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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from the heartland of the banding world with 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 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. These shows are now available for play back from the WorldFM website.

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

7th July:

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

Duke Street
Leslie Condon
Household Troops Band of the SA
BM: Carl Saunders — 2013

Reflections of Freedom
Andrew Duncan
Whitburn Band
MD: Andrew Duncan — 2004

Cortege
Michael Ball
Cornet Soloist Roger Webster with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2004

Kenilworth
Sir Arthur Bliss
Foden's Band
MD: Fred Mortimer — 1936

Chorus Setting — In Perfect Peace
Kenneth Downie
YBS Band
MD: Professor David King — 1999

Electra
Martin Ellerby
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2013

Someone Cares
John Larsson
Arr: Ray Steadman-Allen
Baritone Soloist David Taylor with the Household Troops Band of the SA
BM: Carl Saunders — 2013

The Dreaded Groove and Hook
Simon Dobson
European Youth Brass Band — 2011

The Tempest
Maurice Johnstone
Foden's Band
MD: Harry Mortimer — 1950s

The Father’s Blessing
Kenneth Downie
International Staff Band of the SA
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2012

Evergreen
Williams and Streisand
Arr: Alan Catherall
Cornet Soloist Jim Davies with the Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: David Hirst — 1995

Hebrides Overture
Mendelssohn
Scottish Co-op Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2003

A Woolly Tale
Austin Rayner
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — c:1957/58

Suite for Brass
John Rutter
Arr: Sandy Smith
Wellington (Telford) Band
MD: Stephen Curtis — 2008

Deep River
Arr: Bruce Broughton
Household Troops Band of the SA
BM: Major John Mott — 2002

Stars and Stripes Forever
Sousa
Champion Whistler David Morris with Scottish Coop Band
MD: Ray Tennant — 2004

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


14th July:

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

Black Domino
Auber
Rochdale Band
MD: Norman Ashcroft — 1974

Malvern Suite 1) Worcester Cathedral 2) The Wye at Hereford 3) Gloucester Market
Philip Sparke
Polysteel Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2008

Grand Selection William Tell
Rossini
Arr: William Rimmer
St Hilda Colliery Band
MD: William Halliwell — 1912

Arioso and Allegro
Joseph Hector Fiocco
Arr: Robert Childs
Euphonium Soloist Robert Childs with the Black Dyke Band
MD: James Watson — 1997

Just as I am
Wilfred Heaton
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Professor David King — 1999

Breath of Souls
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Dr. David King — 2011

Americans We
Henry Fillmore
River City Brass Band
MD: Robert Bernat — 1996

Hunters Moon
Gilbert Vinter
Arr: Tommy Dodd
Tenor Horn Soloist Gordon Higginbottom with the James Shepherd Versatile Brass — 1974

One Moment In Time
Hammond and Betis
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Garry Cutt — 1993

Conchita Caprice
Eric Ball
Cornet Soloist Ian Porthouse with the Fairey FP Band
MD: Howard Snell — 2003

Beautiful Galatea Overture
Franz von Suppe
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2013

Prelude in C sharp Minor
Sergei Rackmaninov
Men of Brass — the massed bands of Fodens, Fairey’s and Morris Motors Band
MD: Harry Mortimer — 1957

Music of the Night
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Desford Colliery Band
MD: Manfred Obrecht — 1993

Carnival of Venice
Harry James
Arr: Mark Freeh
Cornet Soloist Roger Webster with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs — 2004

Bishop Blaize
Goff Richards
Hendon (John Laing) Band
MD: Don Morrison — 1986

Marching to Glory
Stephen Bulla
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2007

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


21st July:

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

Swedish March
Edward Gregson
Canny Brass (Switzerland) — 2011

The Lonely Mill
Handel Lancaster
St Hilda’s Band
MD: George Hespe — 1946

How d’yah like your eggs in a morning?
Nicholas Brodszky
Arr: Van der Velde
London Central Fellowship Band
BM: David Daws- 2013

Summon the Dragon
Peter Graham
Lexington Brass Band (USA)
MD: Ronald Holz — 2002

The Better World
Norman Bearcroft
Euphonium Soloist Derrick Kane with the International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2011

The Typewriter
Leroy Anderson
Yorkshire imperial Metals Band
MD: Denis Carr — 1979

Montage
Peter Graham
Brass Band Willebroek (Belgium)
MD: Frans Violet — 2004

Nocturne from A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Felix Mendelssohn
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Jack Emmott — 1950s

Satchmo
Kenny Baker
Arr: Alan Morrison
Cornet Soloist Mark Davies with the Roberts Bakery Band
MD: Colin Cranson — 2011

Into the Light
Philip Wilby
Cooperative Funeral Care Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Washington Grays
Claudio Grafulla
Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: James Scott — 1970s

Lord of the Sea
1) Waters Edge
2) Seascapes
3) Seafarers Song
Ray Steadman-Allen
Boscombe Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Howard Evans — 2011

I’ll not turn back
John Larsson & Ivor Bosanko
Cornet & Euphonium Duet Soloists Alexandra Kerwin (cornet) David Childs (euphonium) with the Scottish Co-op Band — 2004

Festival Arrangement — Festivity
Leslie Condon
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Dr. David King — 2001

Brassman’s Holiday
Armengol
Arr: Ray Farr
Williams Fairey Engineering Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1988

The Falcons
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1950s

Procession of the Nobles
Rimsky Korsakov
Arr: Derek Ashmore
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band — compilation from the 1970s

Fest Musick Der Stadt Wein
Richard Strauss
Arr: Eric Banks
Wingates Band
MD: Norman Law — 1998

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

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