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Radio: Sounds of Brass

More great music from Philip Hunt on the radio.

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SOUNDS OF BRASS
BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO BRISTOL, CORNWALL, DEVON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, GUERNSEY, JERSEY, SOMERSET SOUND, SWINDON & WILTSHIRE EVERY SUNDAY EVENING @ 5 PAST 7

PRODUCED AND PRESENTED WEEKLY BY PHILLIP HUNT

AVAILABLE LIVE AND LISTEN AGAIN EVERY WEEK ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Live on Sundays at 19-05 British Time or at any time for 7 DAYS after the Broadcast.

To hear this week’s programme instantly go to www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio scroll down to Local Radio and click on BBC Devon or click on this direct link NOW,
www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/devon/aod.shtml?devon/sounds_of_brass

Requests and Comments welcome at E Mail. brassmanpgh@uwclub.net
Telephone 01752 843919.

Sunday 20th September:

BEST FOOT FORWARD
Ernest Tomlinson
Black Dyke Mills Band
Conductor: Roy Newsome

OVERTURE ON FAMOUS ENGLISH AIRS
Ernest Tomlinson
BMC Concert Band
Conductor: Harry Mortimer

ROSES OF PICARDY
Haydn Wood arr. Phillip McCann
Cornet Soloist: Phillip McCann
Organist: Simon Lindley

THE HORSE GUARDS WHITEHALL
Haydn Wood arr. H Cornthwaite
Morris Concert Band
Conductor: Harry Mortimer

BROWN BIRD SINGING
Haydn Wood arr. Dodd
Flugel Horn Soloist: Iwan Williams
YBS Band
Conductor: David King

BIRD OF LOVE DIVINE
Haydn Wood
Cornet Soloist: Jack Mackintosh
Military Band

BELLS ACROSS THE MEADOW
Albert Ketelby
GUS Footwear Band
Conductor: Stanley Boddington

CLOCK WITH THE DRESDEN FIGURES
Albert Ketelby arr. Howard Snell
Massed Bands of Desford Colliery Dowty, Britannia Building Society Foden and Brighouse & Rastrick
Conductor: Howard Snell

IN A MONASTERY GARDEN
Albert Ketelby
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
Conductor: James Scott

THE JOLLY SWAGMAN
Ronald Binge
Aldershot Brass Ensemble
Conductor: Ronald Binge

FIRST SUITE IN E FLAT
Gustav Holst
CWS Manchester Band
Conductor: Alex Mortimer

Sunday 27th September:

ALL THAT JAZZ
Kander & Ebb arr. F Bernaerts
St Keverne Youth Band
Conductor: Derek Greenwood

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Massed Bands of Bodmin, Camborne, Mount Charles & St Austell
Conductor: Frank Renton

BRING HIM HOME
C M Schonberg arr. Keith Wilkinson
Soprano Soloist: Tracey King
Lydbrook Band
Conductor: David Williams

THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS
I Berlin arr. Goff Richards
Skipton Properties Band
Conductor: Andrew Eastwood

BIG SPENDER
Cy Coleman arr. Alan Fernie
Cornet Soloist: Jessica Tredrea
Camborne Youth Band
Conductor: Alan Pope

76 TROMBONES
M Wilson arr. Eric Crees
The London Trombone Sound
Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME
Lionel Bart arr. Alan Fernie
Duettists: Joanne Childs Flugel, Michelle Ibbotson Soprano

MY FAIR LADY
Lerner & Loewe arr. Denzil Stephens
Just Rentals Cory Band
Conductor: Melvin White

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