Playlist 25 March 2018 |
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| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 |
| Heralds of the Dawn - Dean Goffin | Amsterdam Staff Band (The Netherlands) BM: Howard J. Evans - 2001 |
| Vizcaya - Gilbert Vinter | Hammonds Sauce Works Band MD: Geoffrey Whitham - 1980 |
| Glasnost - Dizzy Stratford (Just one of the pseudonyms Jacob de Haan has used) | Band of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (The Netherlands) MD: Henk Heins - 1989 |
| Daydream - Frode Thingnaes | Euphonium Soloist Tormod Flaten with the Bergen Symphonic Band (Norway) MD: Martin Winter - 2005 |
| Rocky Mountain Overture (1997) - John Burge | Hannaford Street Silver Band (Canada) MD: Bramwell Tovey - 2000 |
| Reflections in Nature - Robert Redhead | Boscombe Band of the Salvation Army BM: Howard J. Evans - 2018 |
| Norma with variations - Bellini arr: Jean Baptiste Arban | Cornet Soloist Huug Steketee with piano accompaniment by Tobias Bosboom (The Netherlands) - 2018 |
| Themes from the New World Symphony 4th mvt Finale - Dvorak arr: Ray Steadman-Allen | New York Staff Band of the Salvation Army (USA) BM: Derek Smith - 1978 |
| I'll Go where the Music Take Me - Jimmy James arr: Bob Hartley | Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: Derek Broadbent - 1979 |
| Rondo - Henry Purcell arr: Jan de Haan | Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band MD: James Watson - 1989 |
| Remembrance - Bertrand Moren | Sorum Musikklag (Norway) MD: Christian Tenfjord - 2012 |
| Anna Karenina – Helen Johnstone | Euphonium Soloist Riki McDonnell with the Marple Band MD: Gary Cutt - 1999 |
| All I Ask Of You - Andrew Lloyd Webber arr: Chris Mowat | Trombone Soloist Nick Hudson with the Tredegar Town Band MD: Thomas Wyss - 1999 |
| Hail Redeemer, King Divine (King Divine) - Charles Rigby arr: Patrick Brennan | The Manchester Chorale & the St Michael's Singers with the Leyland Band MD: Russell Gray - 2006 |
| Petite Suite (3 mvts) Claude Debussy arr: Major Peter Parkes | Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1998 |
| Festival Polka - Jerker Johanson | Gothenburg Brass Band (Sweden) MD: Bengt Ekland - 1994 |
| Hine E Hine - Traditional arr: Peter Maunder | Euphonium Soloist Riki McDonnell with the Marple Band MD: Gary Cutt - 2009 |
| Collingwood - March - George Dickens | Melbourne Staff Band (Australia) BM: Colin Woods - 1978 |
| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Closing for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 |
Sunday Bandstand 25 March 2018
It has been reported in the band press that Riki McDonnell QSM from New Zealand someone who devoted his life to music sadly passed away on the 17 March 2018.
He entered the brass band world in 1969 and in 1971 he won the New Zealand Junior Tenor Horn title and the following year he won the New Zealand Open Horn title. This was the start of 20 Open titles he won on tenor horn, flugel horn and euphonium. Winning more titles than any other competitor in New Zealand’s 120 years banding history and the only person to win the Champion of Champions on three different instruments.
Other successes include winning the Australian Open, Champion of Champions the Ern Keller Memorial titles (1991). He represented New Zealand in three National Youth Bands and four National Bands, touring North America, Asia, Europe and UK, featuring as soloist. His musical highlights included, performing to 250,000 concert goers at 'Symphony Under the Stars' and winning the Errol Mason Memorial Brass Musician of the Year (1993).
Composers and arrangers have been commissioned to write for him, prompting three very popular CD recordings: Midnight Euphonium with Faireys, Operatic Euphonium with Grimethorpe Colliery and Euphonium Songbook with The Marple Band. Major Peter Parkes directed Midnight Euphonium, Garry Cutt directed Operatic Euphonium and Euphonium Songbook. Philip Sparke expertly produced all three CDs.
He performed many times with the Auckland, Christchurch and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras and performed with brass and concert bands throughout the world. In 2001 he joined Grimethorpe Colliery on their Brassed Off tour of New Zealand and Hong Kong, playing baritone.
We send condolences to his family and friends - Riki is featured on this week's show
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