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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

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  Chris Helme brings us more great brass band music making from all over the world.

Sunday Bandstand 26th July 2020

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.

The show is always open for questions, requests and we are always happy to play tracks and promote your new CD recording.

Check out my website for duplicate and triplicate CDs I am selling to make room for new ones arriving. Having bought 350 from the US.

Click this link: https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-26-july-2020/

Playlist:


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

Glasnost
Dizzy Stratford
Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band
MD: James Watson (1989)

Symphony Poem — Symphony No. 3
Abram Khachaturian arr. Ray Farr
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag
MD: Ray Farr (1992)

The Ellis Island Lament
Arr. Robin Dewhurst
Brass Band De Waldsang
MD: Rieks van der Velde (2007)

Benedictus from the Armed Man — A Mass for Peace
Karl Jenkins
Soloist: Mic Tyler
Drighlington Band
MD: Shane Foster (2006)

For Me
Edu Lobo and Norman Gimbel arr. Ray Farr
Soloist: Ray Farr
Ila Brass Band
MD: Ray Farr (1991)

Awakening
Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen
Stavanger Brass Band
MD: James Gourlay (1999)

Rule Britannia
John Hartmann arr. J.A.Greenwood
Soloist: Morgan Griffiths
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: David King (1998)

In the Pink
Henry Mancini — arr. Mark Jackson
Yorkshire Imperial Band
MD: James Scott (1995)

The Dam Busters March
Eric Coates
Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band
MD: Garry Cutt (2001)

Folk Festival
Dmitri Shostakovich arr. Martin Cordner
International Staff Band
BM: Stephen Cobb (1998)

Queensbury
James Kaye
Massed Reunion Band which includes present and former members
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs

Waltz from the Murder on the Orient Express
Richard Rodney Bennett arr. Howard Snell
Buy as You View Cory Band
MD: Robert Childs (2001)

Three Impressions for Brass
1. Wylam Colliery 1836
2. Deserted Farm 1840
3. The Royal Border Bridge, Berwick on-Tweed 1850
Arthur Butterworth
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs (2001)

April in Paris
Vernon Duke and Yip Harburg arr. Mark Freeh
Soloist: Richard Franklin
Ridged Containers Group Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey (1990)

The Marriage of Figaro — Overture
Mozart arr. Bernard Hazelgrove
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Heinz Friesen (1991)

Summer Scherzo
Gordon Langford
Besses o'th' Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1983)

Home On the Range with Variations
Erik Leidzen
Soloist: Trevor Groom
Kettering Citadel Band
BM: Donald Manning (1979)

Confection for Brass
Goff Richards
Ellington Colliery Band
MD: Dennis Wright (2002)

Sunburst — James Hosay
US Army Brass Band
MD: Colonel Lesley Bryan Shelburne Jr.- (2012)

The Canadian March
Major James Merrit
Canadian Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Captain Robert Redhead (1982)

On the Quarter Deck — March
Kenneth Alford
BNFL Band
MD: Richard Evans (1996)

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

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