Is it really possible that Brits’ taste in classical music is as bad as the annual Classic FM hit parade vote would indicate? “Is it really possible, I wonder, that millions of Brits really believe that Howard Shore’s music for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the greatest piece of classical music of all time? And will I have to listen, yet again, to Rachmaninov’s super-saccharine Piano Concerto No 2, in C minor (that’s the music from ‘Brief Encounter’)?”