Playlist 15 July 2018 |
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| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 |
| Colonel Bogey On Parade - Kenneth Alford | Foden's Motor Works, Fairey Aviation and the BMC Concert Band MD: Harry Mortimer - 1967 |
| Tournament for Brass - Eric Ball | Williams Fairey Engineering Band MD: Roy Newsome - 1980 |
| Bouquet de Paris - arr: James McInnes Smith | Lindley Band MD: Neil Jowett |
| Lullaby Of Birdland - A tribute to George Shearing - George Shearing arr: Gilbert Tinner | Flugel Horn Soloist Stephanie Wilkins with the Cory Band MD: Philip Harper - 2015 |
| Casino Dances Waltz - Emile Waldteufel | Ransome Hoffman and Pollard Band MD: Dennis Masters - 1972 |
| Bramwyn March - John R. Carr | Rochdale Band MD: Norman Ashcroft - 1977 |
| Three Band Mice - A Humorous Fantasy - Shipley Douglas | Wingates Temperance Band MD: Hugh Parry - 1966 |
| Nocturne from the String Quartet No. 2 - Alexander Borodin arr: Gordon Langford | Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1981 |
| Cottonopolis March - Charles Anderson | Hanwell Band MD: Eric Bravington - 1968 |
| 'Little Russian' Symphony No. 1 Finale - Tchaikovsky arr: Major Peter Parkes | Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1981 |
| Jubilate - Arthur W.Gullidge | Cornet Soloist John Chalker with the Manchester Citadel Band BM: Colin Wilson - 1991 |
| The Catskills - Nigel Hess arr: Philip Littlemore | The Haydock Band MD: Mark Quinn - 2013 |
| Golden Lady - Goff Richards | National Methodist Youth Brass Band MD: Mark Vause - 2002 |
| Belle Mahone - John Philip Sousa ( c1885 for Saxophone transcribed for trombone and brass band anon) | Trombone soloist Brett Baker with the Longridge Band GMD: Michael Fowles - 2002 |
| Diogenes - Jacob de Haan | Black Dyke Band MD: James Watson - 1997 |
| Be Thou My Vision - James Curnow | Cornet Soloist Mark Vause with the National Methodist Youth Brass Band MD: N/Kn - 2002 |
| Relay - Double Trio for Cornets and Trombones - John Golland | Soloists (Cornets) James Shepherd, David Read, Graham Walker (Trombones) Stan Priestley, Terry Hext & Ian Copland with the Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain MD: Maurice Handford - 1998 (originally recorded in the 1970s on vinyl) |
| Call of the Righteous - Leslie Condon | Govan SA Band BM: John Baillie - 1978 |
| Be a Clown - Cole Porter arr: Alan Fernie | Lindley Band MD: Neil Jowett - 2002 |
| Freikugeln Polka (Free-Shooting Bullets) - Johann Strauss arr: Howard Snell | Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Richard Evans 2004 |
| The Saints - Traditional arr: Goff Richards | The Haydock Band MD: Mark Quinn - 2013 |
| Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke | Closing for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010 |
Sunday Bandstand 15 July 2018
Maurice Handford (1929 – 1986) was a British horn player and conductor. He was principal horn of the Hallé Orchestra 1949–61, then associate conductor 1966–71, and staff conductor. He died in Warminster.
Maurice Handford died aged 58, was a conductor with a wide range in repertoire. Although he was perhaps not a familiar figure to concert goers on the South Bank, he was well known to audiences in the rest of the country and from 1971 to 1975 was principal conductor of the Calgary Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Salisbury, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He was a horn player and for 12 years, from 1949 to 1961, he was principal Horn in Barbirolli's Hallé. Although he did not have a big tone, he had a natural feeling for tone colour and was unfailingly accurate, one rarely heard a 'fluff' in any of his orchestral solos.
He had ambitions to be a conductor and was assisted by the patronage of ICI (Blackley), which invited him to conduct the works orchestra and, in May 1960, sponsored a Hallé concert in Manchester at which he conducted Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique. He was also helped by Barbirolli, who invited him to conduct some Hallé industrial concerts.
By 1962 he was sufficiently launched to be given charge of the first Hallé performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana. Soon he was conducting works of the size of Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and Shostakovich's 12th symphony.
Between 1976 and 1980 be conducted Brighouse and Rastrick and CWS (Manchester) Band at major contests.
In this show he is conducting the Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain...
Enjoy
2 comments
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Beverley Wood - Sunday, 01 September 2024
My recollections of Maurice Handford include the last concert we, (first orchestra at the R.A.M.) performed at a concert devoted to works which had their first public performances under Sir Henry Wood. These included the third symphony by Arnold Bax. I have a recording of that concert which I dearly treasure. Maurice went through much detail during our many rehearsals of this wonderful symphony - through which I was introduced to Arnold Bax`s work in the first place. It was also this symphony, that Bax dedicated to Henry Wood. The other works, incidentally, were Symphonic Variations, Cesar Franck - and the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Borodin
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Simon Robinson - Saturday, 03 August 2024
I first knew him as conductor of the Liverpool Welsh Choral Union. He became my mentor throughout my studies at the University of Surrey, unselfishly giving of his time when I attended rehearsals and prrformances at RAM. It was he who congratulated me upon my appointment as conductor of the National Opera of Slovenia in Maribor 1979. I wish that he be remembered.
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