NY Phil. It’s one of those pieces that’s a “can’t miss” for me.
Boston Symphony is doing the RVW 5th this month with Sir Andrew.
Not that rare in Birmingham – the CBSO played three of these last year, two the year before and one in 2016. Haffner Symphony not since 2010, curiously. But it’s true that Martinu has pretty much dropped out of the rep (and wishlists) of most conductors, and Arnold never quite made it there in the first place. Good piece though.
Haydn symphonies, played by regular orchestras. I heard Yannick do one with the LPO a few years ago and it was wonderful. Now that orchestras have learnt the lessons of the HIP movement, there’s no reason to leave pre-19th century music just to the specialists. And we can never have too much Haydn.
More and more of Haydn’s symphonies is a great idea.
The Copland Clarinet Concerto was done a few years ago by the Tel Aviv Soloists, with the wonderful Shirley Brill as the, well, soloist . It was a smashing performance, smashing work.
The Clarinet Concerto is, indeed, a great work. However, there are many other Copland chamber-orchestra-sized pieces that deserve more regular outings. These include the Three Latin-American Sketches, Music for the Theater, Music from the Movies and Dance Panels. There’s also the Short Symphony, of course, which seems to be finding more supporters (John Wilson and the BBC Phil, for example).
Kalinnikov 1st, Chausson symphony, Gliere 3rd
Much as I love Gliere 3, I don’t think it was ever a frequently played piece.
I dont have a top 10 list, per say. But, as a relatively younger concert goer in America, I would be interested in seeing live performances of the following pieces, that to my mind, are not regularly programmed:
Barber – 1st Essay for Orchestra
Borodin – 2nd Symphony
Copland – Organ Symphony
Durufle – Requiem
Dvorak – Stabat Mater
Gliere, Hanson, Honegger, Kabalevsky – anything
Jongen – Symphonie Concertante
Khachaturian – concertos or symphonies
Respighi – Church Windows, Metamorphoseon, Belkis
Scriabin and RVW – symphonies
I thank you for reminding me of the composer whose 1st etude de concert is an absolute riot!
I too love the Borodin 2nd, a thoroughly delightful piece and a superb substitute for the overplayed last three symphonies of Tchaikovsky.
per se
Agree – Scriabin #1… gorgeous…Gliere #3 ditto…
Sadly, the only Respighi we see nowadays is…yep, Pines of Rome.
Offenbach-Rosenthal: Gaite parisienne
(seriously)
I love this. There’s a great recording by the Montreal Symphony and…well, you know.
Great list; I found myself nodding almost throughout. If it’s any consolation, the Berliner Philharmoniker did play the Haffner Symphony with Kirill Petrenko less than two years ago…
Happy New Year!
The Berlin Philharmonic also played the Franck, under Tugan Sokhiev, a few years ago.
Sandy Goehr’s Little Symphony.
Massenet Piano Concerto
Kilar September Symphony
Korngold Symphony in F#
Goldenthal Symphony in G# Minor
Nyman MGV
Ifukube Ritmica Ostinato for Piano and Orchestra
Love the Korngold Symphony in F#!!! The sinfonietta is also very fine if you haven’t heard it.
The VW 5 is an underrated masterpiece and almost never played in the US. I would rank it with the other great 5’s of the early to mid-20th Century: Nielsen 5, Sibelius 5, Shostakovich 5, and Mahler 5. Although M 5 was my first LP (Bernstein and NYP) and I love it, I believe it is now overplayed and could use a timeout from the concert hall and radio.
Agreed. VW5 is a remarkable, moving work; and I love the piece dearly. The lack of performances in the U.S. makes me very angry. Same with #2 or any of them for that matter. The poor state of concert programming in general makes me quite upset.
The Boston SO will be performing VW5 next weekend under Andrew Davis!
I assume you’re talking mostly UK experience. I’ve heard the Copland Concerto – or seen it programmed – a number of times in the US. I’ve heard the Franck symphony a few times, too.
In the US, Vaughan Williams is rarely played, Malcolm Arnold almost never. Martinu rarely, unfortunately.
No. 1 on my list would be the three Vorspiels from Hans Pfitzner’s opera “Palestrina.” I have never understood why
this searingly beautiful, searching music is rarely played in North America.
How about the Symphonies of George Lloyd?
