Reviews
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Product: Product review: Hawkins Mutes
July 31, 2024
We look at the range of 3D plastic printed cornet mutes from designer Tony Hawkins to see if they can create more than a subtle niche in a competitive market place.
Product: CD review: Bliss: Works for Brass Band
July 30, 2024
John Wilson and Black Dyke bring an aesthetic authority to the works of a composer changed by darker personal experiences.
Concert: National Youth Brass Band of Wales
July 29, 2024
Cautious optimism grows in numbers, partnerships and music making as Welsh youth complete their summer course tour of the nation.
Concert: Elgar International Brass Band Summer School
July 27, 2024
An enjoyable mix of musical elements brings a successful summer school course to a close in Bromsgrove.
Product: CD review: Malcolm Arnold: Music for brass band
July 24, 2024
Foden's excellence helps to reveal a satisfying conclusion to a compositional life of deep complexities.
Product: CD review: Called to Serve
July 18, 2024
An imaginative mix of the on-trend and the traditional from Dr Stephen Cobb and the ISB.
Product: LP review: Black Diamonds
July 17, 2024
Grimethorpe Colliery Band in 1967 — and a recording snapshot on the cusp of lasting greatness.
Product: CD review: Farbenspiel — A Colourplay through Time and Genres
July 16, 2024
Soloist Anabel Voigt brings a sense of versatile confidence to her ambitious musical explorations for the tenor horn.
Concert: Wantage Band
July 14, 2024
An evening of fine community music making lifts Euro spirits in brass and voice.
Concert: Regent Brass
July 8, 2024
Works that could have heralded the exploration of very different musical vistas for the brass band movement gain a welcome reprise.
Concert: Shepherd Group Band
July 6, 2024
A celebration of communal inclusivity and joyful modular music making gains another significant marker in York.
Concert: Tredegar Band
July 5, 2024
A long musical association is enhanced at the Royal College of Music with significant brass band tributes.
Product: CD review: George Lloyd — The Works for Brass
July 1, 2024
A composer of honesty and distinctive character is reprised in glorious fashion with this amended re-release from Black Dyke and Equale Brass.
Product: CD review: The Beauty Within
June 30, 2024
Sheona White adds further engaging explorations to her musical journey of artistic evolution with her latest release.
Concert: Cory Band
June 19, 2024
A memorable day in Bromsgrove is rounded off in triumphant fashion by Philip Harper and his band.
Concert: Brighouse & Rastrick Band
June 18, 2024
Garry Cutt brings an authentic sense of style to bear on the musical essentials from the West Riding Band.
Concert: Foden's Band
June 17, 2024
British Open champion delivers on a wide ranging sense of stylish musicality to open inaugural Elgar Festival.
Concert: Tredegar Band
June 11, 2024
A Road Less Travelled By in more ways than one as Tredegar shine on showcase form in Reading.
Concert: BONE-AFIDE
June 10, 2024
The award winning trombone ensemble deserved much more in return for their showcase of musical excellence in Reading.
Concert: KNDS Fairey Band
June 9, 2024
Mark Heron curates a gallery of musical delights to round off the Perth Festival of Arts
