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!)

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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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 31st July 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Joel Quarrington and Roberto Occhipinti discuss The Music of Don Thompson.
Joel Quarrington

Roberto Occhipinti
  • Matt Haimovitz reminds us of the Primavera Project and 81 commissioned pieces… with two new pieces to follow.
Matt Haimovitz
  • Plus music from : Kate Bush, Leo Delibes, Franz Schubert, Herbert Blomstedt, Erich Korngold, Antonio Meneses and Edward Elgar.

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

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 24th July 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Karen Bentley Pollick outlines the music of Herman Graedener and Ivan Sokolov on two Toccata Classics releases.
Karen Bentley Pollick
Courtesy Toccata Classics
Courtesy Toccata Classics
  • Timothy Fallon,US tenor, tells us about the songs of Otterino Respighi, and his future assignment.
Timothy Fallon
Courtesy: Crossover Media
  • Simon Blendis recall the music of maestro Max Jaffa (he of The Palm Court Orchestra) with the album “Love Is Like A Violin”
Simon Blendis.
  • With additional music from Sacha Puttnam , Ken Dodd, Max Jaffa, Andre Rieu.

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

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 17th July 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Cirencester poet Frank McMahon with thoughts on his book “A Different Land” and his musical choices…. Vaughan Williams, Shostakovitch, Beethoven.
Frank McMahon
  • Ivo Stankov updates us on his career and new position at the Birmingham Conservatoire…. and a BBC Young Musician Of The Year Finalist!!
Ivo Stankov.
  • Nicholas Ellis (Camarilla Ensemble) explains the ensembles latest album and the story behind the recording (a world first!) of Gustav Holst’s Wind Quintet in A-flat.
Nicholas Ellis (Camarilla Ensemble)
  • With additional music from: Peter Boyer and the London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim…
Peter Boyer holding the album “Balance Of Power”

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

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