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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Plenty of great music to enjoy with Chris Helme including a tribute to the late Goff Richards.

Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Broadcast on Phoenix FM 96.7 community radio in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire. This programme is also available via www.phoenixfm.co.uk

Every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 3pm

Produced and presented by Chris Helme, or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website

I am always pleased to receive requests – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find, I may just have it…...

Or you have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 10th July:

GRAND MARCH QUEEN OF SHEBA
Gounod
Harry Mortimer’s and his All Star Band — 1958

LE DOMINO NOIR — OVERTURE
Daniel Auber
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: David Hirst — 1988

VICTORIOUS
Dean Goffin
Cornet Soloist Richard Martin with
Reg Vardy Band
MD: John Ward 2011

WHITER SHADE OF PALE
Procol Harem
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
Best of Brass Compilation: 1999

ELEANOR RIGBY
Lennon and McCartney
Ilkeston Brass Band
Brass to the Fore Compilation Album 1996

RHAPSODY IN BRASS
Dean Goffin
Reg Vardy Band
MD: John Ward — 2011

WHISTLER AND HIS DOG
Arthur Pryor
Harry Mortimer and his All Star Band — 1958

MATCH RHYTHM
Jan Bosveld
Brass Band Oberösterreich,
MD: Hannes Buchegger — 2005

RAGTIME FOR HORNS
S. Joplin arr: James Curnow
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: David Hirst — 1993

ARMENIAN SABLE DANCE
Vartabed arr: Loriman
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs — 2010


Sunday 17th July:
A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO GOFF RICHARDS

EXPLODING BRASS
Goff Richards
Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1997

OCEANS
Goff Richards
Brunel Brass
MD: John Winterflood — 2009

CHABLIS (FROM HOMAGE TO THE GRAPE)
Goff Richards
Cornet Soloist Chris Howley
Flowers Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2009

TAYLOR MADE
Goff Richards
Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1997

ZIMBA ZAMBA
Goff Richards
Marimba Soloist Louise Emms
Hepworth Band
MD: Norman Law — 1999

SIR DUKE
Stevie Wonder Arr: Goff Richards
Brass Band Oberösterreich and Jugend Brassband 2007
MD: Hannes Buchegger

DEMELZA
Hugh Nash (Goff Richards)
Soprano Soloist Brian Evans Hammonds Sauce Works Band
MD: Geoffrey Whitham — 1990
(a digital re-mastering from the original LP recorded c1984

AMERICAN TRILOGY
Goff Richards
Sellers Band
MD: Philip McCann — Brass in Concert 2003

I’LL WALK WITH GOD
Nicholas Brodszky arr: Goff Richards
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs — 2008

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