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2006 Brasscast Podcasts January to
June
Sunday, 25 June 2006
June
25 Podcast...
Welcome to an absolutely fantastic example of brass
playing on this podcast, hosted by Lucas Burns. 20 minutes and 19 Mb.
Today we are featuring Anne Britt with the Universal Brass Band from
Switzerland. Includes an interview with Anne Britt their President and
trumpet player extraordinaire. You can find them at http://home.tiscalinet.ch
/universalbrassband/ on the internet. Numbers played by the
band include Whirlwind by Peter Graham, Concerto d'Aranjuez by Rodrigo
Bolton, Pie Jesu from Requiem which is a Cornet Duo with Russell Gray
by Andrew Lloyd Webber Pearson and O My Beloved Father by Puccini smith.
Direct download: Brasscast25JUN.mp3
Sunday, 18 June 2006
June
18 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 23 minutes and 22 Mb. Today we are featuring the Harogate Brass
Band from the UK. Includes an interview with David Lancaster their Conductor.
You can find them at http://www.harrogateband.org
on the internet. Numbers played by the band include Dragon Parade
by David Lancaster, Nimrod from Enigma Variations by Sir Edward Elgar,
Kashmiri Song by Amy Woodforde Finden and Just as I am by Wifred Heaton.
Direct download: Brasscast18JUN.mp3
Sunday, 11 June 2006
June
11 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 25 minutes and 24 Mb. Today we are featuring the Lancaster
British Brass Band from the USA. Includes an interview with Scott Loose
who is the Repiano Cornet Player in the Band and who you can contact
at getzenman@verizon.net
on the internet. Numbers played by the band include Rollipops
by Jean-Francois Michel, Basin Street Blues by Spencer Williams arranged
by Luther Henderson, Let's face the music and Dance by Irving Berlin
arr Richards and Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre arranged by Scott Loose.
Direct download: Brasscast11JUN.mp3
Sunday, 4 June 2006
June
4 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 27 minutes and 26 Mb. Today we are featuring Fanfare Orchestra
De Hoop from the Netherlands. Find them at http://www.fanfaredehoop.nl
on the internet. Includes an interview with Arie Stolk who is the Fanfare's
director. Numbers played by the band include El Camino Real first
movement by Alfred Reed, Hymne of the Highlands by Philip Sparke arranged
by Jacob de Haan, Liberty Fanfare by John Williams, arr. Y. Kitano,
and Songs of Sorrow and Joy by Micha Hamel.
Direct download: Brasscast04JUN.mp3
Sunday, 28 May 2006
May
28 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 19 minutes and 18 Mb. Today we are featuring the
East Yorkshire Motor Services Band from the UK. Find them at http://www.eymsbrassband.co.uk/
on the internet. Includes an interview with Mark Unsworth who is the
Solo trombone player in the band. Numbers played by the band include
Death or Glory by Hall, Rondeau by Mouret arranged by Peter Graham,
Spitfire Prelude by Walton arranged by Roberts and Perspice Christicola
arranged by John Lewis.
Direct download: Brasscast28MAY.mp3
Sunday, 21 May 2006
May
21 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 21 minutes and 20 Mb. Today we are featuring the
Roman Festival Brass from the USA. Find them at http://www.romanfestivalbrass.org/
on the internet. Includes an interview with Jerry Pollard who is the
Conductor. Numbers played by the band includes Hoagy Carmichael's Georgia
on my Mind, Irish Blessing, Malcolm Arnold Little Suite No 1 for Brass
Band 2nd movement, Gustav Holst Suite in F First Movement.
Direct download: Brasscast21MAY.mp3
Sunday, 14 May 2006
May
14 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 30 minutes and 29 Mb. Today we are featuring the Glasgow
Wind Band from Scotland. Find them at http://www.gwband.co.uk
on the internet. Includes an interview with Euphonium player Leslie
Shram. Just one number this week played by the Band; Concerto
for Trombone by Nathaniel Shilkret, Ed Bryan Free with Soloist Chris
Greive.
