Time for Brass

Two weeks after the event I'm trying tonight to give some flavour of Brass in Concert 2011.

To compress two whole days of music making into a one-hour programme is clearly impossible but nevertheless some impression of the high
standards achieved, most warmingly by the youngsters on the Saturday
afternoon, may emerge.

5th December:

1. National Youth
Roy Newsome
National Youth Brass Band

2. Baggy Trousers
Madness arr. Alan Fernie
Cory

3. Little Russian Symphony
Tchaikowsky arr. Gordon
Amsterdam Staff Band & Brass Band Rijnmond

4. They shall Come from the East
John Larsson arr. Steadman-Allen
Bellshill S.A. Band

5. Rolling Thunder
Henry Fillmore arr. Robertson
Brass Band of Central Florida

6. Nessun Dorma
Puccini arr. Simon Kerwin
Wingates
Soloist: Brian Evans

7. Moto Perpetuo
Novacek arr. Snell
Fodens

8. 'Neath Dublin Skies
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Cory
Soloist: David Childs

9. In Perfect Peace
Kenneth Downie
Gothenburg Brass Band

10. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Freddie Mercury arr. Giske
Grimethorpe

11. Gresford
Robert Saint
Grimethorpe

12. Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra
John Williams arr. Van der Woude
Black Dyke

13. People
Stanley Black arr Alan Catherall
Leyland
Soloist: Maurice Murphy

14. Melita
arr. Steven Bulla
Leyland