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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music to while away the snow bound hours from Chris Helme.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

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 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 7.30am and 9.30am

Wigan

My radio programme has now been picked up by www.wiganfm.com a local internet only radio station and my weekly brass band show can be heard on Sunday’s between 11am and 1pm

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 27th January:

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

The Flag of Freedom
Bramwell Coles
Household Troops Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Major John Mott — 2007

Dances from the Ballet Estancia
Alberto Ginastera
Arr: Morgan Griffiths
Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths — 2012

Music of the Night
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Arr: William Himes
Vocalist Jason McCann with the Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2004

Virtuosity
Kenny Baker
Arr: Jack Peberdy
Trumpeter Philip Cobb with the Cory Band
Guest MD: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2007

A Malvern Suite
Phillip Sparke
Polysteel Band
MD: Phillip Harper — 2008

Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel
Arr: Howard Snell
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Allan Withington — 1993

The Dong with the Luminous Nose
Joseph Horovitz
CWS Glasgow Band
Guest MD: Joseph Horovitz — 1994

633 Squadron
Ron Goodwin
Arr: Darrol Barry
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2009

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Stephen Foster
Arr: Elgar Howarth
Euphonium Soloist Adrian Harrison with the West Yorkshire Police Band
MD: Barry Thompson — 1997

Melody in F
Arthur Rubenstein
Arr: Eric Ball
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1991

La Belle American
John Hartmann
Euphonium Soloist Lyndon Baglin with the CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1961

Pioneer March
Derek Broadbent
CWS Glasgow Band
MD: Archie Hutchison — 1993

Slavonic Rhapsody No. 1
Carl Friedemann
Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott — 1995

Ayesha’s Dance
Khachaturian
Arr: Howard Snell
Sun Life Band
MD: Bryan Hurdley — 1992

Lloyd Hymn Tune
Howard Cuthbertson
Arr: Bramwell Coles
Household Troops Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Major John Mott — 2007

Your Tiny Hand is Frozen
Puccini
Arr: Gordon Langford
Soloist: Kirsty Abbotts with the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Allan Ramsey — 2007

Benvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz
Arr: Frank wright
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1970

Festive Overture
Shostakovich
Arr: Peter Kitson
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD; Allan Withington — 1993

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


Sunday 20th January:

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

General Guisan March
Stefan Jaeggi
Canny Brass (Switzerland)
MD Ronald Frischknecht — 2012

Millennium Flourishes
Andrew Mackereth
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2000

Cute
Neil Hefti
Arr: Philip Sparke
Greater Gwent Youth Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2009

The Ashokan Farewell
Unger
Arr: Simon Kerwin
Elland Silver Band
MD: James Shepherd — 2009

Cornet Concerto Ernest Tomlinson — All three movements
Cornet Soloist Maurice Murphy with the Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Roy Newsome at the Royal Albert Hall -1974

Prelude for a Hero
Joop van Dijk
Delta Brass Zeeland (Netherlands)
MD: Luc Vertommen — 2008

Playmates
J.A.Greenwood
Cornet Duet with Ian Beckett and Simon Owen
Shirland Training Band
MD: Marie Fawbert Smith — 2001

When the Saints
Fielding
Arr: Mark Freeh
Cornet feature with Peter Monk and the Virtuosi GUS Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey — 2012

Winds of Change
Brenton Bradstock
YBS Band
MD: Dr. David King — 2000

Medley from South Pacific
Richard Rodgers
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 1992

Hymn to the Sea
James Horner
Arr: David Carder
Greggs Bakery Band (9 piece)
MD: Roy Curran — 2001

Flight of the Bumble Bee
Rimsky Korsakov
Arr: Thomas Wyss
Whistler David Morris with the Scottish Co-op Band
MD: Ray Tennant — 2004

The Gladiators Farewell
Herman Blankenburg
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Alan Lawton — 1990

Finale from Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Arr: Philip Harper
Tenor Horn Soloist Vicki Reynolds
Polysteel Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2008

Trouble Maker
Mike Davis
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
from a 1990s compilation

Lyric Variations
Ray Steadman-Allen
Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Roy Newsome — 2001

Spirit of Pageantry
Percy Fletcher
Delta Brass Zeeland (The Netherlands)
MD: Luc Vertommen — 2008

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

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MMus, GGSM, LRAM
Conductor, Performer, Educator


               

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