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http://www.orgelnieuws.nl/ Unfortunately, I fear, only a Dutch language site (possibly some German) but it may give you an idea of the Dutch-Belgian organworld anno 2014. http://www.orgelinvlaanderen.be/Welkom.html All major kathedrals ( Brugge, Ghent, Antwerp, Mechelen, Brussels, Liège, Hasselt...)...

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Be prepared..on You Tube one can find die Letzte Lieder in a version with a countertenor and a boy soprano....

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http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Strauss-V ... B000A32AVY

Baritone Konrad Jarnot does sing the 4 letzte Lieder - albeit in a version with piano.

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It won't be easy to find those films ..; Possibly at INA (http://www.institut-national-audiovisuel.fr/en/about-us/our-expertise/inatheque.html). Poulenc's Gloria was used for a ballet by Kenneth McMillan. Here's part 1 - all the others are on You Tube a3CMI9ID--8 At the Edinburgh festival 2013 Conce...

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This is great news for Milhaud-lovers. l'Orestie is a very difficult work to bring of - very large choral/orchestral forces are needed! It is a tough and long work - not a crowdpleaser. So, it is no wonder that he complete Orestie has been performed only very rarely . In the archives of Belgian Radi...

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In february Jos Van Immerseel and Anima Eterna, performed Carmina Burana in Belgium and the Netherlands. Good reviews. Rather smallish orchestra ( ca 60-65) & chorus. Still, enough musicians and singers to make impact. http://1.standaardcdn.be/Assets/Images_Upload/2014/02/19/ddf93e20-97fc-11e3-b3ea-...

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Update:

http://www.lessiecles.com/en/actualite/ ... he-colomb/

http://www.centre-lyrique.com/site/cont ... 013-2014-9

and

http://www.classiquenews.com/felicien-d ... entaliste/

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Jean Louis Nicodé is another late Romantic composer that may interest you: Das Meer (The Sea) Nicodé worked on Das Meer from 1884 to 1888. He led the premier in Dresden in 1889. Though it’s really a cantata, he called it a “symphony-ode”, recalling Félicien David’s Le Désert of 1844. If the term see...

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Just for information: these cds ( Antwerp PhO own label) with late romantic repertoire may interest you: http://www.defilharmonie-webshop.be/sites/default/files/styles/product_teaser/public/products/images/Cover-RFP008.jpg For Callaerts read : http://www.svm.be/content/callaerts-joseph?display=biogr...

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In the same series for Glossa/ Palazzetto Bru Zane : http://www.bru-zane.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dimitri-135x198.jpg "Dimitri" by Victorin Joncières has already been released. Niquet calls Joncières " a french Verdi" and "Dimitri" his masterpiece. "Victorin Joncières epitomises the Romant...

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More David is on its way: The Félicien David - year 2014 : agenda Festival Félicien David in Venice : l’essentiel de la musique de chambre Palazzetto Bru Zane – 5 avril > 17 mai 2014 5 major works are programmed: Herculanum 8.03.2014 :  Opéra royal de Versailles Véronique Gens / Karine Deshayes Vlaa...

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I havent' done any historical research myself.

Maybe this helps?

http://marilynkaydennis.wordpress.com/2 ... uan-saint/

( no sources listed however)

and
http://www.histpharm.org/40ishpBerlin/L68F.pdf

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Both the French composer Henri Tomasi ( 1901- 1971) and sir Eugene Goossens (1893-1962) composed an opera titled “Don Juan de Manara”. Tomasi used a libretto by Oscar Milosz (1877 – 1939, a French poet of Lithuanian birth), Goossens' libretto was written by Arnold Bennett ( 1867 – 1931). Don Juan de...

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http://www.kirchenmusik-luebeck.de/kalender/MiLK149.pdf http://www.bachcantates-utrecht.nl/ http://www.kirchenmusik-im-bistum-osnabrueck.de/ http://www.anieuws.be/kalender/Bachcantatediensten-2013-St-Norbertuskerk In France: http://www.lescantates.org/ and http://cantates-bach-paris.com/ In Brussels...

