Studio recordings of major symphonic, orchestral and operatic works are indeed now much rarer than in their heyday some decades back; one has only to look at what has been reviewed on MusicWeb over the last few months to see how few such releases there have been, especially as most major orchestras now have their own "live" label. However, there are still some being made, even if they are comparative rarities; to take a few random examples, both Rouvali and Mäkelä have recorded complete sets of Sibelius symphonies, Bychkov has been doing a complete Mahler cycle with the Czech Philharmonic, Decca recorded Christian Li's Tchaikovsky and Opera Rara released a studio Simon Boccanegra - but then, the catalogue is now bursting with highly recommendable studio accounts of core repertoire and labels are increasingly recording niche music.