Playlist 9 April 2023 |
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Recording Details |
| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 | 'Patrons' Choice III' - CD - Egon CD-SFZ154 - 2010 |
| Easter Tale - Darren Bartlett | North York Temple Band (Canada) BM: Glenn Barlow - 2013 | 'Everywhere' - CD - NYTB - 2013 |
| A Moorside Suite 1) Scherzo Allegro 2) Nocturne Adagio 3) March Allegro - Gustav Holst | Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Garry Cutt - 1999 | 'Brass from the Masters Vol 2' - CD - Chandos Recording CHAN4553 - 1998 |
| Annen Polka Op117 - Johann Strauss II arr. Derek Ashmore | Black Dyke Mills Band MD: James Watson - 1996 | 'Strauss Festival' - CD - Obrasso Recording - CD859 - 1996 |
| A Suffolk Prelude - Andrew Duncan | The Ipswich and Norwich Co-op Band MD: Robin Norman - 2006 | 'A Suffolk Prelude' - CD - IPSNOR 001 - 2006 |
| Ved Rondane - Edvard Grieg arr. Luc Vertommen | Cornet Soloist Roger Webster with the Brass Band Buizingen (Belgium) MD: Luc Vertommen - 2008 | 'Cats Tales' - CD - 88680-2 - 2008 |
| March: The Flowing River - Ensign William Broughton | SP&S Band BM: Captain Eric Ball - 1933 | 'Old Wells - Army Heritage Vol. 1' - CD - Compilation from old recordings - 1997 |
| Badinage- Kevin Norbury | Tuba Soloist Andrew J. Baker with the Montclair Citadel Band of the Salvation Army (Canada) BM: Charles Baker - Date not known | 'Building the Faith' - CD - WRA8-1868 - Date not known |
| Gently Down the Stream of Time - Kenneth Downie | London Central Fellowship Band BM: David Daws - 2011 | 'Bandology' - CD - SP&S 293 CD - 2011 |
| Holiday for Strings - David Rose arr. Ray Farr | CWS (Glasgow) Band MD: Howard Snell - 1990 | 'Flower of Scotland' - CD - Doyen DOY005 - 1990 |
| Remembrance - Bertrand Moren | Sorum Musikklag (Norway) MD: Christian Tenfjord - 2012 | 'NM Brass 2012 - Norwegian National Championships (Division 1) - CD - Grong Musikkproduksjon - 2012 |
| They Shall Come From The East - John Larsson arr. Kevin Larsson | Langholm Town Band MD: Chris Shanks - 2014 | ' 200 years of Langholm Town Band 1815 - 2015' - CD - World of Sound WOS 077 - 2014 |
| Bergamasca - Bernardo Gianoncelli arr. James Gourlay | Williams Fairey Band MD: James Gourlay - 1997 | 'Williams Fairey Diamond Jubilee' - Double CD - Doyen Label DOY0052 - 1997 |
| Fantasy and Variations - Jean Baptiste Arban | Cornet Soloist James Shepherd accompanied by pianist Keith Swallow - 1972 | '3 Valves and 88 Keys' - Vinyl - Sun Recording Services – MS 65 - 1972 |
| All in the April Evening - Hugh Roberton arr. Eric Ball | Bradford Festival Choral with the Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Geoffrey Brand - 1969 | 'With Band And Voices' - Vinyl - Pye Recording NSPL18209 - 1969 |
| If I were King - Adolphe Adam arr. William Rimmer | Yorkshire imperial Metals Band MD: Denis Carr - 1975 | 'Band Of Yorkshire Imperial Metals – Brass International' - Vinyl - Top Brass Series Pye Records – TB 3001 - 1975 |
| Red Letter Day - Reginald Heath | Foden's Motor Works Band MD: Rex Mortimer - 1969 | 'Marching and Waltzing' - Vinyl - EMI Records CSD 3665 - 1969 |
| The Legionnaires - Edrich Siebert | Trombone feature Robert McDowall, Harry Cooke & Ronnie Ibbotson with the CWS (Manchester Band ) MD: Alex Mortimer - 1960 | 'Rhapsody in Brass' - LP - Fontana Recording STFL537 - 1960 |
| Tango Taquin - Barratt arr. Edrich Siebert | GUS (Footwear) Band MD: Stanley Boddington - 1969 | 'The G.U.S. Footwear Band – Salute To Brass' - Vinyl - Studio 2 Studio Two 282 - 1969 |
| Wisbech Citadel - Albert Gay | Boscombe Band of the Salvation Army BM: Howard J. Evans - 2004 | 'Favourite Marches of the Salvation Army' - DCD - SP&S Recording 178CD - 2004 |
| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Closing for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 | 'Patrons' Choice III' - CD - Egon CD-SFZ154 - 2010 |
Sunday Bandstand 9 April 2023
Sir Hugh Stevenson Roberton (23 February 1874 – 7 October 1952) was a Scottish composer and Britain's leading choral-master.
He was born in Glasgow, where, in 1906, he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. For five years before that it was the Toynbee Musical Association. A perfectionist, he expected the highest standards of performance from its members. Its voice was a choir voice, its individual voices not tolerated. He set new standards in choral technique and interpretation. For almost fifty years, until it disbanded in 1951 on the retirement of its founder, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir had no equal in Britain and toured widely enjoying world acclaim. Their repertoire included many Scottish folk songs arranged for choral performance, and Paraphrases, as well as Italian madrigals, English motets and the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. The choir also performed the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Peter Cornelius, Johannes Brahms and others.
He wrote the choral work All in the April Evening (words by Katharine Tynan) and the popular songs Westering Home and Mairi's Wedding. He wrote alternative lyrics for Dashing White Sergeant.
Roberton was knighted in the 1931 New Year's Honours. He was a pacifist and member of the Peace Pledge Union. For this reason, both he and the Glasgow Orpheus Choir were banned by the BBC from broadcasting during the Second World War.
The Australian politician and diplomat Hugh Roberton was his son.
On this week's show we are featuring All in the April Evening which has beeen a brass band favourite for many years.
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