Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 6th April 2025 on www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

Featuring interviews with:

  • Fotina Noumenko… soprano, telling us about “Bespoke Songs”
  • Fenella Humphreys is the soloist at the inaugural concert of the  Cotswold Philharmonia.
  • Hugh McLaren is excited for the Cotswold Philharmonia!

Plus music from:

  • Andre Rieu, Andris Nelsons, Dmitri Shostakovich, Edward Elgar, ESO, 
  • JS Bach, L.van Beethoven, Bela Bartok. Maurice Ravel.

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

Thereafter on  mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

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

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 13th March 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Sean Friar(Composer) & Michael Mirzahli(Now Ensemble) tell us about “Before & After”
Sean Friar (composer)
Michael Mirzahli(Now Ensemble)
  • Christopher Tyler Nickel updates on his projects…. and his piece for Inbal Segev’s “20 for 20″ project..”Fractures of Solitude”
Christopher Tyler Nickel

With additional music from:

  • James Last….(Mozart)
  • Ludovico Einaudi
  • Daniel Johnson
  • Harpist Magdalena Hoffmann (Respighi, Chopin)
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Thomas Gould (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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

www.nccr.co.uk

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

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 5th September 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Featuring :

  • Helena Cavan explains the music and poetry of The Cavan Trio,(Janine Parsons, piano; Corinne Frost, cello; Helena Cavan; poetry) next appearing on 19th September 2021 at Greet,Nr Winchcombe.
Helena Cavan.
  • Music on this programme will come from 
  • Orchestra of The Swan,(Eno)(Hans Gal)
  • English Symphony Orchestra & April Frederick (Elgar,Mahler)
  • Pierre -Laurent Aimard (Beethoven)
  • Giselle Ben-Dor and Juanjo Mosalini(bandoneon) (Piazzolla)
  • Tom Kerstens (Enrique Granados)
  • Paavo Järvi (Arvo Paert)
  • Emmanuele Baldini & Pablo Rossi(Villa-Lobos)
  • Anita Rachvelishvili( Otar Taktakishvili)

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

www.nccr.co.uk.

Cooler Classics, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 18th July 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Robert Emery
  • La Serenissima with more Vivaldi.
  • New releases from Konstantia Gourzi, Randall Goosby, D.Ferella, Sebastian Plano.
  • Gemma Wheklan (with the ESO) narrates The Bremen Town Musicians.
Kenneth Woods : Fiddles, Forests and Fowl Fables CD 2 discs (2021) ***NEW***
  • Steve Elcock’s Symphony No 5 (ahead of a premiere of his Symphony No 8 with the ESO at Kidderminster on 28th July 2021
  • And news of the Three Choirs Festival.

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 11th July 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • And we start off with “Extra Time”!!!!(La Serenissima)

  • Kenneth Woods explains Mahler’s music.
Kenneth Woods.
  • The Voice Finalist, Nadia Eide, tells us about her singing career ahead of an autumn tour including a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon PlayHouse in October.
Nadia Eide
  • And music from:: 
  • Albinoni, Bizet,,Budd, Bruckner,  Mahler,Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky,Verdi.
  • Performances from:
  • Sarah Brightman,Mario Frangoulis, Gustavo Dudamel,April Frederick,ESO, BBC Philharmonic.

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

www.nccr.co.uk.