Cooler Classics, Events and Shows, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 6th June 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

This edition features:

An extended interview with Mirusia Louwerse the Australian soprano who delighted audiences around the world with Andre Rieu and the JSO…tells us about her career highlights to date, and the latest CD/DVD “Live In Concert” Expect a few songs, including The Morning Bird from the new album released 4th June 2021

Live in Concert (Live CD)

Classical guitarist Craig Ogden will be performing Spanish music at Broadway Arts Festival, in the Marquee on the Green, Broadway, on Wednesday 9th June 2021. Craig tells us about his musical start, and current projects….

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New releases from Chandos records… featuring the music of Sibelius,Mozart, Berlioz, Nelson Riddle, Szymanowski – Variations on a Polish Theme, ..

And a first play (world first?) for a World Premiere recording…. “The Ugly Duckling” by the English Symphony Orchestra, with Hugh Bonneville narrating.

Fiddles, Forests and Fowl Fables: New storytelling works for narrator and orchestra
https://www.eso.co.uk/product/fables/

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

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 14th March 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Featuring: 

  • Orchestra Of The Swan.. David le Page explains the direction of the orchestra in the community, and we listen to two tracks from the acclaimed Timelapse album…
  • The English Symphony Orchestra feature, playing 3 movements from David Matthews Symphony No 9.
  • And a South American flavour to the start of the show, with music from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba….with performances from Lionel Sainsbury, Fabio Blum and Sarah Willis.

Sunday 14h March 2021…9-11pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Thursday.(Midnight) Available on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 21st February 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Tuesday & Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

On this week’s edition:

  • Eva Fox-Gal gives background and insight into her father Hans Gal’s “unpublished lieder” and the new album “Hidden Treasure”.
Eva Fox-Gal
  • April Frederick & the ESO perform 3 of Richard Strauss’s Last 4 Songs.
April Frederick
  • David Le Page & Orchestra of The Swan with two tracks from “Timelapse”.
SIGCD662 - Timelapse
“Timelapse”
  • An introduction to the 3rd & 5th Symphonies of Daniel Jones

Sunday 21st February 2021…9-11pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Tuesday and Thursday.(Midnight)

Available on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 14th February 2021. 9pm-11pm, various Repeats, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Featuring: Kenneth Woods(Conductor ESO) and April Frederick discuss “Visions of Childhood” and Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs.
Kenneth Woods.
April Frederick
  • Daniel Johnson introduces “Passion Of The Heart”
Daniel Johnson

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea tells us all about her music, in particular “Le Rouge et Le Noir”, a three act ballet based on the book of the same name by Stenhald (1783-1842), which had been made into a film(1954).

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea
Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Le rouge et le noir

And we hear a new single from David Le Page and the OOTS (Sleep Walk), taken from the forthcoming album Vivaldi Sleep..

Sunday 7th February 2021…9-11pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Tuesday and Thursday.

Available on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 27th December 2020. 9pm-11pm, various Repeats, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

“Cooler Classics” Review 2020

Part 2 of a review of the past 12 months.

Featuring music from:

  • Ian Sutherland
  • Gustav Holst
  • Edward Elgar
  • Eleonor Bindman
  • Inbal Segev
  • Matthew Sharp
  • Hans Gal
  • English Symphony Orchestra
  • Ensemble Burletta
  • Fabio Brum
  • Anna Clyne
  • Philip Sawyers
  • Andre Rieu

Enjoy!!

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