BaL recommendations list

[Pulcinella]

In Googling in an attempt to see if Barber's piano music had ever been considered, I stumbled across this site, which at first sight seems a veritable treasure trove (and worth pinning at the top of the page?).
Did anyone else know if its existence?

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/stilton/building-a-library-recommendations/

Building a Library recommendations


A list by stilton[List186794] | +247

Recordings picked as first choices on BBC Radio 3's "Building a Library", with the year of broadcast and any supplementary recommendations. Perpetually ongoing.

Spotify playlists (split into two owing to size): everything since 15 June 2013 in chronological order and everything earlier year by year

[gradus]

Many thanks, a great find, interesting and useful and a real labour of love to compile.

[smittims]

I hadn't see it before. It's quite amazing. I wonder who does this sort of thing and how much work it involves.

[Pulcinella]

I found scrolling through a bit afflicted by intrusive adverts (particularly at the bottom of the page, where a bit of juggling was needed to go to the next page or jump ahead/back link), but indeed truly amazing!!

[Nick Armstrong]

I found scrolling through a bit afflicted by intrusive adverts (particularly at the bottom of the page, where a bit of juggling was needed to go to the next page or jump ahead/back link), but indeed truly amazing!!

Astonishing…. V interesting to browse through.

(I’ve generally avoided Spotify but I suspect subscribers avoid the ‘adverts’ issue by paying them money?)

[french frank]

Astonishing…. V interesting to browse through.

(I’ve generally avoided Spotify but I suspect subscribers avoid the ‘adverts’ issue by paying them money?)

I avoided adverts by having Adblocker. On this occasion they didn't plead with me to disable it either on account of the adverts supporting the website.

[Andrew Slater]

... but isn't the BBC's excel listing easier to read? (See bottom of page, under 'Related Links' here.)

[Pulcinella]

... but isn't the BBC's excel listing easier to read? (See bottom of page, under 'Related Links' here.)

Ah! I thought that there was a list somewhere, but thought it had originally been as a side link here and hence when I didn't find it I went Googling elsewhere.
Who'd have thought that the BBC were that organised?

Maybe this thread could be edited (maybe just its title) and/or a sticky created with both these links.
This one I stumbled on also claims to have Spotify links, so might be differently useful.

Over to the hosts.

[Cockney Sparrow]

We have our own resource - apply to Darloboy, or wait for him to post the details he has.

In about May 1922 I sent him some printed yearly lists (apply to the Beeb with an SAE in those days of course, IIRC) for the period September 1988 to July 1991 - and he said his lists went back to September 1991. Which it seems precedes the period of the spreadsheet linked to on the BBC programme page.

[gurnemanz]

I had come across those Spotify BaL lists previously and posted links (during lockdown). They seemed to be useful at the time but I haven't actually used them that much. Interesting also to have stilton's nicely presented website list. (There's a cheese pseudonym thing going on here - the Spotify list compiler is called camembert.)

I don't seem to have mastered the art of linking to a previous post under the new system. The link below is a link to my search by which I found the post in question. This was the only way I seemed to be able to do it,

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/classical-forum/record-review/building-a-library/10403-building-a-library-general-discussion?view=stream&q=spotify

[Darloboy]

We have our own resource - apply to Darloboy, or wait for him to post the details he has.

In about May 1922 I sent him some printed yearly lists (apply to the Beeb with an SAE in those days of course, IIRC) for the period September 1988 to July 1991 - and he said his lists went back to September 1991. Which it seems precedes the period of the spreadsheet linked to on the BBC programme page.

Thanks, I've put all of those recommendations into an Excel spreadsheet - I've also used the Radio Time genome to add whatever was covered in any given week going back to 1957 - as I think I've said previously, I've obviously got too much time on my hands. I'm happy to share if anyone's interested.

[Darloboy]

In Googling in an attempt to see if Barber's piano music had ever been considered...

No, it hasn't. The only music by Barber which has ever been covered by BaL is: Knoxville (twice); Symphony Nos. 1 and 2 (in a single programme); and the Violin Concerto.