01 - 03 Wilfred Heaton: Contest Music [13'55]
04 - 06 George Lloyd: Royal Parks [14'38]
07 - 09 Gilbert Vinter: Salute to Youth [12'19]
10 John McCabe: Cloudcatcher Fells [17'54]
Black Dyke Mills Band conducted by Major Peter Parkes
Chandos CHAN8483 [recorded January 1986; issued 1986]
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Recording venue: Dewsbury Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UK
Recording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian Couzens
Anybody collecting the music of George Lloyd may be surprised by the considerably more aggressive performance of Royal Parks here than on the later all-Lloyd English Heritage album for Albany made by the Black Dyke Band in 1991. And here, we also have John McCabe's Cloudcatcher Fells - one of the finest works for brass band that I know, but so rarely recorded. Fortunately, this performance is excellent.
And now more George Lloyd, also on the English Heritage album but this time from Grimethorpe and with Major Peter Parkes conducting again but later, in 1998:
01 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Henry the Fifth. Overture for Brass Band [9'24]
02 Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy for Brass Band, op.114 * [9'18]
03 - 05 Dean Goffin: Rhapsody in Brass * [11'06]
06 Eric Ball: A Kensington Concerto [11'06]
07 - 09 Gustav Holst: A Moorside Suite * [15'12]
10 Granville Bantock (arr. Wright): The Frogs of Aristophanes. Comedy Overture [8'24]
11 George Lloyd: Diversions on a Bass Theme [11'43]
Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band conducted by Major Peter Parkes and Garry Cutt*
Chandos CHAN4553 [recorded October & November 1998; issued 1999]
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Recording venue: Morley Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UK
Recording engineer: Jonathan Cooper; Producer: Ralph Couzens
01 - 03 Edward Gregson: Concerto for Tuba and Brass Band [17'55]
04 - 06 Edward Gregson: Concerto for French Horn and Brass Band [17'06]
07 Gordon Langford: Rhapsody for Cornet and Brass Band [13'17]
John Fletcher- tuba; Ifor James- French horn; James Watson- cornet; Besses o' th' Barn Band conducted by Roy Newsome
Chandos CHAN4526 [recorded July 1980; issued 1982]
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Recording venue: Whitworth Hall, Manchester, UK
Recording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian Couzens
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