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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great brass band music from the heartland of Yorkshire with Chris Helme.

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  Chris Helme presents more great brass band music

Sunday Bandstand: 26th 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.

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

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Click this link https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-26-may-2019/

Playlist:

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

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (John Williams arr. Ray Farr)
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper (2019)

Overture Richard III (Edward German arr. Alexander Owen)
Besses o' th' Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1980)

The Last Spring (Edvard Grieg trans. James Curnow)
Black Dyke Band
MD: James Watson (1997)

Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael arr. Bill Geldard)
Soloist: Don Lusher
Hammonds Sauce Works Band
MD: Geoffrey Whitham (1993)

Climb Every Mountain (Rodgers and Hammerstein arr. Philip Harper)
Vocalist: James Morley
Household Troops Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Carl Saunders (2019)

Kings Messenger (George Lloyd)
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag
MD: Howard Snell (1995)

Eternal Source of Light Divine (Jonathan Bates)
Soloist: Gary Curtin
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles (2019)

Evening Hymn (Ray Steadman-Allen)
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris (2015)

Roman Intrada (Bertrand Moren)
La Concordia Vertroz Band
MD: Bertrand Moren (2018)

Salome March (William Rimmer)
Massed bands of Yorkshire Building Society and Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band
GMD: Elgar Howarth (2000)

Ballet Music from William Tell (Rossini arr. Denis Wright)
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer (1969)

One Fine Day from Madam Butterfly (Puccini arr. Keith Wilkinson)
Soloist: Brian Grant
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: Keith Wilkinson (1983)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Otto Nicolai arr. George Hawkins)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand (1968)

Capriccio (Philip Sparke)
Soloist: Michelle Ibbotson
Rothwell Band
MD: Simon Wood (1998)

It Ain't Necessarily So (George Gershwin arr. Alan Fernie)
Brass Band Oberaargauer (Austria)
MD: Manfred Obrecht (2000)

Summertime (George Gershwin arr. Howard Snell)
Soloist: Paul Muff
Brass Band Oberaargauer
MD: Manfred Obrecht (2000)

I'm On My Way (George Gershwin arr. Alan Fernie)
Brass Band Oberaargauer
MD: Manfred Obrecht (2000)

The Pride of the Wolverines (John Philip Sousa)
JJB Sports Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans (1999)

The Big Country (Jerome Moross)
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: David Hirst

The Final Voyage (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)
Black Dyke Band
MD: Professor Nicholas Childs (2017)

Royal Australian Navy (Alexander Lithgow)
Besses O'th Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1980)

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

Enjoy the show...

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