Musical chauvinism and inconsistency ...

Norman Lebrecht's latest tirade accuses English composers of 'chauvinism, amateurishness and bumbling inconsistency.'

I wonder when Norman last listened to Beethoven's Wellington's Victory, Op. 91?

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