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?