Direct download: Brasscast14MAY.mp3
Sunday, 7 May 2006
May
7 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 21 minutes and 20 Mb. Today we are featuring North
American Champions, Brass Band Columbus from the USA. Find them at http://www.brassbandofcolumbus.org
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Conductor Tim Jameson.
Numbers played by the band are Amazing grace arranged by William Himes,
Gifted Leadership by Henry Fillmore. The title track of their newly
released CD "Gifted Leadership: An Anthology of March Masterpieces".
Thru Bolts and Bars by Ernest Urbach also from their CD and "American
Overture for Band", by Joseph Wilcox Jenkins; arranged by Tim Sarsany.
Direct download: Brasscast07MAY.mp3
Sunday, 30 April 2006
April
30 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 19 minutes and 18 Mb. Today we are featuring the Waitakere
City Brass from Auckland, New Zealand. Find them at http://www.waitakerebrass.com/
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Treasurer Ron Archer.
Numbers played by the band are Festival March-Celebration by Leslie
Condon, The Day Thou Gavest arranged by Philip Wilby, and Partita 2nd
Movement by Philip Sparke.
Direct download: Brasscast30APR.mp3
Sunday, 23 April 2006
April
23 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 24 minutes and 23 Mb. Today we are featuring the Tórshavn
Brass Band from the Faroe Islands. Find them at http://heima.olivant.fo/~asakari/
on the internet. Includes an interview with Kari Olsen who is the percussionist.
Numbers played by the band are Airs & Dances by Alan Fernie, Eg
skar mitt navn (I carved my name) a traditional Faroese Psalm arranged
by Alan Fernie, Trumpet Blues & Cantabile by Harry James and Vitae
Lus by Frode Alnaes.
Direct download: Brasscast23APR.mp3
Sunday, 16 April 2006
April
16 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 22 minutes and 21 Mb. Today we are featuring the Central
Ohio Brass Band from the USA. Find them at http://www.centralohiobrass.org/
on the internet. Includes an interview with Andrew Seymour who is their
Flugal player and webmaster. Numbers played by the band are Slavonic
Dance #8 by Antonin Dvorak arr Ronald Hammer, Every Time we Say Goodbye
by Cole Porter arr Alan Fernie with Jessica Sneeringer on trombone who
is their conductor, RAF March Past by Walford Davies and "On A Hymnsong
of Philip Bliss" by David Holsinger arr Martin Jenkins.
Direct download: Brasscast16APR.mp3
Sunday, 9 April 2006
April
9 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 26 minutes and 25 Mb. Today we are featuring the First
Old Boys Association Silver Band from Belfast in Ireland. Find them
at http://www.1stoldboys.co.uk
on the internet. Includes an interview with cornet Player Mark Bingham.
Numbers played by the band are Just a closer walk by Christopher Malone
(New Orleans Style) featuring John Cooke on Flugal, Jim Kitchen on Trombone
and William Gilmore on Sop, Caravan Arr Steve Sykes (feature John Egan
on 2nd Trombone), Soul Bossa Nova By Jones (Featuring Dave Moore on
Flugal), My Ain Folk by Lemon (Flugal Solo John Cooke), Ciribiribin
by Pestalozza (cornet Solo Arr. Alan Morrison played by Mark Bingham)
and March from 1941 By John Williams.
Direct download: Brasscast09APR.mp3
Sunday, 2 April 2006
April
2 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 25 minutes and 24 Mb. Today we are featuring the
Goteborg Brass Band from Sweden. Find them at http://www.goteborgbrassband.org.se/
on the internet. Includes an interview with the Treasurer of the
band, Mattias Ekberg. Numbers played by the band are La Forza
del Destino by Verdi arranged by Frank Wright, I know Thou Art Mine
by Leonard Ballantine, Pie Jesu by Faure arranged by Bram Gay with Fugal
Horn Soloist Ulrika Holm and Attleborough Suite Ballad by Sir Malcolm
Arnold.
