Letters: Puzzling omissions from Proms programme

Thanks to Martin Kettle (How we are losing touch with Mozart's true genius, 20 July) for inviting the BBC to rethink the core orchestral programming of the Proms. I too found the omissions in this year's programme surprising. Of Haydn's groundbreaking symphonies, only the last (No 104) appears; of Schubert's nine, only the "Unfinished". The Beethoven cycle is most welcome. But where are the revelatory works of the first generation of Romantic composers to build on Beethoven's works? Not a single...

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