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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Chris Helme brings us more brass band music — and with an added bonus of being able to search through the archives...

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  More music from Chris Helme in the brass band heartlands of Yorkshire

Sunday Bandstand 23rd June 2019

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.

Sunday Bandstand now has a search facility.

Listeners can access this facility by entering the Sunday Bandstand Archive section on the (above) website. At the bottom of the page is a slot for Keyword — enter your choice in there — if you wish to search the whole archive (five years of two-hour weekly programmes) you do not need to enter any dates in the Dates from and To box.

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-23-june-2019/

Playlist:


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

Caribe (Michel Camila arr. Philip Harper)
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper (2019)

Rhapsody 'On the Cornish Coast' (Henry Geehl)
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Professor Walter B. Hargreaves (1968)

Prelude on a Hymn of Praise (James Curnow)
Black Dyke Band
MD: James Watson (1997)

Liebesfrued (Loves Joy) (Fritz Kriesler arr. Howard Snell)
Soloist: Kevin Dye
Desford Colliery Band
MD: Howard Snell (1981)

Le Corsaire (Hector Berlioz arr. Geoffrey Brand)
Sun Life Stanshawe Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley (1989)

Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky arr. Roy Newsome)
Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott (2000)

Street Scene (Alfred Newman arr. Adrian Drover)
Soloist: Gordon Campbell
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Frank Renton (1994)

Jack & Jill (Basil Windsor)
Duet: Jack Mackintosh & Harry Mortimer
Foden's Motor Works Band
MD: Fred Mortimer (1933)

Keep Smiling Through (arr. Darrol Barry)
Dalkeith & Monktonhall Band
MD: James Chamberlain (2016)

Hands Across the Sea (John Philip Sousa arr. Maj Peter Parkes)
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1996)

Life Divine (Cyril Jenkins)
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer (1959)

Wheel of Fortune from Pirates of the Caribbean (Hans Zimmer arr. Stephen Roberts)
Black Dyke Band
MD: Prof Nicholas Childs (2015)

Welsh Fantasy for Euphonium and Band (Ralph Pearce)
Soloist: Steve Pavey
Canadian Staff Band (Canada)
BM: John Lam (2009)

Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde (Richard Wagner arr. Philip Harper)
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper (2019)

Jenny Jones (arr. Michael Hopkinson)
Soloist: Gordon Higginbottom
Brass Band Berner Oberland (Switzerland)
MD: Markus Bach (1980)

Les Indestructibles (Michael Giacchino)
Paris Brass Band
MD: Florent Didier (2016)

Dance from Valencian Widow (Aram Khachaturian)
Brass Band Froschl Hall
MD: Hannes Buchegger (2010)

Blades of Toledo (Trevor Sharpe)
Trombone Section
National Brass Band New Zealand (New Zealand) 2011

Cossack Dance from Mezeppa (Tchaikovsky arr. Howard Snell)
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag
MD: Howard Snell (2005)

Orpheus in the Underworld Act II (Can Can) (Jacques Offenbach)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1987)

The Swashbuckler March (H.R. Moreton)
Massed Brass Bands of Fodens, Fairey Aviation & Morris Motors
MD: Harry Mortimer (1967)

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

Enjoy the show....

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