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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme in the banding heartland of Yorkshire

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  Chris Helme brings us plenty of brilliant brass band music

Sunday Bandstand: 24th March 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.

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-24-march-2019/

Playlist:

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

The Cantonian March (Ian Clarke)
Amsterdam Staff Band
BM: Olaf Ritman (2013)

The Snaring of the Sun (Stephen Roberts)
Ebbw Valley Brass
MD: Gareth Ritter (2015)

Coronation Scot (Vivian Ellis arr. Roy Newsome)
National Brass Band of New Zealand
MD: Rodney G Sutton (1980)

The Water Margin (Mashru Satu)
Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans (1980)

Bone Idyll (Derek Bourgeois)
Soloist: Brett Baker
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley (1996)

Dancing in the Park (Peter Graham)
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Roy Newsome (1995)

Hoedown from Rodeo (Aaron Copland arr. Howard Snell)
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Roy Newsome (1995)

Gala-Polka (Wemer Knopfel)
Brass Band Frohsinn Schotz
MD: Ernst Balli (1997)

Eyes of a Child (Jalkeus / Larsen)
Soloist: Allan Withington
Stavanger Band
MD: Jacob Vilhelm Larsen (2011)

All Glorious (Dorothy Gates)
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris (2015)

Credo (Lorne Barry)
Mississauga Temple Band of the Salvation Army (Canada)
BM: David Moulton (2003)

Robin Adair (John Hartmann)
Soloist: Sidney Poole
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer (1960)

Main theme from Star Wars (John Williams arr. Philip Harper)
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper (2017)

Duel of the Fates (John Williams arr. Andrew Duncan)
Vocalists: Only Men Aloud
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper (2017)

Fugue from the Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra (Britten arr. David Childs)
Foden's Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs (2017)

Creepy Trombones (Bertrand Moren)
Soloists: Jeremie Favre, Lucas Llor & Lionel Fumeaux
La Condordia Vertroz
MD: Bertrand Moren (2018)

Escape Velocity (Martin Cordner)
Amsterdam Staff Band
BM: Olaf Ritman (2013)

Bubbles (Derek Broadbent)
Soloists: Sonja Rolli & Markus Hunkeler
Brass Band Frohsinn Schotz
MD: Ernst Balli (1997)

Rufford Abbey (Drake Rimmer)
St Dennis Band
MD: Eddie Williams (1971)

St Austell Suite (Kenneth Downie)
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: David Hirst (2002)

Rolling Along (William Himes)
Enfield Citadel Band
BM: James Williams (2003)

Carnival of the Animals (Saint Seans)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1983)

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

Enjoy the show....

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