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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

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 week’s. It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website www.phoenixfm.co.uk

Yorkshire Dales

It is also available on Drystone Radio 106.9FM or through their website www.drystoneradio.com on Sunday mornings between 8am and 10am

Wigan

My radio programme has now been picked up by www.wiganfm.com a local internet only radio station and my weekly brass band show can be heard on Sunday’s between 11am and 1pm

New Zealand

Listeners in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that this programme is now also played on www.worldfm.co.nz in Wellington at 2p – 4pm (NZ time) every Thursday.

Requests

I am always pleased to receive requests – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding, recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find.

Or have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 12th May:

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

Goldcrest
James Anderson
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

Semiramidi Overture
Rossini
Scottish CWS Band
MD: W. C. Crozier – 1958

Soliloquy
Philip Sparke
Cornet Soloist Kirsty Abbotts with the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Allan Ramsey — 2007

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

Dance Prelude from Faust
Sun Life Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1992

Anglian Dances (Movements 1/4/5)
Alan Fernie
Scottish Co-op Band
Guest MD: Alan Fernie — 2006

The Quiet Heart
June Collin
Arr: John Meredith
Boscombe S A Band
BM: Howard Evans — 2011

Summer Isles
Philip Sparke
Euphonium Soloist Olaf Kruidorf with the Brass Band Rijnmond The Netherlands
MD: Anno Appelo — 2010

Battle of the Planets
Hoyt Crutin
Arr: Philip Harper
British Army Brass Band
MD: Cpt David Barringer — 2008

Til I hear you sing from Love Never Dies
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Arr: Chris Wormald
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2011

I will follow him from the film Sister Act
Arr: Goff Richards
Enfield Citadel Band
BM: Jonathon Corry — 2012

Whitsun Wakes
Michael Ball
Fodens (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1998

Czardas
Vittorio Monti
Cornet Soloist Philip McCann with the Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: David Loukes — 1981

Neopolis
Dean Goffin
The Reg Vardy Band
MD: John Ward — 2011

Finale from Francesca de Rimini
Tchaikovsky
Arr: Iain McKnight
The Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans -2011

Es Burebueli Goes Strange
Traditional
Arr: James
Trumpet Soloist Heinz Sauer with the Swiss Brass Consort – 2011

1914 March
Gordon McKenzie
West Yorkshire Police Band
MD: Cpt Gary Clegg — 2010

Zur Heldenfeier
Remo Baggio
Arr: Ray Woodfield
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2010

Ol’ Man River
Jerome Kern
Arr: Mark Freeh
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Brian Grant — 2011

Choose Freedom
Kenneth Downie
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: David Hirst — 1996

La Reine de Saba Grand March
Charles Gounod
Arr: J.A.Greenwood
Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Eric Ball — 1970s

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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