Cooler Classics

Cooler Classics Sunday 26th March 2023

Music from: JS Bach, Anton Bruckner, Aaron Copland,Georg Philippe Telemann ,Richard Strauss, Gustav Charpentier, GF Handel, Fabio Brum, Nicholas Ho.


With performances from: Berit Hagen-Commander In Chief, Nina Kotova, Vienna Philharmonic, Rachel Willis Sorenson, Renee Fleming. Peter Ustinov.


An excerpt from a classic ..Wuthering Heights.
And a podcast featuring trumpeter Paul Merkelo (Courtesy Max Horowitz at Crossover Media)

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics Sunday 19th March 2023

Ellen Williams, Welsh Soprano tells us about her latest album.
Tim Ingles, fine arts auctioneer looks forward to The Rosenberg Collection sale (28th March, online)
With music from: Shostakovitch, Richard Strauss, Schubert, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Chopin, Tchaikovsky,
Luciano Pavarotti & Lou Reed, Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble .
And introducing: Luka Faulisi (violin) & Rafał Blechacz piano.

Now available: mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics on Mixcloud.. Sunday 12th March 2023

Interviews with:

Yuko Sano(pianist)

Noriko Ogawa(pianist)

Ofra Hannoy & Mike Herriott(cellist & trumpeter)

Featured composers include: Verdi, Puccini, Khachaturian, Scarlatti,Prokofiev,Debussy, Bernstein, Bizet,Rachmaninov, Sawyers.

Featured artists include: Andre Rieu & JSO, English Symphony Orchestra, Tedd Joselson, Caruso, Pavarotti, Russell Watson, Mark Milhofer.

Listen to this programme on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics on Mixcloud.. Sunday 5th March 2023

Bennet Cerven introduces the music of The Trouble Notes

Dr Alexander Lingas tells us about his role in the forthcoming Coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023.


Music from Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giuseppe Verdi, Maurice Ravel, Samuel Barber.
Performances from: Russell Watson, Claudio Abbado and London Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Gypsy Orchestra , Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra.
Latest releases from: Hélène Grimaud and Konstantin Krimmel (pay homage to Valentin Silvestrov)
Umeå Symphony Orchestra play Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) Chamber Symphony No. 1 .
James Gilchrist tenor, Eric McElroy piano perform “Tongues of Fire (SOMM Recordings)
The Catalyst Quartet – Uncovered, Vol. III: play the music of George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still.

Available now on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics on Mixcloud.. Sunday 26th February 2023

BAFTA 2023 related music..
Calvin Jones (& wife Inga, below) explains “After The Conquest”


Rachel Barton Pine revisits Black Composers music and recent album.


Ofra Harnoy – Cello & Mike Herriott – Trumpet share their Portrait of favourite opera music.
MARK PADMORE & MITSUKO UCHIDA sing Schubert’ and Beethoven.
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with guest vocalist Sting share The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman.
The original game soundtrack for The Callisto Protocol.
Andrew Brownell brings us Shades of Night…

Available now at mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15