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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Chris Helme brings you plenty of fantastic brass band music making from the heart of Yorkshire...

Chris Helme
  Chris Helme brings plenty of great brass band music from the heart of Yorkshire

Sunday Bandstand:

Chris Helme brings plenty of great brass band music from the heartland of Yorkshire...

12th November:

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 shows dating back to 2014.

The show is now played on nine licensed UK community radio stations and five overseas via a Mixcloud link (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, France).

My website also has a review section and a brass band nostalgia section.

Your CD:

Has your band produced a CD this year?

I would be very pleased to play tracks from it if you have. Or have you a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Click this link:


https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-12-november-2017/

Playlist:

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

Stanhope Celebration (Goff Richards)
The Marple Band
MD: Thomas Wyss — 2000

A Pittsburgh Overture from A Pittsburgh Symphony (Philip Sparke)
Rigid Containers Group Band
MD: John Berryman — 1996

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Johann Sebastian Bach arr: Eric Crees)
London Symphony Brass
MD: Eric Crees — 1992

Harlequin (Philip Sparke)
Soloist: Klemmens Vetter with the Brass Band Oberschwaben-Allgau
MD: Ueli Kipfer — 2016

Mr. Jums (Chris Hazel Arr: Alan Catherall)
Hepworth Band
MD: Norman Law — 1999

Elegy from A Downland Suite (John Ireland)
Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths — 2011

Innuendo (Peter Meechan)
Fairey Band
MD: Mark Peacock — 2012

Vilja (Franz Lehar arr: Andi Cook)
Soloist: Kevin Crockford with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Brian Grant — 2011

Anthem of the Free (Dean Goffin)
Egon Virtuosi Band
BM: James Williams — 1993

Gladiator Barbarian (Hans Zimmer /Lisa Gerrard arr: Sandy Smith)
Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band
MD: Garry Cutt — 2001

Concerto for Piano, Percussion Ensemble and Brass Band — Mvt III: With Much Spirit and Drive (David R. Gillingham arr: Klaas van der Woude)
Pianist: Kathrin Sturzl, Percussion Ensemble and Brass Band Oberschwaben-Allgäu
MD: Ueli Kipfer — 2016

Dick Tracy: The House Of Shadows (Richard Rock)
Soloist: David Thornton with the Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Professor David King — 2014

Orient Express (Philip Sparke)
Rigid Containers Group Band
MD: John Berryman — 1996

Crown Imperial — Coronation March (Sir William Walton arr: Arthur Wills)
Cambridge Co-operative Band
MD: David Read with organist Arthur Wills — 1982

Finlandia Op. 26 (Be Still My Soul) (Jean Sibelius)
The Bradford Festival Choral Society with the Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand -1970

David of the White Rock (arr: Wilcocks)
Cornet Soloist Russell Gray with the BNFL Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1996

Nightfall in Camp (D.A. Pope)
The massed bands of Foden's Motor Works, Fairey Aviation and Morris Motors
MD: Harry Mortimer

Enigma Variations — IX (Nimrod) (Edward Elgar arr: Eric Ball)
Tredegar Town Band
MD: Ian Porthouse — 2012

Enigma Variations — XIV (Finale — Allegro Presto) (Edward Elgar arr: Eric Ball)
Organist Philip Wilby with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2008

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

Enjoy the show...

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