You need to come to West London to hear the George Lloyd symphonies – complete cycle starts with Number 1 on Saturday 26th January with Ealing Symphony Orchestra. Same Orchestra did the first ever complete concert cycle of the Malcolm Arnold Symphonies
Thank you for that. I’ll follow the Orchestra’s website for more details.
Best wishes.
This is always a fun game. My take is that the list should be pieces that were played on a regular basis but are now mostly absent. The Martinu and Arnold were not regular visitors, at least internationally but here are a couple to replace those.
Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Mahler
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
And what about the good old Enescu 1st Roumanian Rhapsody?
I can’t but agree, Leonard. I’d add Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses too.
Great choices, especially the Bartok – one of the supreme masterworks of the 20th century but a challenging score not played so often these days…
That’s exactly my criterion, Leonard: works that used to be fixtures but are now discarded.
The Franck, for instance, seemed to be on all the time when I was a kid and every major conductor recorded it. The symphony cannot suddenly have become a bad work.
Agreed. The Bartok, in particular, it was included in one of the first concerts I attended and is certainly rare nowadays.
Mathis der Mahler may not be played enough, but it’s about the most frequently played work by Hindemith, at least in the U.S.. When I see it programmed I usually wonder why orchestras can’t think of anything else to play by Hindemith – the Symphony in Eb, especially.
The Enescu probably suffers from seeming to fall into the pops repertoire.
Mr. Slatkin,
One of my biggest disappointments in your tenure with the NSO is that you did not perform the VW 5. Your recordings of VW are excellent and I looked forward to your performances in DC. Perhaps you will return for more guest appearances and bring some VW!
Yes to Maestro Slatkin’s VW (and best Prokofiev 5 ever)!
Unfortunately, post-Slatkin DC has seemed a bit barren, musically, at least in comparison to what came before. Let’s see how well Noseda redresses the situation.
And Nobilissima Visione perhaps
By coincidence, i recently heard the LPO/Ortega-Estrada with the Enescu 1st Rhapsody, (excellent), and the Martinu 4th, (less so!) in the same programme, (RFH), thus dealing with two “neglected” at one stroke, what luck!
YES- for the Hindemith & Bartok!
I like the list and the suggestions of other Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams symphonies. I would like to add a handful of other works:-
Moeran: Symphony in G Minor
Piston: Symphony No.2
Copland: Dance Symphony
Honegger: Symphony No.3
Berwald: Symphony No.2
Lambert: Horoscope
Delius: Eventyr
Poulenc: Concerto Champetre
Holst: Beni Mora
Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy
Many of Sibelius’ greatest pieces are now ignored in favor of Finlandia and his symphonies 1, 2, 5 and 7. I’d like to see more performances of Tapiola (his greatest tone poem by far) and symphonies 3, 4 and 6. The 4th is a superb work.
I was going to add the Bruckner 6th but that has been going through a fad recently seemingly at the expense of Bruckner 5. Bruckner 3 is also a great and effective piece that should be performed at least as much as the 6th.
Walton Symphony No. 1
Elgar Symphonies
William Schuman Symphony No. 3
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
“works that used to be played with some regularity…”
SIBELIUS Tapiola and Pojola’s Daughter (also Symphony no.4 which has never been played here)
GROFÉ Grand Canyon Suite
BALAKIREV: Tamara
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: “Antar” Symphony (and the neglected concertos)
HONEGGER: Pacific 231
GLAZUNOV: Stenka Razin
PISTON: The Incredible Flutist
an Overture by SUPPÉ (or HEROLD – Zampa?)
The Grove Grand Canyon suite certainly appeared often on recordings several decades ago, even if not in non-pops concerts. It’s a wonderful work and I’ve never figured out why it’s fallen from favor. I believe it actually should appear on subscription programs as it has every right to be taken seriously as a concert work.
When I was a music student in the early 1970s (well, more like, “a card-carrying Young Baroque Fascist”), I was stunned to be told by another violin student that her teacher had told her that Grand Canyon Suite was the most popular piece of American music in terms of orchestral performances.
Regardless the accuracy of that claim, no question (1) it had been hugely over-exposed, and (2) as long as people my age have positions of decision-making in concert music, I think it will stay neglected. For us, it was sooo 1960s.
