Cooler Classics, Music

Cooler Classics for Sunday 13th August 2023

A mix of music and voices, featuring:

  • Johan Strauss II, Carl Davis, Nu Deco Ensemble, Sphinx Virtuosi,
  • Hungarian Gypsy Music, Scott Robert Shaw, Conceptus,
  • Jamie Lonsdale, Il Divo
  • Giorgia Fumanti, Russell Watson,
  • Joseph Bertolozzi plays the Eiffel Tower (really!!)
  • Sviotoslav Richter plays Sergei Prokofiev,
  • The Miros Quartet, Craig Hella Johnson,
  • GF Handel, Wagner…….

Now available on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Films/documentaries, Music

Cooler Classics on thefeelgoodstation.uk Sunday 2nd July 2023 9-11pm, (Monday & Friday 7-9am)

This week’s show features:

  • Andre Rieu, Henry Purcell, Heitor Villa Lobos, Alejandro Basulto.

The voices of:

  • Giorgia Fumanti, Carmen Monarcha, Joanna Forest
  • Jamie Lonsdale, Russell Watson.

The music of:

  • Johann Strauss,Jean Sibelius
  • Gustav Mahler, Edward Elgar, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Carl Neilsen.
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

Cooler Classics on Mixcloud.. Sunday 5th March 2023

Bennet Cerven introduces the music of The Trouble Notes

Dr Alexander Lingas tells us about his role in the forthcoming Coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023.


Music from Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giuseppe Verdi, Maurice Ravel, Samuel Barber.
Performances from: Russell Watson, Claudio Abbado and London Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Gypsy Orchestra , Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra.
Latest releases from: Hélène Grimaud and Konstantin Krimmel (pay homage to Valentin Silvestrov)
Umeå Symphony Orchestra play Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) Chamber Symphony No. 1 .
James Gilchrist tenor, Eric McElroy piano perform “Tongues of Fire (SOMM Recordings)
The Catalyst Quartet – Uncovered, Vol. III: play the music of George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still.

Available now on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 12th June 2022. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

  • Nimrod Borenstein updates on his commissions and recording programme…
Nimrod Borenstein.
  • Pei-wen Liao (Violin, Taiwan) and William Goldstein(Piano, Los Angeles) explain their collaboration on “Brushstrokes, The Intersection of  Art and Music” (With special thanks to Crossover Media.) 
Pei-wen Liao & William Goldstein (Picture courtesy: Crossover Media)
  • And music from: Schumann, Russell Watson, Jamie Lonsdale, Giorgia Fumanti, Faure, Max Richter, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Alisa Weilerstein,Inon Barnatan.

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

www.nccr.co.uk