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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More music from the heartland of Yorkshire with Chris Helme

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  Chris Helme has plenty of great music for you to enjoy

Sunday Bandstand 25th November 2018:

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-25-november-2018/

Playlist:

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

Let There Be Light (Steven Ponsford)
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb (2018)

Landscape and Journey: Concert Overture for Brass Band (Alan Fernie)
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs (2009)

The Three Trumpets (Giuseppe Agostini arr. Arthur Scholes Dale)
Foden's Band
MD: Rex Mortimer (1970)

Serenity (Eric Ball)
Chicago Staff Band (USA)
BM: William Himes (1989)

The Lark in the Clear Air (traditional arr. Gordon Langford)
Soloist: Melvyn Bathgate
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1996)

Clog Dance (Marcangelo arr. Bill Charleson)
Star in Brass
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1987)

And the Band Played On (Irving Berlin arr. Goff Richards)
Freckleton Band
MD: Paul Dalton

River City Serenade (Philip Sparke)
Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band
MD: James Watson (1990)

Brassman's Holiday (Mario Ruiz Armengol arr. Ray Farr)
Soloists: Rob Westacott, Claire Taylor, David Horan
Hepworth (Cookson Homes) Band
MD: Mark Bentham (2008)

Heavenbound (Stephen Bulla)
Soloist: Lars-Otto Ljungholm
USA Southern Territorial Band
BM: Richard Holz (1996)

Zurich March (Elgar Howarth)
Solna Brass)
MD: Lars-Gunnar Bjorklund (2001)

Comedy Overture (John Ireland)
The Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: James Scott

Star Lake March (Eric Ball)
Point of Ayr Band
MD: Michael Fowles (1999)

Variations on America (Charles Ives arr. Eric Crees)
London Symphony Brass
MD: Eric Crees (1991)

Variations on 'Was Lebet' (Andrew Wainwright)
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb (2018)

Adagio from Spartacus and Phrygia (Khachaturian arr. Gordon Langford)
Sun Life Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1992)

Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson (1992)

Rhapsody in Blue (George Gershwin)
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: Trevor Walmsley DFC (1972)

Puttin on the Ritz (Irving Berlin)
DUT Yorkshire Imperial Band
MD: David Hirst

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

Enjoy the show....

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