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Jean Cras : orchestral suite " Ames d'enfants"

http://youtu.be/ZWuOlSTHjhg

Luxemburg PH.O. / Jean-François Antonioli

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http://www.muziekweb.nl/COVER/LARGE/FRONT/BBX1296.jpg As most European composers who worked and lived in the first half of the 20th century, Godfried Devreese came under the spell of Debussy and Ravel ( for good measure, add some Richard Strauss, a dash of Wagner, Vincent d'Indy and a dose of Borod...

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Belgian composers influenced by Impressionism: Joseph Jongen try: http://youtu.be/VJGlXZp_G-I and http://youtu.be/bstwkw9ZDOo or http://youtu.be/4X8oudOAKBw or http://youtu.be/rxbei6HsewU Arthur Meulemans early works are heavily influenced by the French masters http://youtu.be/IDfyBQSeav0 Meulemans'...

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There are at least 140 Beethovens in Belgium ( not all of them direct relatives,of course) and the city of Mechelen organises reunions.
I'll try to find more info.

http://mechelen.mapt.be/wiki/Familie_Van_Beethoven

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Biarent is quite an interesting figure. For those who like César Franck, he's well worth discovering. A couple of years ago Rob Barnett at Musicweb was very enthusiastic. From Musicweb: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517LG7iMT1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg The Poème Héroïque has all the makings of a co...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XGdhb6QOL._SL500_AA280_.jpg Ola, Grainger is an original and unorthodox composer. The warriors, "an imaginary ballet" is propably his orchestral magnum opus . sir John Elliot Gardiner, Richard Hickox, Piers Lane or Marc André Hamelin, Jean yves thibaudet, Joh...

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Try this : http://youtu.be/81h-C6j6Lfw ( fragment from "The warriors") and this: http://youtu.be/Oso4TKp1Nwg and this http://youtu.be/LwkBW55YB4o and this (Colleen Dhas) http://youtu.be/feMkFerA9VA and propably this aswell http://youtu.be/aAlpgf-CDZY (Hamelin playing) Check out these discs: http://w...

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I have a feeling that Wim Mertens' music may appeal to you.

Try

http://youtu.be/Ee-5nnFWfKU

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Do give Charles Koechlin's "Les heures Persanes" a try.

If I'm not mistaken both Kathryn Stott and Michael Korstick recorded the pianoversion.

Koechlin orchestrated these wonderful miniatures. Heinz Holliger recorded that version for Hanssler/SWR.

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As far as I know, "Fur Alina" is a work for piano....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCr_Alina

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Arvo Part's "Fur Alina"

http://youtu.be/0zrD9JiA_i4

may well be the kind of music you're looking for....

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This is an excellent Villa Lobos disc. Very good performances of - at least- interesting scores.

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http://www.sa-cd.net/covers/7942.jpg It is out now on cd! Another recent one is Jaap Van zweden + Dutch radio forces. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRNpwznUZZ8mW8axwqaa6uC18xbvTWxb1N7qDS6FcDgPkAU8PkH Later this year Martyn Brabbins' version with the Antwerp Philharmonic will be available ...

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The original score calls explicitely for a "Flessatone" (the nomenclature of instruments is in Italian) which should have a "whistling" and not a "ringing" tone ( note by the composer). No musical saws, Theremins or whatsoever are required or asked for. http://static.wix.com/media/d4ea85d17cb341ab15...

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Ballade in Fis-groot voor piano en orkest (1881), op. 19 http://youtu.be/5gN0DazZFGo Fantaisie G-groot voor piano en orkest (1918), op. 111 http://youtu.be/CSVgJCvAGPU Masques et Bergamasques ,suite, op. 112 (1919) http://youtu.be/c4CG2ZSfgA0 It is sad Dulcinea that you don't like Fauré 's music.......

