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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music over the next two weeks with Chris Helme in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand

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.com 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.
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 28th October:

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

The Contestor
T.J. Powell
Bedworth Band
MD: Alistair McKenzie — 2007

Overture — Ruslan and Ludmilla
Glinka Arr: Walter Hargreaves
Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band
MD: Gary Cutt — 2002

Appalachian Mountain Folk Suite
James Curnow
Britannia Building Society Band
MD: Howard Snell — 1998

Concerto for Cornet
Denis Wright
Cornet Soloist: Jim Davies with the Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1991

Shine As The Light
Peter Graham
Kettering Citadel Band
BM: Richard Philips — 2011

Boney M Greatest Hits
Arr: Alan Fernie
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2011

Morceau Symphonique
Alexandre Guilmant Arr: Ray Steadman-Allan
Trombone Soloist: Dudley Bright with the Enfield Citadel Band
BM: Jonathon Corry — 2010

Innuendo
Queen Arr: Peter Meechan
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Blackbird Special
Arr: Reid Gilje
Tredegar Town Band
MD: Ian Porthouse — 2012

Comedy Overture
John Ireland
Virtuosi Band of Great Britain
MD: Eric Ball — 1970s

Carousel -Waltz
Huug Steketee
Cornet Soloist: Dik van Doorn with the Brass Band Rijnmond
MD: Anno Appelo — 2009

Night on a Bald Mountain
Mussorgsky Arr: Huug Steketee
Belgian Brass Soloists Quintet — 1992

Deep River
Bruce Broughton
Household Troops Band
MD: Major John Mott — 2002

Petite Suite De Ballet
Eric Ball
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1991

Watch Your Step
Ray Premru Arr: Howard Snell
Brass Band Schoonhoven
MD: Erik Janssen — 1997

Mosaic
Elgar Howarth
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Elgar Howarth — 1992

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

21st October:

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

Barber of Seville
Rossini
Bones Apart Trombone quartet — 2006

Armenian Fire Dance
Goff Richards
Foden’s Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2012

Sweet Hour of Prayer
Wilfred Heaton
Arr: Paul Hindmarsh
Trombone Soloist: Chris Thomas with the Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2007

Introduction, Elegy & Caprice
Morley Calvert
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1978

Till I Hear You Sing from Love Never Dies
Andrew Lloyd Webber Arr: Chris Wormald
Cory Band MD:
Dr. Robert Childs — 2007

Duo Concertante (Cornet and Euphonium Duet)
S. Faville Arr: Alexander Owen
Cornet & Euphonium Soloists: Peter Read & Graham McEvoy with the Besses o’th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983

Fantasia for Pianoforte and Brass Band
Bramwell Tovey
Piano Soloist Bramwell Tovey with the International Staff Band of the Salvation Army & International Staff Songsters
MD: Dr. Stephen Cobb -2007

Scarborough Fair
Arr: Sandy Smith and Eric Crees
Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley — 2001

March Slave
Tchaikovsky Arr: Leonard Davies
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2002

Down Under
Ronald Hanmer
Besses o’th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983

Violin Concerto No.1 G Minor — 2nd Movement
Max Bruch Arr: Stephen Hague
Cornet Soloist: Kirsty Abbotts with the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Allan Ramsey — 2006

Senator March
George Allan
Sunline International Band
MD: Les Beevers — 2003

Abide With Me
Monk Arr: Karl Jenkins and Peter Graham
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2007

Poeme
Zdenko Fibich Arr: J. Ord Hume
Enfield Citadel band
MD: Jonathon Corry — 2009

Backdraft film score track
Hans Zimmer Arr: Sandy Smith
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2007

Oklahoma
Rogers and Hammerstein
BNFL Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1997

The Gael
Peter Graham
Fountain City Band (USA)
MD: Joseph Parisi — 2010

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

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