Direct download: Brasscast02APR.mp3
Sunday, 26 March 2006
March
26 Podcast...
Welcome to another excellent Brass Band podcast, hosted
by Lucas Burns. 23 minutes and 21 Mb. Today we are featuring the
Osaka Harmony Brass from Japan. Find them at http://www.ohb.jp
on the internet. Includes an interview with the Vice-Chairman and Eb
Bass player in the band, Ryota
Kihara. For a transcript of this interview click
on this link. Numbers played by the band are The Cossack by William
Rimmer, Harmony in Brass by Goff Richards, Gabriels Oboe by Ennio Morricone
and Rose of Tralee by Alan Fernie.
Direct download: Brasscast26MAR.mp3
Sunday, 19 March 2006
March
19 Podcast...
Welcome to another Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 23 minutes and 22 Mb. Today we are featuring the Laganvale
Metal Technology Band from Belfast in Ireland. Find them at http://www.laganvale.com/
on the internet. Includes Another Openin', Another Show (arr. Stephen
Roberts), Summertime (Gershwin, arr Howard Snell), The Shield of Liberty
(JJ Richards, arr Derek Broadbent), Amazing Grace (arr William Himes),
Cruella De Vil (arr. John Moss, trans Darrol Barry) and Finale from
"The Firebird" (Igor Stravinsky, arr Ray Farr.)
Direct download: Brasscast19MAR.mp3
Sunday, 12 March 2006
March
12 Podcast...
Welcome to another Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 33 minutes and 31 Mb. Today we are featuring the Copenhagen
Railway Orchestra from from Denmark. Find them at www.kjo-dsb.dk
on the internet. Includes an interview with cornet player Leo
Vedel Dyrkjær. Includes ”Matador” by Bent Fabicius Bjerre with Lars
Christoffersen on Solo Cornet, “Tango Jalousie” by Jakob Gade, “Putting
on the Ritz” by Irvin Berlin and “Jamaican Folk Suite Promenade by Harold
L. Walters. Also we finish with "On Alderly Edge" by Peter
Graham played by Brass Band Limburg from the Netherlands. Their link
is http://www.brassbandlimburg.nl
on the internet.
Direct download: Brasscast12MAR.mp3
Sunday, 5 March 2006
March
5 Podcast...
Welcome to another Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 21 minutes and 20 Mb. Today we are featuring the premier
Brass Band Aarhus from Denmark. Find them at http://www.aarhusbrassband.dk/
on the internet. Includes an interview with their famous conductor
Jacob Larson. Includes For Once In My Life, Y.M.C.A (Village People)
both from Koppel´N´Brass, The Melody Shop by Karl King, arranged by
Larsen, conducted by Jacob Larsen from Nyborg 2005, To Stemninger by
Torstein Aagaard Nilsen from Silkeblæs 2000, conducted by Arvid Anthun,
and Seterslått (Jan Magne Førde - Sax Benjamin Koppel.)
Direct download: Brasscast05MAR.mp3
Sunday, 26 February
2006
February
26 Podcast...
Welcome to another Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 21 minutes and 20 Mb. Today we are featuring the top notch Stonesfield
Silver Band from the UK. Find them at http://www.stonesfieldsilverband.org.uk/
on the internet. Includes an interview with David Bate from the
band. Includes A Disney Fantasy arr. Goff Richards, Gabriel’s Oboe (from
“The Mission”) by Ennio Morricone arr. David Bertie, The Great Escape
by Elmer Bernstein arr. Pegram, and Spiderman by Danny Elfman arr. Frank
Bernaerts from their fantastic new CD Magic of the Movies.
Direct download: Brasscast26FEB.mp3
Sunday, 19 February
2006
February
19 Podcast...
Welcome to a Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas Burns.
29 minutes and 28 Mb. Today we are featuring the Plumbing Factory Brass
Band from Canada. Find them at http://www.plumbingfactorybrassband.com/
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Conductor Dr
Henry Meredith. Please support the Band by voting for them at http://www.londonmusicawards.com/
on the Internet. Includes Poet and Peasant Overture by von Suppe and
Universal Judgment Symphonic Poem by Camilla De Nardis arranged by Henry
Meredith.
