BR classic

BR classic
Radio station ( public law )
Program type	Classical channels
reception	analog terrestrial , cable , satellite , DAB + , livestream
Reception area	Bavaria
Start of transmission	4th October 1980
Broadcaster	Bavarian radio
Intendant	Ulrich Wilhelm
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Under BR-Klassik , Bayerischer Rundfunk presents its classical music offers on radio, television and on the Internet.

history

1980: Start as a special interest radio

When the classic wave of Bavarian Radio went on air on October 4, 1980, it was the first pure classical radio wave in Germany. It was later expanded into an all-day program with the exception of the evening ARD guest worker programs that had been taken over up to then .

2009: Classic umbrella brand

Since October 1, 2009, all of Bayerischer Rundfunk's classic offers have been grouped under the newly created BR-Klassik umbrella brand as an independent BR-KLASSIK label. The label was initiated by Mariss Jansons , who as director of the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam had good experience with an orchestra's own CD label. The label was launched on September 23, 2009, and since then Bayerischer Rundfunk has been the first public broadcaster to manage audio and video production and the distribution of CDs and DVDs under its own brand. Since then, the three BR orchestras , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Choir have presented themselves . Juan Martin Koch writes in the Neue Musikzeitung : "The technically excellent SACD recordings serve above all to showcase the level of orchestral performance that the BR symphony orchestra under its boss Mariss Jansons has achieved." CD recordings have been released, some of which are also available online as streams and downloads. These include live recordings as well as studio recordings from all of the BR ensembles. The classic label program includes recordings by podium stars such as Lorin Maazel or Otto Klemperer , which document the interpretive taste of the respective time. This also includes works that are seldom performed, such as Ivan Repušić's recording of Verdi's opera I due Foscari . A highlight in the label program is the recording of all Beethoven symphonies from 2012 under Mariss Jansons. The “audio biographies” of great composers such as Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner, elaborately produced under the classical music label, go beyond pure music recordings .

2015: Trimedial platform

Since November 2015, BR-Klassik has been represented on a redesigned homepage in the online offer of Bayerischer Rundfunk and in social networks. On this website, the Klassikwelle presents all classical activities of the Bavarian Radio on radio, television, the Internet, in concerts and other events. In addition to news from the world of classical music, the website offers concert and opera recordings, videos, live streams, commentary and the current classical radio program. With the internet platform, the BR would like to offer users access to the world of classical music through which they can delve deeper into the respective topics. The music critic of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Reinhart J. Brembeck says about the potential of the new website:

“If you don't make music yourself, go to concerts and are otherwise a music specialist, the new website presents itself as the ultimate in classical music mediation. Or at least could become one. "

Radio program

The radio program is presented daily between 6 a.m. and midnight. During the rest of the time, the ARD night concert , which has been produced exclusively by BR-Klassik since July 4, 2011 , will be broadcast. Until then, the ARD night concert was only performed by BR-Klassik on the night from Thursday to Friday and by other ARD cultural waves on the remaining days.

During the day goes BR-Klassik as a music program that can be used both in accompaniment function and in concentrated form.

The Z. The daily program, which is moderated in part, includes a diverse range of large work cycles as well as shorter excerpts from individual works. It also offers operetta melodies and light jazz, supplemented by program information, event tips, news and current reports. On January 22, 2013, the station took the “Operettenboulevard” from Bayern 1 to the evening program.

The evening program has a different focus every day: Chamber concerts, opera evenings, sacred music, choral music, early music, contemporary music and jazz have their regular seats. Operas and concerts are regularly broadcast live.

In 2003 Bayern 4 Klassik introduced “Do Re Mikro”, a music program for children, and the young music magazine “U21 - Wir auf Vier”, which is now called “Sweet Spot - curious about music”. "Do Re Mikro" is broadcast twice a week, "Sweet Spot" is broadcast once a week. The highlights of this child and youth work are the annual children's and youth radio days with live concerts and interactive games, in which BR-Klassik makes its daily program available to young listeners. In addition, the children's program “Eine kleine Wunschmusik” has been running once a month since 2011.

