2011 Survey of classical music broadcast on Radio 3 - The Results

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Bleeding Chunks" or excerpts rudely ripped from larger works.

[mercia]

Please will somebody tell me what a BC is.

bleeding chunk (I think)

FW = full work (I think)

[amateur51]

Bloomin' marvellous work, french frank @#29 !!

[LHC]

Suffolk's survey says that 2180 composers were played last year
is it not asking the impossible to give them all equal airtime?

can I ask why?

I too would like R3 to play a diverse range of complete works and not just play the popular classics, but I find the idea that there should be timed quota for each composer to guarantee equal airtime to be rather bizarre. For example, how many of Webern's works would have to be played to match the broadcast of all 6 1/2 hours of Die Meistersinger on New Year's Day?

[antongould]

I've done an initial study of the week Jan 3-9 1970.....
Boulez
Brahms
Britten
Cardew, C
Casella, A
Cecconi(-Botella), M


NB: This is the William Glock era!

No Bruckner even then - we/ve had it hard these past 40 odd years!

[aeolium]

It is effort like this (not relatively silly squabbles about gender balance in the VPO ) that makes this Board so valuable to me AND to the BBC if only they knew it.

Why do you think a discussion (not a squabble) about gender balance in the VPO is 'relatively silly', am51? Do you think there is no problem about gender balance in the VPO or just that discussion of it is silly?

[amateur51]

Why do you think a discussion (not a squabble) about gender balance in the VPO is 'relatively silly', am51? Do you think there is no problem about gender balance in the VPO or just that discussion of it is silly?

I was poking fun at myself, aeolium.

In truth I think that the VPO gender balance argument is important but I know that some here think that I (and a few others) bang on about it too much

[aeolium]

Sorry about that, am51 - bit of an irony failure on my part <doh>

And not at all wishing to detract from Suffolkcoastal's excellent work

[amateur51]

Sorry about that, am51 - bit of an irony failure on my part <doh>

And not at all wishing to detract from Suffolkcoastal's excellent work

No need for sorries, aeolium

[Suffolkcoastal]

Many thanks for the messages of appreciation. I'm glad that by doing this I am able to stimulate interesting and varied discussion on R3's output. It takes me c12-14 hours a week to prepare the analysis, depending on how much Iplayer trawling I have to do, especially most evening concert, which is never indicated on the playlists.

For additional interest I've added the composers below who had between 50 & 99 works/extracts broadcast.
BARBER 95+
RESPIGHI 90+
DELIUS 85+
COPLAND 85+
KODALY 85+
MUSSORGSKY 85+
ARNOLD 80+
BRIDGE 80+
FALLA 80+
BORODIN 75+
BERNSTEIN L 75+
BRUCH 75+
CORELLI 70+
PAGANINI 70+
ALBENIZ 70+
TALLIS 70+
BUXTEHUDE 65+
PIAZZOLLA 65+
GLUCK 60+
SZYMANOWSKI 60+
BOCCHERINI 60+
GRANADOS 60+
PALESTRINA 60+
PART 60+
SUK 55+
KHACHATURIAN 55+
KREISLER 55+
OFFENBACH 55+
FRANCK C 55+
GLINKA 55+
GEMINIANI 55+
WEILL 55+
DELIBES 50+
MASSENET 50+
GOUNOD 50+
LULLY 50+
SCHOENBERG 50+
COATES E 50+
GLAZUNOV 50+
CHABRIER 50+
MESSIAEN 50+
PARRY H 50+

I expect I'll have to get started on the 2012 survey. Especially as I won't be going far for a couple days, as my 2012 has got off to a great start by tearing the miniscus on my good knee somehow and spending this morning at A & E!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

OUCH! Get (and feel) better soon, Suffy.

Interesting that with the new list, only Schönberg and Messiaen from MrGG's list and my own get a look-in.

[Chris Newman]

Oh dear, Suffolkcoastal. What awful luck. If you can, put your feet up and have a restful read and listen to some good music. I wish you a speedy (but careful) recovery.

[amateur51]

As a fellow knee-sufferer, I'm very sorry to hear about the good knee, Suffolkcoastal - very nasty

Get well in as much time as it takes

[cloughie]

No Bruckner even then - we/ve had it hard these past 40 odd years!

I guess if you could look at Jan 10-16, or the following week one of Anton's symphonies would be there in all its glory, who knows, even given full justice by a British Orchetra and maybe even a British conductor!

[Serial_Apologist]

As a fellow knee-sufferer, I'm very sorry to hear about the good knee, Suffolkcoastal - very nasty

Get well in as much time as it takes

AM-kneesia??