Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

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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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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