Steven - you've mis-understood what I wrote; I was commenting on composers who had written MULTIPLE symphonies (in my mind arbitrarily more than 3 or 4) which in turn have been recorded MULTIPLE times - so no cigar for Havergal Brian/Ruud Langaard/Tubin/Alfven/Piston/Hanson etc etc... or indeed any of the composers you list. My point was a simple one - by those criteria there are few composers in that pantheon but RVW is one
In his review of the Mark Elder Vaughan Williams symphonies, Nick Barnard suggests that only a handful of twentieth century composers have had multiple recordings of their symphonies, and lists six who immediately spring to mind. Actually, there are many more who qualify under his criterion. Elgar, Walton and Tippett from Britain, Ives and Copland from the USA, Roussel and Messiaen from France, Honegger from Switzerland, Hindemith and Henze from Germany, Szymanowski and Lutoslawski from Poland and there are no doubt many more. The symphony flourished in the twentieth century
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