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A fascinating listing.

Under the 'B's H Balfour-Gardiner should not be hyphenated as he is Henry Balfour Gardiner, known to his friends as just Balfour Gardiner.  I'm fairly sure he is in the New Grove under Gardiner. I wonder how the hyphen originated.

Barbirollli seems to have conducted very little Bliss. Boult must have conducted the Colour Symphony a number of times while at the BBC (unless Bliss himself was available as he was a fine cionductor of his own works). I remember attending a RFH performance of Boult with, I think, the LPO, when he gave a rare hearing of the Colour Symphony, in the 70s. But I don't remember a broadcast performance of the work under Boult from the mid-60s on and, as a great admirer of Boult, I am not aware of any off-air performance of the work by him, sadly.

Sadly not. I have Bliss conducting with Shulamith Safir and Trevor Barnard but not Wibaut.

Incidentally, I should mention - or confess - that the first two bars of The Golden Cantata are missing through a stupid error of mine years ago with the original reel-to-reel tape. The work begins very quietly so fortunately nothing dramatic has been cut.

I have downloaded my CD of The Beatitudes onto my hard drive. It is a 504MB file and with a free account mediafire says the limit is 200MB. Have I gone wrong?

I have tapes of Bliss conducting The Beatitudes (1964 Proms performance), The Golden Cantata (1966) and Mary of Magdala (1963) in tolerable condition, now transferred from tape to CD.  If someone could point me to easy-to-follow instructions of how to upload CDs (not having done one before) I would be willing to have a try to share these performances.

Broadcast of Joubert's Deploration (together with Symphony No 2, NZSO, composer) I have as 2.9.80.

In some of the places in your list of broadcasts where there are no dates I think I may be able to add them when looking at my own list of recordings, and just checking that we are dealing with the same performance or broadcast.


Alwyn
Oboe Concerto  7.11.80

Arnold
Symphony No 4  [Thomson]   Blackburn 13.2.74  b/c 20.2.74
Symphony No 6  [Thomson]  21.8.81

Bantock
The Time Spirit  [Tucker]  15.9.84

Bax
Winter Legends  [McCabe, Leppard] 6.10.78
Symphony No 7  [RLPO, Groves]  3.6.74

Benjamin
Concerto quasi fantasia [Jones, BBC Welsh SO, Thomson]  8.4.80

Brent-Smith
Elegy to Elgar  15.9.84

Alan Bush
Violin Concerto  [cond. Keeffe]  28.3.82
Symphony No 2  2.3.81

Cooke
Concerto for Orchestra  fp Dec '87   (also b/c with same performers 14.5.90)

Delius
Violin Concerto  [Bean, Groves]  2.11.70

Dyson
St. Paul's Journey  [Joly]  16.4.00

Holbrooke
Ulalume  [Leaper] 9.1.95

Jacobson
Hound of Heaven  RCM 20.11.75 b/c 2.1.76

Jones
Symphony No 9  [Jones]  f b/c 7.10.76

Mathias
This World's Joie  [Mathias]  1.7.87 b/c 24.8.87
Organ Concerto  fp 12.9.84
In Arcadia  fp 30.5.92

McCabe
Violin Concerto No 2  fp 20.3.80 b/c 19.5.80

Moeran
Farrago  20.12.84  re-b/c 14.3.95
Cello Concerto  [Igloi] 22.4.74

Parry
Piano Trio No 2  12.10.85
Ode to St Cecilia's Day   [Tucker]  14.10.78
Eton  [Tucker]  15.9.84

Prout
Symphony No 4  [Joly]  9.10.87
Symphony No 3 – Intermezzo  BBC CO, Leaper  July '89 b/c 30.9.89

Rawsthorne
Clarinet Concerto  +  Concertante Pastorale   26.4.74  [Rawsthorne memorial concert]
Carmen Vitale  Leeds Nov. 1971  b/c 27.5 73

Rubbra
Symphony No 3  [Bedford]  22.12.81  b/c 10.6.83

Somervell
Christmas  possibly - soloists, New SO, de Rivera 21.12.83 ?

Spain-Dunk
The Kentish Downs   6.2.02

Stanford
Suite of Ancient Dances   30.11.77
Much Ado About Nothing – excerpts  12.2.83  [and other operatic excerpts by Smyth and others from the same Leslie Head concert]

Steel
Symphony No 5  23.8.87

I hope these dates are helpful.

Only just seen this site on Cheltenham, but in answer to the original question there is a 36-page booklet 'The Cheltenham International Festival of Music 1945-1994 - Reminiscences' (oddly, no publisher or printer named) that lists all first performances by year from 1945 until 1994 (11 pages), together with a list of all featured composers, giving years but not listing all individual works.  A very useful booklet.