The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies | Nicholas Kenyon

Martin Kettle says Mozart has been neglected by the Proms, yet he underestimates the influences at work in this dazzling displayMartin Kettle raises some important points about the changing classical music canon (How we are losing touch with Mozart's true genius, 20 July). Mozart's 41 symphonies "are among the most brilliant symphonic works ever written", he says. "Yet none … features in the 2012 Proms. Not one of them."It was perhaps grudging of him to raise this at a time when the Proms is m...

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