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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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  Plenty of great music from Chris Helme in the brass band heartland of Yorkshire

Sunday Bandstand: 8th April

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-8-april-2018/

Playlist:

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

Royal Tiger March (Harold Moss)
Leyland Band
MD: Russell Gray — (2006)

Benvenuto Cellini (Hector Berlioz arr. Frank Wright)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — (1971)

Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim arr. Adam Taylor)
Soloist: Jim Hayes
Co-operative Funeral Care Band
MD: Michael Fowles — (2013)

Deliverance (Philip Catelinet)
Duet: Keith Hutchinson & Richard Martin
Enfield Citadel Band of Salvation Army
BM: James Williams — (1977)

Morgenblatter op. 279 (Johann Strauss II)
Munn & Felton's (Footwear) Band
MD: Stanley Boddington — (1961)

Variations on a Theme (Mermaid's Song) from Oberon — (Carl Maria Von Weber arr. Alexander Owen)
Soloist: James Shepherd
Besses o' th' Barn Band
MD: Elgar Howarth
Live recording at the Royal Albert Hall Festival Concert — (1983)

Fetes (Claude Debussy arr. Thomas Wyss)
Massed bands of CWS Glasgow, Desford Colliery Dowty, Britannia Building Society, Cory & Grimethorpe Colliery
MD: Howard Snell — (1988)

Tancredi Overture (Rossini arr. William Rimmer)
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Derek Broadbent — (1989)

Spanish Impressions — No. 4: Santiago di Compostella — (Rodney Newton)
Williams Fairey Band
MD: James Gourlay — (1997)

Galop from the musical comedy Moscow, Cheryomushki (Dmitri Shostakovich arr. Gary Westwood)
Leyland Band
MD: Russell Gray — (2006)

The Light Fantastic (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)
European Youth Brass Band
MD: Erik Janssen — (2016)

Poet and Peasant (Franz von Suppe)
Massed bands of Foden's Motor Works, Fairey Aviation and Morris Motors
MD: Harry Mortimer — (1957)
Fantasy for Euphonium (Philip Sparke)
Soloist: Ian Craddock
Band of the Yorkshire Metals
MD: Denis Carr — (1979)

March Centaur (Derek Broadbent)
Brass Band Schoonhoven
MD: Erik Janssen — (1996)

Partita: 3rd mvt Canzona and the 4th mvt Rondo — (Wilfred Heaton)
Black Dyke Band
MD: Professor Nicholas Childs -(2002)

Granada (Austin Lara arr. Mark Freeh)
Soloist: Jim Hayes
Co-operative Funeral Care Band
MD: Michael Fowles — (2013)

Mischievous Spirit (Gabriel Major-Marothy)
Hannaford Street Silver Band
MD: Raymond Tizzard

Victoria (Alexander Lithgow)
Wellington Municipal Fire Brigade Band
MD: Norman Goffin — (1968)

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

Enjoy the show...

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