How Much Variety Does Your Classical Radio Station Have?

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bharbeke

Discussion Starter · Aug 17, 2015

My local radio station, KBAQ, plays what I consider to be a good variety of composers. I am curious to see how this compares to the experience of other people on this site.

I looked at last Friday's playlist, which seems to be a fair representation of the station's usual broadcasting practice, and I listed every composer played during that 24-hour period. A number in parentheses means that that many pieces were played by that composer during the day. The composers that are unfamiliar to me or are not known by one name by a lot of classical music fans I put at the end after Copland.

TANGENT: Are any of those composers worth checking out?

Ravel
Wagner (2)
Vivaldi (5)
Rossini (4)
Haydn (5)
Bach (5)
Elgar
Dukas
Mozart (6)
Boccherini
Schumann (2)
A. Scarlatti
Saint-Saens
Tallis
Beethoven (7)
Puccini
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky
Purcell
Verdi
Albinoni (2)
Liszt
Massenet
Handel (5)
Rimsky-Korsakov (2)
Schubert (2)
Mendelssohn (2)
Paganini
Shostakovich (2)
Bruch
Mahler
Korngold
Brahms (2)
Grieg
Satie
Dvorak (2)
Telemann
Gershwin
Albeniz
Chopin (2)
Debussy
Prokofiev
Faure
Vaughan Williams
Berlioz
Khachaturian
J.C. Bach
Corelli
Janacek
Borodin
Copland

John Field
Etienne Mehul
James Oswald
Carl Stamitz
Franz Beck
John Lunn
Emmanuel Chabrier
Mark O'Connor
Josef Suk
Franz von Suppe
Dave Roylance/Bob Galvin
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (2)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Hamish MacCunn
Emmanuel Chabrier
Jacques Aubert
Franz Xaver Dussek
Johann Quantz
Hamilton Harty
Alfredo Catalani
Marin Marais
Henryk Wieniawski

This seems to be a pretty good mix of playing popular composers and less familiar names, putting something that is likely to be new to the listener about once an hour. I did not put all the titles in so as not to clutter the post even more, but the pieces played are not all warhorses, either. There are popular ones like Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in there, but there are lesser known works like one of Mozart's divertimentos in there, too.

Please share your thoughts and experiences. What kind of radio station do you have? Would you recommend it to others? Why?

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Sloe

· #7 · Aug 17, 2015

I am listening on radio now a string quartet by Haydn opus 77. It is the ebu nightly broadcasts provided by BBC. Yesterday i heard Bruckners third symphony very nice.

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Sloe

· #16 · Aug 18, 2015

Tedski said:
Here is today's playlist for WRR 101.1 Dallas (which is owned and operated by the city of Dallas). For me, it has a good mix of the overplayed, familiar but not overplayed, and lesser known and unknown works.

During the day, they stick to single movements out of larger pieces. Between 10pm and 6am they will sometimes play complete longer works, such as Mozart's Posthorn Serenade, which has 7 movements lasting almost 45 minutes.

One complete longer work in one day. That is too little.
I feel sorry for you and the other people in Dallas.

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Sloe

· #22 · Aug 18, 2015

Tedski said:
It's just as well. As I only listen to WRR when I am in the car, I'm usually not tuned in long enough to hear a whole work all the way through, anyway.

I listen to radio for several hours and like longer orchestral works.
By the way it irritates me a lot to only hear a movement from a symphony I want to hear all of it or nothing.

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Sloe

· #25 · Aug 18, 2015

Simon Moon said:
The only consistent exception is a show on Friday from 10 PM-12 AM called "Modern Times". But even then, they play it safe.

What modern music do they play?

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