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Cooler Classics, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 21st August 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Playlist includes

  • Berit Hagen(aka The Commander-in-Chief) (Bach)
  • Sheku-Kanneh Mason (Mendelssohn)
  • Martha Argerich (Haydn)
  • Daniel Barenboim (Debussy)
  • John Williams & Yo-Yo Ma(Williams)
  • Sacha Puttnam (Vangelis)
  • Andre Rieu (Kachaturian)
  • Q The Music

And 4 new releases from Toccata Classics:

  • Henriette Bosmans
  • Sir Donald Tovey
  • Robert Fürstenthal
  • Fridrich Bruk

Sunday 9-11pm and repeated Thursday at Midnight. Plus Listen Again (7 days) and Mixcloud (several weeks!)

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In The Cooler, Interviews, Literature, Music, NCCR

NCCR “In The Cooler” Friday 19th August 2022 (rpts Sunday noon till 2pm) Available on Listen Again (https://nccr.co.uk) & Mixcloud.

  • Lorraine Silver updates us with her latest release “Sunny Day”
Lorraine Silver
  • Aubrey “Po” Powell of Hipgnosis recalls those heady days “Through The Prism”
Aubrey “Po” Powell.
  • Spencer Leigh discusses “Frank Sinatra-An Extraordinary Life”
Spencer Leigh
  • KG Miles and Jeff Towns  bring together “The Two Dylans”
Jeff Towns
KG Miles
  • With music from: Tony Christie,Brian Hyland, Lamont Dozier, The Cutting Crew, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra.. and the voices of Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton.

Friday 19th August 2022…7-9pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Sunday 21st August 2022 Noon till 2pmAvailable on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!) https://nccr.co.uk

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Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 14th August 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • The Met, Decca Classics and Deutsche Grammophon release an album..Concert For Ukraine.
  • Calvin Jones speaks about the latest track: After The Conquest”
Calvin & Inga Jones
  • Nancy Lee Harper and Malcolm Dedman discuss Malcolm Dedman’s Piano Music Vol 1 on Toccata Classics.
Nancy Lee Harper
Malcolm Dedman
  • Colin Jacobsen details the Kreutzer Project.
Colin Jacobsen
  • With additional music from: Valentin Silvestrov, Samuel Barber, Guiseppi Verdi, Antonio Leal Moreira, Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Sunday 9-11pm and repeated Thursday at Midnight. Plus Listen Again (7 days) and Mixcloud (several weeks!)

In The Cooler, Interviews, Literature, Music, NCCR

NCCR “In The Cooler” Friday 12th August 2022 (rpts Sunday noon till 2pm) Available on Listen Again (https://nccr.co.uk) & Mixcloud.

  • Doris Brendel looks forward to an acoustic event..
(C) Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham
  • Ronan Furlong(Wexford,Ireland) explains “Redeemer”
Ronan Furlong
  • Paddy of Cosmic Embers is having an Apocalypse in Metropolis.
Paddy (Cosmic Embers)
  • Ann Rachlin shares the memoir of a Holocaust survivor..”The Tin Ring”
Ann Rachlin
  • Lee Rogers updates on his recent track”Every Time”
Lee Rogers
  • Blake Baker doesn’t much like “Sunday Evening”!!
Blake Baker
  • With additional music from:: The Seekers, Olivia Newton-John, The Supremes, LOCASH with some Beach Boys, Grammonth, Gene Kelly, Frances Langford, Neil Diamond.

Friday 12th August 2022…7-9pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Sunday 14th August 2022 Noon till 2pmAvailable on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 7th August 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Featuring:The music of:   

  • Frederick Loewe
  • Franz Schubert
  • Franz Lehár
  • Valentin Sylvestrov
  • Jean Sibelius
  • William Grant Still 
  • Antonin Dvořák

With performances from: 

  • Sinfonia Of London(John Wilson)
  • Orchestra Della Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova(Frédéric Chaslin)Soloist: Rachel Willis-Sørensen.
  • Oslo Philharmonic.(Klaus Makela)
  • Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra(Christopher Lyndon-Gee)
  • Gewandhausorchester(Herbert Blomstedt)
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic( Gustavo Dudamel)

A conversation with Avlana Eisenberg about the album Summerland, featuring the music of William Grant Still. (With the Royal Scottish National Orchestra)

Avlana Eisenberg

And a podcast(Courtesy Max Horovitz and Crossover Media) entitled “We Will Sing One Song”,  about the music of  Eve Beglarian (with the Apollo Chamber Players)

Image Courtesy Crossover Media.

Sunday 9-11pm and repeated Thursday at Midnight. Plus Listen Again (7 days) and Mixcloud (several weeks!)

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