Cooler Classics, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 13th July 2025 on www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

A selection of familiar and not so familiar classical music, with an interesting twist or two.. and remembering Andre Rieu’s Maastricht concerts!

Includes music from: 

  • Yuja Wang(Chopin), Ian Sutherland(Johann Strauss II) The Three Tenors(Puccini)
  • Russell Watson, Quartetto Di Cremona(JS Bach), Alfred Brendel (Mozart),
  • Mark Gane(Martha & The Muffins), Rimsky- Korsakov.
  • New releases from Chandos Records, and a Toccata Classics release(Ferenc Farkas)
  • DJ Otzi, Heino, Berlin Comedian Harmonists, Andre Rieu & JSO, Frederick Schiller, L.van Beethoven.

http://www.thefeelgoodstation.uk  (Sunday 9-11pm)

Thereafter on  mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 4th May 2025 on www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

Featuring:

  • 18 years old composer Vonn Vanier explains how his “Lost At Home”  opus was inspired by the brutality of World War 1 & “All Quiet On The Western Front”
  • Talon Smith, virtuoso pianist and composer speaks about his debut album of 24 Preludes, and a Sonata..

Plus :

  • Andre Rieu, Ryan Liatsis, Peter Gregson, Orchestra Of The Swan,
  • Arnold Schonberg,Viktor Ullman, Berlin Comedian Harmonists,
  • Francis Monkman(JS Bach) 

http://www.thefeelgoodstation.uk  (Sunday 9-11pm)

Thereafter on  mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 23rd March 2025 on www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.


Ute Lemper tells about her appreciation for the works of Kurt Weill.. and Marlene Dietrich.

Plus additional music from:

  •  JS Bach, WA Mozart, Lance Hulme, Enrico Caruso,Mario Lanza, Mark Milhofer,
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin, 
  • Berlin Comedian Harmonists, L.van Beethoven, Frederick Schiller,Andre Rieu.

http://www.thefeelgoodstation.uk  (Sunday 9-11pm)

Thereafter on  mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 7th April 2024 on thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) Evesham Hospital Radio, and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

  • Nimrod Borenstein updates on his busy summer programme, with some surprises to come…. – but not today!! And we hear the first recording  of a new ballet..”Overture To The Moon” with the Vratsa(Bulgaria) Symphonic Orchestra.
  • Additional Music from:  Sergey Rachmaninov, Hans Gal, Jean Sibelius, Edward Greig, Frederic Chopin.
  • New releases from Toccata Classics: Arnold Rosner,Oskar Merikanto, Ferdinand Thieriot, Walter Niemann..
  • Featured artists: Daniil Trifonov, Segey Babayan Ted Joselson, Orchestra Of the Swan, Kenneth Woods, Berlin Comedian Harmonists .

http://www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm)

Evesham Hospital Radio. Sunday 5-7pm

Thereafter on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 21st January 2024 on thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

This edition of Cooler Classics is revisiting a 2019 programme that featured some music, and conversations from those who experienced it first hand, and from others with a story to tell// as follows:

Herb Alpert: My Home Town.

Jenny Silverston(Chair of Hebrew Congregation in Cheltenham)

Peace Prayer

Holga Off (Berlin Comedian Harmonists)

Comedian Harmonists- Irgendwo auf der Welt.

Berlin Comedian Harmonists:Daisy

Prague Philharmonic: Ma Vlast (Smetana)

Barbara Winton

Entrance march Aida .

John Fieldsend

The Welcoming Land (Clement Dane) read by Noel Coward

Paul Kittel,film maker.

Sean Dudden.

Joe Twilie (Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)

Simon Schama

All Men Are Brothers(Beethoven/Schiller)

http://www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm)

And on wbrs belgium( https://wbrs.online/) Saturday 10am -12noon

Thereafter on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15