Radio Swiss Classical

[Guest]

I billed it as 'a sample' of the mix.
NB: Finnish time being what it is against ours, the time at the start of the sample was of music playing at the time I sent the posting i.e. earlyish afternoon. e.g. the time I am posting this message is 19.14 Finnish time.

YLE does do 'live concerts', both live as of now, and recordings of live events. R3 has more actually live events. Whether that makes the transmitted musical 'mix' / playlists more or less diverse, I leave to readers.

YLE is thus rather more like ATTN. BUT positively no chat, no trails, IMO more diverse repertoire than R3 ever has. Playlists are impeccable.

YLE also takes the Proms in summer, and some other BBC broadcasts.

[french frank]

I billed it as 'a sample' of the mix.
NB: Finnish time being what it is against ours, the time at the start of the sample was of music playing at the time I sent the posting i.e. earlyish afternoon. e.g. the time I am posting this message is 19.14 Finnish time.

I took it that '0:00 Balakirev: Islamei' meant it was midnight there. The point being that what they play from midnight is pretty much what is played from midnight here, though they did seem to be commercial CDs.

There's no contest, I do agree, if people want a continuous flow of good, classical pieces, varied, many full-length, familiar and unfamiliar. If your heart leaps at the thought of a music station like that, it could be the station for you.

[Guest]

In many, many ways I prefer the R3 overall mix - drama, BAL, opera, Words and Music, Jazz, early Music, but I find the run of the mill a bit unadventurous. In some ways, R3 is so tied to their own resident ensembles that force majeure and finances they have to play to their strengths [ and keep costs down].

However, got to say, YLE has opened up for me a huge range of both symphonic European, Scandinavian, Baltic and Russian repertoire - yes maybe on CDs - that I have never heard before. I was driven there by R3 presenters etc etc / trails and chat, but in the process discovered stuff that has drawn me back for the mix. .

[Pulcinella]

Here is a sample YLE Classical evening - tonight's actually.

How do you find the playlist, Draco?
My Finnish is not up to negotiating their website homepage!

[mw963]

Swiss Classic has been around for the best part of twenty years, I listened to it on Hotbird (satellite). I can even claim a little part in improving their technical quality, for a year or so around 1999 when I first discovered them (just the one version then, in alternate French and German) I put up with the most terrible dynamics compression that was then in use, but after various communications with them (in French I hasten to add) they realigned their entire playout system and things were very much improved (although perhaps not entirely). They're still on Hotbird, for those of us who don't want to use up our internet allowances too quickly.

[Guest]

How do you find the playlist, Draco?
My Finnish is not up to negotiating their website homepage!

It translates into English on request. I simply copied and re-ordered for Forum convenience.

[Pulcinella]

It translates into English on request. I simply copied and re-ordered for Forum convenience.

Don't see how from this page I found.....

http://yle.fi/radio/yleklassinen/suora/

The playlist is there, but I see no mention of languages (though I don't know the Finnish for language(s) or English!).

[richardfinegold]

We do a lot of listening to Radio Venice here, so much that we almost never listen to our excellent local station, WFMT.
Both broadcast at 320 bps and sound excellent. Radio 3 is limited to 64 and 128. (Depending on the program) and really does sound as if it is wafting in from overseas.
Venice has a call signal in English "Rah-dio Venezia. Bootiful klah-si-kal moo-see-ka". If my wife walks in the kitchen and it's not playing she immediately asks "Where is the moo-see-Ka?"
Lots of Standard Austro-German fare, Italian Baroque (if you hate Vivaldi, don't tune in, and if you've ever wondered where every bassoon concerto by anonymous Neapolitan Composers ended up, look no further), but a fair amount of Mahler and Bruckner as well, and occasionally Webern and Berg. They play complete works, no commercials, just occasional announcements in Italian. The seriousness of the content seems to change during the (American) day, with more Italian stuff burbling along during breakfast and Beethoven 9th more likely in the late afternoon or evening. It always makes me wonder if they have different playlists for different time zones

