Compilations

Highlights from the 2001 Great Northern Brass Arts Festival

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This new series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

This series of compilations celebrates the wonderful world of brass bands. Featuring world famous bands like Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, Foden's, Grimethorpe and star soloists including David Childs, Jens Lindemann, Don Lusher, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins, each disc is packed with heart-warming recordings from the best brass bands and soloists around!

Brass bands had a very successful period during the era of the LP (sepcially from the mid 1960s onwards) with many of the top labels of the time (EMI, Decca, Polydor, Pye and Fontana), as well as a number of smaller labels, all taking a keen interest. This album of six epic test pieces, originally recorded for LP release between 1963 and 1976 reflects that interest but, equally, sets out to portray three of the best brass bands of the time.

This disc presents a broad picture of the music I composed and arranged for brass band during my long association with Grimethorpe Colliery Band and later involvement with Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag. For good measure two tracks feature the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble of which I was a member.

The music is eclectic in style. Influences are obvious, from the Walton-esque Temple Bar Fanfare, to the 'recomposition' of Dufay's Pasce Tuos and from a Copland inspired Hoe-down, to the Messiaen-style harmony of Songs for B.L..

We have tried to be fair to each band who are heard here more or less equally, but it is true that at the end of my banding career most of the recording of my own works was taken by the Norwegian Band.

Elgar Howarth, 2015

A five disc collection of brass band works from the pen of Philip Wilby