Four Centuries of Great Music October 5, 2025 New Music Releases in September

Four Centuries of Great Music.   Oct 5, 2025
Today on Four Centuries of Great Music, I am featuring some of the new classical music released in the month of September 

We open with a new album by the Kanneh-Mason family of performers and Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“The Trout Quintet”).  It is in 5 movements:

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“The Trout Quintet”) I. Allegro vivace
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“The Trout Quintet”) II. Andante
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“The Trout Quintet”) III. Scherzo Presto
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“The Trout Quintet”) IV. Andantino – Allegretto
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“The Trout Quintet”) V. Allegro giusto

Three of the Kanneh-Masons with Edgar Francis on viola, and Toby Hughes on double bass
River of Music
Deutsche Grammophon

09-12-25
Next is a selection of 5 of Leos Janacek’s Moravian Folk Poetry in song for string quartet

Leos Janacek: Moravian Folk Poetry in song (selection)
Game Warden - My Lover's Horses            1’11
Hazel Nut - Love - Charm – Promise        3’03
Love herbs - Posy - Farewell to sweetheart - Then and now - Lover's Likeness                        4’28
Belgrade - Lover Killer – Burial             3’27
All Alone - For whom the posy - Thyme - Kolín Town – Musicians            3’15
Talich Quartet
Gypsy Melodies
La Dolce Volta

September
Lets open  this second hour of today’s episode of  Four Centuries of Great Music, featuring some of the new classical music released in the month of September

Next is a composer you are probably not familiar with,  Henriëtte Bosmans.  She was born on December 6, 1895 in Amsterdam Netherlands to musical parents - her father was principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and her mother was a concert pianist and piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory.  Her mother taught her piano and faculty from the Amsterdam Conservatory taught her composition.  Henriëtte had early success as a concert pianist and composer.  In the 1920s she had a romantic relationship with Dutch cellist and conductor Frieda Belinfante, a prominent lesbian, member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II and my cello teacher in the 1960s.  Because her mother was Jewish, Bosmans was under the scrutiny of authorities during the German occupation so could not perform nor publish her compositions.  But after the war she published everything she was working on during the war.  Bosmans died from stomach cancer in 1952, aged 56 years, in Amsterdam.  In May 1922, she completed her First Concerto for cello and orchestra which received its initial performance on February 1, 1923 by Marix Loevensohn with the Haarlem Orchestral Society conducted by Bosmans’ cousin Nico Gerharz. A month later, Loevensohn performed the concerto twice with the Concertgebouw Orchestra led by Karl Muck.  All of the performances were publicly and critically well received.


Henriëtte Bosmans: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 * 38′09 
I.   Allegro moderato 15′18 
II.  Presto 4′39 
III. Lento – Moderato 18′12 

Raphael Wallfisch, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ed Spanjaard
Henriëtte Bosmans Cello Concertos 1 & 2; Poème 
CPO Records

Lets close today’s episode of  Four Centuries of Great Music, featuring some of the new classical music released in the month of September with a new release of piano music by MAURICE RAVEL.  Specifically his Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83.  It is in three movements:

MAURICE RAVEL:  Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83    I. Allegramente          8’10 
MAURICE RAVEL:  Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83  II. Adagio assai 8’57 
MAURICE RAVEL:  Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83  III. Presto 4’06 

NELSON GOERNER PIANO
ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE MONTE-CARLO
KAZUKI YAMADA
RAVEL PIANO CONCERTOS
VALSES NOBLES ET SENTIMENTALES / PAVANE POUR UNE INFANTE DÉFUNTE
Alpha Classics