Certainly Not Suffolkcoastal

[antongould]

... or Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Walton ... before we get on to Tippett then Thomas Ades ..., and. I think we need at least the top 50 to get a more balanced picture, and perhaps a histogram representation.

As I said above/below I will wait a few days before publishing, initially, a top 100 ..... everyone will then, of course, use their own favourite graphical representation ......

[LMcD]

I bet 70% of the Debussy is La Mer, L’ Ile Joyeuse and Feux d’Artifice

I would think The Girl With The Flaxen Hair is broadcast quite often.

[eighthobstruction]

....Beethoven 9th 4th movement will need a column all of its own in 2020....

[Dave2002]

If I had the time I’d work out total durations which might bring Bach ( all those preludes and fugues ) down and restore Bruckner and Mahler to their rightful place in the sun.,

So - are the numbers occurrences, or do they represent hours of time? A bit of clarification .... there might only be a few Wagner operas/music dramas each year, but they might still tot up a lot of hours. Verdi might do better, as his operas might be considered to be lots of little bits joined together - giving a higher occurrence count.

[antongould]

So - are the numbers occurrences, or do they represent hours of time? A bit of clarification .... there might only be a few Wagner operas/music dramas each year, but they might still tot up a lot of hours. Verdi might do better, as his operas might be considered to be lots of little bits joined together - giving a higher occurrence count.

The file is occurrences there is no elapsed time attached ......

[Zucchini]

The file is occurrences there is no elapsed time attached ......

So the Chopin Preludes & Etudes played individually across the year on Breakfast count as 48 plays? And the Preludes & 2x Etudes played in a Wigmore Hall recital count as 3 plays? That's bonkers

[antongould]

So the Chopin Preludes & Etudes played individually across the year on Breakfast count as 48 plays? And the Preludes & 2x Etudes played in a Wigmore Hall recital count as 3 plays? That's bonkers

Indeed - I can send you the Excel file and you can unbonker it ......

[Ein Heldenleben]

Indeed - I can send you the Excel file and you can unbonker it ......

Unbonkering it might involve calculating the duration of each track by referring to say the Naxos library , YouTube and Amazon downloads and then doing some sums . While this would be an heroic endeavour it could be a phenomenal amount of work.

[Serial_Apologist]

Indeed - I can send you the Excel file and you can unbonker it ......

I take my hat off to you for taking on a job that will doubtless fling many brickbats in your direction, anton - most of them missing whatever the target is supposed to be!

[teamsaint]

Indeed - I can send you the Excel file and you can unbonker it ......

Keep up the good work, AG.

Patience of a Saint needed round here........

[antongould]

Unbonkering it might involve calculating the duration of each track by referring to say the Naxos library , YouTube and Amazon downloads and then doing some sums . While this would be an heroic endeavour it could be a phenomenal amount of work.

As you say phenomenal ..... it may be that if we use this base methodology going forward that Andrew can produce smaller weekly/monthly files with playing times per instance in - he has IIRC done it when we had one of our many discussions on length of pieces played in EC - these can then be accumulated ...... but he probably has more than enough on his plate.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Andrew's "Printable Listings" Thread each week contains a link to an Archive, where you can type in the name of any composer you like, and discover how many times his/her work has featured over the past up-to 400 days. Typing in "Vaughan Williams", for example, we discover that his Music has featured 338 times over the past 300 days - including six broadcasts of the Scherzo from the London Symphony:

https://radio-lists.org.uk/r3/pl.php?composer=*vau***n+wil***s&title=*&prog=*&latest=yesterday&days=365

[Andrew Slater]

As you say phenomenal ..... it may be that if we use this base methodology going forward that Andrew can produce smaller weekly/monthly files with playing times per instance in - he has IIRC done it when we had one of our many discussions on length of pieces played in EC - these can then be accumulated ...... but he probably has more than enough on his plate.

The database actually contains durations, so if I get the time I might be able to do some automatic sums.......

[Ein Heldenleben]

The database actually contains durations, so if I get the time I might be able to do some automatic sums.......

If it’s in an excel spreadsheet that could be done very quickly ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We also learn that Debussy's Feu d'Artifice was broadcast 14 times, l'Isle Joyeux 20 times (thrice in the Molinari orchestration - 14 of the broadcasts were during either Breakfast or Essentially Crassic ); and La Mer 16 times in full, with 12 further broadcasts of individual movements. So 62 out of 800 broadcasts - which isn't quite Heldy's "70%" (I hope nobody took him up on his bet!) but still showing a considerable lack of imagination from the various producers. (29 Faun's afternoon capers - mostly, ironically, broadcast before noon - making that the most frequently broadcast of Claude's output. The Girl had her flaxen hair done 15 times.)