Category: Cooler Classics

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 22nd August 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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Interview with Giselle Ben-Dor about her career to date, and the album “Cien Anos”(Hundred Years) celebrating the bandoneon music of legendary composer Piazzolla.Review of 4 recent Toccata Classics albums:

  • Axel Ruoff Complete Works For Organ Vol2.
  •  Josef Schelb: Orchestral Music Vol 3 3 Concertos
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Complete Violin Sonatas
  • Emil Tabakov Complete Symphonies Vol 6.Symphony No 7

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

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Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 15th August 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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Featuring:

  • Lesley Duncan recalls the music of Douglas Munn… her brother  .. and how his mathematical career led him into GCHQ…….
  • Mario Frangoulis recounts his musical journey, and his latest “crossover” album, “Blue Skies-An American Songbook”.
  • Martin Malmgren discusses his project about an obscure composer, Moses Pergament.

Plus music from:

  • Hans Gal Piano Trio in E, Op. 18  2. II. Allegro violento, played by Sarah Beth Briggs(piano), David Juritz(violin) and Kenneth Woods (‘cello)
  • Mark Knopfler’s Going Home.(Sacha Puttnam & the Classic Film Orchestra)
  • Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 in C Major (Krystian Zimmerman and the LSO with Simon Rattle conducting.

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

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Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 8th August 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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  • Featuring interviews with:
  • Haley Morgan Myles… explaining her Chopin Nocturne Project.
  • Thomas Cameron.. a rising tenor with operatic dreams..maybe!
  • Valentina Keys….Odessa born singer defying musical genres…”All For You”
  • With new releases from Bion Tsang(Bach Cello Suite  No 1) and  Gisele Ben-Dor and Juanjo Mosalini (Bandoneon) with a tribute to Argentine composer Piazzolla.
  • And an appropriate anniversary reminder of the music of Arthur Eckersley Butterworth (Symphony No 1) and Hans Gal(Symphony No 4).
  • With a final appeal from Ludwig van Beethoven and Frederick Sciller…Ode To Joy(All Men Are Brothers)

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

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Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 1st August 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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Featuring extended interviews with :

Lord David Puttnam: His Films and The Music.

Lord David Puttnam.

Sacha Puttnam (and The Classics Film Orchestra) with reimagined versions of David Puttnam’s films’ music scores in The Spirit Of Cinema album.

Sacha Puttnam.

With additional music from Andre Rieu,Shostakovitch, Handel, Alexander Tchaikovsky…

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

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

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 25th July 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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  • The 3Choirs Festival is in full swing, so interviews and world premieres!
  • Kenneth Woods (ESO) describes the concert on 28th July at Kidderminster.
Kenneth Woods
  • Steve Elcock explains his Symphony No 8, to be premiered on 28th July.
Steve Elcock
  • Emily Doolittle shares her love of sounds and the work “Woodwings”(Premiere)
Emily Doolittle
  • With additional music from Gabriel Jackson, Julian Lloyd Webber, Edward Elgar,Allan Petterson,Andre Rieu and Beethoven

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

www.nccr.co.uk.