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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme from the heart of Yorkshire.

Chris 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 2.00pm to 4.00pm

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

Yorkshire Dales

It is also available on Drystone Radio 106.9FM or through their website www.drystoneradio.co.uk on Sunday mornings between 8am and 10am

New Zealand

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website.

Listeners in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that this programme is now also played on www.worldfm.co.nz in Wellington at 2p – 4pm (NZ time) every Thursday.

The programme will soon be also available in the Yorkshire Dales area, details of that start will be announced later.

Requests

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 14th October:

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

Amparito Roca
Jamie Texidor Arr: Aubrey Winter
Fairey Band
MD: James Gourlay — 1997

Dance of the Hours from the Ballet Suite
Ponchielli Arr: Rimmer
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Walter Hargreaves — 1969

Partita for Band
Philip Wilby
1 mvt: Towers & Chimneys 2 mvt: Lord of the Dance 3 mvt: Sunday afternoons — Pastorale 4 mvt: Coronation Day Parade
Brass Band Schoonhoven
MD: Erik Janssen — 1996

Cantabile — Paganini
Arr: Goff Richards
Euphonium soloist Riki McDonnell with the Marple Band
MD: Gary Cutt — 1998

El Capitan
J P Sousa
River City Brass Band
MD: Robert Bernat — 1992

Music for the Moving Picture
Philip Wilby
1 Mvt: Street Scene and Deluge 3 mvt: River Runs
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs -2006

The Flower Duet from Lakme
Delibes Arr: Philip Spark
Cornet soloists: Ian Porthouse and Erik van der Horst with Brass Band Schoonhoven
MD: Erik Janssen — 1996

Alla Hornpipe from Water Music
Handy and Harty Arr: Holt
Massed Bands of Britannia Building Society, Black Dyke Mills and William’s Fairey Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1992

Hawaii 5 O
Morten Stevens Arr: Dr. Peter Ratnik
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2006

A Devon Fantasy 4 mvts
Eric Ball — 4th Section Area test piece for 2013
Black Dyke Band
Guest MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2012

What a Wonderful World Arr: Dr. Peter Ratnik
Whitburn Band
MD: Dr. Peter Ratnik — 2008

Postcard from Luthermuir
Kevin Birch
Flugel Soloist Helen Williams with Foden’s Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2012

The Australian
W. Rimmer
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Gary Cutt — 2002

The Better World
Norman Bearcroft
Guest Euphonium soloist Glyn Williams with Brass Band Schoonhoven
MD: Erick Janssen — 1996

Morning Noon and Night
Suppe Arr: W. Rimmer
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Walter Hargreaves — 1969

Cortege the 2 mvt from Pageantry
Herbert Howells
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: David King — 1996

Calder March Drake
Rimmer
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Walter Hargreaves – 1969

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

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