Various special programs are devoted to serious music as well as jazz and music from all over the world. The program also contains discussion programs, artist portraits, documentaries and features that illuminate various areas of musical life in a current, artistic and journalistic way.

Television program

Concerts, operas and documentaries under the title BR-KLASSIK are broadcast on BR television on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights. In the educational program ARD-alpha, thematic concert series are presented on Sundays at 8:15 p.m.

BR-Klassik produces two TV magazines. KlickKlack with Sol Gabetta and Martin Grubinger has been bringing up current topics from classical, jazz and contemporary music since 2010. The magazine SWEET SPOT (previously U21vernetzt) ​​started in January 2018 and is aimed at a young audience with live music and talk guests from the world of classical music.

Radio broadcasting

BR-Klassik is broadcast across Bavaria via FM . The program is also fed into all Bavarian cable networks. The program is also available via DAB + and DVB-S as well as on the Internet. In South Tyrol , BR-Klassik is broadcast by Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol in the DAB + standard.

Frequency swap with the youth wave pulse

At the beginning of 2014, BR discussed whether to discontinue VHF broadcasting of the classical music program in favor of the youth radio pulse at the beginning of 2016. The Bavarian Music Council then initiated an online petition to keep the VHF broadcast. The BR Broadcasting Council agreed on July 10, 2014, with the proviso that certain prerequisites were met, to the BR director's proposal to move BR Klassik from VHF to DAB + from 2018 . As a result, 60 local commercial broadcasters and the state-wide commercial broadcasting company Antenne Bayern filed a lawsuit before the Munich I district court in February 2015 . The lawsuit was dismissed on June 7, 2016, on the grounds that "which focus is broadcast on which transmission channel is not prescribed in any form under the State Broadcasting Treaty or the Bavarian Broadcasting Act". On December 8, 2017, Bayerischer Rundfunk announced that it would refrain from swapping frequencies. The BR justified this with permanently changed framework conditions.

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  Station logo until October 2007

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  Channel logo from October 2007 to September 2009

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  Black and white version of the current logo on TV since October 2009

Web links

• Own web presence
• broadcasts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BR-KLASSIK, the CD label of the Bavarian radio. br.de, accessed on November 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Juan Martin Koch: Clear messages: the first releases of the CD label BR-KLassik. nmz.de, February 2, 2010, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 10 years of the BR-KLASSIK label: Anyone who has treasures should share them. br.de, accessed on November 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Thomas Jordan: Delighted: The BR-Klassik label is ten years old. sueddeutsche.de, November 1, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 . 
5. ^ Relaunch of BR-Klassik on br.de, accessed on December 16, 2015
6. ↑ Reinhard J.Brembeck: Amorevole - The BR has set up a website for its classic wave. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 29, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015 . 
7. ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Sweet Spot .: Curious about music | BR classic . March 27, 2018 ( br-klassik.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
8. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Do Re Micro: Classical music for children. June 1, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: U21 becomes SWEET SPOT: Young classics under a new brand | BR.de . February 22, 2018 ( br.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
10. ↑ Online petition "BR-Klassik must stay!" , accessed April 12, 2014.
11. ↑ Press release of Bayerischer Rundfunk "Information on the subject of BR-Klassik" , accessed on April 12, 2014.
12. ↑ radioszene.de: PULS gets FM frequencies from BR-Klassik 2018
13. ↑ SZ: Private broadcasters complain against "Tausch Jugend gegen Klassik", accessed on February 10, 2015  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Court decision: action by private radio stations against the BR dismissed. Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 7, 2016, accessed on June 7, 2016 . 
15. ↑ BR decides against frequency swap PULS / BR-Klassik. In: radio scene. December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .