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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music to send out to the banding world from Chris Helme in the heartland of Yorkshire...

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  More brass band music form the heartlands of Yorkshire

Sunday Bandstand: 18th March

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-18-march-2018/

Playlist:

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

Wellington March (Wilhelm Zehle)
National Brass Band of New Zealand
MD: Ken Smith

Variations on Maccabeus (Kevin Norbury)
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris — (2007)

Tale of a Dragon (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)
Virtuosi GUS Band
MD: Adam Cooke — (2017)

Souvenir de Kroll (Jean Baptiste Arban)
Soloist Russell Gray
Leyland Band
MD: Michael Fowles — (2008)

Andaluza — Enrique Granados (arr. Eric Ball)
Massed bands of Brighouse & Rastrick, CWS (Manchester), Fairey, Foden's Motor Works & GUS (Footwear)
GMD: Eric Ball — (1970)

Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart arr. Carlos Beneto)
Spanish Brass
Orfeo Valencia Navarro Reverter — (2009)

Euphony (Robert Redhead)
Soloist: Russell Davies
Camberwell Citadel Band
BM: Brian Davies — (1982)

The Southern Cross (Brian Bowen)
International Staff Band
BM: Col. Bernard Adams — (1972)

76 Trombones (Meredith Wilson arr. Alan Fernie)
Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths — (2014)

London Overture (Philip Sparke)
Britannia Building Society Band
MD: Howard Snell — (1991)

Euphonium Concerto Mvt 1 (Karl Jenkins)
Soloist David Childs
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
MD: Bramwell Tovey — (2014)

Amazing Grace — (arr. William Himes)
Brass Band of Battle Creek
MD: Kenneth Bloomquist — (1994)

Canterbury Chorale (Jan van der Roost)
Buy As You View Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — (2004)

Carnival Romaine (Hector Berlioz)
Hepworth Band
MD: Norman Law — (1999)

The Last Call- (Otto M. Schwarz)
Brass Band Oberosterrich
MD: Hannes Buchegger — (2009)

Portrait of a City (Darrol Barry)
Christie-Tyler Cory Band
MD: Brian Howard — (1989)

Challenging Brass (Gilbert Vinter)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — (1968)

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

Enjoy the show...

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