Steve Schwartz:

>I thought it interesting to list those works at one time regarded
>as canonical and now practically invisible:
>
>Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"
>Sowerby: Symphony No. 2
>Strauss: Alpensinfonie; Aus Italien
>Stringham: Symphony No. 1 in bb

I've always liked the Reformation Symphony-a journey from darkness to
light.  Also, the 2nd theme of the first movement re-appears briefly in
the 3 rd movement does suggest some quasi-programmatic content which
makes me curious.

I have heard the Alpensinfonie in concert, and I think it is an interesting
musical "update" of Liszt's Berg-Sinfonie (his first symphonic poem).

Mikael