Cooler Classics, English Symphony Orchestra, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics on thefeelgoodstation.uk Sunday 23rd July 2023 (9-11pm)

  • Sacha Puttnam and The Classic Film Orchestra are “Going Home”
  • Wesley Wang(below) introduces a short film, which gives the excuse we need to play some Japanese Film Music from leading composer Joe Hisaishi.
  • Remastered recordings from Parnassus  featuring Dvorak’s Symphony No 8, and Inez Matthews singing Schubert.
  • SWR Classics release albums featuring: Mahler, Brahms and Mozart.
  • A Brandenburg Concerto from JS Bach.
  • Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2
  • Villa -Lobos takes us on The Little Train of The Brazilian Countrymen,
  • And we finish with Copland’s Hoe-Down!!

Sunday 23rd July 2023 from 9-11pm

On thefeelgoodstation.uk

Cooler Classics, Music

Cooler Classics Sunday 16th April 2023

Join us on a journey around Europe, as we take in the sounds of France, Italy, Germany, Iceland, Sweden.


Enjoy the music of: Ravel, Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninov, Gabríel Ólafs, Florence Price, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Nils Ferlin.


And performances from Andre Rieu, Joseph Calleja ,Michał Rot, Barbara Karaśkiewicz ,Michelle Cann, Haruma Sato ,Hagai Shaham, Raphael Wallfisch, Arnon Erez, Gianluigi Trovesi, Noriko Ogawa.

Go to: mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

Cooler Classics on Mixcloud.. Sunday 12th March 2023

Interviews with:

Yuko Sano(pianist)

Noriko Ogawa(pianist)

Ofra Hannoy & Mike Herriott(cellist & trumpeter)

Featured composers include: Verdi, Puccini, Khachaturian, Scarlatti,Prokofiev,Debussy, Bernstein, Bizet,Rachmaninov, Sawyers.

Featured artists include: Andre Rieu & JSO, English Symphony Orchestra, Tedd Joselson, Caruso, Pavarotti, Russell Watson, Mark Milhofer.

Listen to this programme on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 28th November 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Internationally acclaimed pianist Tedd Joselson speaks with us about his career, his views on the music industry and latest album “COMPANIONSHIP OF CONCERTOS” featuring Greig’s Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2.
  • Max Horowitz(Crossover Media) shares Penderecki in Memoriam Podcast where Anne Sophie Mutter recalls her professional relationship with the great Polish composer.
  • Mr Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, Canada plays the final two movements of Chopin’s Opus 11… the winning performance at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition .
  • Plus music from the late Gordon Crosse, Mantovani, Andre Kostelanetz.

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.