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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Plenty of great music from Chris Helme.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Broadcast on Phoenix FM 96.7 community radio in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire. This programme is also available via www.phoenixfm.co.uk Every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 4pm

Please note the show for 22nd July will be one hour only owing to a schools radio broadcast but the show will be back to the now usual 2 hours the following week.

Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website.

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 15th July:

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

March of the Bow Men from the Robin Hood Suite
Frederic Curzon Arr: Frank Wright
Foden’s Motor Works Band
MD: Rex Mortimer — 1967

Dark Side of the Moon
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2008

Firestar
E. S. Carter
Cornet Soloist Willie Barr with the Scottish CWS
MD: Robert Oughton — 1960s

Aladdin Theme
Tim Rice Arr: R. Kernen Mencken
Brass Band Soli Deo Gloria
MD: Jan de Haan — 1994

Relaxation from Salute to Youth
Gilbert Vinter
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1986

Fugue in D Minor
J S Bach Arr: Ray Farr
Enfield Citadel Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Jonathon Corry — 2011

Stardust
Hoagy Carmichael — Arr: Jimmy Howe
Listen to the Band compilation from the 1960s

I Know Why
Mark Gordon / Harry Warren
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

Finale from Francesca da Rimini
Tchaikovsky Arr: Iain McKnight
Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans — 2011

Prelude from the 49th Parallel
Vaughan Williams Arr: Roy Douglas
Fodens Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley — 2002

Ballade
John Golland
Cornet soloist Alan Morrison with the
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1991

Lorenzo
Thomas Keighley
Fodens Motor Works Band
MD: Rex Mortimer — 1966

Jazz Police
Gordon Goodwin Arr: Roger McDuffie
Rothwell Temperance Band
MD: David Roberts — 2009

Voyage of Discovery
Goff Richards
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2006

The Tops
T. J. Powell
Cornet quintet feature with the
GUS Band
MD: Stanley Boddington — 1962

Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor 2nd movement
Max Bruch Arr: Stephen Hague
Cornet Soloist Kirsty Abbotts with the
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band MD: Allan Ramsey – 2006

Abide With Me
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
This track is from a 1970s compilation with no further information

The Royal Standard March
Chesterton
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: Stanley Boddington — 1962

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

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