Featured Work This Month

JM50122 CRY ME A RIVER - Cornet Solo with Band - Parts & Score

Category: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Composer: Hamilton
Arranger: Chris Wormald

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JM50264 ESCAPOLOGY - Bb.Baritone Solo - Parts & Score

Categories: Brass Band Catalogue - Solos, Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Composer: Tom Davoren

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Escapology was commissioned, in 2008, by the acclaimed baritone horn soloist Carole Crompton. The brief for the work was simple — to produce an accessible and tuneflul piece that displays the lyrical and technical capabilities of the baritone horn.

JM50142 I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN - Flugel Solo - Parts & Score

Category: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Material: Nelson Riddle
Arranger: Phil Lawrence

Duration 3.42

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The Recording is "IT'S NOT UNUSUAL" the Fairey Band with Phil Lawrence DOY CD237.
The Flugel Soloist is Rod Franks.

JM50141 IT'S NOT UNUSUAL - Trombone Trio - Parts & Score

Category: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Composers: Gordon Mills, Les Reid
Arranger: Phil Lawrence

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If you were at Butlins Mineworks Contest in January this year, this is the trombone trio which was performed by Redbridge Brass - now available for your band to play.

This is a real showcase arrangement for your trombone section, and a sure fire winner with your audience.

If you enjoyed listening to this extract, you can purchase the full CD recording from the CD Section of this site.
The Recording is "IT'S NOT UNUSUAL" the Fairey Band with Phil Lawrence DOY CD237.

The trombone Trio are - Lisa Sarasini, Paul Coupe and Kevin Wilson.

JM50261 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS - Parts & Score

Category: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Composer: Peter Graham

Peter Graham's most recent work - published on Monday 17th. May 2010, and set as the test piece for the 2010 British Open Brass Band Championships.

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
Letter from Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676

The art of brass playing embraces a range of diverse approaches and styles. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the musical melting pot of the USA. On the Shoulders of Giants pays tribute to this diversity and to the great American brass virtuosi whose legacy has provided the foundation for countless brass giants of today.

The opening movement, Fanfares, reflects on the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra brass section. It has been suggested that the much-admired and distinctive style of the CSO Brass was initially driven by the Germanic repertoire favoured by the early music directors. Here the opening bars from the finale of Bruckner’s 8th symphony provide the departure point for the musical journey.

The work continues (attacca) with an Elegy. America’s role as the birthplace of jazz and two of her leading brass lights are remembered here – Miles Davis (through the sound world created for him by Gil Evans) – and the father of lyrical trombone playing Tommy Dorsey. In acknowledgement that jazz owes its origins to Negro spirituals, the gospel song Steal Away underpins the movement.

The finale, a Fantasie Brillante, pays homage to the turn of the century brass virtuosi of Sousa Band fame. The centrepiece of the movement finds Herbert L. Clarke, Arthur Pryor and Simone Mantia stepping from the mists of time to deliver snippets from their greatest solos (together with passing references to Sousa’s highest paid soloist, drummer August Helmecke). Moments of individual virtuosity lead to a series of ensemble power chords - giant footsteps in musical imagery. Finally, an allusion to the “chess-like” nature of brass band contesting brings the work to a dramatic conclusion.

On the Shoulders of Giants was commissioned by The Cory Band and The National Youth Brass Band of Wales with additional funding from Ty Cerdd – Music Centre Wales. The work was published for the 158th British Open Brass Band Championships, 2010.

JM50303 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS - Score only

Category: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Composer: Peter Graham

JM50033 PHOENIX RISING - