Product: CD review: Storm

April 15, 2025
Luc Vertommen and the French champion Hauts de France showcase a musical barometer reading of varied excellence.

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Product: LP review: The National Champions

April 14, 2025
The force of CWS Manchester's destiny retains its aura even 60 years after it was recorded.

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Concert: Santa Monica High School Wind Ensemble & Regent Brass

April 13, 2025
An ambitious trans-Atlantic link brings a welcome non-tariff export of musical excellence to London.

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Concert: Homage to Shakespeare

April 7, 2025
Contrary thinking brings a full house audience to experience a fine concert of brass banding originals.

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Concert: A Springtime Celebration

April 6, 2025
Huddersfield welcomes a fresh approach to a bunch of musical perennials.

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Concert: Musical Journeys — celebrating the music of Peter Graham

April 5, 2025
The Band of the Grenadier Guards lead the audience on familiar routes to new destinations at Regent Hall.

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Product: CD review: Beyond the Paradox

March 23, 2025
Tim De Maeseneer's major ambitions to project the tenor horn into a different sphere are fully justified with substantial release.

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Product: CD review: Neoteric Ensemble: Volume 1

March 22, 2025
A joyful melange of quirkiness and serious observations from the ever inventive six-piece ensemble.

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Concert: RCM Brass Band

February 15, 2025
A renewed strengthening of the historical connections between between brass banding and the Royal College of Music is impressively embossed by the current crop of performing talent.

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Concert: Brighouse & Rastrick Band

January 31, 2025
Conductor David Bremner imbues the West Riding band and its performers with a fine sense of musical assuredness to close the RNCM Festival.

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Concert: Cory Band

January 30, 2025
Cory draw on the real and the imagined for a substantive appearance at the RNCM Festival.

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Concert: RNCM Brass Band

January 29, 2025
Ambition met with excellence as students revel in the shared spotlight with soloist David Bremner at RNCM Festival.

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Concert: Black Dyke Band

January 28, 2025
There was a defined level of superlative on show as Black Dyke, David Childs and Ian Bousfield showcased their collective talents at the RNCM Festival

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Concert: Tredegar Band

January 27, 2025
Works demanding of considerable thoughtfulness are enhanced in musical stature by Ian Porthouse and Ben Goldscheider at RNCM Festival.

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Concert: Athena Brass Band

January 26, 2025
Jessica Sneeringer and her band slay more than a few outdated attitudes and pre-conceptions with their appearance at the RNCM.

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Concert: Foden's Band

January 25, 2025
Glories of myth, nature and exploration open the RNCM International Brass Band Festival

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Concert: Grimethorpe Colliery Band

January 24, 2025
New season entertainment quality brought to Grimsby by Yorkshire favourite

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Product: Music review: Little Suite (Trevor Duncan arr. Phil Lawrence)

January 12, 2025
Trevor Duncan's perfect example of light music craftsmanship recalls an age and style of composition that deserves to be brought back into the concert spotlight.

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Product: CD review: Resurget Cineribus

January 4, 2025
Five Lakes Silver build on contesting success with a release of bold confidence under MD, Christopher Ward.

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Product: LP review: Concerto

January 2, 2025
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes
Soloists: Robert Childs, Norman Law, Philip Shaw, Sandy Smith, Roger Webster
Chandos Recordings: BBRD 1037

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