Book: Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and local Music Making

June 10, 2020
Edited by: Suzel Ana Reily and Katherine Brucher
SOAS Musicology Series
Ashgate Publishing

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Product: LP review: Alex Owen 60th Anniversary

May 27, 2020
Besses o' th' Barn Band
Conductors: Alec Evans & Roy Newsome
Soloists: Peter Read, Graham McEvoy, Andrew Snelson
Chandos Recordings: BBR 1009

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Product: Product review: BG Trumpet Combo Pack

May 26, 2020
Trumpet Lead Pipe, Valve Casing and Mouthpiece Swabs
Price: £57.99

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Product: CD review: The Jungle Book

May 21, 2020
Cory Band
Conductor: Philip Harper
Narration: Frank Renton
World of Sound Recordings: CD WOS156

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Product: CD review: Heritage

May 15, 2020
Celebrating 150 Years of the Milnrow Band
Conductor: Dennis Hadfield
Featuring: David Morris
KMJ Recordings: MB001

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Product: LP review: Grimethorpe Special

May 14, 2020
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductor: Elgar Howarth
Featuring: Besses o' th' Barn Band
Narrator: Valerie Solti
Decca Records: HEAD14

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Product: CD review: Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks

May 11, 2020
Debussy, Joplin and the influence of ragtime on French music
The Symphonic Brass of London
Conductor: Eric Crees
MPR Recordings: MPR005

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Product: Product review: Denis Wick 4B cornet mouthpiece

May 10, 2020
The workhorse of the Denis Wick cornet range remains a gold plated thoroughbred...

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Product: LP review: Brass in Perspective

May 8, 2020
The GUS (Footwear) Band
Conductor: Stanley Boddington
Soloist: David Jones
EMI Recordings: TWO 195

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Product: CD review: Sapphire

April 26, 2020
Peter Steiner
Featuring: Constance Hochwartner (piano)
Berlin Classics
CD 0301298BC

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Product: LP review: Life Divine

April 25, 2020
Black Dyke Mills Band (John Foster & Son PLC)
Conductors: Major Peter Parkes and Derek Broadbent
Chandos Digital: BBRD 1030

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Product: Product review: FlowPartner

April 19, 2020
The best ideas are usually the simplest ones...

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Product: CD review: The Birth of Time Echoes

April 18, 2020
Tim De Maeseneer
Featuring: Brass Band Willebroek
Conductor: Frans Violet
Recordings: CD Multidisc.be

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Product: LP review: Tartan Brass

April 13, 2020
Our Scotland
Conductor: Robert McDowall
Featuring: Alan Morrison, Robert C McDowall, Gordon Campbell, John Stark, Christopher Bradley
Lismore Recordings: LILP 5152

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Music: The Messanoic Method

April 11, 2020
A Conductor's Toolkit
Russell Gray
Publisher: Musikverlag frank publishing
Price: £90.00 approx from various outlets

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Product: Instrument review: pCornet

April 7, 2020
Plastic fantastic: 4BR takes the opportunity in lockdown to have a closer look at the pCornet from Warwick Music Group.

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Product: LP review: Pop Goes the Post Horn

April 6, 2020
Elgar Howarth meets the Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductor: Elgar Howarth
Grosvenor Records: GRS 1022

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Product: CD review: Gregson: Music of the Angels

April 5, 2020
Works for Symphonic Brass and Percussion
London Brass
Conductors: Rumon Gamba & Edward Gregson
CHANDOS Recordings: CD CHAN 20127

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Book: Still Beating

April 4, 2020
Richard Evans
Price: £12.00 plus £3.00 postage and package
Available from: richardevans1934@gmail.com
Also: Double audio CD
Price: £10.00

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Product: CD review: Symphonies for Brass

March 30, 2020
The Brass Music of Derek B. Scott
Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Prof Nicholas J. Childs
World of Sound Recordings: WOS 155

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