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Besides Muti other conductors of the first rank  today active have (not recently) recorded the Symphony: Barenboim, Bychkov, Chailly.
Last June I saw and heard in streaming a live performance by Barenboim and the Berliner.
Last year in my city I saw two perfomances conducted by Marc Albrecht and Jan Latham Koenig.
Anyway an amount of decline is undeniable.

I never heard of Martin Muehle (born in 1969) since I read, on an English magazine, a praising review about him in a DVD of a performance of Cilea Adriana Lecovreur in Florence (conducted by Daniel Harding).
Muehle will sing next April in my city in Puccini's Le Villi (a much neglected opera itself).

Torino, Teatro Regio Orchestra, 30 march 2024, Respighi Vetrate di Chiesa (cond. Diego  Ceretta)
Torino, Teatro Regio April 2024 seven performances of Puccini Le Villi (cond. Riccardo Frizza)
Apparently the only previous performances were in 1884.
Torino, 31 May and 1 June, Respighi Concerto Gregoriano (Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin, Daniel Harding, conductor, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI).

Teatro Regio, Torino, next September and October seven performances of Halevy La Juive (cond. Daniel Oren, protagonists Gregory Kunde (69 years) and Msriangela Sicilia).
The last performances (in the same theatre) were in 1885.

I too have now got the Naxos Cd.
In the fine Epitalamio Sinfonico I have mostly, and very much, appreciated the lyrical sections.
If I read again ,TEN YEARS after, my post in the 2012 thread "if the record companies were watching" (about unrecorded works deemed worthy)
I have had
Sgambati Epitalamio Sinfonico
Malipiero Per una favola cavalleresca
Mancinelli Scene veneziane
Casella Pagine di guerra,
more than 50% of my 2012 list.
The world of neglected composers moves, is active ( however the four works indicated above have all been recorded by an orchestra sadly disbanded).

Malipiero First and Second Violin Concertos (coupled to the Busoni violin concerto) have been recorded in 2018 by Sony Italiana (Domenico Nordio,Tito Ceccherini cond., Orch. Sinf. G.Verdi).
Malipiero Second had already been recorded on a Stradivarius Cd (S. Parrino, F.Di Mauro cond., Orchestra della Provincia di Catanzaro).Couplings Rispetti and Strambotti (version for string orchestra), Sinfonia degli Archi, Flute Concerto.

Ten years ago I indicated the above title in a short list of wished recordings.
I have recently missed the release by Naxos (F.La Vecchia, Orch. Sinfonica di Roma, sadly disbanded in 2014).
Now I have got it. The work (1914-1915) consists in four unnamed movements (lasting about half an hour),
deriving from music apparently composed for an intended Arthurian opera.
I found the music impressive and haunting (vague echoes of Pelleas of Debussy and Faurè, just to give an idea), and not fragmentary.
If someone is interested, the couplings (Violin Concertos n.1 and n.2).are in very different, later idiom

I remember to have sen him, many years ago, conducting at the Proms Vaughan Williams Fourth with the Welsh BBC.

Massimo Pradella was often in charge for rare works. I remember that many years ago he should have conducted in my city Raff Third Symphony.....but in the event it was substituted by Mendelssohn Reformation Symphony.

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari oratorio "La Vita Nuova" (quoted and praised in 2016 in the thread "I Gioielli della Madonna") will be performed next  29th October in Torino (Teatro Regio chorus and orchestra plus soloists, conductor D.Renzetti).

The Symphonic Variations were recorded by no less than Paul Tortelier (son Yan Pascal conducting) joint to rather famous works on an LP (in the Cd release two sung pieces for cello and orchestra were added - conductors Boult and Previn).

Le Songe de Cleopatre, excerpt from the suite "Femmes de Legende" by Mel Bonis will be performed also at the Festival Berlioz , la Cote St Andrè, France, on the 20th of August (Orch. de Metz, D.Reiland cond.).

I heard and saw Nerone in 1975 in my city, in a concert performance conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni (with singers then rated good like Ilva ligabue, Ruza Baldani and Bruno Prevedi).
The web (not prodigious memory) allowed me to fix the year as the Gavazzeni performance was released, I don't know how legally, by various labels.
To my surprise I have seen mention of other "live recordings" (or it is always the same ?).

I cannot but agree with the earlier comments.
I remember that I have found the orchestral playing even a little disturbing (and spoiling a possibly better hearing experience).

Jeffrey Tate conducted the Fifth Symphony, Alun Francis the Second Symphony, Frank Shipway the Tallis Fantasia, the Lark ascending and the Oboe Concerto, the German Wifried Boettcher another performance of the Tallis Fantasia.