Classical Music Radio stations ONLINE

[Pulcinella]

Radio 3 is alive with the sound of recorded concerts. Welcome to the Friends Of yle Club!

I just wish I could program it on my old Roberts radio.

[gurnemanz]

YLE, which people keep going on about, is fine but ultimately just a random playlist. There are hundreds of similar online stations. It has the drawback that announcements concerning what is playing are only partially comprehensible unless you are fluent in Finnish, and if you listen via a radio/streamer, as I do, it does not, unlike most online broadcasters (and indeed Radio 3) provide a 'now playing' readout. To get the playlist details enthusiastically and exhaustively quoted above you have to go onto a computer website which I cannot be bothered to do most of the time. You cannot really compare these playlist channels to stations like Radio Three or the German regional cultural channels which I listen to quite a lot, such as BR Klassik, which see it as part of their brief to include actual radio programmes not just non-stop music. Whether one enjoys or wants this talk programming is another matter. One is not obliged to listen.

[AuntDaisy]

Radio 3 is alive with the sound of recorded concerts. Welcome to the Friends Of yle Club!

Why, thank yle kindlye sir.

[AuntDaisy]

YLE, which people keep going on about, is fine but ultimately just a random playlist. There are hundreds of similar online stations. It has the drawback that announcements concerning what is playing are only partially comprehensible unless you are fluent in Finnish, and if you listen via a radio/streamer, as I do, it does not, unlike most online broadcasters (and indeed Radio 3) provide a 'now playing' readout. To get the playlist details enthusiastically and exhaustively quoted above you have to go onto a computer website which I cannot be bothered to do most of the time. You cannot really compare these playlist channels to stations like Radio Three or the German regional cultural channels which I listen to quite a lot, such as BR Klassik, which see it as part of their brief to include actual radio programmes not just non-stop music. Whether one enjoys or wants this talk programming is another matter. One is not obliged to listen.

Yes, BR Klassik have some good concerts, although not as many Early Music ones as they used to do.
I also enjoy Ö1's "Alte Musik - neu interpretiert" & WDR3's Vesper & Oper - most of which you can "Listen Again" to for a few weeks.

[vinteuil]

... and for yle listening pleasure this afternoon -

14:00 Mendelssohn: Song without words No. 45 in C major (Alicia de Larrocha, piano).
14:02 Kaski: Rhapsody from White Carthage (RSO/Pertti Pekkanen).
14:10 Byström: Sonata for piano and violin No. 2 in G minor (Arja Sohlberg, piano, and Pekka Kari, violin).
14:24 Miyagi: Spring Sea (Emmanuel Pahud, flute, and Mariko Anraku, harp).
14:32 WA Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major (Spring Quartet) (Janácek Quartet).
15:01 Schnittke: Viola Concerto (Juri Bashmet and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra/Valery Gergiev).
15:34 Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sonatine for flute and guitar (Chloe Dufossez and Leonard Becker).
15:48 Rangström: Spelmansvår (Spring in the Game) (Central Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra/Juha Kangas).
16:00 Szymanowski: Sonata for violin and piano in D minor (David Oistrah and Vladimir Jampolski).
16:22 Sibelius: Valse triste (Eero Heinonen, piano).
16:27 JPE Hartmann: Sonata for flute and piano in B flat major (Henrik Wenzel Andreasen and Anna Öland).
16:54 Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano no. 5 in F major (Spring Sonata) (Isabelle Faust and Aleksandr Melnikov).
17:18 Smyth: String Quartet in E minor (Mannheim String Quartet).

[vinteuil]

One is not obliged to listen.

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...but with yle you can find out in advance what will be played - with R3 it is a fluke if you land on piece you want to hear

[LMcD]

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...but with yle you can find out in advance what will be played - with R3 it is a fluke if you land on piece you want to hear

Quite! Mind you, I'm happy to just tune in to yle and see what comes along - I'm rarely disappointed.

[hmvman]

Quite! Mind you, I'm happy to just tune in to yle and see what comes along - I'm rarely disappointed.

Same here!

[LMcD]

Same here!

Very few 'bleeding chunks'
Lots of delightful musical discoveries
No trailers - just straight announcements before and after each item
Correct pronunciation of names and other details whatever the language
What's not to like?

