Walter Meyer wrote:

>Among the successive lists that I see posted in this poll, I see more and
>more lists w/ fewer and fewer works from the second half of this century.
>I wonder if this has some significance.

That discrepancy will have been redressed by about 2030, I would think.
The further back in the century the more sure we can be about "survivals"
and judgements of greatness.  The closer we come to where we are now the
greater the guesswork needed.

Tony Duggan,  England.
My Mahler recordings survey:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/