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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme — and now its two hours long!

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Great news for lovers of Brass Band Music – my show has now been extended through popular demand from 2pm to 4pm for the foreseeable future

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 4pm

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.

Or 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 24th June:

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Flight of the Bumble Bee
Rimsky Korsakov Arr: Alan Fernie
Brass Band Rijnmond
MD: Erik van der Kolk — 2010

Heartbeat
Leonard Ballantine
Norwich Citadel Salvation Army Band
BM: Richard Woodrow — 2010

Prelude and Capriccio
Edward Gregson
Cornet Soloist: Robert Westacott
Hepworth (Cookson Homes) Band
MD: Mark Bentham — 2007

Kirton 140
Philip Wilby
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

Someone to Watch Over Me
George Gershwin Arr: Alan Fernie
Wingates Band
MD: Norman Law — 1998

Overture to the Opera ‘Oberto’
Verdi Arr: Howard Lorriman
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1999

Allerseelen
Richard Strauss Arr: Stephen Roberts
Sun Life Stanshawe Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley — 1989

Glorious Ventures
Peter Graham
Euphonium Soloist: Stephen Kane
piano accompaniment from Susan Avison — 2011

El Camino Real
Alfred Reed Arr: Frode Rydland
Eikanger Bjorsvik Band
MD: Reid Gilje — 2007

King Solomon‘s Mines
Rodney Newton
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2009

Love Unknown
John Ireland Arr: Steve Robson
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2011

Crimond — Hymn Tune
Oxted Band
MD: Martin Beaumont — 2009

Vitae Aeternum
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2008

Brilliante
Peter Graham
Euphonium duet: Derick and Stephen Kane
piano accompaniment Susan Avison -2011

Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
Richard Wagner Arr: Howard Snell
Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1998

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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