Classical Stations

Here we go then, the classy end of the market, with a three way battle between the big guns… the BBC’s Radio 3, Global’s Classic FM and the new upstart from Bauer, Scala Radio. 

Interesting to see that Global even adopt their usual comparatively small playlist policy to their Classical station, just playing the most popular pieces, (albeit about 1000 more than they do on most of their pop stations!).

The new kids on the block, Bauer’s Scala, have definitely decided to park their tanks on the BBC Lawns and even beat Radio 3 on the number of distinct pieces played, even if they do tend to play more slightly shorter pieces, like Classic FM, and start off playing even MORE variety than Radio 3, though it does start to tail off slightly after about 10 days to 2 weeks, but it never drops as far as Classic FM which is bumping along the bottom after 3 weeks. 

Top 14 Most Played:

1 [4 plays] Arvo Part – Spiegel im Spiegel
2= [3 plays] each for…
+ Antonin Dvorak – Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 No.2
+ Claude Debussy – L’Isle Joyeuse
+ Dobrinka Tabakova – Arise Lord into Thy rest
+ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute (Overture)
6= [2 plays] each for…
+ Alexander von Zemlinsky – Humoreske
+ Anna Clyne – Cello Concerto ‘Dance’ (When You’re Broken Up)
+ Antonin Dvorak – Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
+ Antonio Vivaldi – Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425
+ Barbara Strozzi – L’Eraclito amoroso Op.2 no.14
+ Benjamin Britten – Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)
+ Bryn Terfel & Annabel Thwaite – A Medley of Welsh Folksongs
+ Camille Saint-Saens – Bacchanale, from ‘Samson et Dalila’
+ Carl Friedrich Abel – Symphony in D major, Op 10 No 5

Top 12 Most Played:

1= [16 plays] each for…
+ Aaron Copland – Fanfare For The Common Man
+ Gustav Holst – The Planets Opus 32 (4)
+ Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D major
+ Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana – Intermezzo
5= [15 plays] each for…
+ Camille Saint-Saens – Carnival of the Animals (13)
+ Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (1)
+ Edward Elgar – Variations on an Original Theme Opus 36 (9)
+ Erik Satie – Gymnopedie No.1
+ Gabriel Faure – Pavane opus 50
+ George Frideric Handel – Sarabande
+ Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade Opus 35 (3)
+ Stanley Myers – Cavatina

Top 11 Most Played:
1= [7 plays] each for…
+ Anna Lapwood – Hans Zimmer – Chevaliers De Sangreal
+ Original Soundtrack Orchestra, Andre Previn – Lloyd Webber – John Nineteen: Forty One
3= [6 plays] each for…
+ Choir of Bath Abbey, Huw Williams – Ola Gjeilo – Ubi Caritas
+ Choir Of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber – Judith Weir – Drop Down, Ye Heavens, From Above
+ John Williams, Julian Bream – Carulli – Rondo
+ Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Lloyd Webber – Tell Me On A Sunday
+ London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn – TCHAIKOVSKY -“ SWAN LAKE -“ MAZURKA
+ Maya Youssef, Ben Smith – Maya Youssef – My Homeland
+ Pinar Toprak, Studio Musicians – Pinar Toprak – Captain Marvel
+ The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock – William Boyce – Symphony #4 , 2nd Mvt
+ Yo Yo Ma, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra – Vivaldi – Cello Concerto In B Flat, 3rd Mvt

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