Product: LP review: The English Heritage Series (Brass Band)

October 24, 2020
Sir Edward Elgar (Vols.1 -3)
Desford Colliery Dowty & Foden OTS Bands
Conductor: Howard Snell
Soloist: Robert Childs
Polyphonic Recordings: EHS001D; EHS002D; EHS003D

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Product: CD review: Sonatina

October 22, 2020
Richard Marshall
Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Prof Nicholas Childs
Doyen Recordings: CD399

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Product: CD review: Funkaru!

October 19, 2020
Funkaru
Hidenori Arai, Kyohei Ando, Taishi Furumoto, Gideon Juckes
Bell Recordings: R-2050507

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Product: CD review: John Rutter: Anthems, Hymns and Gloria for Brass Band

October 12, 2020
Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Prof Nicholas Childs
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Conductor: Darius Battiwalla
Naxos Recordings: 8.574130

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Concert: Bjorsvik Brass

October 11, 2020
Conductor: Magnus Brandseth
Korskirken
Bergen
Sunday 11th October

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Product: CD review: Landscapes

October 9, 2020
Cory Band
Conductor: Philip Harper
Doyen Recordings: DOY CD400

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Concert: Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag

October 8, 2020
Conductor: Ingar Bergby
Compere: Arvid Anthun
Grand Hall
Bergen
Sunday 27th September

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Product: LP review: Black Dyke plays Langford

October 5, 2020
Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Roy Newsome
Soloist: Don Lusher
RCA Recordings: LSA 3270

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Book review: Brass Roots

September 25, 2020
A Hundred Years of Brass Bands and their Music (1836-1936)
Roy Newsome
Routledge Revivals
Price: £90.00 (hardback); £27.99 (paperback); eBook (£25.19)

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Product: LP review: The Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain — Vol IX

September 2, 2020
Conductor: Stanley Boddington
Soloists: Gordon Higginbottom; Colin Aspinall
Virtuosi Recordings: VR 7609 Stereo

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Concert: Eikanger Bjorsvik & Manger Musikklag

August 29, 2020
Conductors: Reid Gilje & Martin Winter
Soloists: Jonas Puntervoll (tuba); Vidar Nordli (trombone)
Knarvik Kyrkje
Bergen
Saturday 29th August

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Product: CD review: Experimental Brass

August 26, 2020
The Amsterdam Brass Quintet
Thomas Piet, Thomas Geerts, Misha Sporck, Rolf Hoogenberg, John William Banther
Featuring: David Thornton, Ilja Reijngoud
CD: ABQ:001

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Product: CD review: Reflection

August 24, 2020
Lions Youth Brass
Conductors: Nigel Birch; Tom Hancock; Jamie Sharp
WOS Recordings: WOS 157

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Product: Instrument review: Yamaha YCR-4330GSII Cornet

August 16, 2020
Yamaha continues the high quality evolutionary process with its upgraded Intermediate cornet model.

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Product: LP review: Spectrum

August 9, 2020
The Rise to Fame of the Stanshawe (Bristol) Band
Conductor: Walter Hargreaves
SAYDISC Recordings: SDLB 262

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Product: Product review: Brand plastic mouthpieces

August 3, 2020
A combination of Swiss engineering precision and allergy free plastic looks to make an impression on being the name on lips of a growing niche market.

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Product: CD review: The Origin of the Species

August 2, 2020
Virtuoso Victorian Brass Music
The Wallace Collection
Conductor: Simon Wright
Soloist: John Wallace
Nimbus Recordings: NI 5470

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Product: LP review: British Music for Brass Band

July 26, 2020
Black Dyke Mills Band
Conductors: Major Peter Parkes & Roy Newsome
RCA Red Seal 25078

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Product: CD review: Foursome for Brass

July 21, 2020
Music for Brass Quartette
Derek Garside; William David Thomas; Haydn Harris; Lyndon Baglin
SAYDISC Records: CDSDL 254

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Product: Instrument review: pBugle

July 13, 2020
The latest addition to the Warwick Music Group stable of plastic instruments seems something of an anomaly, but it could also kick start another education revolution...

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