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Book review: Brass Roots
September 25, 2020
A Hundred Years of Brass Bands and their Music (1836-1936)
Roy Newsome
Routledge Revivals
Price: £90.00 (hardback); £27.99 (paperback); eBook (£25.19)
Product: LP review: The Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain — Vol IX
September 2, 2020
Conductor: Stanley Boddington
Soloists: Gordon Higginbottom; Colin Aspinall
Virtuosi Recordings: VR 7609 Stereo
Concert: Eikanger Bjorsvik & Manger Musikklag
August 29, 2020
Conductors: Reid Gilje & Martin Winter
Soloists: Jonas Puntervoll (tuba); Vidar Nordli (trombone)
Knarvik Kyrkje
Bergen
Saturday 29th August
Product: CD review: Experimental Brass
August 26, 2020
The Amsterdam Brass Quintet
Thomas Piet, Thomas Geerts, Misha Sporck, Rolf Hoogenberg, John William Banther
Featuring: David Thornton, Ilja Reijngoud
CD: ABQ:001
Product: CD review: Reflection
August 24, 2020
Lions Youth Brass
Conductors: Nigel Birch; Tom Hancock; Jamie Sharp
WOS Recordings: WOS 157
Product: Instrument review: Yamaha YCR-4330GSII Cornet
August 16, 2020
Yamaha continues the high quality evolutionary process with its upgraded Intermediate cornet model.
Product: LP review: Spectrum
August 9, 2020
The Rise to Fame of the Stanshawe (Bristol) Band
Conductor: Walter Hargreaves
SAYDISC Recordings: SDLB 262
Product: Product review: Brand plastic mouthpieces
August 3, 2020
A combination of Swiss engineering precision and allergy free plastic looks to make an impression on being the name on lips of a growing niche market.
Product: CD review: The Origin of the Species
August 2, 2020
Virtuoso Victorian Brass Music
The Wallace Collection
Conductor: Simon Wright
Soloist: John Wallace
Nimbus Recordings: NI 5470
Product: LP review: British Music for Brass Band
July 26, 2020
Black Dyke Mills Band
Conductors: Major Peter Parkes & Roy Newsome
RCA Red Seal 25078
Product: CD review: Foursome for Brass
July 21, 2020
Music for Brass Quartette
Derek Garside; William David Thomas; Haydn Harris; Lyndon Baglin
SAYDISC Records: CDSDL 254
Product: Instrument review: pBugle
July 13, 2020
The latest addition to the Warwick Music Group stable of plastic instruments seems something of an anomaly, but it could also kick start another education revolution...
Product: CD review: Music for Isolation
July 12, 2020
Rie Takeuchi & Gideon Juckes
Digital Album
Gururiyoza Records
Product: LP review: Festival of Championship Brass
July 7, 2020
Featuring: Black Dyke; Brighouse & Rastrick; City of Coventry; Cory; CWS (Manchester); Fairey; Grimethorpe; GUS (Footwear); Hampshire Youth; Ransome, Hoffman & Pollard; Rochdale; Stanshawe; Tredegar Junior; Yorkshire Imperial
Decca Recordings: STBC 7-9
Product: Instrument review: Besson BE120 Prodige cornet
June 29, 2020
The student model market place is highly competitive, so has Besson struck the right balance on cost and quality with its revamped and upgraded 'Prodige' cornet?
Book review: James Ord Hume
June 28, 2020
The March King
Dr Timothy Thirst
Price: £15.95 (paperback) (UK)
Product: LP review: Golden Melodies
June 27, 2020
The National Brass Band
Conductor: Geoffrey Brand
Soloists: Jim Shepherd, Gordon Higginbottom, Derek Southcott, Ray Farr, Brian Evans
K-tel Records: ONE 1075
Product: CD review: Nigel Clarke — Mysteries of the Horizon
June 20, 2020
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductors: Nigel Clarke, David Thornton, Sandy Smith
Soloist: Harmen Vanhoorne
Naxos Recordings: 8.574097
Product: Product review: Denis Wick mute corks
June 14, 2020
Mute corks for cornet to tuba
Denis Wick London
Prices: Vary
Product: LP review: Carnaval
June 11, 2020
Wynton Marsalis
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Conductor: Donald Hunsberger
CBS Records Masterworks
CB 331
