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I made up a list (as I am prone to do :D) of unrecorded concertos by British composers (deemed by me to be significant figures) and composed post-1945. The list numbered 115 concertos.

What struck me was that over half of that number were composed by nine people. (I have placed an * beside those which can be heard in off-air recordings- fortunately over half of them)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (11):

Horn Concerto (1956)
Oboe Concerto (1969-70) *
Guitar Concerto (1970) *
Viola Concerto (1973) *
Double Bass Concerto (1978) *
Harpsichord Concerto (1980) *
Clarinet  Concerto (1987) *
Saxophone Concerto (1988) *
Percussion Concerto (1990) *
Trumpet Concerto (1993) *
Bassoon Concerto (1994)

Alun Hoddinott (10):

Cello Concerto (1948)
Oboe Concerto (1955)
Violin Concerto No.1 (1960)
Piano Concerto No.3 (1966) *
Organ Concerto (1967) *
Concerto for Piano Trio (1985)
Violin Concerto No.2 (1995) *
Trumpet Concerto (1995) *
Percussion Concerto (1998) *
Trombone Concerto (2004) *

Wilfred Josephs (9)

Cello Concerto (1961-62) *
Piano Concerto No.1 (1965) *
Oboe Concerto (1967)
Double Violin Concerto (1969)
Piano Concerto No.2 (1971) *
Clarinet Concerto (1975) *
Viola Concerto (1983) *
Violin Concerto (1992)
Piano Concerto No.3 (1993-94)

John McCabe:  8

Violin Concerto No.1 (1959)
Oboe d'Amore Concerto (1972)
Piano Concerto No.3 (1976) *
Double Concerto for Oboe and Clarinet (1987-88) *
Violin Concerto No.2 (1980) *
Horn Concerto (2006) *
Cello Concerto (2007) *
Trumpet Concerto (2012) *

Robin Holloway (6)

Organ Concerto (1965-66)
Viola Concerto (1983-84) *
Bassoon Concerto (1985)
Double Concerto for Clarinet and Saxophone (1988)
Clarinet Concerto (1996)
Double Bass Concerto (1996)

Gordon Jacob (5)

Cello Concerto (1955) *
Oboe Concerto No.2 (1956)
Piano Concerto No.2 (1957) *
Organ Concerto (1975)
Flute Concerto No.2 (1981)

Iain Hamilton (5)

Clarinet Concerto !949-50)
Organ Concerto (1964)
Violin Concerto No.2 (1972) *
Piano Concerto No.2 (1987) *
Harp Concerto (1992)

Arthur Butterworth (5)

Organ Concerto (1966-73) *
Violin Concerto (1978)*
Trumpet Concerto (1992) *
Cello Concerto (1997)
Guitar Concerto (2000)

Malcolm Lipkin (5)

Violin Concerto No.1 (1951-52)
Piano Concerto (1959)
Violin Concerto No.2 (1960-62) *
Flute Concerto (1974)
Oboe Concerto (1988-89)

Ruth Gipps's Violin Concertos

When you say unrecorded, you mean commercially unreleased, not unrecorded right?  For example Arthur Butterworth's violin concerto is on your list but is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKxRlKi-02E

Yes, I mean not commercially recorded.

The Ruth Gipps Violin Concerto was written in 1943, so it lies outside the post-1945 period I specified. She did write a Concerto for Violin, Viola and small orchestra in 1957 but that is her only post-war unrecorded concerto. My list was of those composers who wrote five or more that have not made it to cd. There are a number of others-Arnold Cooke, Stanley Bate, Graham Whettam, William Mathias, William Wordsworth, Peter Racine Fricker who wrote three or four such unrecorded concertos.