Whole works internet station

[DracoM]

https://areena.yle.fi/radio/ohjelmat/yle-klassinen/

Really recommend this. Whole works, Finnish presentation, no trails, good reception.

[Master Jacques]

Thank you for this - anything must be better than the American-licking Radio 2.5 on Sunday Morning today, which has been making me sad and depressed (Ella Fitzgerald just following up on some appallingly bad film music by Virgil Thomson).

[Bryn]

Thank you for this - anything must be better than the American-licking Radio 2.5 on Sunday Morning today, which has been making me sad and depressed (Ella Fitzgerald just following up on some appallingly bad film music by Virgil Thomson).

At the time of this posting, 3 out of the 15 items played during this morning's "Sunday Morning" appear to be of American music. Hardly American-licking.

[french frank]

At the time of this posting, 3 out of the 15 items played during this morning's "Sunday Morning" appear to be of American music. Hardly American-licking.

You only need one to be sandwiched between Walton - Boulanger, and then Pärt - Handel to make it totally out of place for some listeners. Of course, if Billie Holiday's Don't Explain is a real treat for you that's different. But what percentage of Sunday Morning listeners would consider it a highlight?

[Bryn]

You only need one to be sandwiched between Walton - Boulanger, and then Pärt - Handel to make it totally out of place for some listeners. Of course, if Billie Holiday's Don't Explain is a real treat for you that's different. But what percentage of Sunday Morning listeners would consider it a highlight?

Was it to be her (as against the ubiquitous version from Ella or the original from Ethel Waters) recording of Stormy Wheather, I would.

Here's one that has not yet been taken down from YouTube:

[gurnemanz]

https://areena.yle.fi/radio/ohjelmat/yle-klassinen/

Really recommend this. Whole works, Finnish presentation, no trails, good reception.

I also like it. They also include a good range of less familiar Scandinavian works. A minor drawback compared to similar stations I listen to is that it doesn't display details of what is "playing now". You have to go to the website. Even if you catch the announcement, if you don't know Finnish (I know one swear word), you still might not know exactly what the music is.

[LezLee]

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I also like it. They also include a good range of less familiar Scandinavian works. A minor drawback compared to similar stations I listen to is that it doesn't display details of what is "playing now". You have to go to the website. Even if you catch the announcement, if you don't know Finnish (I know one swear word), you still might not know exactly what the music is.

If you can put up with half-hourly ads, Shazam is free

[doversoul1]

https://areena.yle.fi/radio/ohjelmat/yle-klassinen/

Really recommend this. Whole works, Finnish presentation, no trails, good reception.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004s77

six hours a day, seven days a week.
Really recommend this. Whole works, English presentation, no trails, good reception

[Serial_Apologist]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004s77

six hours a day, seven days a week.
Really recommend this. Whole works, English presentation, no trails, good reception

dovers: our "night's templar"!

[Serial_Apologist]

At the time of this posting, 3 out of the 15 items played during this morning's "Sunday Morning" appear to be of American music. Hardly American-licking.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know of any bad Virgil Thompson film music. Of the American inter- and post-WW2 "vernacular modernists", he is one of my favourites, preferable to Copland.

[DracoM]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004s77

six hours a day, seven days a week.
Really recommend this. Whole works, English presentation, no trails, good reception

But one of the major advantages of this Finnish station is that the repertoire is SO varied - composers and works I have never heard of and have come to admire and search out. I am sure there are other stations who are more inventive than the BBC by and large.

[sidneyfox]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004s77

six hours a day, seven days a week.
Really recommend this. Whole works, English presentation, no trails, good reception

[doversoul1]

dovers: our "night's templar"!

I think some things on Radio3 are still worth crusading for.

[DracoM]

Here's what the Finnish stn I mentioned above has been running recently:

