I have no idea what the precise financial situations of the world's orchestras are. But I do know that many of them are perpetually crying poor but never actual

I have no idea what the precise financial situations of the world's orchestras are. But I do know that many of them are perpetually crying poor but never actually closing their doors. I can't think of any major orchestra which has ever actually had to shut down due to a lack of money coming in. New recordings must be, I imagine, a rapidly-dissolving revenue stream anyway. Any piece which is actually popular among buyers already has a number of "definitive" recordings which it would be difficult to top, and anything which isn't already the subject of a zillion recordings will probably never sell much anyway.