Radio Swiss Classical

[Nick Armstrong]

Pixel snob too, are we?

God yes.

App now installed on the iPad, sounding good via the Airport Express...

Thanks Mal for the steer

[Beef Oven!]

God yes.

App now installed on the iPad, sounding good via the Airport Express...

Thanks Mal for the steer

All this Dvorak, Schubert etc, extract malarkey, might as well be listening via Tesco Express!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Pixel snob too, are we?

Sounds like the name of a porn star!

[Beef Oven!]

Sounds like the name of a porn star!

Throw your laptop away when it plays up, don’t take it anywhere for repair.

[teamsaint]

Throw your laptop away when it plays up, don’t take it anywhere for repair.

you sound like you know what you're talking about.

anyway, re airport express, I thought Southern were still on strike.......

[teamsaint]

Sounds like the name of a porn star!

does it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Throw your laptop away when it plays up, don’t take it anywhere for repair.

No fear! I don't make a mistake like that four times!

[Beef Oven!]

No fear! I don't make a mistake like that four times!

[gurnemanz]

They play a piece of the complete thing. A bit like wot Classic FM does. The sound quality was good though, IMV.

Decent station, but the frequent use of single movements is a drawback. Other stations avoid doing this. If R3 is not currently broadcasting what I want, some favourites I tune to are:

Yle Klassinen radio

Rai Radio 5 classica

Ancient FM (No talk at all)

[DracoM]

Here is a sample YLE Classical evening - tonight's actually.
Barber: String Quartet. (Ehnes Quartet)
18:18 Manfredini: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in B flat major. (Musica petropolitana).
18:36 de Manchicourt: Non conturbetur cor vestrum (Let not your heart be troubled) (The Choir of The Church of the Advent / Edith Ho).
19:05 Waldteufel: Skaters (Monte Carlo FO / Willi Boskovsky).
19:14 JS Bach: Sonata for violin and clavier No. 3 in E major. (Michelle Makarska, violin, and Keith Jarrett, piano).
19:30 Tchaikovsky: Kanareika (Canary), solo song. (Boris Christoff, bass, and Alexandre Labinsky, piano).
19:35 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Philharmonia-ork./Ettore Gracis).
19:58 Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor. (Amsterdam Concertgebouw-ork./Klaus Tennstedt).
21:14 Weiss: Sonata in A major for lute. (Richard Stone).
21:42 Ingelius: Overture visions. Bishop Henry and the peasant Lalli (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Juha Nikkola).
21:53 Henry Purcell and John Blow: songs and instrumental music. (Christine Brandes, soprano and chamber ensemble Arcadian Academy).
Beethoven (arr Matiegka.): Serenade in D major (Alexa Still, flute, Robert Alemany, clarinet, and JoAnn Fall Marietta, guitar).
23:35 Unknown (Douglass arr.): Begone, sweet night. (Ellen Hargis, soprano, The King's Noyse and Paul O'Dette, lute).
23:43 WA Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major. (Jacob Slagter and Amsterdam Concertgebouw-ork./Nikolaus Harnoncourt).
0:00 Balakirev: Islamei, oriental fantasy for piano. (Yefim Bronfman). 0:09 JS Bach: Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor (Janos Starker).
o0:37 Monteverdi: Lagrima d'amante al Sepolcro dell'amata (The Deller Consort).
0:56 Liszt: Paraphrase of Verdi's opera Aida (Emanuel Ax, piano).
1:08 Salieri: Variations on La Folia di Spagna
1:19 Poulenc: Sonata for violin and piano (Midori and Robert McDonald).
1:37 Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major. (Lisa Della Casa, soprano, and the Chicago SO / Fritz Reiner).
2:31 Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer (Waltraud Meier, soprano, and the Philadelphia ork./Riccardo Muti).
3:01 Sibelius: The Dryad and Dance Intermezzo. (New Zealand SO / Pietari Inkinen).
3:10 Taubert: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E major. (Tasmanian SO / Howard Shelley, piano and cond.).
3:34 J. Haydn: Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor (St. Luke's ork./ Charles Mackerras).
4:09 Beethoven: Cello sonata No. 1 in F major, No. 2 in G minor and No. 3 in A major. (Pierre Fournier, cello, and Artur Schnabel, piano).
5:16 Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (Emerson Quartet). 5:46 Saint-Saens: Morceau de Concert. (Ben Jacks, French horn, and the Queensland ork./Barry Tuckwell).
5:56 Melartin: Piccola gavotta (Seppo Tukiainen, violin, and Tapani Valsta, piano).

[Beef Oven!]

Decent station, but the frequent use of single movements is a drawback. Other stations avoid doing this. If R3 is not currently broadcasting what I want, some favourites I tune to are:

Yle Klassinen radio

Rai Radio 5 classica

Ancient FM (No talk at all)

I couldn’t get on with RSC for that reason and probably won’t tune in again (does one 'tune in' with digital radio?). At least CFM have some kind of game plan that kinda makes sense with the snippets (I’m not against snippets, per se, I will often dip into works myself).

[DracoM]

Yes. So much of R3's structure / formula is modelled on what the BBC do with Radio 2 in covering an entirely different kind of music: i.e. 'presenter' / personality-led + short bits, because most pop/rock is rarely more than five or so minutes long.

And classical music just is NOT like that.

Much of the YLE listing above is complete works, including two or three blockbuster length pieces.
And practically no chat at all between.

[Beresford]

Does any internet radio station broadcast mostly "modern" (last 70 years) music?

[gurnemanz]

Does any internet radio station broadcast mostly "modern" (last 70 years) music?

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

[french frank]

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

But, to be fair, you may not be comparing like with like:

1. It's the evening and nightime playlist, isn't it? Radio 3 has an evening concert with full-length works, and Through the Night with full length works.

2. The playlist you give seems to be CDs - no live ( or 'live') music at all?

3. The points you criticise are mainly during the mornings. What is on YLE then?