Just watched the last programme. Good summary in many ways; but marred by fact that he seems never to have heard of the highly influential Banjamin Britten, whose work flew right in the face of his assertion that serious opera has been entirely sidelined in the C20; not many mentions of Prokofiev either, whose music kept the 'classical' tradition viable without too much collaborationism with other forms - one of his most enduring pieces, managing brilliantly to be both sincere & pastiche simultaneously, was actually called "Classical Symphony"

So - An incomplete achievement, tho impressive, on the whole; with its gaps but well worth watching for what it did tell us. Who agrees? Or can point to any other serious omissions or over-simplifications?

~M~