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Radio: Time for Brass

More music from over the Irish Sea from Manx Radio's Time for Brass.

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Time for Brass:
97.2, 89 and 103.7 FM and 1368 AM

The major companies and the privately produced recordings continue to make 'Time for Brass" an up-to-the-minute musical experience for our listeners.

Recordings

Recordings from Sun Life Stanshawe and Whitworth Vale & Healey, have been followed by releases by Dyke, Cory, Fodens, Leyland, ISB and Boscombe SA, plus a very special 'back number' from Cory, all of which are featured in this week's programme.

Contact

Texts, e-mails and phone calls from local listeners and those on the other side of the world continue to come in. I get the credit but it is the bands and the recording companies who make it possible.

28th March:

Star Lake
Eric Ball
ISB

Home of Legends
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke

Finale Cello Concerto
Haydn arr. Owen Farr
Cory
Soloist: Owen Farr

Cappriccio Espagnole
Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Wilkinson
Cory

Benedictus
Karl Jenkins arr Peter Graham
Cory and Cantorion Male Voice Choir

The Defenders
Ray Cresswell
Boscombe SA Band

Coming Home
Kenneth Downie
Boscombe SA Band

Only for You
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke
Soloist: Paul Duffy

That Old Black Magic
Harold Arlen arr. Philip Harper
Leyland

Spinning Song
Mendelssohn arr. Howard Snell
Fodens
Soloist: Mark Landon

Be My Love
Nicholas Brodsky arr. Ray Farr
Fodens
Soloist: Glyn Williams

Hyfrydol
arr. Karl Jenkins and Rodney Newton
Cory

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Andy Wareham

BMus (Hons), MMus (Hons)
Conductor, Composer, Brass Tutor, Musicologist


               

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