Classical Music Radio stations ONLINE

[LMcD]

Yes, there's some interesting stuff.....looking at their 'channel' on YouTube, there's plenty to highlight the poor showing of classical music on the BBC in general, and i-player particularly!

It's certainly hard to imagine a similar channel offering concerts by all the BBC's orchestras and vocal ensembles.

[Roger Webb]

NDR Kultur's evening concert looks interesting: Highlights of Götterdämmerung, incl. (in their English translation) Siegfried's Rhine Journey..... Siegfried's Funeral March.......and Brunhilde's final aria 'Stack the Strong Logs for Me There'

[Sir Velo]

I knew something was missing from my life...@Vinteuil hasn't been posting the yle schedules lately!

[vinteuil]

I knew something was missing from my life...@Vinteuil hasn't been posting the yle schedules lately!

... was it something you said?



(actually I've been away. And am about to go away again... )

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[Roger Webb]

YLE gone all populist this morning! Four Seasons (but all of it at least!) and Peer Gynt. But to make up for it we also get, Andrée, Hannikainen, Cui, Frederick the Great, Böhm and Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Weimar....who he?

[kuligin]

Liszt wrote a piece “ Halloh Jagdchor from the oper “Tony” S.405, I have a recording by Malcolm Binns. I think the Duke’s opera Santa Chiara was performed a few years ago at Meiningen. Is it the same Duke though as in my copy of the Searle catalogue he is described as Ernst Herzog zu Sachsen Coburg Gotha.

[Roger Webb]

Liszt wrote a piece “ Halloh Jagdchor from the oper “Tony” S.405, I have a recording by Malcolm Binns. I think the Duke’s opera Santa Chiara was performed a few years ago at Meiningen. Is it the same Duke though as in my copy of the Searle catalogue he is described as Ernst Herzog zu Sachsen Coburg Gotha.

Thanks for reminding me....I'll have to do a bit of research into the Duke.

Edit. Just had a quick look....seems there a great many Ernsts and Johan-Ernsts in various kingdoms throughout Germany, but there is one Johan-Ernst Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1696 -1715...short life, unless that was just when he was a duke) who specialised in trumpet works, a couple of which were arr. by JS Bach....I'll have to look further into it.

[LMcD]

YLE gone all populist this morning! Four Seasons (but all of it at least!) and Peer Gynt. But to make up for it we also get, Andrée, Hannikainen, Cui, Frederick the Great, Böhm and Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Weimar....who he?

Charles Alexander Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1818-1901) was the protector of Wagner and Lizst. Johann Ernst wrote 19 concertos and a trumpet sonata.

[Roger Webb]

Charles Alexander Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1818-1901) was the protector of Wagner and Lizst. Johann Ernst wrote 19 concertos and a trumpet sonata.

Yes thanks LMcD, if you look at my Edit in my post above, I identify him as such....interestingly Grove (1992 reprint) gives him as 'Prince', not Duke, Grove also lists the trumpet concs. and also his Op.1, Six Violin Concs. which were publ. by Telemann who had dedicated his first published works (his solo violin sonatas) to the Prince. Bach's BWV 982, 984, 987, 592, 592a and595 are all based on the Prince's works.

[Roger Webb]

Bit of a mystery on YLE this morning. We were played an attractive piece, or suite of pieces actually, called Summer Pictures by Pylkkänen, played by RSO Strings, cond. Petri Sakari. Tried to find a CD of it, no luck. Tried Qobuz, no luck. Tried Presto, no luck. Tried Discogs, no luck. Suspect this is Tauno Pylkkänen, a mainly opera composer, but nothing of his orchestral music seems to be available.
Maybe they were playing something recorded for broadcast by the Radio station...it was the RSO after all - but looking at the details initially I immediately thought Ondine label. Still, a mystery.

Thay followed it though with Bax's 'Summer Music' Ulster/Thompson....I womder what Finns make of Bax? He was quite highly thought-of by Sibelius no less.

[Roger Webb]

Attractive looking chamber concert on SWR Kultur tonight at 19.00 (UK time) Ensemble Sésame (not heard them before) doing Ravel Mother Goose (presumably for two pianos) and three Chausson works: his early Piano Trio, Poème and Concert Op.21.

[Roger Webb]

Gerontius from Utrecht anyone?.....

https://www.npoklassiek.nl/uitzendingen/avrotros-vrijdagconcert/0195f1ee-dff0-7210-bb76-5d37469b4606/2025-06-13-avrotros-vrijdagconcert

19.00 this evening (UK time)

[vinteuil]

... my loyalty to yle is unswerving.

I am tickled by some of their translations. Today we had some Väinö Raitio

His work which wiki has as "The Maids on the Headlands" they choose to translate as -


"The Maidens in the Noses of the Capes" ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Raitio

[AuntDaisy]

... my loyalty to yle is unswerving.

I am tickled by some of their translations. Today we had some Väinö Raitio

His work which wiki has as "The Maids on the Headlands" they choose to translate as -
"The Maidens in the Noses of the Capes" ...

BTW "The Maidens on the Headlands" was on TTN in April (and further back than that... e.g. 2005)

Using Google Translate to translate back and forth, you get this:
The Maidens on the Headlands -> Neitojen niemimaalla -> On the Maiden's Peninsula -> Neitsytniemellä -> On the Virgin Island -> Neitsytsaarella -> Virgin Islands -> Neitsytsaaret -> Virgin Islands -> Neitsytsaaret -> Virgin Islands...

I think the Finnish must be "Neiet niemien nenissä" which Google Translate gives as "The girls on the noses of the peninsulas".

I wonder if it's related to this 1893 Pekka Halonen painting?

[Roger Webb]

This looks interesting tonight...complete piano works of Ravel played by Chamayou...

https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/le-concert-du-soir/ravel-par-bertrand-chamayou-a-l-opera-berlioz-2275880

19.00 UK time.

Edit. Abandoned after only 15 mins....terrible close recording, made worse by poor engineering, ie. usual problem from this source of dynamic range management....totally unnecessary for their online transmission which I get at 24 bt/48k!