Where do you get your classical hit?

I have quite a few inherited CD's. However, I often listen to The Classical Station here: https://theclassicalstation.org/ I like that they have DJ's, although volunteer, that introduce the music and give a bit of trivia. This hour I will hear: Korngold, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

I also like this station because it published daily/monthly playlists.

I might invert your approach: mostly CDs, at least for immersive listening; supplemented by my on-air Classical station (WFMT 98.7 Chicago).

My favourite Classical station remains WGUC 90.9 Cincinnati, and I occasionally indulge via their streaming service. I think they are both broader and deeper in programming than others, and provide great context. I found more favourite composers or pieces from that station than any other.

>2 elenchus:

I’ve been listening to WFMT for as long as I can remember. I don’t think my parents ever had another radio station playing.

Given that I live in England and that BBC3 is always available, it might seem odd that my preferred fix is the streaming service of KUSC, because I like the people. (I think the Beeb is a bit too conscious that it’s the BBC. ) On Saturday evenings KUSC takes the Metropolitan Opera stream and I find their people intensely irritating, so the preferred fix gets varied with KCNV or WKSU. The last one actually has the most interesting music, but as I said I like KUSC’s people. I basically discovered choral music after more or less ignoring it for decades thanks to Brian Lauritzen’s Sunday morning program.

I have a few stations* set up on my Pandora but I also listen to whatever local NPR station happens to be playing classical hour/ Performance Today.

*one for mostly film scores, one for piano music, one for orchestral versions of modern songs, one for general classical, and probably a few I am forgetting

I’ve been missing a classical radio station to listen to so I’ve mostly been listening to BBC Radio 4 and Classic FM (I used to subscribe to their magazine 20 years ago that came with a free CD)

As I’ve just brought down an iMac G4 (flower pot design) from 2002 and set it up with iTunes I use Radio Garden that is a website that lets me stream every radio station. Sometimes I miss my Tivoli Radio and have been thinking about getting one for simplicity but it’s all app based now

Bu there are some good suggestions on this thread that I will check out. I like the fact of a DJ or radio presenter introducing a piece of music with some facts instead of just playing a piece.

>6 ironjaw: The Radio Garden app is brilliant, isn’t it? My only problem with it is my patchy geographical knowledge. It took a long time for me to find Cincinnati (should have gone for the atlas straight away) for WGUC.