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La Monnaie/De Munt feels the financial pressure aswell, but will survive at the cost of visible/audible/artistic cuts. Several smaller companies however ( from La petite bande to Het Zuiderperhuis) may well disappear. From La Monnaie's/De Munt's website: interview with Peter De Caluwe, director Belg...

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In an old (ca 1950) biography of d'Indy, Léon Vallas mentions the following anecdote: d'Indy travels to the USA in 1921. He brings, amongst other works, the brandnew symphonic suite," Le poème des rivages" with him. Actually, the worldpremière is not for Paris, but for New York. d'Indy is the conduc...

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André made ca 300 recordings and it is a very mixed bag : from Bach to Offenbach and beyond...Chansons by Edith Piaf, Noels, Puccini and Verdi...everything could be trumpetized. Still, I discovered him through his recordings of - ca 1960-1970 -contemporary composers he (propably) knew well: Henri To...

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Haydn's Piccolo divertimento is such a gem!

http://youtu.be/mROED3ZTVzA

For those who don't like the sound of the instrument : go for Brendel!

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1/A Latin Dialogue of the Body and the Soul: Author: Robert Grosseteste [?] http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/L207005.html 2/Dispute poems and dialogues in the ancient and mediaeval Near East: forms and types of literary debates in Semitic and related literatures G. J. Reinink, Herman L. J. Vanstiphout ...

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Hi Dulcinea,

did you listen to Pijper, Vermeulen, Rott, Hartmann?

For good measure I'll add now Alfredo Casella's second symphony from ca 1910: Mahler was in the air!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgoJ3JaH2o

Do give these composers a try.
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Surely Martinu wrote easily and quickly ( cfr. Milhaud), and not all works classify as top drawer. But he definitely is a master : from lighthearted music ( Sinfonietta Giocosa, Sinfonietta la jolla, Revue de cuisine etc) to grandly dramatic, deeply felt compositions: pianoconcerto nr 4, Gilgamesh, ...

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Hans Rott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNep21n90yk

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Karl Amadeus Hartmann: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRe-G-wxg24 The First Symphony is typical of Hartmann's struggle to reconcile music with life. Much of it was written during the 1930's. Hartmann took his text from the American poet Walt Whitman, who himself was profoundly influenced by the Amer...

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Willem Pijper's first symphony (1917): "Pan" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsmK31x8oOY Mathijs Vermeulen's first symphony (1914) : Symphonia carminum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1BdlMbdYU Two Dutch symphonies clearly influenced by Mahler's "world". I like: Luciano Berio's Symphonia http://www....

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Discover Paul Hindemith at

http://www.paul-hindemith.org/

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I almost forgot this one:

Henri Dutilleux: Mystère de l'instant (for cymbalum, string orchestra and percussion, 1989), 10 brillantly orchestrated pieces .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2zo6rFkFg

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Pianotrio and large orchestra? Most of these works can be (partially) seen/heard on You Tube -Michael Tippett:Triple Concerto (violin, viola, cello and orchestra, 1978–79) ( the slow movement is extremely beautuful, IMO) This work has a large orchestra with a big percussion section: Orchestra instru...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15857569 Opera singer Sena Jurinac, one of the most celebrated sopranos of the post-war period, has died aged 90. Born in Travnik in Bosnia in October 1921, the Austrian star studied in Zagreb, and made her debut there 1942 as Mimi in La Boheme. She made ...

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From Russia, with love...and mystery!

Scriabin's "tastiera per luce" : http://prometheus.kai.ru/luce_e.htm

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I have Copland's "What to listen for in music" here on my desk. Here are a few excerpts: 'We all listen to music according to our seperate capacities..... ------- The simplest way of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of musical sound itself. That is the sensuous plane. It is the...

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Ah Dulcinea, you're quite a character!

But, after a while, I often feel like the poor Don himself...

With kind musical greetings.

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It's time you listen to grainger's "The warriors"! enjoy.

http://youtu.be/81h-C6j6Lfw

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Try this: http://youtu.be/-M55IxVfWfo !

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For even more information on Prométhée/Prometheus, see:

http://prometheus.kai.ru/perform_e.htm

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