Don Satz wrote: >I do not have direct experience with European classical music stations. >However, the ones I'm aware of on the internet are every bit as poor >as their American counterparts. Well, I don't know the american classical music stations, but in Europe I know a lot of countries which each have a good-quality classical music stations which have also place for "minority"-music like contemporary music, chamber music, unknown composers etc. Just a few examples: in Switzerland, there are the french-speaking Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2 (http://www.espace2.ch/espace2/Index.asp), the german-speaking DRS2(http://www.drs.ch/site/drs2.html), in France, there is the outstanding France Musique (http://www.radio-france.fr/chaines/france-musiques/actuellement/) (and another France Culture: (http://www.radio-france.fr/chaines/france-culture/sommaire/), in Germany there is Bayern 4 classical, etc. And I don't count the stations that are giving fast-food, predigested classical hits for people who want some background "music"! Nadine Meertens