Tag: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music

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

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  • Featuring: An interview with Tim Ingles (of Ingles & Hayday, Fine Instrument Auctioneers) on upcoming auctions of the Norman Rosenberg Collection.
  • Plus music from:
  • Eric Coates:Dam Busters March
  • Gustav Holst: Suite 1 For Military Band
  • JS Bach:  “Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe”
  • WA Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
  • L. van Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 18
  • GF Handel: Hallelujah Chorus
  • Ernest Tomlinson: Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne
  • Valentin Silvestrov: Four Songs
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 (1952)

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

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Cooler Classics Extra.(17th November 2022… on Mixcloud only..)

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John Liggins (Stratford Music Festival) , with Toyah Willcox, extend an invitation to a family concert in Stratford-upon-Avon, based on the work of Roald Dahl.


This small programme extra includes music from Orchestra of The Swan and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

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Cooler Classics, Events and Shows, Films/documentaries, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 13th November 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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  • James Bond.. 25 films in the series!!
  • Gustav Mahler & Edward Elgar in the film “Tar”
  • John Addison..and A Bridge Too Far.
  • Paul Ben-Haim with the Israel Philharmonic
  • Chandos Records Releases: Rachmaninoff,Poulenc,Stravinsky
  • Balmorhea.. six-piece minimalist instrumental ensemble from Austin, Texas,
  • Clare Hammond and the etudes of Hélène de Montgeroult
  • David Garrett and his album “Iconic”
  • Robert Scumann and Daniel Barenboim
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6
  • And in conversation with Karl Ruetter on the challenges of a classical composer

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

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Cooler Classics.(Sunday 30th October 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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  • Richard Harrison tells us about the “Lost Tapes” from the legendary BBC  “Desert Island Discs” programme.
  • Rachel Barton Pine (Image Courtesy Rachel Barton Pine)discusses ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries’
  • Emanuele Arcuili introduces his piano music favourites..
  • Malcolm Dedman returns to tell us about the musical influences that have inspired his compositions.
  • Plus: 
  • Music from: Eric Coates,Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lonnie Donegan, Richard Wagner, Stravinsky, Bartok, Britten, Messiaen, Steve Reich.

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

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

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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!)

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