Should change your name from Classical to "Baroque and Guitar Schmaltz All the Time." -- fasote
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Listener fasote wrote:
[You] Should change your name from Classical to "Baroque and Guitar Schmaltz All the Time." Strange, out of the past 4000 years of musical history you choose to use only one period regularly and then crap from the last 20 years! I hear guitar about every other piece you play, why not the nose flute or the occarina or the fart focuser - all predate the guitar and most orchestral instruments? Come on if you are going to do obscure instruments why not the Ondes Martineau or the Theramin??? Just about stopped when you played a piece by both Brahms and Poulenc the other day. I have never heard you play Scriabine [cq] and so many other composers! Not sure I have ever heard you play anything by an English composer and not sure I have ever heard you play anything from the Romantic period...Classical and Impressionistic periods very rarely if at best. Some of us progressed beyond Vivaldi/Mozart and the Beetles…
First of all, it is not possible to progress beyond Mozart. Glad to clear that up.
Much of the time, I like to simply read our Feedback comments and have them speak for themselves. But since this is the second message we have received recently accusing us of concentrating on Baroque music, guitar music, or worst of all, Baroque music for guitar, I decided a response is needed. This is called the reproof valiant. So just for fun – and admittedly my idea of fun may be different from yours -- I decided to look at an entire playlist, midnight to midnight. I chose February 2nd. Exactly 6 works in that period, or 5.82% of the 103 works played that day, included a guitar. 20 of the works or 19.41% were by Baroque composers.
For us the bottom line is that we believe there’s overall a good balance between early music, Baroque, Classical, early and late Romantic, 20th- and 21st-Century. In fact, on the website [see below] we’ll have a list of the composers represented that day so you can see for yourself, and check my math in the process. It’ll be fun!
Oh, and exactly 1 work was Baroque and for guitar. That’s 0.97%. But who’s counting?
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Composers whose works were played on Classical HQR, Tuesday February 3, 2016:
6 works for guitar included in the list below
Aaron Copland
Alberto Ginastera
Alexander Glazunov (2)
Ambroise Thomas
Amy Beach
Anonymous (Renaissance)
Anton Arensky
Antonin Dvorak (2)
Antonio Lauro
Antonio Vivaldi (3)
Arthur Sullivan
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Maria von Weber
Carlos Baguer
Catrin Finch
Claude Debussy (3)
Cyril Scott
David Diamond
Domenico Cimarosa
Eduard Lalo
Edvard Grieg
Edward Elgar (2)
Emmanuel Chabrier
Ennio Morricone
Felix Mendelssohn
Francois Couperin
Frank Bridge
Franz Joseph Haydn (3)
Franz Lehar
Franz Liszt
Franz Schubert (3)
Frederic Chopin (3)
Gabriel Pierne
Gaspard Fritz
Georg Philip Telemann (2)
George Frideric Handel (2)
Georges Bizet
Germain Tailleferre
Giovanni Bottesini
Giovanni Reali
Girolamo Frescobaldi (2)
Giuseppe Tartini
Gustav Holst
Henry Purcell
Ho Zhan Hao & Chen Kang
J. Rosamond Johnson
J.S. Bach (2)
Jean Sibelius
Joachim Anderson
Joan Trimble
Johan Halvorsen
Johann David Heinichen
Johann Hummel
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Johannes Brahms
John Larchet
Leopold Mozart
Ludovico Einaudi
Ludwig van Beethoven (4)
Manuel de Falla
Mauro Giuliani
Michael Torke
Michel de la Barre
Ottorino Respighi
Pablo de Sarasate
Peter Hope
Pietro Mascagni
Richard Strauss
Robert Volkmann
Saverio Mercadante
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergio Assad
Stanley Myers
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Traditional Irish
William Boyce
William Walton
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7)