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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Enjoy the New Year with some great music from Chris Helme

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. 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

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 30th December

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

Horizons
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

Legend in Brass
James Curnow
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann — 1994

Christmas Idyll
Kenneth Downie
Chicago Staff Band
BM: William Himes — 2006

Tuba Solo from Orchestra Finalists
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Tuba Soloist Ian Foster — 2012

The Pitman March
J.A.Greenwood
Wingates Band
MD: David Thornton — 2010

Belmont Variations
Sir Arthur Bliss
Arr: Eric Ball
Sun Life Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1991

Carol Setting: Carol of the Bells — Stephen Bulla — Vol: 6
Carol Setting: God Rest You — Noel Jones — Vol: 2
The New York Principals — (Roger Webster, Matthew Baker (Cornets), David Horn (Tenor Horn), Andrew Berryman (Trombone), Robert Childs (Euphonium) & David Nesbitt (Tuba) — 1995

Carnival of Venice
Arr: Del Steigers
Cornet Soloist Fred Muscroft with the
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: Trevor Walmsley DFC — 1973

Love on the Rocks
Neil Diamond
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2000

3DGs -March
James Brophy
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1962

Mission
Ray Steadman-Allen
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 1997

Masquerade
Dr Philip Wilby
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Allan Withington — 2002

We’ve Only Just Begun
Roger Nichols
Arr: Bill Geldard
Trumpet soloist James Morrison with the Foden's (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 2000

Lullaby for Christmas
Sandy Feldstein & Larry Clark
Royal Doulton Band
MD: Ted Gray — 1970s

Tristan and Isolde
Richard Wagner
Arr: Alexander Owen
Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band
MD: Elgar Howarth — 2007

Manhattan Skyline
Arr: Alan Catherall
Elland Silver Band
MD: James Shepherd — 2009

Violin Concerto
Allegro 3rd mvt
Mendelssohn
Tenor Horn soloist William Rushworth with the Foden's (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1999

Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart
Arr: James Curnow
The New York Principals — 1995

Imperial Echoes March
Arnold Safroni
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1963

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

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