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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great brass band music from Chris Helme.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Produced and presented by Chris Helme for 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

Wigan

My radio programme has now been picked up by www.wiganfm.com a local internet only radio station and my weekly brass band show can be heard on Sunday’s between 11am and 1pm

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 17th March:

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

Bruneval Raid
Robert Ely
CWS (Manchester)Band
MD: Captain Frank Renton RA — 1983

Diadem of Gold
G. Bailey
Arr: Frank Wright
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Derek Broadbent — 1982

Happy Trombones
Arr: Rob Ares
Soli Deo Gloria Brass Band
MD: Jan de Haan — 1995

Bells of Dunblane
Robert Mathieson
Arr: Andrew Duncan
Massed bands of Kirkintilloch, Unison Kinneil and a Pipe Band
MD: Frank Renton — 2003

Gladiator Barbarian
Hans Zimmer
Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band
MD: Garry Cutt — 2001

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
Arr: Philip Harper
The Flowers Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2010

Three Haworth Impressions
Gordon Langford
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1981

Trepak
Tchaikovsky
Arr: Dr. Denis Wright
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Roy Newsome — 1995

Mists on the River Wear
Dan Price
Tuba Soloist Joe Cook with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

Mountain Song
Philip Sparke
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2012

Spirits of Puccini
Herman Pallhuber
Brass Band Oberosterrich
MD: Hannes Buchegger — 2009

Grand March Queen of Sheba
Charles Gounod
Arr: William Rimmer
Men O’ Brass
MD: Harry Mortimer — 1957

Rejoice and be Glad
Joseph Turrin
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris — 2012

The Proclaimers
Kevin Norbury
International Staff Band of the SA
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 1998

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Jerome Kern
The Royal Doulton Band
MD: Ted Gray (Compilation — 1970s and 1980s)

Citius, Altius, Fortius (Olympic Motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger)
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

Softly Softly
Bridget Fry
Arr: Ray Farr
Buy As You View Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2004

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

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