Sunday Bandstand:
16th December
Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous week’s. It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website www.phoenixfm.co.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
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 16th December
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010
Christmas Festival
Leroy Anderson
Arr: James Woods
Thoresby RJB Band
MD: Stan Lippeatt — 2000
Variations on a German Carol
James Curnow
Atlantic Brass Band
MD: Salvatore Scarpa — 1998
Pineapple Poll
Arthur Sullivan
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1962
Saint Saens Variations
Philip Sparke
The Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2010
The Three Kings
Peter Cornelius
Arr: Sydney Swancott
Trombone Soloist: Joanne Reasbeck with the Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths — 2012
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Mendelssohn
Arr: David Willcox
Halifax Choral Society with the Fodens (Courtois) Band MD: Nicholas Childs with Organist Darius Battiwalla — 1998
Harlequin
Philip Sparke
Euphonium soloist David Childs with the Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2005
Harmony Music
Philip Sparke
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Professor David King — 1999
An der Rawke March
Ernst Stieberitz
Besses o’th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983
Horn Concerto No.1 Eb Flat Major Op11
Richard Strauss
Tuba soloist Ian Foster accompanied by Jo Sealey on Piano — 2012
Silent Night
Franz Gruber
Arr: Andrew Wainwright
Vocalist Faryl Smith with the Virtuosi GUS Band
MD: John Berryman — 2012
Panis Angelicus
Cesar Franck
Classic Festival Choir with the Brass Band Oberaarguar
MD: Manfred Obrecht — 2009
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Dave Brubeck
Arr: Kevin Edwards
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Frank Renton — 1991
Vois Tu La Neige Qui Brille
Arban
Cornet soloist Russell Gray with the Leyland Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2008
Little Serenade
Ernest Tomlinson
Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott — 2000
A Christmas Reverie
Kenneth Downie
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris — 2006
Frackeltanz March
Ernst Stieberitz
Besses o’th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010