Never Recorded, O-O-P, or A Better Recording Needed: Your Wish List!

[Ten thumbs]

Emilie Mayer: All six symphonies doesn't seem an unreasonable request and, judging by her 5th, recordings would be well worth while.

[DaveF]

[Brian's opera The Tigers] Has it been performed anywhere? Any idea of the plot?

One complete performance on Radio 3 in the 1980s.  Orchestral extracts have been recorded separately.
It's a great piece, which I've listened to a lot, but no, I've still no idea of the plot.  It's a bit like a cross between Dad's Army, The Good Soldier Švejk and Ulysses.

And a few more for the list:

Rosenberg's 5th symphony
Byrd's complete English music
An uncut Midsummer Marriage

DF

[listener]

One complete performance on Radio 3 in the 1980s.  Orchestral extracts have been recorded separately.
It's a great piece, which I've listened to a lot, but no, I've still no idea of the plot.  It's a bit like a cross between Dad's Army, The Good Soldier Švejk and Ulysses.

link is not direct: you will have to click on the composer, work buttons to access
vocal score can be downloaded at http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Tigers_(Brian,_Havergal)

[Sammy]

Emilie Mayer: All six symphonies doesn't seem an unreasonable request and, judging by her 5th, recordings would be well worth while.

I really don't know how many symphonies Mayer wrote, but I remember reading that it was at least 8.

For those interested, a new recording is being issued of three violin sonatas on the Feminae label.  Samples are available on the Aleksandra Maslovaric website (she's the violinist).

[Brian]

"Variations on a theme of Grieg ('Ase's Death')," for solo piano, by the teenage Maurice Ravel.

Not a major piece, but I am curious, partly because 'Ase's Death' seems like a really hard theme to write a good set of variations on.

[Ten thumbs]

I really don't know how many symphonies Mayer wrote, but I remember reading that it was at least 8.

For those interested, a new recording is being issued of three violin sonatas on the Feminae label.  Samples are available on the Aleksandra Maslovaric website (she's the violinist).

Thanks for that - I was relying on the Wikipedia list, although that is unlikely to be complete and opus numbers are rather sporadic.

[Mirror Image]

Illogical. Unless you mean, that is the entire list. Right? ; )

It was a joke. Jokes don't have to be logical.

[Superhorn]

    The EMI/Melodiya LP of  Sorochinsky Fair uses the Vissarion Shebalin edition, which is generally considered to be th emost faithful to Mussorgsky by musicologists. I'm not familiar with the other versions . 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

As far as I know, Rochberg's 3rd, 4th and 6th symphonies have never been commercially recorded. Naxos' cycle seems to have been suspended (they got through 1, 2 and 5).

Also missing in action is any complete recording of Johann Hermann Schein's Banchetto Musicale. As one of the first significant collections of instrumental ensemble music, this really deserves a complete set of all 20 suites.

[Cato]

    The EMI/Melodiya LP of  Sorochinsky Fair uses the Vissarion Shebalin edition, which is generally considered to be the most faithful to Mussorgsky by musicologists. I'm not familiar with the other versions .

Many thanks for the comments!

A few more to the wish list:

Franz von Suppe :  "Symphonies" mentioned by Wikipedia.  Those could be fun!

And not to be forgotten: we need official, commercially promoted recordings of all works by:

Karl Henning and Luke Ottevanger

[eyeresist]

Franz von Suppe :  "Symphonies" mentioned by Wikipedia.  Those could be fun!

A titillating idea!  I only just found out there is a Suppe requiem. There are several versions on Amazon, but no reviews.

[Cato]

A titillating idea!  I only just found out there is a Suppe Requiem. There are several versions on Amazon, but no reviews.

I believe the biography on Wikipedia mentioned that the von Suppe' Requiem is a product of his retirement from opera/operetta.

Who knows if the style is similar or quite different?

[The new erato]

A titillating idea!  I only just found out there is a Suppe requiem. There are several versions on Amazon, but no reviews.

If it's the cpo disc it got a pretty upscale review from some magazine or another a few years ago.

[Karl Henning]

I believe the biography on Wikipedia mentioned that the von Suppe' Requiem is a product of his retirement from opera/operetta.

Who knows if the style is similar or quite different?

In checking out sound samples on Amazon (admittedly not The Final Word), I heard much which harmonized agreeably with what I already know of the composer's work.

[Cato]

In checking out sound samples on Amazon (admittedly not The Final Word), I heard much which harmonized agreeably with what I already know of the composer's work.

Perhaps a few sales might generate interest in the von Suppe' symphonies?

The IMSLP unfortunately has no symphonies available.  It does offer, among other things, the score of a most curiously named opera : Zehn Maedchen und Kein Mann (i.e. 10 Girls and No Man).

That sounds these days like the title for a certain kind of "movie."   0:)

[classicalgeek]

The complete orchestral works of Josef Holbrooke, uncut and using the composer's original instrumentation, with a first-rate orchestra.  His symphonies are not represented at all!  Not to mention, the operatic trilogy 'The Cauldron of Annwn' is in need of some attention.

The Marco Polo recordings (I believe there are two or three CDs total) of a few of the orchestral works don't do them justice - the instrumentation is altered, the performances sound underrehearsed, and the orchestras aren't really up to the task.  I've not heard Howard Griffiths' set on cpo, but it seems like it would be a good starting point.

So, cpo, how about another release?  And Hyperion, are you listening?  This would be right up your alley...

[BobsterLobster]

Julian Carrillo: Mass for Pope John XXIII  (An a capella quarter-tone work!)  Complete works would be nice!

Have you come across this website?: http://www.sonido13.com/obras.html

The Pope John Mass you want is on that page as well.

[Cato]

Julian Carrillo: Mass for Pope John XXIII  (An a capella quarter-tone work!)  Complete works would be nice!

Have you come across this website?: http://www.sonido13.com/obras.html

The Pope John Mass you want is on that page as well.

Wow!  Really great!  I found the symphony there, which you offered a week or so ago, but did not see this!

Highly recommended to all, especially if you think quarter-tone music is not your thing!

[The new erato]

We need a new recording imn modern sound by a first class ensemble (Takacs, where are you) og Bloch amazing first string quartet. And while yoou're at it, please do the rest of the series!

[Mirror Image]

We need a new recording imn modern sound by a first class ensemble (Takacs, where are you) og Bloch amazing first string quartet. And while yoou're at it, please do the rest of the series!

Speaking of Bloch, I'd like to hear a prominent conductor and major orchestra (i. e. Royal Concertgebouw, Berliners, CSO, LSO, etc) do a whole cycle of Bloch's orchestral works including the Sacred Service. That would be just incredible.