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Radio: Sounds of Brass

Plenty of great Christmas music from Philip Hunt for the Festive season.

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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 THROUGH THE BBC iPLAYER. 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.

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

Sunday 27th December:

SEMPER FIDELIS
John Philip Sousa arr. Julian Menken

SLEIGH RIDE
Leroy Anderson arr. Tim Jameson

O HOLY NIGHT
Adolphe Adam

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
Traditional

SPANISH GYPSY DANCE
Pascual Marquin arr. Stephen Wick

LA CUMPARSITA
Genado Rodriguez arr. Kompanek

A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
Eric Maschwitz & Manning Sherwin arr. Gale

LET IT SNOW
Sammy Cahn arr. Arthur Frackenpohl

PACHELBEL’S CANON
Johann Pachelbel arr. Walter Barns

LA REJOUISSANCE
George Frederick Handel arr. Stephen Roberts

TROIKA
Sergei Prokofiev arr. Shaun Woodland

CHRISTMAS SONG
Mel Torme & Bob Wells arr. Philip Sparke

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Ralph Blaine & Hugh Martin arr. Dan Rager

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
Traditional
Barefoot Brass Quintet
Ian Thomas, Aaron Harvey, Kirstie McAuley, Martin Sanders, Shaun Woodland.
Recorded live in the Sounds of Brass Studio.

A CHRISTMAS FANTASY Gordon Langford
Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir
Sellers Engineering Band
Conductor: Phillip McCann

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