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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme — from Yorkshire to the four corners of the banding globe.

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 8am and 10am

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 17th February:

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

The Killer Trombones
Alan Fernie
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2012

Les Preludes
Franz Liszt
Arr: William Rimmer
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: George Willcocks — 1963

La Virgen de la Macarena
Rafael Mendez
Soprano Soloist: Richard Poole with the Foden’s Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2012

Last Call
Otto Schwarz
Brass Band Oberosterrich
MD: Hannes Buchegger — 2010

Harlem Nocturne
Earle Hagen
Arr: Derek Broadbent
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Derek Broadbent — 1976

Rose of England
Ivor Novello
Arr: Michael Kenyon
Boys of Leeds Parish Church Choir with the Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann — 1992

Cornucopia
Craig Farr
Brass Band Frener-Reifer Pfeffersberg
MD; Bernhard Reifer — 2008

Sparta
Peter Meechan
Euphonium Soloist: David Childs with the Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2011

Introduction
Torstein Aagaard -Neilson
European Youth Brass Band
MD: Reid Gilje — 2008

Star of the North
J A Greenwood
Cornet Soloist: Arthur Laycock with the St Hilda Colliery Band
MD: James Oliver — 1922

Stars and Stripes Forever
J P Sousa
Brass Band of Central Florida
MD: Michael Garasi — 2006

Vitae Aeternum
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2008

Morning from the Peer Gynt Suite
Greig
Fairey Band
MD: Ken Dennison — 1976

Cavatina from Norma
Bellini
Arr: Stephen Roberts
Soprano Soloist: Peter Robert with the YBS Band
MD: Professor David King — 2002

Variation on an Enigma
Philip Sparke
BNFL Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1994

When I’m 64
Lennon and McCartney
Arr: Ray Farr
Britannia Building Society Band
MD: Howard Snell — 1987

Ticket To Ride
Lennon and McCartney
Arr: Ray Farr
CWS Glasgow Band
MD: John Hudson — 2001

Yesterday
Lennon and McCartney
Arr: Ray Farr
Britannia Building Society Band
MD: Howard Snell — 1987

Jubilee Overture
Philip Sparke
Fairey Band
MD: Mark Peacock — 2012

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

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