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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme in the heart of banding country....

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 9th June:

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

Crown Imperial
Sir William Walton
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

Overture For an Epic Occasion
Dennis Wright
Fairey Band

Serenata
Enrico Toselli
Cornet Soloist William Lang with the Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Arthur O. Pearce — 1941

Nightfall in Camp
D. A. Pope
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1961

On the Quarterdeck March
Kenneth Alford
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Richard Evans — 2006

Grandfathers Clock
George Doughty
Euphonium Soloist Glyn Williams with the Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2000

Blue Danube Waltz
Johann Strauss ll
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 1996

Elgar Variations
Martin Ellerby
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2007

An American in Paris
George Gershwin
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Allan Withington — 2002

Diversions for Brass
Derek Bourgeois
Sun Life Band
MD; Roy Newsome — 1994

Cornet Study
Goedicke
Arr: Michael Hopkinson
Cornet Soloist James Shepherd with the James Shepherd Versatile Brass — 2002

Alloway Tales
Peter Graham
Yorkshire Building Society
MD: David King — 1996

Coronation Day Parade — 4th movement from Partita for Band
Professor Philip Wilby
Brass Band Schoonhoven
MD: Erik Janssen — 1996

Deliverance
Philip Catelinet
Cornet Duet Horace Fitzjohn & Victor Hanscombe with the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band
BM: A. W. Punchard — 1934

Ruy Blas
Felix Mendelssohn
Besses o’ th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983

I Vow to thee my Country
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice / Gustav Holst
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2010

Finale from Symphony No. 2
Tchaikovsky
Arr: William Gordon
Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1990

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

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