Sunday Bandstand 2 October 2016

Sunday Bandstand 2 October 2016

Hamish MacCunn (22 March 1868 – 2 August 1916) was a Scottish Romantic composer, conductor and teacher. His opera Diarmid, was produced at Covent Garden on 23 October 1897. His other music includes cantatas, concert overtures, part-songs, instrumental pieces and songs, all markedly Scottish in type. He had a genuine love of Scottish folksong, and although he lived in London he was a lifelong champion of Scottish music and of the country’s musical life.

His first success was with the overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood on 5 November 1887 at the Crystal Palace and this remains far and away his best-known piece. It was followed by other compositions, always with a characteristic Scottish colouring. From 1888 to 1894 MacCunn was a professor at the Royal College of Music.

This Overture was arranged for brass Bands by Glyn Bragg and is featured on this week’s show. It was used as the 2nd section National Final test piece in London on the 9 October 1976.

Enjoy......

Playlist 2 October 2016



Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke 

Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010



Semper Sousa - John Philip Sousa Arr: Frank Seymour

 - Men O' Brass MD: Harry Mortimer - 1972



The Sword, Jewel and Mirror - Philip Harper

 - Bodmin Town Band MD: Nicholas Childs - 2000



Gymnopedie No. 1 - Erik Satie Arr: Peter Graham - 

Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1996



Espana - Emmanuel Chabrier Arr: Gordon Langford 

Brass Band of Battle Creek MD: Constantine Kitsopoulos - 2009



The Maids of Cadiz - Leo Delibes Arr: Gordon Langford 

Cornet Soloist Brian Taylor with the Williams Fairey Band MD: Bryan Hurdley - 1997

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood - Hamish MacCunn Arr: Glyn Bragg 

CWS (Glasgow) Band MD: Stephen Sykes - 1993

Scherzo From Concerto Symphonique Op.102 - Henry Charles Litolff Arr: Denis Wright - Piano Soloist Keith Swallow with the Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Geoffrey Brand - 1970



High Command - Wilbur P. Sampson

Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: Ken Aiken -Jones - 1966



Music for the Common Man - Kenneth Downie - 

Tredegar Town Band MD: Nicholas Childs - 2000



Star Lake Variations Arr: Paul Sharman - 

Euphonium Soloist Derick Kane with the International Staff Band BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb - 2016



The Light Fantastic - Paul Lovatt-Cooper - 

European Youth Brass Band MD: Erik Janssen - 2016



Elegy from Entertainments - Gilbert Vinter

 - Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Geoffrey Brand - 1970



I Ride on a Motorbike - Gilbert Tinner - 

Leyland Band MD: Russell Gray - 2004



Nights of Gladness - Charles Ancliffe - 

CWS (Manchester) Band MD: Derek Garside - 1973



Tenor Trombone Rag - Roy Newsome

 - Tenor Trombone Soloist Not Known with the Skelmanthorpe Band MD: Jack Walker - 1978



Ask [Live] - Peter Graham - 

Household Troops Band BM: Major John Mott - 2002



Cossack Fire Dance from Call Of The Cossacks - Peter Graham

 - Young Brass Band Willebroek MD: Frans Violet - 2016



March - On Parade - Eiliv Herikstad

 - Melbourne Staff Band BM: Colin Woods - 1976



Hoedown from Rodeo - Aaron Copland Arr: Howard Snell - 

Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: David Hirst - 2001



March - New Zealand - Harold Scotney

 - Melbourne Staff Band BM: Norman McLeod - 1959



Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke 

Closing for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010

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