Yikes – for the fifth year in a row Max Bruch has won top spot on the UK’s Classic FM poll of favorite composers. But then, what do you expect? “If you spoonfeed your audience a pappy diet of light classics and bite-sized chunks of larger works, all seasoned with the odd bit of cross-over, and then get them to vote for their favourites, the result is more or less a foregone conclusion. Pavlov couldn’t have conditioned his salivating dogs any more effectively.” – The Guardian