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Radio: Sunday Bandstand 14th May

More great brass band music from Chris Helme to enjoy over the airwaves....

Bandstand
  More great music from Chris Helme to enjoy over the airwaves

Sunday Bandstand: 14th May

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 always open for questions, requests and is happy to play tracks and promote new CD recordings.

The show is played on nine UK community radio stations and four overseas; Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Galway, Ireland and direct to over 200 individual people around the world.

Also go to: www.radiochristmas.co.uk

Enjoy:


https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-14-may-2023/

Playlist:

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

Metallon Fanfare
Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana
Valencia Brass Band (Spain)
MD: Enrique Alborch Tarrasó

Symphonic Poem: The Battle Song
Havergal Brian arr. John Pickard
Buy As You View Cory Band
MD: Dr Robert Childs

In the Woods
Johann Strauss the Younger arr. Howard Snell
Britannia Buildings Society Band
MD: Howard Snell

History of the Tango
2nd Mov Café 1930
Astor Piazzolla arr. Luc Vertommen
Soloist: Steven Mead
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Russell Gray

Tone Poem: Emblems
James Curnow
Southern Territorial SA Band
BM: Richard E. Holz

Above and Beyond
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke Band
MD: Prof Nicholas Childs

Out of Africa (Alone at the Farm)
John Barry
CWS (Glasgow)Band
MD: Frank Renton

Phoenix Rising
Tom Davoren
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles

The Great Little Army
Kenneth Alford
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: David Hirst

Norwegian Landscapes
Magnus Hylander
Flesland Musikklag
MD: Patrik Randfalk

Paris Metro
W.H. Bowen arr. Steve Sykes
Amsterdam Brass
MD: Frank von Koten

Countryside and Common People
Alan Fernie
Brass Band De Bazuin Oenkerk
MD: Klaas van der Woude

Stardust
Hoagy Carmichael arr. John Iveson
Soloist: Brett Baker
JSVB Legacy Band
MD: David Thornton

Hebrides Overture
Mendelssohn arr. George Thompson
CWS Glasgow Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs

Solitaire
Neil Sedaka arr. Stephen Corbett
Soloist: Brian Evans
British Aerospace Wingates Band
MD: Michael L. Beevers

The Crowning
Jonathan Bates
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles

King's Herald from Pageantry
Herbert Howells
Leyland Band
MD: Thomas Wyss

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

Enjoy the show...

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