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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Faustian

· #18 · Aug 18, 2015

KenOC said:
Our station here has pretty good programming, and mostly complete works -- even once in a while some of those gargantuan symphonies by you-know-who and you-know-who. But the station is not very adventurous with respect to works of the 20th century and beyond. It's on the web in real time and can be listened to anywhere. http://www.kusc.org/

Not generally very adventurous no, especially during the day time hours (although you will get an occasional William Schuman symphony or something), but I listen to Jim Svejda's week-night program fairly regularly and he will dip into 20th century works quite often. Off the top of my head I remember hearing Stravinsky's The Flood, Gerald Finzi's clarinet concerto, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, and many others on his show. He also plays lots of film music from the 20/21st century, and has current composers as guests from time to time (I heard John Corigliano on there not too long ago).

Then of course there's the Modern Times program that broadcasts from 10pm-12am PST on Saturday nights that exclusively plays 20th and 21st century works.

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