Sunday Bandstand 4 September 2016

Sunday Bandstand 4 September 2016

Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé had success with the song Barcelona in 1988. After Barcelona was selected to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, He was approached to write a song as a theme for the forthcoming games. The idea was to create a duet with Montserrat Caballé, as she is from the city.

He had been a long-standing admirer of her and she in turn grew to respect his talents very highly. They decided to work on an album together, with Freddie Mercury and Mike Moran taking the creative lead as songwriters. They made and sent her tapes of the music with Mercury singing in falsetto as a guide vocal for her parts. As they rarely had an opening in their schedule to meet, her parts were recorded at another location.

On this week's show is the brass band arrangement of Barcelona played by Grimethorpe Colliery Band in 1993.....Enjoy

Playlist 4 September 2016

Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke   - Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010

Whistling Cockney March -  C. Burgess  - Ransome-Hoffman-Pollard Band MD: Dennis Masters - 1971

Egmont Overture  - Beethoven Arr: Eric Ball - Brodsworth Colliery Welfare and Institute Band MD: Ken Johnson - 1975

Cavalier - Edwin Sutton - Euphonium Soloist Lyndon Baglin with the CWS (Manchester) Band MD: Alex Mortimer - 1963

Whispering Brass - Peter Haysom Arr: Bram Gay - Massed Bands of Fodens, Fairey Aviation and Morris Motors MD: Harry Mortimer - 1969

Saying Goodbye - Philip Sparke - Brass Band Willebroek (Belgium) MD: Frans Violet - 2008

English Folk Song Suite: 1. March - Seventeen Come Sunday 2.  Intermezzo - My Bonny Boy 3. March - Folk Songs From Somerset -  Ralph Vaughan Williams - Black Dyke Band MD: Professor Nicholas Childs - 2012

Concerto in F Minor - Oskar Boheme - Cornet Soloist Hans Gansch with the Brass Band Oberosterrich (Austria) MD: Hannes Buchegger - 2007

Witches Sabbath - Hector Berlioz Arr: Roy Newsome - Sun Life Band MD: Bryan Hurdley - 1991

Wedding Procession from Le Coq d'Or - Rimsky Korsakov Arr: Major Peter Parkes - Williams Fairey Engineering Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1992

Gethsemane - Andrew Lloyd Webber  Arr: Ray Farr - Soprano Soloist Alex Kerwin with the Scottish Co-op MD: Nicholas Childs - 2003

Jazz - Philip Wilby - Williams Fairey Band MD: James Gourlay - 1997

Grand Galop Chromatique - Franz Liszt Arr: Roy Newsome - Sun Life Band MD: Roy Newsome - 1996

Yodelling Brass - Philip Lane - Sun Life Stanshawe Band MD: David Williams  - 1981

Final From Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Rachmaninov Arr: Philip Harper - Cornet Soloist Tom Hutchinson with the Cory Band MD: Philip Harper - 2015

Airs and Dances - Alan Fernie  - Torshavn Brass Band (Faroe Islands) MD: Ove Olsen - 2004

Way Out West - Brian Crookes - William Davis Construction Group Band MD: John Berryman - 1976

The Sun has got its Hat on - Noel Gay and Ralph Butler - Tuba Soloist Geoff Harrop with the Yorkshire Imperial Band GMD: Ray Farr - 1984

Pineapple Poll - Arthur Sullivan and Charles Mackerras Arr: J. Gregory - CWS (Manchester) Band MD: Alex Mortimer - 1962

Barcelona - Mike Moran and Freddie Mercury - Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Garry Cutt - 1993

Silver Trumpets - Francesco Viviani Arr: James Ord Hume - Excelsior Ropes Band (formerly The Mellingriffith Band) (Wales) MD: David Thomas -1969

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

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