[Pulcinella]

We do a lot of listening to Radio Venice here, so much that we almost never listen to our excellent local station, WFMT.
Both broadcast at 320 bps and sound excellent. Radio 3 is limited to 64 and 128. (Depending on the program) and really does sound as if it is wafting in from overseas.
Venice has a call signal in English "Rah-dio Venezia. Bootiful klah-si-kal moo-see-ka". If my wife walks in the kitchen and it's not playing she immediately asks "Where is the moo-see-Ka?"
Lots of Standard Austro-German fare, Italian Baroque (if you hate Vivaldi, don't tune in, and if you've ever wondered where every bassoon concerto by anonymous Neapolitan Composers ended up, look no further), but a fair amount of Mahler and Bruckner as well, and occasionally Webern and Berg. They play complete works, no commercials, just occasional announcements in Italian. The seriousness of the content seems to change during the (American) day, with more Italian stuff burbling along during breakfast and Beethoven 9th more likely in the late afternoon or evening. It always makes me wonder if they have different playlists for different time zones

Thanks Richard.
Found and saved in my internet stations list.
Smetana on as I type, in good sound over my little Sonos system (main system not yet connected following recent house move; new cabinet and speaker stands about to be ordered following visit from installation chap from the local branch of the company we bought from).

[richardfinegold]

Thanks Richard.
Found and saved in my internet stations list.
Smetana on as I type, in good sound over my little Sonos system (main system not yet connected following recent house move; new cabinet and speaker stands about to be ordered following visit from installation chap from the local branch of the company we bought from).

The sound really is good, and we do like their music. Hope the new system works out

[Guest]

23:31 Debussy: Afternoon of a Faun (Cleveland ork./Pierre Boulez).
23:41 Schumann: Liederkreis op.39 (Håkan Hagegård, and baritone Thomas Schuback, piano).
0:08 Diabelli: Guitar Sonata in F major (Anthony Glise).
0:26 Melartin: Six pieces for piano (Liisa Pohjola).
0:36 J. Haydn: Symphony No. 78 in C minor (Orpheus-kamariork.).
00:56 Handel: Concerto grosso in F major (Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman)
1:07 Glazunov: Stenka Razin. (French-speaking Swiss ork./Ernest Ansermet).

Just copied this as it came in translation!!

http://yle.fi/radio/yleklassinen/suora/

Offers a translation option.

[gurnemanz]

23:31 Debussy: Afternoon of a Faun (Cleveland ork./Pierre Boulez).
23:41 Schumann: Liederkreis op.39 (Håkan Hagegård, and baritone Thomas Schuback, piano).
0:08 Diabelli: Guitar Sonata in F major (Anthony Glise).
0:26 Melartin: Six pieces for piano (Liisa Pohjola).
0:36 J. Haydn: Symphony No. 78 in C minor (Orpheus-kamariork.).
00:56 Handel: Concerto grosso in F major (Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman)
1:07 Glazunov: Stenka Razin. (French-speaking Swiss ork./Ernest Ansermet).

Just copied this as it came in translation!!

http://yle.fi/radio/yleklassinen/suora/

Offers a translation option.

Happened to catch the last few songs that Schumann Op 39 which I quite enjoyed not knowing the singer. I decided to listen to the whole cycl;ewhich I haven't played for a while. I picked Hermann Prey with Karl Engel.

[Beresford]

This German station is pretty good. Plays music from the 20th and 21st century. radio neue-musik.fm

Thanks for this. Just what I want.

[Pulcinella]

This German station is pretty good. Plays music from the 20th and 21st century. radio neue-musik.fm

Thanks from me, too.
Added to My Radio Stations (Sonos).
It sits nicely alongside Ancient FM.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Thanks also for this. Listening to it now via Tune In. Excellent.