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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More fantastic brass band music from across the world to enjoy from Chris Helme in the heartlands of Yorkshire banding...

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  There is plenty of music from across the banding work featured on Chris Helme's programme

Sunday Bandstand: 13th January 2019

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-13-january-2019/

Playlist:

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

Battle of the Winds (Charles Duble)
Sunlife (Stanshawe) Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1979)

Life Divine (Cyril Jenkins)
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: David King (1997)

Estudiantina (Emile Waldteufel)
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: Stanley Boddington (1967)

Drink to me only with thine eyes (Philip Sparke)
Soloist: Jantina Rozema
Soli Brass
MD: Frans-Aert Burghgraef (2011)

Music from the film Hook (John Williams arr. Rieks van der Velde)
Brass Band De Waldsang
MD: Rieks van der Velde (2007)

Summers' Last Bloom (Jim Parker)
Black Dyke Band
MD: James Watson (1999)

Variants on St Francis (David Chaulk)
Soloist: Simon Birkett
Marple Band
MD: Graham O'Connor (2000)

Overture: The Abduction from Il Seraglio (Mozart)
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
MD: William Rushworth

Scherzo for Motorcycle & Orchestra (John Williams arr. Klaas van der Woude)
Willebroek Brass Band (Belgium)
MD: Frans Violet (2008)

Mountain Camp (Donald Osgood)
Kettering Citadel Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Richard Philips (2001)

English Heritage (George Lloyd)
Foden's
MD: Howard Snell (1991)

American in Paris (George Gershwin arr. Howard Snell)
Williams Fairey
MD: Allan Withington (2002)

Two Part Invention (Philip Sparke)
Soloists: Nicholas and Robert Childs
Rochdale Band
GMD: Richard Evans (1990)

Happy Trombones (Rob Ares)
Trombone Section of Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Jan de Haan- (1998)

Riverdance (Bill Whelan arr. Ray Farr)
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Garry Cutt (1996)

The Bells of Notre Dame (Menken & Schwartz arr. Andre Waignein)
Brass Band De Bazuin Oenkerk
MD: Klaas van der Woude (1998)

Anything Goes (Cole Porter arr. Alan Fernie)
Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths (2012)

Them Basses (Getty Huffine)
Sunlife (Stanshawe) Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1979)

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

Enjoy the show....

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