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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme in the heartland of Yorkshire.

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

18th November:

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

Goldcrest March
James Anderson
Scottish CWS Band
MD: Ray Tennant — 2005

Russian Rhapsody
S. Rackmaninov Arr: Howard Snell
BNFL Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1994

By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Jim Webb
Cornet Soloist Wilf McDonald with the West Yorkshire Police Band
MD: Barry Thompson — 1997

Sinfonietta
Joseph Horovitz
CWS Glasgow Band
Guest MD: Joseph Horovitz — 1994

Tannhauser March
Wagner
Arr: George Hawkins
Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Eric Ball — 1970s

Introduction and Allegro Spiritoso
Senaille
Arr: Denis Wright
Euphonium feature with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Roy Newsome — 1995

Chaplin Theme
John Barry
Arr: Goff Richards
Vibraphone Soloist Andrea Crossley with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2009

Four Cornish Dances
Malcolm Arnold
Arr: Ray Farr
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

Adagio from the Concerto for Clarinet
Mozart Arr: Bale
Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead — 2011

Truth Aflame Overture
Kevin Norbury
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 1998

Here to the Heroes
John Barry
Arr: Paul Drury
Cornet Soloist Kirsty Abbotts with the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Phillip McCann — 2012

Witches Sabbath
Hector Berlioz
Arr: Andrew Duncan
The Fairey Band
MD: Philip Chalk — 2004

Peanut Vendor
Moises Simon
Trombone Soloist Paul Filby with the GUS Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey — 2012

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin
Arr: Alan Fernie
Kings of Brass –
MD: James Scott — 2000

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Allegro)
J. S. Bach
Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble — 1988

New World Symphony
Dvorak
Arr: Ray Steadman-Allen
Enfield Citadel Band –
BM: Jonathon Corry — 2009

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

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