Cooler Classics, English Symphony Orchestra, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 16th March 2025 on www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

Interviews with:

  • Kenneth Woods updates with news of ESO’s residency.. and new recordings soon!!
  • Charles Peebles looks forward to the making of an album featuring the music of Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
  • Eleonor Bindman tells about her latest album “Absolute”, and is looking forward to a London recital.

Plus the music of:

  • Olivia Belli, Jean Sibelius, CPE Bach, Ilse Weber, Herb Alpert, Kevin Olusola,
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn J.S Bach.

With performances from:

  • Anna Lapwood, Raphael Wallfisch, Esteher Abrami, La Serenissima,
  • RTE Concert Orchestra (Adrian Leaper)
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra(Bernard Haitink).

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

Thereafter on  mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

In The Cooler, Interviews, Music

“In The Cooler” for Sunday 19th January 2025. (Various stations)

  • Brian Gladstone tells us about Toronto’s Winter Folk XXXIII
  • Al Steele has a few words about Al-ienated Nations.
  • Mike Armstrong.. with help from Warren Bennett (and “1+1) sings “The Greatest Thing”.
  • Will Brown is “Better Man.”

With additional music from:

  • Johnny Cash,John Carr, Sam Moore(Soul Man), Parmalee,Dean Friedman,
  • The Jellybricks, Amber May, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Iyah May, Herb Alpert,
  • The Korgis,Sue Skinner, John Wilkinson, The Michael Dunn Project.

on  Yourhitsdigital.com  Sunday midnight, and On Demand for 7days

And on  countywideradio.com  Wednesday 2-4pm and DAB.

Then on  www.mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15 On Demand!!

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 26th May 2024 on thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) Evesham Hospital Radio, and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

featuring interviews with:

  • Karl Rutter..(with his techneo classical Loyal Philhartronics Orchestra) believes in  investing in the future of classical music. 
  • Mary Frances Leahy is a Canadian fiddler with an impressive pedigree!!

  • Glenn Hartmann (New Orleans Klezmer All Stars) introduces their defining jazz music.

With additional music from:

  • Richard Saxton (ESO 21st Century Project)
  • Berit Hagen
  • Faryl Smith
  • Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy
  • Herb Alpert
  • Soren Bebe

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

Evesham Hospital Radio. Sunday 5-7pm

Thereafter on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

And Cooler Classics Extra (www.mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15)

A selection of new and recent releases featuring the music of:
Edward Cowie, Roger Reynolds, Stephen Dodgson, Olivia Belli,
Serge Rachmaninoff, Philip Glass, Sofiane Pamart , Frederic Chopin.

With performances from:
Kreutzer String Quartet , SONORO, PaTRAM, Iris Trio ,
Gidon Kremer , Eldar Nebolsin, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra .

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, Interviews, Literature, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 26th November 2023 on thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15.

Janet Horvath recalls the events and trauma of the Holocaust in her book “The Cello Still Sings- A Generational Story of the Holocaust and the Transformative Power Of Music “

With music from:

  • Daniel Johnson, Andre Rieu, Carl Maria von Weber, Georges Bizet,
  • Guiseppe Tartini, Guiseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, George Gershwin, 
  • Hans Gal, Herb Alpert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederick Schiller, Leonard Bernstein
  • and a moving performance of Kol Nidrei.

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

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

Thereafter on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15