From 3 June, Radio Netherlands Worldwide is offering listeners around the world a new service: classical music radio via the internet.
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, it will broadcast classical music by Dutch composers and performers to an international public, and combine it with information about RNW's other activities. In the event of global or national disasters, it will also become an important source of news.
RNWClassical.com. That's the trademark of this English language 'broadcaster' on the RNW websites. Its goal is to reach an international public with classical music by Dutch composers and performers. However, although music speaks for itself in all languages, the specialists who present it will do so in English.
Treasures from the archive
RNW has for years broadcast its own programmes of jazz, classical and world music. Not just in English, but also in Indonesian, Spanish (Latin America) and Portuguese (Brazil). This has resulted in an impressive archive offering a rich treasure of recordings of Dutch composers and musicians. It is this archive that forms the basis of RNW Classical's programmes, which the music editors will augment with music from Dutch CD releases. The programmes will be presented alternately by Fred Horst and Jacky Spears.
How does it work? Go to any one of the ten language sites on the RNW home page (English: www.rnw.nl) and click on the web radio banner. Or go directly to the RNW Classical site (www.rnwclassical.com) where you'll see, on the right of the screen, the 'RNW CLASSICAL Live' button. Under the button, you'll see a play list with details of the music currently playing. When you click on the button, the player will open in a separate window, making it possible to continue listening and browsing at the same time.
WiFi radio
RNWClassical.com will also be accessible by web radios, devices that make it possible to receive - without a computer - thousands of radio stations from all around the world, provided you're within reach of a wireless web connection.
Just add this to the preferences on your WiFi radio:
http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8236 (192 kbps) or
http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8308 (64 kbps)
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This is just to let you know that we are paying attention to your words. A "presenter", to use the Brit term, proclaimed that Vivaldi's Seasons is arguably the most popular and most recorded piece. Let us argue. With all due respect to both the presenter and to comedian, Rob Paravonian, We had heard it was Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. We will forgive you as neither composer is Dutch ;)
The music is full of lil stops and hiccups, wonder where lies the fault...
Thanks a lot, RNW for giving us the opportunity to appreciate Dutch classical music, any time of the day.It is lovely! Music, poetry and emotions of love- all Abstract, make the Real life so beautiful and touch the heart and soul to take it unto sublime heights. This is what differentiates humans from animals, and men from brutes. I wish the world was full of music, poetry and love; instead of noise of blasting bombs, hate words and enemity. I place musicians, writers and lovers, next to mothers and God, for they create and produce love, peace and life. That is what differentiates between a fanatic and a peace loving person: the love of fine arts. And that is what the fanatics ban first: music, poetry and love, as they mean freedom of soul and heart. If you wish to make men out of brutes, give them a pen, a musical instrument and love; instead of knives, bombs and fanaticism, then you won't need a NATO, to tame the Taliban. Thanks again, God bless the producers of this programme.
What a lovely sentimental thing to write, now let us exclude the Third Reich's fascination with classical music plus all the marches that sent soldiers to their deaths!
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