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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from the Yorkshire heartlands beamed all over the banding world.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous week’s

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

New Zealand

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

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 25th November:

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

Ad Optimum
Peter Graham
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2010

Sunrise Over Blue Ridge
Dan Price
The Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs -

Deborah’s Theme
Ennio Morricone
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: John Hinckley — 2000

The Plantagenet’s
Edward Gregson
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 1995

Invercargill March
Alexander Frame Lithgow
Besses o’th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983

The World of Tomorrow
Richard Rooks
Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths — 2011

Paganini 18th Variation
Sergy Rackmaninov
Arr: Howard Snell
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1998

The Typewriter
Leroy Anderson
Trombone Soloist Don Lusher with Brighouse & Rastrick Band — 1976

Second Suite in Eb
Gustav Holst
Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: James Scott — 1970s

Bass on Patrol
Huug Steketee
Bass Soloist Rene Passenier with Brass Band Bazuin Oenkerk
MD: Klaas van der Woude — 2012

On the Town
Ray Farr
Eikanger Bjorsvik Band
MD: Ray Farr — 1998

Yorkshire Ballad
Professor James Barnes
Solo Marimba Evelyn Glennie with Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 1998

Blenheim Flourishes
James Curnow
Leyland DAF Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1990

Carnival of Venice
Arr: William Rimmer
Cornet Soloist James Shepherd with pianist Keith Swallow — 1972

Before The Parade Passes By
Arr: Bultenhuis & Klaas van Der Woude
European Brass Band
MD: Klaas van der Woude — 2005

Swedish Hymn
Arr: Peter Graham
Cornet Soloist David Daws with Amsterdam Brass
MD: Frank von Koten — 2005

Symphony for Brass Op 5 in D Minor
Victor Ewald
Buy as you View Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2002

Tarantella Chromatica
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Jack Emmott — 1950s

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

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