Playlist 29 April 2018 |
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| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 |
| Prelude For An Occasion - Edward Gregson | Houston Brass Band (USA) MD: Robert Walp - 2011 |
| An Epic Symphony - Percy Fletcher | Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1997 |
| Emerald Skies - Paul Lovatt-Cooper | Cornet Soloist Jim Hayes with the Cooperative Funeral Care Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2013 |
| Viva Rimmer - John Whittle | BNFL Band MD: Richard Evans - 1996 |
| Scherzo for Euphonium and Piano - Asaad Hamzy | Euphonium Soloist Mark Glover with piano accompaniment from Dr. Viktoriya Zaharieva - 2018 |
| La Storia - Jacob de Haan | Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: Jan de Haan - 1998 |
| T(w)o the Limit - Andre Waignein | Cornet Soloist Weibe Buis & Eb Bass Soloist Kerst Buis with the Soloi Deo Gloria Band (The Netherlands) MD: Jan De Haan - 1994 |
| Road To Run - Paul Lovatt-Cooper | Black Dyke Band MD: Professor Nicholas Childs - 2017 |
| Nightmare from Cry of the Celts - Hardiman and Dudley arr: Peter Graham | Yorkshire Building Society Band MD: David King - 1997 |
| Hungarian Dance - Brahms (vers. Rafael Mendez) arr: Derek Barnes | Cornet Soloist Jim Davies with the Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: David Hirst - 1997 |
| Frontier! - Michael Ball | Williams Fairey Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1991 |
| American Dances 1.Country 2.Tempo Di Blues 3.Jazz - Bertrand Moren | Brass Band 13 Etoiles (Switzerland) MD: Geo-Pierre Moren - 2003 |
| Winter from The Four Seasons - Vivaldi arr: Howard Snell | Howard Snell Brass MD: Howard Snell - 1991 |
| Prelude On A Hymn Of Praise - James Curnow | Black Dyke Band MD: James Watson - 1997 |
| A Ted Heath Tribute Big Band Set: 1) Opus One Sy Oliver 2) Memories of You Eubie Blake Trumpet Soloist David Smith 3) South Rampart Street Parade Ray Bauduc & Bob Haggart - arr: Bill Geldard | Desford Colliery (Matsuura Machinery plc) MD: Eric Crees - 1997 |
| Roses For A Princess - Traditional arr Andrew Duncan | Whitburn Band MD: Andrew Duncan - 2004 |
| Carnival Of The Animals - Finale - Saint Seans arr: Gordon Langford | Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1984 |
| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Closing for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 |
Sunday Bandstand 29 April 2018
Michael Ball was born in Manchester in 1946. As a Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Scholar at the Royal College of Music, he studied with Herbert Howells, Humphrey Searle and John Lambert.
In 1970 he was one of four students selected to take part in master classes with Nadia Boulanger on her visit to the RCM and in the same year was awarded all the major composition prizes of the College, including the Octavia Travelling Scholarship, which he used to study with Franco Donatoni in Italy during the summers of 1972 and 1973.
He has received many commissions, including five from the BBC over the last ten years, and has written several large-scale works for orchestra.
He has written for wind and brass number Chaucer's Tunes (premièred at the 1993 BASBWE Conference by Stockport School Wind Band), Frontier! (1984), selected as test-piece for the 1987 European Brass Band Championships and again for the regional finals of the Championship Section of the National Brass Band Championships in 1992 and Midsummer Music, commissioned by Paul Hindmarsh for Besses o'th'Barn Band in 1991.
Whitsun Wakes, was commissioned by the BBC and first performed by the Black Dyke Band, conductor James Watson at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on 26 May 1997, as part of the BBC 'Music Live!' Festival. It was subsequently selected as test-piece for the 1997 British Open Brass Band Championship.
His major work Frontier is featured on this week's show
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