[vinteuil]

perhaps yle like this evening*

18:00 Sibelius: Spring Song (RSO/Anna-Maria Helsing).
18:09 Schönberg: Six Songs (Helen Vanni, mezzo-soprano, Donald Gramm, bass-baritone, and Glenn Gould, piano).
18:23 Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F major (Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue).
18:26 Kreutzer: Violin Concerto No. 19 in D minor (Axel Strauss and San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra/Andrew Mogrelia).
18:52 Offenbach - Rosenthal: Parts of the ballet Gaîté Parisienne (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel).
19:16 Schubert: Variations for piano 4-hands in A flat major (Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne).
19:34 T. Kuusisto: Sonatine for string quartet (Sibelius Academy Quartet).
19:50 R. Schumann: Twelve Pieces for Piano 4 Hands (Hector Moreno and Norberto Capelli).
20:22 Offenbach: Monsieur Choufleuri, 1-act operetta
(Jean-Philippe Lafont, baritone, Mady Mesplé, soprano, Charles Burles, tenor, Michel Trempont, baritone, Michel Hamel, tenor, and Emmy Greger, mezzo-soprano, with Jean Laforge Choir and Monte Carlo FO/Manuel Rosenthal).
21:05 Verdi: Choral scene and Zaccaria's recit. and aria from the opera Nabucco
(Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass, Leslie Fyson, tenor, with Ambrosian Singers and London SO/Claudio Abbado).
21:20 CPE Bach: Trio Sonata in B flat major (London Baroque).
21:35 FB Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Philadelphia Orch./Yannick Nézet-Séguin).
22:06 Milhaud: Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano (Eduard Brunner and Oleg Maisenberg).
22:16 Sibelius: Spring Song (RSO/Anna-Maria Helsing).
22:16 Chabrier: Five Posthumous Pieces (Jean Casadesus, piano).
22:28 Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major (Lafayette Quartet).
23:01 Wagner: Monologue of the Dutchman Die Frist ist um oopp. The Flying Dutchman
(George London, bass-baritone, and Vienna Philharmonic/Hans Knappertsbusch).
23:14 Beethoven: Trio for Strings No. 2 in G major (Zurich String Trio).

* actually, not much for me here. But at least I know!

[vinteuil]

... and for yle morning tomorrow -

06:00 Alcock: Voluntary in D major (Ludwig Güttler, trumpet, and Friedrich Kircheis, organ).
06:35 Dowland: Thou mightie God (Great God) (Ars Nova/Bo Holten).
07:03 Heberle: Recorder Concerto in G major (Michala Petri and Saint Paul's Chamber Orchestra/Pinchas Zukerman).
07:17 van Noordt: Psalm 7 (Lord, my God) (Manuel Tomadin, organ of St. James' Church, Lübeck).
07:26 Lasso: Cum natus esset Iesus (When Jesus was born) (Weser-Renaissance Bremen/Manfred Cordes).
07:36 Roman: Violin Concerto in F minor (Elizabeth Wallfisch and Enlightenment Orchestra/Anthony Halstead, harpsichord).
07:48 Buonamente: Sonata for three violins and continuo
(John Holloway, Stanley Ritchie and Andrew Manze, baroque violin, John Toll, harpsichord, Nigel North, theorbo, and Mary Springfels, viola da gamba).
07:55 Taverner: Missa Corona spinea (The Sixteen/Harry Christophers).
08:36 WA Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major (Isaac Stern and Columbia-SO/George Szell).
09:06 Tisdale: Pavana chromatica (Andrew Rangell, piano).
09:13 JS Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (RKK/Andrew Lawrence-King and Mika Suihkonen).
09:19 Vivaldi: Concerto in D major, for lute, two violins and continuo (Jakob Lindberg and Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble).

[richardfinegold]

YLE, which people keep going on about, is fine but ultimately just a random playlist. There are hundreds of similar online stations. It has the drawback that announcements concerning what is playing are only partially comprehensible unless you are fluent in Finnish, and if you listen via a radio/streamer, as I do, it does not, unlike most online broadcasters (and indeed Radio 3) provide a 'now playing' readout. To get the playlist details enthusiastically and exhaustively quoted above you have to go onto a computer website which I cannot be bothered to do most of the time. You cannot really compare these playlist channels to stations like Radio Three or the German regional cultural channels which I listen to quite a lot, such as BR Klassik, which see it as part of their brief to include actual radio programmes not just non-stop music. Whether one enjoys or wants this talk programming is another matter. One is not obliged to listen.

Agreed. It’s an enjoyable listen but can be frustrating to use and there are so many great stations out there that don’t contribute to the daily frustration quota

[vinteuil]

yle find this later this morning - (I have a suspicion this is a repeat from not so long ago )

