Patrik Enander wrote:

>>...but it has struck me every year when they announce the Gramophone
>>awards, that so many recordings are made by English people.

I think you may find some Scots and Welsh in there too.

Donald Satz responded:

>Seriously, there's nothing unusual about these types of biases.  The US
>magazines display a similar bias, and I'm confident that the French,
>Italian, etc.  do likewise.  It's natural, and it isn't going to cease.

Quite true.  Like the polls that get taken for favourite pianists and
conductors in various countries.  Invariably which ever country is being
asked the question promotes their own to the top of the list.  It could
be bias (probably is) but it could also just be a question of familiarity.
Each country gets to hear its own more often.  Donald Runnicles is a case
in point.  A British conductor who has hardly worked in Britain so he is
not often mentioned in British discussions even though he is highly
regarded in the US where he is now based.

>Besides, if the British don't play up their "own", who will?

The entire world, surely!

Tony Duggan
Staffordshire,
United Kingdom.