Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 25th September 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Featuring conversations with:

  • Paul Potts-  an English tenor. who In 2007,won the first series of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with his performance of “Nessun dorma” and is “living the dream”!!
Paul Potts: Musica Non Proibita
  • John Robertson (Campden Music) tells us how to subscribe to 6 music events in Chipping Campden over the next few months.
John Robertson(Campden Music)

New releases from:

  • Somm Recordings- Vol 2 of some rare Ralph Vaughan Williams live broadcasts.
  • Signum Records: Vivaldi(from La Serenissima), Brahms and Prokofiev.
  • Toccata Classics: Latest releases from Lubomir Pipkov (1904–74),,Emil Tabakov (b. 1947),David Matthews (b. 1943), Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
Toccata Classics September Bundle

Not forgetting: Gustav Holst, Luciano Pavarotti,Jose Carreras .Placido Domingo, Julian Lloyd Webber and Ludwig van Beethoven.

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

OnAir2 Home

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 29th May 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • The Music of:  Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bruckner, Jessie Montgomery, Bizet, Mark Knopfler, Calvin Jones.
  • Performed by: Filarmonica della Scala, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Philharmoniker Hamburg, New York Youth Symphony, Julian Lloyd Webber, Sacha Puttnam , Tuarida Symphony Orchestra.
  • Interviews with: Viv Hargreaves and Glyn Oxley (Music Director) of Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra speaking about the forthcoming Concert for Ukraine (Cheltenham Town Hall  on 26th June 2022)
Viv Hargreaves
Glyn Oxley, Music Director,Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra.
  • And US composer/cellist Chris Votek explains his album “Memories Of A Shadow”
Chris Votek.

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 3rd October 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Features :
  • An interview with , and a playlist (in the second hour) curated by Kenneth Woods, principal conductor with the English Symphony Orchestra.
Kenneth Woods (English Symphony Orchestra)
  • So, expect some Elgar… and Mahler..
  • With additional music from CPE Bach, Erwin Sculhoff, Dorothy Carwithen, Franz Schubert, Michael Tippett, Philip Sawyers and Ethel Smyth.
  • And the virtuosity of Julian Lloyd Webber, Raphael Wallfisch ,Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Flowers Band.

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 25th July 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • The 3Choirs Festival is in full swing, so interviews and world premieres!
  • Kenneth Woods (ESO) describes the concert on 28th July at Kidderminster.
Kenneth Woods
  • Steve Elcock explains his Symphony No 8, to be premiered on 28th July.
Steve Elcock
  • Emily Doolittle shares her love of sounds and the work “Woodwings”(Premiere)
Emily Doolittle
  • With additional music from Gabriel Jackson, Julian Lloyd Webber, Edward Elgar,Allan Petterson,Andre Rieu and Beethoven

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

www.nccr.co.uk.

Cooler Classics, Interviews

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 2nd May 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

Featuring interviews with:

  • Beatrice Nicholas-pianist.
  • Gabriel Jackson, composer The World Imagined and looking forward, hopefully, to this year’s Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
  • An introduction..(a world first?) to the piano music of Douglas Munn, performed by Latvian pianist Arta Arnicane (interview on next week’s Cooler Classics)
  • With music from Sir Anthony Hopkins ( a 2021 Oscar winner), Elgar(Julian Lloyd Webber) Hania Rani, Olafur Arnalds, Daniel Johnson,Yakov Berger, JS Bach, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky …. and Dusty Springfield!

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

www.nccr.co.uk.