Category: Interviews

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!)

www.nccr.co.uk.

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!)

www.nccr.co.uk.

In The Cooler, Interviews, Music, NCCR

NCCR “In The Cooler” Friday 6th August 2021(rpts Sunday Noon till 2pm) Available on Listen Again (www.nccr.co.uk) & Mixcloud.

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  • Mike Armstrong explains how “Kirkwall” came to be written.
Mike Armstrong
  • Charley Langer, a saxophonist from the US, is reconnecting.
Charley Langer
  • James Warren & Al Steele(2 of The Korgis)  recount Kartoon World..
James Warren
Al Steele
  • Dom Franks talks  about his involvement with the Swing Machine Big Band.
Dom Franks
  • Steve Hackett is getting ready for a tour and album release on 10th September 2021.
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Steve Hackett.(Copyright Acknowledged)
  • With music from Emily White, KinetIX and Yes.

Friday 6th August 2021…7-9pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Sunday Noon till 2pm, Available on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)

http://www.nccr.co.uk

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!)

www.nccr.co.uk.

In The Cooler, Interviews, Literature, Music, NCCR

NCCR “In The Cooler” Friday 30th July 2021(rpts Sunday Noon till 2pm) Available on Listen Again (www.nccr.co.uk) & Mixcloud.

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  • James Zada  who announces the release of his feel-good pop single Ocean.
James Zada
  • Verity White, Cheltenham rock chick(!) is excited about her being support act for Toyah…
Verity & Alex in the NCCR Studio on a previous visit!!
  • Stephen Donald, actor/singer/songwriter leaves Brookfield behind for “The Man In The Moon”
Stephen Donald
  • Paul Evans  from New York, tells of his starting in the Brill Building, and enjoying 60 years in the music business..and now he is a writer!!(At 83!!)
“Happy Go Lucky” Paul Evans
  • Including music from The Zombies, Ryan Simpson, Partland, Ray Conniff,Roy Orbison, The Kalin Twins, Bobby Vinton.

Friday 30th July 2021…7-9pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Sunday Noon till 2pm, Available on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)

http://www.nccr.co.uk