… The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
… it is not the fact that there are only four pieces that concerns me – even though four is a smaller total than the number of works at this year's Proms by Bach, Beethoven, Boulez, Cage, Debussy, Delius, Elgar, Fauré, Handel, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Williams or Wagner. No complaints either about the works themselves – the whole of the Marriage of Figaro, the Clarinet Concerto, the Flute Concerto No 2 and the overture to Don Giovanni.Good God. Four pieces by Boulez and Cage.
What leaps out from this and other concert schedules of the modern era is the total absence of Mozart's symphonies.
It reminds me of looking at the "literature" bookshelf these days in a library.
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