Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

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

  • Peter Dart & Daniel Herscovitvh discuss the Toccata Classics albums  of Peter Dart (Chamber Music & Songs) & Don Banks… and the forthcoming double album launch at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on 11th October.
Peter Dart
Daniel Herscovitch
  • Chad Lawson(US) .. with the Royal Philharmonic, “Breathe”.
Chad Lawson
  • Malte Muller enthuses about the German lied songs of Bernhard Sekles- another Toccata Classics release.
Malte Muller
  • With contributions from: Arnold Bax,Paul Potts, Lars Vogt and Andre Rieu.

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 2nd October 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Olga Thomas- a royal composer., with her latest single “Her Platinum Crown.”
Olga Thomas
  • Joanna Forest- classical crossover singer and broadcaster enthuses musical joy.
Joanna Forest
  • Jane Whittle introduces us to The Film Orchestra- based in Worcester.
Jane Whittle,The Film Orchestra
  • Stephen Belinfante conducts The Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra and discusses their forthcoming programme.
Stephen Belinfante,Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • With music from: Sir Arthur Bliss, Monty Norman, Hans Zimmer, Sir John Williams, Jean Sibelius, Gustav Holst.

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 25th September 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Featuring conversations with:

  • Paul Potts-  an English tenor. who In 2007,won the first series of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with his performance of “Nessun dorma” and is “living the dream”!!
Paul Potts: Musica Non Proibita
  • John Robertson (Campden Music) tells us how to subscribe to 6 music events in Chipping Campden over the next few months.
John Robertson(Campden Music)

New releases from:

  • Somm Recordings- Vol 2 of some rare Ralph Vaughan Williams live broadcasts.
  • Signum Records: Vivaldi(from La Serenissima), Brahms and Prokofiev.
  • Toccata Classics: Latest releases from Lubomir Pipkov (1904–74),,Emil Tabakov (b. 1947),David Matthews (b. 1943), Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
Toccata Classics September Bundle

Not forgetting: Gustav Holst, Luciano Pavarotti,Jose Carreras .Placido Domingo, Julian Lloyd Webber and Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 18th September 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Andris Nelsons: Farewell Waltz by prominent Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, with the Wiener Philharmoniker.
  • Ukrainian-American Pianist Nadia Shpachenko -“Invasion.”
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Pygmalion”
  • Clarissa Bevilacqua with “Rush”
  • Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”
  • Evgeny Kissin with FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN’s Nocturne in B major .
  • Music of Erwin Schulhoff.
  • Cyril Huvé & Jorja Fleezanis with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 in A Major.
  • Julien Van Mellaerts looks ahead to his performance at the inaugural Shipston Song Festival.
Julien Van Mellaerts
  • A selection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite music.
  • **Regimental March Milanollo (Quick March of the Coldstream Guards) Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards
  •  **Sing by Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band featuring the Military Wives
  • Highland Cathedral: The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs “Dusk”( London Philharmonic)
  • Il Divo:Time To Say Goodbye.

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

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

Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 

Playlist:( ** The Queen’s Favourites!)

  • Mantovani: Elizabethan Serenade
  • Wm Walton’s “Orb & Sceptre”
  • Lesley Garrett CBE, Rodney Earl Clarke with London Community Gospel Choir sing The Four British Nations.(Produced by Anton Van Der Mere.
  • WO Richie Maddox introduces The Soldiers’ Platinum Jubilee Song.
  • **Regimental March Milanollo (Quick March of the Coldstream Guards) Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards
  •  **Sing by Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band featuring the Military Wives
  • Highland Cathedral: The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs “Dusk”( London Philharmonic)
  • **Lester Lanin Medley 
  • Music from : Oklahoma,Annie Get Your Gun, My Fair Lady.
  • And time honored classics from Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Antonin Dvorak.

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

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