Classical Music Radio stations ONLINE

[DracoM]

Yle Klassinen | Yle Areena
Finnish 24 hr station
Yes, yes, yes,.
Range of music is excellent / trans in online prog notes /
Highly recommended.

[LMcD]

Yle Klassinen | Yle Areena
Finnish 24 hr station
Yes, yes, yes,.
Range of music is excellent / trans in online prog notes /
Highly recommended.

Already a firm favourite with some Forum members, myself included, but I'm happy to second your recommendation and encourage others to tune in!

[Pulcinella]

Already a firm favourite with some Forum members, myself included, but I'm happy to second your recommendation and encourage others to tune in!

Sadly not available on my old Roberts radio.

[LMcD]

Sadly not available on my old Roberts radio.

Just finished listening (via my PC) to Molique's rather fine Piano Trio No. 2, recorded by the Parnassus Trio.

[Roger Webb]

Sadly not available on my old Roberts radio.

Has the Roberts Radio got Bluetooth, if so you could send it from an app (vRadio is excellent) on your phone or spare tablet....or your 'smart' speaker may have Bluetooth.

While I'm at it, has anyone heard the 'new' internet station, Sonatica? It's available on most aggregator apps.

[oddoneout]

Already a firm favourite with some Forum members, myself included, but I'm happy to second your recommendation and encourage others to tune in!

I've been using it a lot, but it does annoy me that I have to fire up the PC and put up with less than ideal sound and listening conditions in order to get access to the quantity and quality of music which I still think the BBC, as a public service broadcaster, should be making available without having to resort to Sounds (if it works) I spent money on(quite a lot by my standards and means at the time) to replace an old and failing radio set-up so that I could listen to R3, not realising that would only be worth doing for a limited time. It's what I pay my TV licence for after all, there being little of interest to me in the BBC TV output that justifies it otherwise!
It has highlighted for me though how much my listening has got numbed by hearing too much bitty R3, and also how much better the online information is on the Finnish station. I can see exactly what is on and when.

[hmvman]

Another fan of YLE Klassinen here. However, they have been playing a lot of violin and piano sonatas this week!

[DracoM]

"It has highlighted for me though how much my listening has got numbed by hearing too much bitty R3, and also how much better the online information is on the Finnish station"

[Roger Webb]

Many european stations are carrying a concert from Saarland of interesting mainly early 17 century Italian music played by La Vaghezza (The Vague ones!), can't pass up such an intriguing name without investigation, can you! I'll listen via vRadio probably WDR3 as their stream is usually pretty good.

19.03 (UK time)

[french frank]

While I'm at it, has anyone heard the 'new' internet station, Sonatica? It's available on most aggregator apps.

Don't know what an aggregator app is but I sought it out earlier. They were playing Beethoven 6. All of it!

https://sonatica.fm/

[oddoneout]

Many european stations are carrying a concert from Saarland of interesting mainly early 17 century Italian music played by La Vaghezza (The Vague ones!), can't pass up such an intriguing name without investigation, can you! I'll listen via vRadio probably WDR3 as their stream is usually pretty good.

19.03 (UK time)

BR-Klassik is broadcasting it.

[Roger Webb]

Don't know what an aggregator app is but I sought it out earlier. They were playing Beethoven 6. All of it!

https://sonatica.fm/

Yes, I've listened a few times, and they usually do play whole works. At present they broadcast either via their webpage - which is what you found no doubt or via an aggregator app. (they just collect together many stations in one place, enabling one to use it as 'Radio Central' and on selection the station URL is sent to your device). Now, because Sonatica don't have a dedicated app., (yet?), to listen on a streamer or, say, smart speaker you have either to load the URL manually or use an 'aggregator' app....there are many of these, I use vRadio (it has every radio station in the world, just about...even the BBC ones....until three days ago!!) - many devices use vTuner, but confusingly it doesn't have a dedicated app. so is not so useful.

They have said that a 'Sonatica+' is 'coming soon' which will give a much better bitrate (only 128 Kbts MP3 at present) and will be aimed at the audiophile types, ie me!

[Roger Webb]

BR-Klassik is broadcasting it.

Yes I'm actually listening on BR via vRadio as they use the AAC codec which is better into my DAC. Sounds good doesn't it!

[LMcD]

BR-Klassik is broadcasting it.

Don't forget I Fagiolini (The French beans)!

[Roger Webb]

Live concert on RBB 3 (Berlin) 19.00 ( UK time) Elgar Violin Conc. played by Hans Peter Zimmermann, cond. Dima Slobodeniouk. 2nd half, Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite.