Viestit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVu-W0yWAy8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nmMytE__Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB9dSeb8lXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfcVoxUy30k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CezsO1gHx84
... lankaradion kautta kuunneltavissa aina...
https://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Mi-Amigo-International-s229422/
..mainioita julisteita...
https://www.instagram.com/radiomiamigointernational/?hl=fi
..kesätapahtumia biitsillä...
https://www.redtech.pro/radio-mi-amigo-djs-reunite-for-seaside-broadcast/
http://www.radiomiamigo.international/nederlands/news.html

https://www.mixcloud.com/Radio_Mi_Amigo/shortwave-radio-event-of-the-year-2016-live-from-the-sendezentrum-in-kall-germany-3-hours/

MPB music - what is it?  It is typical Brazilian popular music - very entertaining! MPB is also an essential part of Radio Ondas programs!
I put here for you some good examples of that nice music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrvK-8jhbHc
Do enjoy!
Kari- eu amo isso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DnqDx_SL6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcON7IhXmpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EYJWUN-aE

Alex innokas DX-kuuntelija Valko-Venäjällä on ladannut videon tuubiin Ondan kuuluvuudesta siellä:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU3jqLtgXhE

[SDXL Vuoden asema 2014 –äänestys]

SDXL Vuoden asema 2014 –äänestys - Radio Station of the Year 2014 vote of SDXL

on päättynyt ja kaikki äänet laskettu. Voiton vei Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation Tansaniasta: Tässä tulokset:
1) Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Tansania: 9 ääntä
2) Europa 24, Saksa: 8 ääntä !!!
3) Radio Gramox, Suomi: 8 ääntä
4) KBC, Alankomaat: 5 ääntä
5) Cheng Sheng BC, Taiwan: 4 ääntä
Kiitokset kaikille äänestäjille.... JMN

28.9.21 "Willkommen zu unserem Fun Fan Klub radioeuropa24!"
"Hallo, thank you for the info!"
73 europa 24

[5 August 2014]

Sain vastauksen asemalta 28.9.2020 ja jollen väärin muista, se taisi tulla vasta useamman yrityksen jälkeen. Tim Breyel taas muisteli saamaansa kuunteluvahvistusta jo 2014, kun asema vasta testaili lähetintään:
"Radio Europa 24*, in a test transmission presumably from Germany, was logged on 5 August 2014 using a remote SDR receiver located in the Netherlands. Broadcast monitored from 17.45 to 18.15 UTC entailed repeated station interval (guitar tune) and station ID in German, English and Italian. Message in English announced, "I will soon hear this frequency. EUROPE 24 is information and entertainment for whole of Europe. Stay tuned on this frequency." Lengthy guitar composition followed. Reception on 6.150 kHz was (SINPO) 43444 -- fair to good signal strength, audible and clear speech, despite station splatter and some fading."

Radioasemaa voisi luonnehtia kyllä dx-ystävälliseksi, koska on vastannut QSL:llä mm. brasilialaiselle kuuntelijalle, joka kuunteli asemaa Twente SDR:n kautta Hollannista.  "QSL Europa24 6150 kHz"
6150 kHz: Europa24, Datteln GERMANY, eQSL received in 13 days, listened in São Bernardo SP BRAZIL via WebSDR (University of Twente, NL).
RR sent to . More: http://dxways-br.blogspot.com/ .
Rudolf Grimm / ‎QSL CHASERS

Iloa ja yllätyksiä asema on tuonut tuleessaan: "Das ist meine letzte QSL-Karte für das Jahr 2014. Sie landete am 31.12. in meinem Briefkasten. Ehrlich gesagt, war ich überrascht darüber, habe nicht mehr damit gerechnet, zumal ich auf dieser Frequenz nichts mehr von diesem Sender gehört habe.... oder ich habe das Radio immer zur falschen Zeit eingeschaltet.... Bei meiner Recherche im Internet nach Europa 24 ist mir auch aufgefallen, dass das Motiv der QSL-Karte neu sein muss. Denn alle anderen QSL-Karten, die ich im Internet gefunden habe, hatten ein anderes Motiv.
Eingestellt von Andreas Berlin um 22:28 "

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aro72tta91buez2/Radio%20Europe%2024%2C%20Gemany%20%206150%20kHz%2018.08.21%20-10.00%20CET.mp3?dl=0
Radio Europe 24 broadcasts on 6150 kHz from Datteln, near Dortmund, Germany with 200 watts. The nice thing for me is that, in between the non-stop music, they also provide short news broadcasts in Dutch, my own language! The station is well received here from mid-morning until late in the afternoon. Hugo Matten
Vastaus hänelle: "We broadcast from Datteln with 200 W at the monodipol. The Dutch news we get from Het radionieuws in Eindhoven."

[Rosen lähettämä QSL:]

https://swling.com/blog/tag/radio-northern-europe-international/
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~daz2002/tech/CombStereo/
https://rnei.org/stereo/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKa6aBv2PXU
Vesalan kappale pääsi edustamaan Suomea heinäkuussa RNEI:n ohjelmassa!
https://rnei.org/qsl-2020/

Rosen lähettämä QSL:


https://rnei.org/qsl-gallery/




RNEI Every Thursday at 13:00UTC on WRMI 15770 KHz 44°
https://rnei.org/qsl-gallery/

[Benny Abba Andersson´s]

I am sure you´re not believing that Encore has played also Benny Abba Andersson´s beautiful music like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_Ui1OS6oY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSbkRYyaYvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-irZn3jiQA
and hopefully some sunny day also these...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-MLakYZeB8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB2faGatfi4

Finlandia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3O3GM7JKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkG7ZaWuUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaKko3VGAnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPmSv-TBy0  [lyrics in English]

Like many others I enjoy listening to both shortwave and classical music. Sadly, since the world has gone digital - and many large state funded stations have gone off the air or reduced their output - western classical music programmes have almost disappeared.
Radio Romania International is - I think - the only station that regularly broadcasts a concert on their Romanian service - very early on Sunday mornings. In many ways - of course - it makes no sense to send complex and nuanced sound on shortwave because of all that nature and man can throw at it en route to the receiver. Signal is sometimes barely discernible above noise.
But that's the point isn't it? Like so much in life - the obstacles that make something difficult or unpredictable become part of the reason for doing it.
Luckily classical music doesn't have to be reproduced in HiFi to be enjoyed - if that was the case, wax cylinders and shellac discs would have failed to catch on. They didn't fail because when we hear a tune whistled by someone across the street - we imagine the full orchestra.
Human beings are analogue creatures - and amplitude modulation is our natural environment. Classical music on shortwave feels to me the most natural thing in the world. But there is hardly any of it left to tune in to.
So I decided to make a western classical music programme and find some transmitter time to broadcast it. Many thanks to the folks at Channel 292 in Europe, and WRMI in the USA for making it possible.The show is called Encore for obvious reasons - and Radio Tumbril because it is a
domain I had doing nothing. Please use the comments page and email link for reception reports andsuggestions - it will help me discover what works and what doesn't and so improve the show.
Best wishes to all,
Encore on Radio Tumbril
Brice Avery - Scotland UK. March 2019 (Updated March 2020)

It was practiced all Christmas. 8-year-old Eero Fredrikson was sitting at home in Jyväskylä listening to the Andante festival composed by Jean Sibelius while his father Onni, his twin brother Eino, Olavi Vänttinen and Paavo Kesäniemi were playing. However, the men didn't worry that there could be better things to do at Christmas. The significance of the situation was understood, and now there was no time to waste. The score written for the string quartet had been received from Sibelius shortly before Christmas, and had yet to be made stems for each player. The premiere was due a few days later, December 28, 1922. So now we practiced. Eino and Olavi grabbed the violin, Paavo the viola, and Onni placed the cello firmly in front of him. Once again, boys. It wasn't just any celebration. Säynätsalo celebrated the 25th anniversary of plywood and sawmills, but also the independence celebration of its own parish. On the morning of December 28, 1922, it was seen how dozens of horses were cooling from Jyväskylä all the way to the ice of Päijänne towards Säynätsalo, on a sleigh ride by invited guests from Helsinki: former prime ministers A.K. Cajander and Kaarlo Castrén, ministers, senators, bank governors, professors, merchants and leaders. "It was a handsome caravan that glided among nearly 40 horsepower at a sluggish pace as the rigors and passages rumbled along the winter landscape of Central Finland over hills and valleys." This is how Väinö Virtanen, a member of the party's riding committee, painted the journey towards the gate of honor decorated with vines. The guests from Helsinki had already set off the previous night on a special train. Three sleeping carriages had been reserved, which the Chief Railway Officer had "kindly cleaned to a condition pleasing to passengers," testifies the Report on the 25th anniversary of the Säynätsalo mills (published in 1923). Almost 50 invited guests came from Helsinki and about the same number from the Jyväskylä region. In addition, factory officials and those who had been working in the house for more than 10 years were invited to receive a certificate of honor and a medal from the Economic Society. A total of 300 people were coming to the party. It was decided to hold the party at the Säynätsalo Society house. After that, dinners would be served at the new handsome elementary school. When the event started at one in the afternoon, everything was ready. Our string quartet was also ready. I followed the house to the house hours earlier to warm up the instruments.One week before the party, the post office had brought a shipment to Dr. Walter Parviainen, the director of the Säynätsalo factories. Inside was a score of a few pages, the cover of which read: "Composed and dedicated to Walter Parviainen on the occasion of the celebration on December 28, 1922," Andante festivo "for the quartet, Jean Sibelius." The men had met on the street in Helsinki after Parviainen had been in the capital under Christmas. Parviainen told of the celebration, and Sibelius had promised to remember the celebration with his composition. How did the men know each other? Sibelius researcher Markku Hartikainen explains the background: Parviainen and Sibelius' brother Christian had been classmates during their medical studies and belonged to the student quartet, which Jean knew well already in the 1880s.Walter's cousin, the painter Oscar Parviainen, who was a close friend of Sibelius, was also a unifying link. After graduating, Parviainen worked as a doctor, but ended up as the director of Joh. Parviainen Oy, founded by his father, in Säynätsalo as the successor to his suddenly deceased brother Hugo. Sibelius had acted quickly with his promises. After receiving the notes, Parviainen asked his good friend Onni Fredrikson to assemble the quartet. In the Museum of Central Finland, curator Erkki Fredrikson, the son of little Eero, who listened to music under the table, looks at Sibelius' score from the museum's collections. Next door is Ilmari Hannikainen's arrangement for harmony. -? Hannikainen's arrangement was called to the workforce a couple of days after the party at Säynätsalo school, Fredrikson says. Walter Parviainen would have liked to have seen his entire workforce at the actual party, but the crowd would have risen to 1,300 by then, and there simply were no such large spaces. However, coffee was offered to the entire workforce after the party. Around Christmas 1922, Erkki Fredrikson often heard about his specialty from his grandmother, Signe, Onni's wife. Signe said that when Parviainen brought Sibelius' score home to them, it was immediately noticed that the quartet could not play about it. Sheet music was needed separately for all callers. But Signe was a good pianist, and he played the song directly from the score on the piano. That's when the men of the quartet heard the composition for the first time.The Lyseum gymnastics teacher Paavo Kesäniemi, who played the viola, did stems all night, and the training started right away. -? All the members of the quartet at that time were amateurs, but top musicians in their locality. Olavi Vänttinen, the youngest, who had just written as a student, later became a professional violinist. Fredrikson is sure the quartet knew what kind of treasure they were on. The Kullervo Symphony in 1891 had been a breakthrough for Sibelius. Finlandia, who graduated in 1899 - then still called Finland - and the song of the Athenians exuded patriotism and lifted the moods of the Finns in difficult times. The first five symphonies and concert trips abroad had elevated him to international fame. In the first couple of 1920s, Sibelius successfully conducted many of his own concerts and continued to compose. In September 1922, the long-drafted Sixth Symphony began to progress and premiered in February 1923. It is obvious that the Andante festivo is based on Sibelius' earlier sketches. He had met Walter Parviainen in Helsinki near Christmas, and so quickly he would hardly have composed the song. There is nothing exceptional about it. Composers often have materials that they can use later, says Veijo Murtomäki, a Sibelius researcher and professor of music history at the Sibelius Academy. Researcher Markku Hartikainen believes that the roots of the work are in the Marjatta oratorio designed by Sibelius in 1905.
Let's return to Säynätsalo.
The party program is printed on "triple plywood". It is known first to visit the plywood factory and then to the main party at Seurai House. The program includes a trumpet playing, male quartet singing, a gala performance, the award ceremony, Professor Sibelius's "cantata composed for the feast," a prayer, a hymn, and the song Our Land. The independence of the Säynätsalo conservation community is also taken into account. In his keynote address, CEO Parviainen talks about striving forward and blessing the work, and distributes the medals of the Finnish Economic Association to the "85 loyal workers" of the factories. The oldest of them has been 48 and the youngest 10 years in the service of the shops. And then:
"When he started giving the medal, the amateur violin quartet --- Professor Jean Sibelius´ played a festive composition composed for the occasion," writes a publication about the celebration. Forced to rub eyes. The work of the famous composer will have its premiere, and at the same time medals will be awarded! The same is proved in his celebratory story by the Keskisuomalainen [Central Finn] on December 29, 1922: "During the distribution, the string quartet played a violin piece composed for the occasion by Jean Sibelius."
92 years later the reader is overwhelmed with astonishment and resentment. Where's the annealing, where's the standing applause? Was the ring overwhelmedby the hustle and bustle of medal distribution? Professor Veijo Murtomäki reassures. - In the 1920s, festive music was not as sacred as it is today. It was pretty pragmatic then. Such smiles that music must be listened to in silence only came in later times. Decorations were widely awarded when festive music was playing, and this is still the case, for example, in doctoral promotions. The feeling is relieved when more information can be found in the celebratory publication. The guests from Helsinki went on a return trip in the evening, but the carousel of the invited guests of the locals continued to live together until late at night. The song echoed to get. "The violin quartet played once and many times to rep. Prof. A beautiful composition by Jean Sibelius. " Parviainen had already given verbal thanks to the absent composer at the dinner at the elementary school, and an e-mail was sent to him after the evening: "When we hear your wonderful composition, our hearts are completely melted to you by our great Master." Gradually, Andante festivo took off. The 1929 song was heard performed by the double quartet at the wedding of Sibelius's niece Rita, and finally in 1938 the composer adapted it for the needs of the radio for string orchestra and cymbals. - It was a genius stamp, Veijo Murtomäki says. The orchestral arrangement was premiered across the oceans on radio waves live, as a greeting from Finland to the New York World's Fair on January 1, 1939. The work was played by the Radio Orchestra. Sibelius, then 73, had last served as conductor ten years earlier, but now he agreed to appear in front of the orchestra again. The Andante Festivo recording of the broadcast has remained the only sound documentary about Sibelius as the conductor of the orchestra. The orchestral arrangement also brought more publicity to the work. Today, the composition is one of Sibelius' most popular, Veijo Murtomäki lists. -? Most Finns have heard it at school. All string orchestras play it! Where is the reason for the song's popularity? It is modest in size, only about six minutes. -? It is a composition of simple nobility and rises proudly above everyday life. A devout song in major, where you can also see religious content, Murtomäki characterizes. Murtomäki sees the same sacred atmosphere in the Village Church, later composed by Sibelius for piano in 1923–24. The Andante festival has more ethos and celebration than most other Sibelius compositions. For the caller, it is pleasant, and not very difficult. The orchestral arrangement is the most played version of the work. Murtomäki hopes that it will be performed more as an original composition for the quartet.- But the orchestra plays more handsome, he admits. Erkki Fredrikson says that Andante festivo was a regular piece of music at the Jyväskylä Lyceum celebrations for decades. This was also the case at the Jyväskylä Normal School high school, which Murtomäki attended. Jean Sibelius was known to be very patriotic. He wanted to build a nation with his compositions, Veijo Murtomäki says. To his son-in-law, conductor Jussi Jalas from Jyväskylä, Sibelius said late that "he could have composed more patriotic music". According to Murtomäki, Andante festivo is a typical commissioned work of industrial and independent Finland. In his book Jean Sibelius and the Motherland, he presents the composer's 15 patriotic compositions, of which Andante festivo is one. Sibelius was considered the composer of white Finland, and his acquaintances included many rich industrial and commercial figures. What was Sibelius' relationship with the Finnish working population? Andante festivo plays for the first time at a factory party, rewarding the workforce. - That's an interesting question. Was Sibelius the composer of the whole nation? Hard to say. In any case, he was also respected by the Reds, Murtomäki says. Surprisingly, Sibelius's message can be found in the Säynätsalo mills' 25th anniversary report. At the school's dinners, Ilmari Hakala, an engineer and director of party expenses, read the e-mails and letters that arrived at the party. About 80 of them had been blessed, one of which was from Sibelius in Järvenpää: "Long live Finnish work and energy!" Erkki Fredrikson has a whimsical memory. According to Erk, Father Eero Fredrikson developed into a "moderate amateur cellist". During his school days, Eero played the Andante festival in the Lyseo Orchestra - notes were found on the home shelf - and in the Student Union Orchestra of the School of Economics in the 1930s. -? The cellist who called next to Eero had asked, where have you been able to memorize that? Eero replied that at home I've been playing a little bit. Fredrikson laughs. Andante festivo online played by the Radio Orchestra on January 1, 1939. Composition also on Youtube, several performers. Jyväskylä Sinfonia will perform the work in its concert on March 4. 2015. Sources, in addition to interviews: Report on the 25th anniversary of the Säynätsalo mills on December 28, 1922 (Gummerus 1923, Jyväskylä University Library). Veijo Murtomäki: Jean Sibelius and the Fatherland (January 2007). Website sibelius.fi, nationaliskirjasto.fi. Erik Tawastjerna: Jean Sibelius 5 (Ottawa 1988). Central Finland on December 29, 1922. The story was published in Keskisuomalainen on 6 December 2014.

