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Internet radio stations streaming chant

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descriptionLive internet radio stations streaming Gregorian and Western liturgical chant, and Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine chant, with direct stream URLs and verification notes.
tagsmusic, chant, radio

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Abstract

Twelve currently-broadcasting stations covering two chant traditions: Gregorian and Western liturgical plainsong, and Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine chant. Every stream URL below was opened and played in a browser before being listed. The field is narrower than it first appears — many “Orthodox radio” listings are diocesan FM simulcasts carrying mostly talk, and several well-known chant stations have dead streams, so both are noted rather than padded into the list.

Gregorian and Western liturgical chant

Radio Caprice — Gregorian Chant

Single-genre, non-stop, no presenters and no ads. The purest Gregorian channel of the group.

  • Stream: http://213.141.131.10:8000/chants (320 kbps)
  • Alternates: http://213.141.131.10:8002/chants (48 kbps), http://213.141.131.10:8004/chants
  • Origin: Moscow, Russia

Calm Radio — Gregorian Chant

Benedictine monastic choirs and other Gregorian ensembles. Free tier streams at reduced bitrate; the catalogue is deep and consistently on-genre.

Radio Art — Gregorian Chants

One channel of a large Greek themed-radio network. Programmed toward calm listening rather than liturgical order, so expect chant-adjacent choral work alongside plainsong.

  • Stream: https://live.radioart.com/fGregorian_chants.mp3
  • Alternate: https://air.radioart.com/fGregorian_chants.mp3
  • Origin: Greece

Concertzender — Gregoriaans

A themed channel of the Dutch public arts broadcaster Concertzender. Curated and programme-based rather than a shuffle, and the most editorially serious Gregorian stream here.

Hearme — Medieval Period

Music of roughly the 5th to 15th centuries: Gregorian chant and early polyphony alongside troubadour song and period-instrument pieces. Hildegard von Bingen, Machaut and Pérotin feature.

Early Music

Music from 500 to 1750, tagged Gregorian, medieval and Renaissance. Chant appears within a wider early-music rotation rather than continuously.

  • Stream: https://stream.laut.fm/early_music
  • Page: https://laut.fm/early_music
  • Playing when checked: Estampie (from Ludus Danielis) — Ad honorem tui Christi
  • Origin: Pucking, Germany

Gregorian FM Radio

Spanish-language Catholic station broadcasting 24 hours. Chant sits alongside liturgical and devotional programming, so it is a mixed rather than pure chant feed.

  • Stream: https://virtual1.emisorasvirtuales.com:8060/live
  • Origin: United States, Spanish-language

Esoterica FM — Gregorian Chants

Brazilian themed channel devoted to Gregorian chant.

  • Stream: http://radio.esoterica.fm.br:8006/stream
  • Origin: São Paulo, Brazil

Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine chant

Radio Caprice — Orthodox Spiritual Music

Covers the Byzantine-rite tradition broadly: Russian, Greek and Old Rus liturgical music, including znamenny material. Same no-presenter format as the Gregorian channel.

  • Stream: http://79.111.14.76:8000/orthodox (320 kbps)
  • Alternates: http://79.111.14.76:8002/orthodox (48 kbps), http://79.111.14.76:8004/orthodox
  • Channel page: http://radcap.ru/orthodox.html
  • Origin: Moscow, Russia

Byzantine Chant 24x7

Round-the-clock Byzantine chant across Serbo-Croatian, Russian and English. The most single-minded Orthodox chant stream found.

Byzantine Chant (Serbia)

Dedicated to Byzantine chant in Church Slavonic, drawing on a range of chanters.

  • Stream: https://stream.zeno.fm/n30m6gr6fd0uv
  • Origin: Serbia

Ancient Faith Radio — Music

The music stream of Ancient Faith Ministries: liturgical and choral Orthodox music from seminary and monastic choirs, running 24 hours. Their separate /talk mount carries podcasts and teaching instead.

  • Stream: https://ancientfaith.streamguys1.com/music
  • Talk stream: https://ancientfaith.streamguys1.com/talk
  • Site: https://www.ancientfaith.com/radio/
  • Origin: Chesterton, Indiana, USA

Checked and not included

  • Orthodoxia Radio (kelfar.net) — a long-running Byzantine chant station, but its mount http://sc4.spacialnet.com:21644/ did not respond on repeated attempts. The site still advertises it; worth retrying if the others pall.
  • Orthodox Sentinel Radio: Chant — the dedicated chant channel’s player embed returns 404, so the channel appears retired. The ministry’s main station is still running.
  • Greek diocesan FM stations (Iera Mitropoli Artas, Radio Agios Dimitrios, Ekklisia tis Ellados and similar) — these dominate “Byzantine” directory categories, but they are church FM simulcasts whose output is largely liturgical talk and services, with chant only in parts of the schedule.
  • Mount Athos monastic radio (monasticrepublic.com) — the player did not expose a usable stream URL.
  • Radio Caprice mounts are plain HTTP. Browsers block them as mixed content on HTTPS pages, so use a desktop player — in VLC, Media → Open Network Stream. Ports 8000 and 8004 are the 320 kbps feeds and port 8002 is a 48 kbps low-bandwidth alternative. Caprice moves channels between servers periodically; if an IP stops answering, the current mount is on the channel page at radcap.ru.
  • The ; at the end of the Calm Radio URL is part of the address — it is the legacy SHOUTcast mount form and players need it intact.
  • For liturgical listening rather than background sound, Radio Caprice’s two channels and Byzantine Chant 24x7 are the ones that stay on-form continuously. Radio Art, Gregorian FM and Ancient Faith all mix chant with adjacent material.

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