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PIECE
21.52 Rautavaara: Violin Concerto (Tobias Feldmann and Royal FO / Jean-Jacques Kantorow).
22.18 R. Strauss: Five Pieces for Piano (Glenn Gould).
22.47 Emperor: A series of strings and continents from the unfinished opera Hercules und Hebe (Yeree Suh, soprano, and Elbipolis baroque from Hamburg).
23.10 V. Hannikainen: For Mother (Sauli Tiilikainen, baritone, and Pentti Kotiranta, piano).
23.12 Rossini: A ma Belle mère (My Beautiful Mother) (Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano, and James Levine, piano).
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21.40 Sirmen: String Quartet No 3 G (Allegri Quartet).
19.02 Heise: Drot og Marsk (King and Marski), opera (Poul Elming, tenor, Bent Norup, bass, Eva Johansson, soprano, Kurt West, tenor, Christian Christiansson, bass, Aage Haugland, bass, Ole Hedegaar, tenor, and Inga Nielsen, soprano, and the Danish Radio Choir and Danish Radio SO / Michael Schönwandt).
18.41 Sjögren: Sonata for violin and piano no 1 g (Per Enoksson and Kathryn Stott).
18.27 Brahms: Four single songs from the Deutsche Volkslieder collection. (Irmgard Seefried, soprano, and Erik Werba, piano).
18.09 J. Haydn: Divertimento for the Strings Quartet (The Angeles String Quartet).
18.00 Godowsky: Three Arrangements for Piano Rameau. Renaissance. (Eduard Sjomin, piano).
17.35 Listen: Moderato assai and Scherzo Piano Trio A major (Timo Mikkilä, piano, Pekka Kari, violin, and Erkki Rautio, cello).
17.16 Monteverdi: Lagrime d'amante al Sepolcro dell'amata (The Deller Consort).
16.17 Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, choreographic symphony for choir and orchestra (Tanglewood Music Festival Choir, Boston SO, and Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute / Bernard Haitink).
16.13 Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade (Soile Isokoski, soprano, and Marita Viitasalo, piano).
15.48 Dvorak: Serenade's D minor. (Marlboro Music Festival Wind Band / Louis Moyse).
15.43 Lumbye: Summer night on the rocks of Mön Island (Copenhagen Tivoli Concert Hall / Giordano Bellincampi).
15.29 WA Mozart: Variations on Piano from the G Major Gluck's Achary Unser dummer Pöbel Meint. (Walter Gieseking).
15.05 Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 4 D minor (Haimo Haitto and RSO / Ari Angervo).
14.54 Aguado: Introduction and rondo for guitar No. 1 major (Lorenzo Micheli).
14.41 Verdi: Desdemon's Warbler Oop. Otello. (Elisabeth Grümmer, soprano, Sieglinde Wagner, mezzo-soprano, and Berlin German opera orchestra / Richard Kraus).
14.34 Liszt: Concert Idea No 3 Des major (Sigh) (Matti Raekallio, piano).
14.08 Berwald: Sinfonie singuliere C major (Sinfonia n ° 3). (Berlin Philharmonic / Igor Markevitch).
14.02 Rangström: A series of violin and piano no. 1 (Old Style) (Tale Olsson and Mats Jansson).
13.55 Bixio: Mamma (Plácido Domingo, tenor, and Budapest's FO / Eugene Kohn).
13.42 Madetoja: Romances intimes (Siljaari Heikinheimo, violin, and Salla Karakorpi, piano).
13.28 Melartin: Marjatta, legend for soprano and orchestra (Soile Isokoski and RSO / Hannu Lintu).
13.20 Mielck: Three Fantasy Pieces (Margit Rahkonen, piano).
13.13 Langer: Grossmütterchen (Grandmother). (Radiosekstetti / Erik Cronvall).
13.06 Palmgren: Spring Nights (HKO / Leif Segerstam).
13.03 Barrios: Our madre (David Russell, guitar).
12.50 Copland: Four piano blues. (Paul Jacobs, piano).
12.41 Simpson: Division e-minor (Mika Suihkonen, viola da gamba, and Ballo della Battalia).
12.30 Dunstable: Salve Regina (Hilliard).
11.54 Paderewski: Piano Concerto a minor (Piers Lane and BBC Scottish SO / Jerzy Maksymiuk).

[LezLee]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know of any bad Virgil Thompson film music. Of the American inter- and post-WW2 "vernacular modernists", he is one of my favourites, preferable to Copland.

Hooray! I love Virgil Thomson. I was in the school film society when I was 14 in 1954 and we saw 'Louisiana Story'. Beautiful film, gorgeous music. Didn't have a record player then and didn't know you could buy film music. Fast forward to 1958 and someone's birthday at the library when my friend (Alma Cullen - 'Morse' scriptwriter) brought some records. She played Copland's 'Red Pony' and I stopped dead in my tracks in amazement and told her it reminded me of Louisiana Story. I hadn't heard it in those 4 years. Silently she showed me the sleeve showing L.S. on the reverse. I still have that LP - Thomas Sherman and the Little Orch. Society.

I wrote to Mr. Thomson when he came over here to conduct the Proms saying I hadn't found many recordings here. I got a handwritten reply by return of post, listing various outlets in America where I could send for his works. It's a really nice, friendly letter, not what you'd expect from someone who's said to be a bit snippy! Worth a fortune, of course