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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Chris Helme returns with more super brass band music from the heart of Yorkshire

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  A welcome return to the airwaves for Chris Helme

Sunday Bandstand: 2nd September 2018

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-2-september-2018/

Playlist:

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

Ruslan & Lyudmila- (Glinka arr. Walter B. Hargreaves)
Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley — (2001)

Introduction to Polovtsian Dances — (Borodin arr. Edward Wainwright)
Soloist: David Daws
Brass Band De Waldsang (Netherlands)
MD: Rieks van der Velde — (2007)

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

Countryside and Common People (Alan Fernie)
Brass Band De Bazuin Oenkerk (Netherlands)
MD: Klaas van der Woude — (2000)

Elephantine Polka (Louis-Philippe Laurendeau)
Soloist: Ben Dixon
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Philip McCann — (2012)

Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — (1986)

Chicago (arr. Barry Forgie)
Scottish Co-op Band
MD: Russell Gray — (2003)

Concerto for Trumpet (Harry James)
Soloist: Gerard Schwarz
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Elgar Howarth — (1977)

Bergamasca (Gianoncelli arr. James Gourlay)
Williams Fairey Band
MD: James Gourlay — (1997)

Drum Majorette March (Arnold Steck)
Ransome Hoffman & Pollard Band
MD: Dennis Masters — (1971)

Manilow Magic: (Barry Manilow arr. Alan Fernie)
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — (2011)

My Comfort and Strength (Brian Bowen)
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — (2012)

My Old Kentucky Home — (William Rimmer)
Soloist: Len Withington
Wingates Temperance Band
MD: Denis Smith — (1970)

Aria (John Golland)
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Allan Withington — (1993)

Morning (Peer Gynt Suite) (Edvard Grieg)
Fairey Band
MD: Kenneth Dennison — (1973)

New World Dances (Martin Ellerby)
Royal Northern College of Music Brass Band
MD: James Gourlay — (1997)

Sanctuary (Eric Ball)
Boscombe Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Howard Evans — (2008)

Hymn of the Highlands (Dundonnell) (Philip Sparke)
Yorkshire Building Society
MD: David King — (2004)

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

Enjoy the show....

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