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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More music from the heartland of Yorkshire with Chris Helme.

Radio
  More great music from Chris Helme in the brass banding heartland of Yorkshire

Sunday Bandstand: 21st January

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 shows dating back to 2014.

My website also has a review section and a brass band nostalgia section.

Your CD

Has your band produced a CD this year?

I would be very pleased to play tracks from it if you have. Or have you a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Click this link:

https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-21-january-2018/

Playlist:

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

Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney arr. Ray Farr)
Soloist: Stephen Molloy
Fountain City Brass Band
MD: Dr. Joseph Parisi — 2010

La Forza Del Destino (Giuseppe Verdi arr. Frank Wright)
The Italian Brass Band
MD: Filippo Cangiamila — 2017

Carambina (Eric Hughes)
City of Coventry
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1982

Amazing Race (Andrew MacKereth)
Hendon Band of the Salvation Army
BM: David Rudd — 2010

Scottish Folk Song Variant (Stephen Bulla)
Soloist: Derrick Kane
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2012

I'll Walk With God (Nicholas Brodszky / Paul Webster arr. Goff Richards)
Boarshurst Silver (Greenfield) Band
MD: James Garlick — 2017

Laughter in the Rain (Neil Sedaka arr. Bill Charleson)
Soloist: David Horn
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Alan Lawton — 1988

Braveheart Suite (James Horner arr. Andrew Duncan)
Yorkshire Building Society
MD: Dr. David King — 2002

A British March Parade
Brass Band Froschl Hall
MD: Hannes Buchegger — 2012

Symphony of Scarlet & Gold — Mvts 3 & 4 (Peter Graham)
Black Dyke
MD: Professor Nicholas Childs — 2016

New York New York (Fred Ebb and John Kander arr. Goff Richards)
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: David Hirst

The Maids of Cadiz (Delibes arr. Gordon Langford)
Soloist: Ben Godfrey
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: David King — 1996

Corpus Christi (Robert Redhead)
Egon Virtuosi Band
BM: James Williams — 1996

A Sullivan Fantasy (Arthur Sullivan arr. Gordon Langford)
The British Airways Band
MD: Martin Hayter — 1997

In Gardens of Peace (Philip Harper)
Soloist: Glyn Williams
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2016

Magic Trombones (Darrol Barry)
Soloists: Jonathan Pippen, Scott Quarmby, John Ingman
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Gavin Lindsay — 2006

Bridgewater Intrada (Kenneth Downie)
Massed bands of Black Dyke Mills and Egon Virtuosi
MD: James Williams — 1996

Ritual Fire Dance (Manuel De Falla arr. Allan Street)
Williams Fairey
MD: Bryan Hurdley — 1997

The Belle of Chicago (Sousa arr. C.W. Hewitt)
Williams Fairey
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1995

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

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