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The (somewhat delayed) 2019 Survey of Classical Music on Radio 3
There are influential people who should be deeply embarrassed at some of those numbers.
Not one of Malipiero's wonderfully engaging symphonies broadcast the entire year. And none by any of the composers I drew attention to in my Neglected French Composers thread - so no change there since forever, but that was to be expected.
Very interesting results, which takes some absorbing. I was intrigued by the figures on Prokofiev Symphonies - 255 broadcasts. I bet the majority of those are numbers 1 and 5. Hardly a week goes by without another Classical Symphony rendering, and then this week we even had a Building a Library of the Classical symphony to hammer it home. Why on earth can we never have numbers 2 and 3 - for example! Those would awaken the dead on Essential Classics! There is a fine Youtube set of all of them under Valery Gergiev which I have enjoyed.
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