'Repetitive' Classic FM blames lazy composers

A radio listener has complained to Classic FM that, after four hundred years of classical music, it only broadcasts four pieces: Cavatina, the Warsaw Concerto, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances and Shostakovich's Waltz Number 2.  

Classic FM has responded by blaming classical composers, who, it says, have been resting on their laurels for four hundred years.

'What has Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt ever written?'  asked a Classic FM executive. 'Absolutely nothing worthwhile, that is, nothing that's been featured on television adverts.

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