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.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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Your monster list (worth checking out, but average) blaringly misses Nono, Berio, Ligeti, Xenakis, Myaskovsky, Scriabin, Roussel, Honegger, others.
As mentioned by others, KING-FM, WQXR. More challenging composers/works are oft played in the wee small hours, but atleast they're touched on occasionally. No substitutes for building your own collection. And I talk hard copy. Good old fashioned CD.
I should have put the question before just that part of the list, but I was only asking about the ones from John Field and down. Those composers you listed were not among those played that day, but I would call most of them composers that have single-name recognition for classical music fans. My list is also missing older names like Sibelius because they are not played every single day, either.Your monster list (worth checking out, but average) blaringly misses Nono, Berio, Ligeti, Xenakis, Myaskovsky, Scriabin, Roussel, Honegger, others.
As mentioned by others, KING-FM, WQXR. More challenging composers/works are oft played in the wee small hours, but atleast they're touched on occasionally. No substitutes for building your own collection. And I talk hard copy. Good old fashioned CD.
I have heard works from Berio, Ligeti, Myaskovsky, Scriabin, Roussel, and Honegger in my investigations, usually from the Top XYZ lists on this site. Scriabin has some great work, and a few of the others have music that I thought was okay but insufficient to motivate me to seek out more of their music at this time.
Hard copies are fine, and I have a few classical CDs, but they have a few drawbacks. Among them are taking up space, the possibility that I may never listen to them that many times, and expense. Streaming has its own drawbacks, but it is becoming less and less essential to have a physical collection. It definitely is not required in terms of finding composers, performers, and works that appeal to me.
A note about length: KBAQ was able to play the entirety of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 when they unveiled the Most Wanted 100. I am not sure how they got around the call sign rules (hopefully not by putting it between movements), but it is possible. Being a public radio station, though, they also have sponsorship considerations and education/community building commentary from the DJs that would get short shrift if a huge amount of very long works were played regularly.
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