09:30 Brahms: Violin Sonatas No. 1 in G major, No. 2 in A major and No. 3 in D minor; Scherzo in C minor (Nikolaj Znaider, violin, and Yefim Bronfman, piano).
10:43 J. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major (Emanuel Ax).
11:02 Went: Partita in D minor (Collegium Musicum Pragensae/Frantisek Vajnar).
11:19 Verdi: Rodrigo's Farewell, op. Don Carlos. (Tito Gobbi, baritone, and Rome Opera Orchestra/Gabreiel Santini).
11:22 R. Schumann: Eight Polonaises for Piano 4 Hands (Hector Moreno and Norberto Capelli).
11:57 Bonporti: Concerto in F major (Bloomington Baroque/Stanley Ritchie).
12:08 O. Merikanto: Valse lente (Aale Lindgren, oboe, and Jussi Siirala, piano).
12:11 Handel: Aria "Scherza infida!" oopp Ariodante (Franco Fagioli, countertenor, and Il Pomo d'oro/Zefira Valova, violin).
12:23 Fauré: Tuscan Serenade (Gil Shaham, violin, and Akira Eguchi, piano).
12:28 C. Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto No. 10 in B flat major (Karl Schlechta and Kurpfalz chamber org./Jirí Malát).
12:46 Paganini: Sonata concertata in A major (Monica Huggett, violin, and Richard Savino, guitar).
13:00 Spohr: Sonata for violin and harp no. 1 in C minor (Yehudi Menuhin and Nicanor Zabaleta).
13:15 Fasch: Concerto for orchestra and continuo in G major. (Tempesta di Mare).
13:34 WA Mozart: Zaïde's aria "Ruhe sanft" op. Zaïde (Renée Fleming, soprano, and Orch. of St. Luke/Charles Mackerras).
13:40 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major (quasi una fantasia). (Claudio Arrau).

[vinteuil]

yle afternoon -

14:00 Schubert: Allegro for piano 4-hands in A minor (Yevgeni Kisin and James Levine, piano).
14:15 Chopin (arr. Dragon): Waltz for ballet Les Sylphides (Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel).
14:22 Mendelssohn: Sonata for violin and piano in F minor (Shlomo Mintz and Paul Ostrovsky).
14:47 Scriabin: Symphonic poem Poeme de l'extase (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra/Antal Dorati).
15:06 Delibes: Lakmé's bell aria "Ah! Ou va la jeune hindoue" from the opera Lakmé
(Joan Sutherland, soprano, Covent Garden Opera Orchestra/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli).
15:15 Nuorvala: Five pieces for flute and clarinet. (Mikael Helasvuo and Heikki Nikula).
15:22 Sibelius: Play. Mikael Lybeck's play Ödlan (Sisilisko) (RSO/Okko Kamu).
15:30 Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major. (Zino Francescatti, violin, and Arthur Balsam, piano).
15:47 Berwald: Concert piece in F major (Otto Virtanen, bassoon, and RSO/Santtu-Matias Rouvali).
15:59 I. Hannikainen: Forgotten tune (Tapani Valsta, piano).
16:05 Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano no. 6 in A major (David Oistrah and Lev Oborin).
16:27 Bartók (arr. Serly): Violoncello concerto (Kim Kashkashian and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra/Peter Eötvös).
16:52 Röntgen: Sonata for violin and piano in F minor (Alexander Kerr and Sepp Grotenhuis).
17:12 Melartin (arr.): On the banks of the rolling stream (Sauli Tiilikainen, baritone, and Pentti Kotiranta, piano).
17:15 L. Allegri: Sinfonica - Spirto del ciel (Tragicomedia).
17:21 Rubinstein: Romance in E flat major (Zora Mihailovich, piano).
17:25 Grieg: Norske folkeviser (Norwegian folk songs) op.66 (Eva Knardahl, piano).
17:55 Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras no. 7 (New World Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas).
18:22 L. Allegri: Sinfonica - Spirto del ciel (Tragicomedia).

[vinteuil]

... and yle evening -

18:30 Satie: Solos Je te veux and La Diva de l'Empire (Jody Karin Applebaum, soprano, and Marc-André Hamelin, piano).
18:37 Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titanium). (Chicago SO/Pierre Boulez).
19:30 Dvorák: The Water Princess, a symphonic poem (Indianapolis SO/Jun Märkl).
19:52 Higdon: The Singing Rooms (Jennifer Koh, violin, and Atlanta SO Chorus and Atlanta SO/Robert Spano).
20:30 Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (Christian Ferras and Philharmonia Orchestra/Walter Süsskind).
20:55 Onslow: Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in F minor (Elizabeth Buccheri and Richard Boldrey).
21:18 Adams: Scheherazade.2 (Leila Josefowicz, violin, and Saint Louis SO/David Robertson, and Chester Englander, cimbalom).
22:06 Rachmaninov: Four Preludes for Piano Op.23. (Svyatoslav Richter).
22:21 Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor (Midori and Robert McDonald).
22:35 Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 7 in G major (Misha Maisky and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra).
22:52 Adès: Hotel suite (suite No. 3) on themes from the op. Powder her face (RSO/Nicholas Collon).
23:12 Gershwin (arr. Russell Bennett): Symphonic Picture on themes from the op. Porgy and Bess (Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel).

( I see that Mahler 1 is now Titanium. I'm not sure that wd placate our much-missed Bryan, who was always so irate when it was misnomered Titan... )