But perhaps in future years, younger generations may decide to, in Boris Goldovsky’s wonderful usage, “glect” it.
jm
Stamford Symphony #5
Diamond Symphonies #2 and #4
The violin concertos of Glazunov and Goldmark–once in the repertory of the top international soloists, but now not heard that often in live performance.
The slow movement of the Goldmark (IMHO) can stand with the slow movement of any of the better-known 19th-c. violin concertos, up to and including those of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. But I would not go so far as to say that on the whole, the Goldmark is an achievement in composition on the same level as the Mendelssohn. The Tchaik, for me, as it is usually played today, is a dog’s breakfast. (C’mon, John! How do you really feel?)
If anyone is curious, here is former Heifetz student Arturo Delmoni playing the Goldmark “Air” in an arrangement for violin and pipe organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utUKO3zYnKc&t=160s
Ciao,
John
also the slow movement played by STEFFI GEYER is one of the great violin recordings of all time
Poulenc’s Sinfonietta
A good program in Santiago de Compostela last month:
Real Filharmonia de Galicia
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Clarinet: Kari Kriikku
Arnold: Dances around Britain (a selection from the different Arnold’s sets by Daniel)
Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
muy bien, Luis!
I’d love to get a chance to play some English music. Aside from the Enigma Variations, my orchestra (in Spokane, WA) has only played three or four English works over the past 25+ years. Don’t know why, except that our music directors don’t like it. So I can’t really say that it was ever in regular rotation here, but it would be fun to try it out.
Other pieces:
• Borodin Symphony #2 (as well as the Steppes of Central Asia)
• A Mozart piano concerto besides #20 (approx 75% of our Mozart piano concerto performances have been #20)
• Berlioz overtures (also – was Harold in Italy ever part of the standard repertoire? That would be fun.)
• Weber overtures
• Suppé overtures
• Brahms Academic Festival Overture (never played it in 29 years, except once on a student concerto winners’ concert in 1993, with zero rehearsal — not even a run-through)
Sadly, I don’t believe the VW5 ever really turned up with much frequency in the US. If not mistaken, the Nights in the Gardens of Spain (although probably much less since Alicia de Larrocha left us) and Dances of Galanta still turn up on occasion. Copland’s clarinet concerto is still often heard, at least in the U.S. The Martinu, Arnold and Milhaud pieces were never common here.
Two works that used to be very common back in the 50’s into the 60’s were the Symphony on a French Mountain Air by D’Indy (virtually never heard now) and Saint-Saens Piano concerto No. 2 (used to be very common, but now rather rare).
Beside the WW5, there is the Sixth Symphony with a most fascinating slow movement. Also anything by Walton, remember “Façade”? It was quite a popular piece mid 20th century! Where has it gone?
You’re right about Facade. I remember Hermione Gingold and Russell Oberlin doing it at the London proms in the 60s, Robert Tear doing it at the (R)SNO proms in the 70s, and several other performances in the same decades.
Benjamin Grosvenor is playing Saint-Saens 2 with the Bournemouth Symphony on 23 January
The Copland Clarinet Concerto is being done by the NY Phil together with a new work by Julia Wolfe in January. I would like to hear an American Orchestra play a symphony by Tuur, Aho or Norgard. I heard the NY Phil do Norgard’s 8th a couple of years back. Have never seen any others programmed. I’ve given up on hearing Pettersson’s seventh.
Another 20th century clarinet concerto that was premiered by the NY Philharmonic, the Corigliano Clarinet Concerto, and “Last Alice”, which was played a few times after its premiere, and then, forgotten.
Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto is pretty close to standard rep for clarinet – I’d rank it just behind Mozart, Nielsen, and Copland. But orchestras don’t do clarinet concertos all that frequently, so Corigliano doesn’t pop up as much as it should, and it’s not something an orchestra is likely to do more than once.
I like Del Tredici but his music doesn’t turn up that often anymore. “Final Alice” was premiered by Solti and the CSO in 1976. You can hear the broadcast of it here:https://pastdaily.com/2016/10/05/sir-georg-solti-del-tredici-1976/
Caucasian sketches by Ippolitov-Ivanov, I have heard it once at a concert. Beautiful melodies, piccolo and bassoon are very charming in the last piece.
100% agree… music to make a Georgian proud!
Amen amen amen to the Symphony of Psalms, Mathis der Maler, and all the RVW.
