Chris Helme - Sunday Bandstand 28 February 2016

Sunday Bandstand 28 February 2016

This week's photograph is the Irwell Springs Band. This is the band that won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain at the Crystal Palace in 1913. The test piece was Labour and Love by Percy Fletcher. The first test piece that was commissioned for a brass band contest. It is this work that was to have a lasting impact on brass band music and in particular contest pieces. This band survived until 1959 when it went through financial difficulties and then in 1961 no longer being able to attract the new players with the experience it once could the band folded. The Irwell Springs band is still recognised as being one of the best bands of its time......

Labour and Love is on this week's show played by the Wingates Band conducted by David Thornton in 2011 ....... Chris

Playlist 28 February 2016

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

Ridgehill March - Sam Sykes - Ransome Hoffman Pollard Band MD: Dennis Masters - 1971

Fanfare, Romance and Finale - Philip Sparke - Leyland DAF Band MD: Richard Evans - 1989

Canterbury Chorale - Jan van der Roost - Buy As You View Cory Band MD: Dr. Robert Childs - 2004

Mr. Euphonium - Bertrand Moren - Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead with the Williams Fairey Band MD: Howard Snell - 2001

Victory (Lord Of The Dance) from Cry of the Celts - Peter Graham - Roberts Bakery Band MD: Colin Cranson - 2011

Songs of the Tyne - Arr: John Carr - Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Compilation recording released 2010

Labour and Love - Percy Fletcher - Wingates Band MD: David Thornton - 2011

Tea for Toobas (Tea for Two) - Youmans Arr: Simon Kerwin - Tuba Soloists David Hebb and Martin Gill with the Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: David Hirst

Happy Birthday from Bon Anniversaire - Martin Winter - Cornet Soloist Martin Winter with the Manger Musikklag MD: Martin Winter - 2012

Lightwalk - Barrie Gott - Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band MD: Compilation recording released 2010

The Bostonian - Polka - William Rimmer - Cornet Soloist Arthur Laycock with the St Hilda Colliery Band MD: James Oliver - Recorded 5 March 1923

Triumphant Rhapsody - Gilbert Vinter - Kings of Brass MD: James Scott - 1997

Betty Dear - Raymond Agoult - Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Roy Newsome - 1968

To a Wild Rose - Edward MacDowell - Euphonium Soloist Bram Chestney with the South London Fellowship Band MD: Major George Whittingham - 2008

Capriccio Espagnol - Rimsky-Korsakov Arr: Keith Wilkinson - Polysteel Band MD: Philip Harper - 2008

Bubbles was a Cheerleader - Patrick Williams Arr: Ray Farr - Soprano Soloist Robert Jagger with the Skelmanthorpe Band MD: J. Stuart Fawcett - 1999

High Spirits - Reginald Heath - Morris Concert Band MD: Harry Mortimer - 1975

The Present Age (Tone Poem) - Leslie Condon - Yorkshire Building Society MD: Dr. David King - 1997

Royal Standard - Paul Chesterton Arr: Harry Mortimer - GUS (Footwear) Band MD: Stanley Boddington - 1962

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