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Radio: Sounds of Brass

No contests or rehearsals but there is till plenty of great brass band music to enjoy with Phillip Hunt over the airwaves...

Radio
  You can still get your great fix of brass band music from Phillip Hunt...

BBC SOUNDS OF BRASS — Worldwide

BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO CORNWALL, DEVON, GUERNSEY & JERSEY EVERY SUNDAY EVENING @ 7.00pm and on BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SOMERSET SOUND, SWINDON & WILTSHIRE Sunday 12am to 1am.

PRODUCED AND PRESENTED WEEKLY BY PHILLIP HUNT since 1985.
AVAILABLE LIVE AND LISTEN AGAIN EVERY WEEK ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB THROUGH THE BBC RADIO iPLAYER.

Live on Sundays at 19.05 or 12am British Time or at any time for 30 DAYS after the Broadcast.

To hear this week's programme instantly go to the Web Site of the BBC Local Radio Station you are listening to and click on Live or Listen Again, then Schedule.

For those listeners who can hear the programme on their TV through the Freeview Radio Channel you can now set your system to record the programme on a weekly basis by going to the Radio Programme Guide and finding our broadcast time.

At the moment the BBC Local Radio Stations on the Freeview Radio Channel can only be accessed within the individual Radio Station areas, which is why some numbers are duplicated.

The Freeview numbers for the Stations available are, BBC Radio Bristol 719, Radio Jersey 719, Radio Devon 720, Radio Guernsey 721, Radio Cornwall 721, Radio Wiltshire 721, Radio Somerset 722, Radio Gloucestershire 735.

You can also listen to and download the programme on your Smart Phone by downloading the BBC iPlayer APP.

Requests and Comments welcome at E Mail, brassmanpgh@uwclub.net
Telephone: 01752 843919.

Check the Sounds of Brass Blog @ www.sofbblog.wordpress.com every week for programme details, brass band articles and information.

Sunday 29th March 2020



CELEBRATION (Leslie Condon)
RHAPSODY (James Curnow)
Soloist: Liz Cook
Reg Vardy Band
Conductor: Ray Farr

HYMN TUNE MEDLEY (arr. Gordon Langford)
Besses o' th' Barn Band
Conductor: Alec Evans

O FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE (Felix Mendelssohn arr. Philip Wilby)
Soloist: Richard Marshall
TOCCATA from SYMPHONY No. 5 (Charles Marie Widor arr. Denis Wrigh)t
Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Dr Nicholas Childs

TRESKERBY (Monty Pearce)
Bodmin Town Band
Conductor: Leonard Adams

SHARE MY YOKE (Joy Webb arr. Ivor Bosanko)
Soloist: Rob Westacott
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductor: James Gourlay

ALL THINGS BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL (William Henry Monk arr. Edrich Siebert)
PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN (John Goss arr. Philip Sparke)
Williams Fairey Engineering Band
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes

NIMROD (Sir Edward Elgar arr. Denis Wright)
FINLANDIA (Jean Sibelius)
Organist: Christopher Robinson
Men O Brass
Conductor: Harry Mortimer

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