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 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 4th February 2024 on thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

Interviews with:

  • Ryan Liatsis, composer of scores for top selling video games, tells us about the standalone piece “Elephant Battle”
  • Acclaimed international pianist Burkard Schliessmann explains his musical philosophy.
  • Jamie Lonsdale has a new song – with the aid of 40 Ukrainian refugees – called “Freedom”

Additional music from:

  • Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, JS Bach, Frederic Chopin, Calvin Jones, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederick Schiller, Vincent Oppido.
  • Performances from: London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Tuarida Symphony Orchestra, Andre Rieu & JSO, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Great Britain, Mario Lanza, Enrico Caruso, Mark Milhofer.

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

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

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

Cooler Classics, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 24th December 2023 on thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

Featuring Music from::

  • Johan Strauss II (Andre Rieu)
  • Richard Wagner Die Walküre- Laila Andersson-Palme
  • Gustav Mahler(in the film “Maestro)
  • Maria Callas
  • Anna Lapwood (Debussy)
  • Lisa Reagan
  • Women’s Philharmonic/Jo Ann Falletta(Schumann)
  • Franz Liszt(Leon McCauley)
  • Christopher Tyler Nickel
  • GF Handel
  • Calvin Jones
  • L. van Beethoven/Frederic Schiller
  • Jean Sibelius
  • DJ Otzi

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

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

Thereafter on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15