Direct download: Brasscast19FEB.mp3
Sunday, 12 February
2006
February
12 Podcast...
Welcome to a Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas Burns.
27 minutes and 26 Mb. Today we are featuring Bradwells Silver Band from
the UK. Find them at http://www.bradwellband.co.uk
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Conductor Chris
Johnson who also runs the 24 hour Brass Band Radio at http://www.brassbandradio.co.uk
on the Internet. Includes Mama Mia, Singing in the Rain, There's No
Business like Show Business and Centenary March.
Direct download: Brasscast12FEB.mp3
Sunday, 5 February 2006
February
5 Podcast...
Welcome to another Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 27 minutes and 26 Mb. Today we are featuring Brass Band
Limburg from the Netherlands. Find them at http://www.brassbandlimburg.nl/
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Bass player
Marcel Boom. Includes Reunion and Finale by Randy Edelman, Party Piece
by Philip Sparke, Fnugg Blue by Oystein Baadsvik and Quick March Jubilee
by Paul Drury.
Direct download: Brasscast05FEB.mp3
Sunday, 29 January 2006
January
29 Podcast...
Welcome to a Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas
Burns. 21 minutes and 20 Mb. Today we are featuring United Coop
Crewe Band from the UK. Find them at http://www.creweco-op.co.uk/
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Conductor Jef
Sparkes. Includes Mission Impossible Composed by Lalo Schifin and arranged
for brass band by Alan Fernie, Carillon By Flowers/Gomm arranged by
Denzil Stephens, The Elephant A movement from Saint-Saens, All Through
the Night a Traditional Welsh melody arranged by Gordon Langford and
American Trilogy from Elvis Presley's finale to his Las Vegas
shows arranged by Goff Richards.
Direct download: Brasscast29JAN.mp3
Sunday, 22 January 2006
January
22 Podcast...
Welcome to a Brass Band podcast,, hosted by Lucas Burns.
20 minutes and 19 Mb. Today we are featuring Brass Band Aid from the
UK. Find them at http://www.brassbandaid.com
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Bob Thompson
who helped start Brass Band Aid. Includes Seventeen Come
Sunday by Ralph Vaughan Williams arr Frank Wright, Amazonia from Windows
of the World by Peter Graham, ARC centennial March by Stephen Bulla
and Do They know its Christmas by Bob Geldof/Midge Ure arr A Fernie.
Direct download: Brasscast22JAN.mp3
Sunday, 15 January 2006
January
15 Podcast...
Welcome to a Brass Band podcast, hosted by Lucas Burns.
27 minutes and 26 Mb. Today we are featuring Brass Band Willebroek from
Belgium. Find them at http://www.brassbandwillebroek.be
on the internet. Includes an interview with their Solo euphonium
Player Stef Pillaert who plays Caprice by Ray Woodfield. Also played
is Philip Sparkes, Music of the Spheres.
Direct download: Brasscast15JAN.mp3
Sunday, 8 January 2006
January
8 Podcast...
Welcome to my podcast and hosted today by Lucas Burns.
28 minutes and 27 Mb. Today we are featuring Alexander Brass Band from
Norway. Find them at http://home.no.net/alexbras/
on the internet. Includes an interview with their conductor Morten
Hansen. Numbers played are Fiesta de la Vida (Philip Sparke), and The
Holy War (Ray Steadman-Allen).
Direct download: Brasscast08JAN.mp3
Sunday, 1 January 2006
January
1 Podcast...
Welcome to my podcast. 25 minutes and 24 Mb.
Today we are featuring Brass-Aux-Saxes from Belgium. Find them at http://www.brass-aux-saxes.be
on the internet. Includes an interview by Dirk Alerts with their conductor
Jan Van Hove. Numbers played are Mozart's first movement from Horn Concerto
No. 3 and Between 2 Rivers by Philip Sparke.
Direct download: Brasscast01JAN.mp3
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