I’d add Hindemith’s Apparebit Repentina Dies to the mix, and – jumping back a few centuries – Scotland’s answer to Thomas Tallis, Robert Carver.
Tragically, the majority of Carver’s magnificent output was destroyed during the Reformation, and his life story falls into the shadows of obscurity after that.
and Hindemith’s Schwanendreher… is it ever performed?
Yes, but only cos violists need repertoire; love Hindemith tho i do, it’s really not an exciting or interesting enough piece to bring the hall to its feet. (Now bring on the viler jokes and Devil take the Hindemotht).
Indeed, any list of forgotten or rarely played works will be incomplete.
I will vote for any work by Bartok, except the Concerto for orchestra. Music for strings, percussion and celesta is an excellent choice.
Frank Martin’s Petite symphonie concertante
d’Indy: Symphonie Cévenole
Villa Lobos: Bachiana nr 5, then add Choro nr 10 (chorus and orchestra)
Prokofiev: pianoconcerto’s 4 and 5 , selection from Cinderella
Honegger: symphonies 2 and 3 (add 1, 4 and the mighty 5)
Darius Milhaud: Suite Provençale (cfr. Munch/Boston)
Debussy: Jeux, Printemps, Fantaisie for piano and orch.
Anyway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Lithuania, Iceland, Scotland, Danmark, Sweden, the USA….all have archives stuffed with good music waiting to be performed.
I’ve attended a couple of Franck’s Symphony in D in the last three years (one thrilling, the other ho hum). My favourite, however, is Franck’s large orchestral work Psyche. I’m longing to see it live.
Another of my favourites, Tchaikovsky’s Manfred seems a live rarity.
The RSNO has done it twice in the last five years or so.
Brahms-Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G Minor
Glazunov: The Seasons, Scènes de Ballet
Walton: Symphony #2, Partita for Orchestra (Szell’s renditions of these still give goosebumps)
Casella: Paganiniana
Dvorak symphonies 3 and 5
Ibert: Escales
Tchaikovsky Suites
Smetana tone poems, especially Wallenstein’s Camp
Any Martinu
Rameau ballet suites
Brahms Serenades for orchestra
Bach-Elgar: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor
Duuh! Roy Harris’ one-movement Symphony 3 (of 1939). Once regarded as “the quintessential American symphony,” after a flurry of renewed interest circa the 1976 Bicentennial, it seems to have sunk beneath the waves. Too bad, it is a remarkably fresh and vital work.
jm
Ives: symphonies 2 and 3
any Janacek at all
Nielsen 4-5-6
Bartok the wooden prince
Bartok violin concerti
Delius: Eine Messe des Lebens
The comments have degenerated, as it were, into lists of underplayed works that by and large were never all that popular. Getting back to the original idea: pieces that were once played but now less so:
– Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade – Everyone knows it, many recordings, but how often does one actually hear it in concert?
– Beethoven 2: I don’t think it gets played much outside of complete cycles (though I don’t really miss it).
– Overtures by Offenbach, Suppe, Thomas, etc.. – popular with wind ensembles in transcription, but unlikely to turn up on symphony programs.
As for Norman’s list:
– Creation du Monde uses only about a dozen players so isn’t something symphony orchestras were ever likely to play much.
– The Martinu symphonies are wonderful but I doubt they’ve ever been played much outside the Czech Republic. They do get played in Prague, I can assure.
Delius: Mass of Life
There are a number of works that should be heard more often, among them the other four symphonies of William Grant Still. Everyone programs the Afro-American Symphony but tend to neglect the remaining ones. In my opinion Nos. 2 and 4 are his best works in the genre.
Also, it would be nice to hear the Bernard Herrmann symphony, as well as those by Jerome Moross, Elie Siegmeister, Irwin Bazelon, Arnold Rosner, Gloria Coates and even Peter Mennin, whose symphonies are not even heard in the concert hall.
I do concur with many folks here about Vaughan Williams, Brian, Lloyd and Arnold, but you also have the symphonies of Daniel Jones which are rarely heard outside of the UK, as well as those of William Alwyn, Alan Rawsthorne, Benjamin Frankel and Humphrey Searle.