 

Encore has not played only Sibelius music but much more hilarious styles like Oskar Merikanto´s Summer Evening Waltz played here by the famous Japanese pianist Izumi Tateno, who lived many years in Finland!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYU_mh_5_AI
myself I am very fascinated by this song of Oskar Merikanto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UqDqVvJ-rM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvATVYPRUVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKSBvricdA&list=OLAK5uy_m-VG3ku4zvI8Zc2e2X8qNmuqx7KFdSl4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOL7I6YKqZg
Izumi Tateno - Etude, Op. 76 (Sibelius)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOrLQ-uXOo
Friendship Envoy Izumi Tateno, Finland-Japan 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuYvKiiY27c
Sibelius Kuusi Spruce Izumi Tateno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuG4wT4Lprw

Oskar Marikanto

Izumi Tateno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibelius_Hall
http://www.lahtiguide.fi/listings/sibelius-hall/?lang=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibelius_Monument_(Helsinki)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adKwG9ZuzFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABUwIcSlZk
https://www.wqxr.org/story/jean-sibeliuss-only-radio-interview-doesnt-reveal-much-wow-voice/
http://www.teknokekko.fi/lrh/lahtisw/lahti.html
https://fmq.fi/articles/jean-sibelius-conducts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXI8tnibmI  [music from the 1st SW transmission from Lahti to the USA]
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Parviainen   W Parviainen and Andante Festivo is a nice story

10 awesome classical pieces under 2 minutes long
https://www.cbc.ca/music/read/10-awesome-classical-pieces-under-2-minutes-long-1.5014248
More that kind of insights! To help for ex in making Encore programs! Gratefully received more!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct2gdh

 The Proms on BBC WS, with highlights from the 2021 season of BBC Proms, the UK's greatest classical music festival!
Connecting the Brits by the radio all over world..

"Moomin coffee and radio room!"And.
Have a look at the CD - Sinfonia Lahti record on the table!
Brice Avery had received that CD from Lahti as a thank for making Finnish music famous in the world!
br
Kari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrQNkiUY9k - Good news for Finland!
A talent Brit Nicholas Collon will start as a new chief conductor in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
All the best to him!
br
kkx
https://www.sinfonialahti.fi/tietoa/