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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More music to listen to all around the banding world 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 between 2pm and 4pm

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 21st April:

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

Backdraft — Main theme from the film
Alan Silvestri
Arr: Sandy Smith
The Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2011

Cristo Redentor
Steven Ponsford
Hendon Salvation Army Band
BM: David Rudd — 2010

Country Road
James Taylor
Arr: Keith Mansfield
Trombone Soloist Doc Stoute with the Las Vegas Brass Band
MD: Philip Schlicker – 2005

Flowers of the Forest — Reflections on a Scottish Folk Song
Richard Rodney Bennett
Fodens Richardson Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey – 2010

Bravura Variations on a theme by Mozart
Adolphe Adam
Arr: Henry Howy
Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead with Spanish Brass — 2008

The Diplomat March
J.P. Sousa
Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band
MD: Elgar Howarth — 2004

Desert Water Hole from the Death Valley Suite
Ferde Groefe
Sellers International Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2003

All Through The Night
Arr: Gordon Langford
Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Eric Ball — 1970s

A Pretty Girl is like a Melody
Irving Berlin
Britannia Building Society Band
MD: Howard Snell — 1987

Canto Populare
Edward Elgar
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Derek Broadbent — 1982

Concerto D’More
Jacob de Haan
Soli Deo Gloria Band
MD: Jan De Haan — 1995

Saltarello from the Italian Symphony
Mendelssohn
Arr: Geoff Colmer
Hepworth (Cookson Homes) Band
MD: Mark Bentham — 2007

Roman and Tango
Huug Steketee
Cornet Soloist Huug Steketee with Brass Band Concordia
MD: Danny Osterman — 1997

Black Magic Woman
Peter Green
Arr: Eric Banks
Boobs and Brass with Friends
MD: John Hudson — 2011

Urlicht from Symphony in C Minor
Gustav Mahler
Arr: Philip Lawrence
Mezzo Soprano Soloist Margaret McDonald, Harpist Louise Thompson with the Fairey Band 2007
MD: Philip Lawrence

Nocturne
Rolf Lavland
Arr: Ron Sebregts
Soli Deo Gloria Band
MD: Jan De Haan — 1995

Roll Call March
William Broughton
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

Waltzing Matilda
Arr: Gordon Langford
Besses o’th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983

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

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