Playlist 22 May 2022 |
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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 |
| Abundance - Festival March - Marcus Venables | Hannaford Street Silver Band (Canada) MD: Alain Trudel - 2017 | 'Journey In Brass' - CD - Opening Day Recordings – ODR 7451 - 2017 |
| Fire in the Blood - Paul Lovatt Cooper | New York Staff Band of the Salvation Army BM: Ron Waiksnoris - 2012 | 'Pressing Onwards' - CD - SP&S Recording - SP&S CD300 - 2012 |
| Somewhere Out There from An American Tail - James Horner and Barry Mann arr. Darrol Barry | Bodmin Town Band MD: Howard Taylor - 1995 | 'Bodmin Town Band - Let's Face the Music' - CD - PM Sound PMSPCD 95601 - 1995 |
| Estrellita - Manuel Ponce arr. Malcolm Bennett | Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead with the Rigid Containers Band MD: Robert Watson - 1990 | 'Rondo' - CD - Heavyweight Records Ltd – HR004/D - 1990 |
| The Fruits of the Spirit - John Larsson arr. Kevin Larsson | International Staff Band of the Salvation Army BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb - 2018 | 'Larsson in Brass - The Music of John Larsson' - CD - SP& S CD413 - 2018 |
| North West Passage - Roy Newsome | Besses O'th' Barn Band MD: Roy Newsome - 1983 | 'Showcase for Brass' - Vinyl LP - Chandos Recording Chandos – BBRD 1020 - 1983 |
| A Foxtrot Between Friends - Gordon Langford | Ensemble de Cuivres Melodia (Switzerland) MD: Pierre-Alain Bidaud - 1994 | 'European' - CD - VDE Gall Switzerland - 1994 |
| La Danza - Tarantella Napoletana - Gioachino Rossini arr. Gordon Langford | Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1983 | 'Black Dyke Plays Rossini' - Vinyl - Chandos BBRD1021 - 1983 |
| At the Beach - Virgil Thompson | Cornet Soloist Gerard Schwarz accompanied by Pianist William Bolcom - 1974 | Cornet Favourites' - Vinyl - Nonesuch – H-71298 - 1974 |
| Ruler of the Spirits - Carl Maria von Weber arr. William Halliwell | The Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain MD: James Scott | 'The Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain Vol: 3' -CD - Kirklees Music KRCD1022 - 1970s |
| The Tops - T.J.Powell | Cornet Quintette with the Band of the Yorkshire Imperial Metals MD: Trevor Walmsley DFC - 1972 | 'Sounds of Brass - Vol. 2 - Vinyl - Decca SB302 - 1972 |
| Variations on a Ninth - Gilbert Vinter | Dalewool Auckland Brass (New Zealand) MD: Nigel Weeks - 1998 | 'Power and Passion' - CD - ATOLL Recording - 1998 |
| Six Nocturnes op 186 - No. 3 Poco Adagio - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda | Baritone Soloist Kristy Rowe (Australia) accompanied pianist Benjamin Powell - 2012 | 'Romanze' - CD - Bocchino Music BOCC119 - 2012 |
| The Victor - Kenneth Downie | Melbourne Staff Band of the Salvation Army (Australia) BM: Ken Waterworth - 2014 | 'Chronicles' - CD - 2014 |
| Erie Canal - Bruce Broughton | Brass Of The Potomac (USA) MD: Stephen Bulla - 2010 | 'American Rhapsody' - CD - Brass of the Potomac - 2010 |
| Capriccio Italian op45 - Tchaikovsky arr. John Howarth | Buy as You View Cory Band MD: Dr. Robert Childs - 2005 | 'An Italian Night' - CD Obrasso Label CD898 - 2004 |
| La Boda De Luis Alonso - Intermezzo - Gerónimo Giménez arr: Eric Crees | Desford Colliery (Matsuura Machinery plc) MD: Eric Crees - 1997 | 'Bach to Bernstein' - CD - Hermitage Music HMCD 7002-2 - 1997 |
| Sounds of Singing - Leslie Condon | Cornet Soloist Stephen Cobb with the International Staff Band - 2014 | 'Generations' - CD - SP&S CD337- 2014 |
| Army of the Nile - Kenneth Alford | BNFL Band MD: Richard Evans - 1996 | 'By Request - Celebrating the Band's Golden Jubilee' - CD - Polyphonic Recording QPRL 078D - 1996 |
| 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 22 May 2022
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was a many-faceted American composer of great originality and a music critic. He composed in almost every genre of music, producing a highly original body of work rooted in American speech rhythms and hymnbook harmony.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 25, 1896, he had a strong sense of place— rooted in heartland America and its Protestant traditions. His early connection to music came through the church, through piano lessons beginning at age five, and stints accompanying theatricals and silent films. The music he heard was part and parcel of the wide world around him: Civil War songs, cowboy songs, the blues, barn-dance music, Baptist hymns, folk songs, popular songs, in addition to the canons of Western art music that he studied. After his education he joined the army and was stationed in New York City. He was set for embarkation for France when the war ended.
It was now that his musical career began.
On this show we are featuring his 1949 composition 'At the Beach' which was written for solo trumpet and piano. Our performance is a cornet solo with the piano accompaniment.
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