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[mozart79]

WQXR is a wonderful station that plays classical music with non of the annoying chit-chat you got on BBC radio 3

https://www.wqxr.org/

[muzzer]

Yes it certainly is and I’ve sung its praises on here before, am so glad someone else agrees.

[muzzer]

Plus our early morning is their dead of night so even less interruption.

[bluestateprommer]

One long-running treat from WQXR is "Carnegie Hall Live". I recently listened to the relay of the Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Makela, with their Stravinsky concert of The Firebird and The Rite of Spring:

https://www.wqxr.org/story/orchestre-de-paris/?tab=summary

I'd listened to the recent Decca recordings of each ballet with the same orchestra and conductor a while back, and felt quite underwhelmed at the commercial issue (David Allen at the NYT felt the same way, only more strongly). Listening to the WQXR relay, the Orchestre de Paris sounds in very fine form, but I was again underwhelmed with The Firebird. The Rite had more verve by comparison. The audience seemed very enthusiastic, though, so maybe KM is better live than on studio recordings.

[bluestateprommer]

WQXR just recently has available audio streams of the recent World Orchestra Week (WOW!) concerts from Carnegie Hall, with various youth orchestras from several continents:

https://www.wqxr.org/story/world-orchestra-week-wow/

Haven't yet listened to them myself, with The Proms going on now, but just an FYI for anyone here interested.

[richardfinegold]

I have listened to them before and now I added them, along with BMOP (Boston Museum Orchestra Project)) to the presets on my streamer

[Maclintick]

For those on the Forum nostalgic for the days when "bleeding chunks" weren't the norm on Radio 3, I can thoroughly recommend this station. Seeking to fill the Sat morning void left by Record Review and having no patience for extended chat + snippets, I tuned in to WQXR & enjoyed a finely-executed account of Beethoven Op.127 by the Danish Quartet -- a curtain-raiser to their next Carnegie Hall concert. WQXR added to preset.

[bluestateprommer]

For anyone who wants another dose of Bruckner 5 from the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko:

https://www.wqxr.org/story/berliner-philharmoniker2024/?tab=summary

There is a healthy dose of chit-chat before the music starts, though.

[muzzer]

Also worth noting that for those of us plagued by the Sonos updates of this year, there is a workaround that enables you still to stream WQXR through your Sonos system. And even Sonos itself will tell you how to do it.

https://support.sonos.com/en/article/use-tunein-to-add-internet-radio-station-urls-to-sonos

[bluestateprommer]

The latest addition to WQXR's "Carnegie Hall Live" series features the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisa Batiashvili, and Klaus Makela:

https://www.wqxr.org/story/royal-concertgebouw-orchestra/?tab=summary

While the audio just went up a few days ago, I shouldn't wait too long to give this a listen, if anyone is interested and if the previous KM relay from Carnegie is anything to go by, as the Orchestre de Paris / KM relay got taken down after something like a month. It might have to do with KM's recording contract with Decca, even though KM hasn't (yet) recorded any of the works on the concert. (By contrast, the SSR / BRSO Zemlinsky / Mahler 6 concert from WQXR is still available as of this posting, much to my surprise.) Interestingly, the comments on this concert have been turned off (probably because of this NYT article).

[richardfinegold]

I access this station as a “preset” on my streamer. Your comment above made me realize that there is a heck of a lot of offerings besides the live stream, as I checked the station web site. Wow what a resource

. Oops, perhaps spoke to soon. I added the app and it doesn’t offer Carnegie Halk Live, or a lot of other stuff that is on the web site. So best to not use the app