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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music to send out to the banding world from Chris Helme in the heartland of Yorkshire...

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  More music across the airwaves from Chris Helme

Sunday Bandstand 4 February

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.

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-4-february-2018/

Playlist:

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

Dovercourt Citadel (Percy Merritt)
Canadian Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: John Lam — 2011

Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1986

Elvira Madigan (Mozart arr. Goff Richards)
The Leyland DAF Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1989

Swingtime Religion (Barrie Gott)
Soloists: Erwin Butti with Canny Brass
MD: Roland Schaub — 2017

Caprice (Ray Woodfield)
Soloist: David Moore
James Shepherd Versatile Brass — 2002

In the Firing Line (Bramwell Coles)
Massed bands of International Staff Band, New York Staff Band,
Wellington Citadel Band & Portsmouth Citadel Band
GBM: Lieut. Col. Bernard Adams
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1968)

North West Passage (Roy Newsome)
Besses O' th' Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983

Be a Clown (Cole Porter arr. Alan Fernie)
Sellers International Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2004

Carnival Cocktail (Steve Sykes)
Soloist: Mike Kilroy
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1997

Liszteria (Sandy Smith)
Percussion Duet: Michael Landon & Anthony Mann
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2013

Opening (Bertrand Moren)
Brass Band 13 Etoiles
MD: Richard Evans — 1994

The Flying Dutchman Overture (Richard Wagner arr. Howard Lorriman)
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2014

Samba Del Gringo (Gordon Goodwin arr. Jacob Vilhelm Larsen)
Tredegar Town Band
MD: Ian Porthouse — 2013

Embraceable You (George Gershwin arr. Elgar Howarth)
Soloist: Nick Hudson
Britannia Building Society Band
MD: Howard Snell — 1991

Fantasy for Brass Band (Malcolm Arnold)
Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band
MD: Garry Cutt — 1999

Ballade (John Golland)
Soloist: Hans Gansch
Brass Band Froschl Hall
MD: Hannes Buchegger — 2006

HMS Trinidad (George Lloyd)
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: John Hinckley — 1997

Hebrides Overture (Mendelssohn arr. George Thompson)
CWS Glasgow Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2013

Sons of New Zealand March (Alexander Frame Lithgow)
Wellington Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band
MD: Not Known — 1968

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

Enjoy the show...

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