Well, to hear the Mozart piece live in the very near future, tune in from anywhere in the world at roco.org on Feb 23rd at 5pm central for the ROCO Live stream. We will be playing Haffner on our “Ticket to RIde” concert with a world premiere commission by Jim Stephenson about miniature trains. In addition, our train trip around Europe includes Ethyl Smyth’s Wreckers Overture (rescore by Mark Buller for Chamber Orchestra), Kilar’s Orawa, and Saint-Saens’ Cello concerto played by our principal, Richard Belcher all conducted by guest conductor, Brett Mitchell!
Well, all power to your imaginative enterprise, but is it really a very good idea to programme “The Wreckers” on a train trip….? Bon voyage, en tout cas.
Absolutely agree on the de Falla
Many works with solo voice and orchestra are rarely performed, even Mahler’s Lied von der Erde. But think of Hugo Wolff’s Lieder with orchestra, Liszt’s ditto, Dvorak’s Biblical Songs,… Let alone works with choirs – Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette, Lizst’s Christus, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius. And for orchestra, it is high time to pay tribute to Roussel born 150 years ago. His compositions are all fine and rewarding for the players and the audiences – Le Festin de l’Araignée, Bacchus et Ariane, his symphonies,…
And to Roussel’s list you can add the stunning “Evocations” giving vocal and instrumental brilliance, color, verve, mystery and poetry!
Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper Polka and Fugue
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler symphony
Scriabin: Symphony #1
Ross Lee Finney- Symphony #1 “Communique”
Any symphony of Nikolai Myaskovsky. I have only heard his fourth by Gergiev and the Rotterdam Phil. He wrote 27…
The César Franck seems to be the only really major work that’s slipped out of concert presence. Possibly the Kodaly and Borodin, altho they’re more “occasional” pieces anyway. Mozart “Haffner…?” I’m tripping up over it constantly!
There are many worthwhile major works that have never been constantly present, but would be welcome; my choices would be:
Martinu, Roussel, Nielsen, Hindemith, Honegger, (for symphonies & concertos, but also much else), and certain underplayed Sibelius (4 & 6), Tchaikovsky (1, 2, 3, Manfred, 2nd concerto, “Hamlet”…..), Borodin, (all 3 symphs!), Berwald, Balakirev, (1st & “Tamara”) would be a welcome change…
I’m sorry not to be enthusiastic about most British music, which bores most of the rest of the world stiff! So for me, any Warm-Villains, Elgar, etc are vastly overplayed! (I’m with Sir Thomas on that one: at the finish of a VW symphony, he continued to beat time, until the 1st violin, whispered: “eerrh….Sir Thomas…it’s finished!” “What d’you say?”…(loudly, turning to last page)…”oh, so it has! Thank God for that!”)
None of these pieces were ever part of the standard repertoire but in my opinion they should be played in the concert hall more often.
1. Mozart – Symphony #34
2. Dvorak – Symphonies #5 and #6
3. Tchaikovsky – Symphony #1
4. Handel – opera Alcina
5. Schubert – Symphony #2
6. Stravinsky – Fairy’s Kiss ballet
7. Handel – Italian cantatas
8. Haydn – Piano Concerto in D
9. Taverner – Lalishri
10. Hansen – Symphony #2
16th and 17th of January the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie will play in the Stadthalle Chemnitz Vaughan-Williams Sixth Symphony. Broadcast on MDR Kultur:
https://www.mdr.de/kultur/radio/ipg/sendung-384054_date-2019-01-22_ipgctx-true_zc-564a0bf2.html
the Kodaly was programmed twice in London this season; I heard the Franck twice in London quite recently under ADES & NICQUET and also went to Berlin to hear MINKOWSKI conduct it
also there is a vw 5 under Wigglesworth M soon at Cadogan Hall
1. Weill Symphonies 1/2
2. Hindemith Symphony in E Flat
3. Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso
4. Dvorak Variations for Orchestra
5. Szymanowski Symphony no. 3 “Song of the Night”
6. Franck “Le Chausseur Maudit”
7. Copland Statements for Orchestra
8. Honegger Symphony No. 5 “Di Tre Re”
9. Zemlinsky “Lyric Symphony”
10. Bizet “Rome” Symphony
Can we extend this to piano works? Is it just me or are Mozart sonatas and concertos fast disappearing from professional concert programs nowadays? I’d rather hear a well-played K. 595 than sit through yet another Rach 2 or 3.
In 2019, I’d love to hear any other 20th century American composer besides Leonard Bernstein, please! 2018 was a bit…much.