Cooler Classics, English Symphony Orchestra, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 4th September 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Interviews with:

  • Jamie Hannah.. a new voice with “Tomorrow”
Jamie Hannah
  • Kenneth Woods reviews the summer and future events with the English Symphony Orchestra.
Kenneth Woods

The music of:

  • Bohuslav Martinů
  • MARINA ARSENIJEVIC and the Tesla Rhapsody
  • Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in A major (with Paavali Jumppanen)
  • Gustav Mahler, Philip Sawyers, Edward Elgar

And the voices of Andreas Scholl, Anna Netrebko, Luciano Pavarotti.

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

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 28th August 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Featuring the music of….
  • Sarah Class .. … featured on this year’s BBC Proms.
  • Eimear Quinn– former Eurivision winner(1995)
  • Alison O’Donnell.. singing new songs in the ancient tradition.
  • Iconic composers… Jean Sibelius , Antonin Dvorak and Gustav Holst.
  • New work from Carlos Simon…Requiem For The Enslaved..a specially commissioned work honouring those who suffered during the slave trade years.
  • Calvin Jones with the Tuarida Symphony Orchestra “After The Conquest” as we remember Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons.
  • With Leonard Bernstein and Oscar Hammerstein II.

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

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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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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!)

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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