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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from the heartland of banding with 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 later in the week.

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 28th April:

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

Traffic Tangle
James Howe
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: Trevor Walmsley DFC — 1973

Eden
John Pickard
Sandifjord Brass Symposium
MD: David Roberts — 2010

Finale Giocoso
Vladimir Cosma
Euphonium Soloist David Childs with the Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2010

Bridgewater Intrada
Kenneth Downie
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: David Hirst — 2001

Iolanthe Selection
Gilbert and Sullivan
Arr: W.J.Dawson
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1962

It’s Showtime
Goff Richards
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
Guest MD: Goff Richards — 1997

Largo from the New World Symphony
Dvorak
Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band
MD: Gary Cutt — 2000

Comin’ Through The Rye
Traditional
Arr: Alan Fernie
Cornet Richard Marshall, Euphonium Gary Curtain with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

Flow Gently Sweet Afton
Paul Sharman
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2012

Incantation and Dance
John Burns Chance
Arr: Gordon Henderson
Lexington Brass Band (Kentucky)
MD: Dr. Ronald Holz — 2004

Legend of King Arthur
Peter Meechan
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2012

Euphonium Fantasy
Stephen Bulla
Euphonium Soloist Morgan Griffiths
Fairey FP Music Band
MD: Howard Snell — 2003

Love Story the main theme from the film Francis Lai
Arr: Goff Richards
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band — compilation from the 1980s

Children of Sanchez
Chuck Mangione
Flugel Soloist John Lee with the Boobs and Brass with Friends Band
MD: John Hudson — 2010

Adlerflug March
Herman Ludwig Blankenburg
Arr: Ray Woodfield
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2012

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

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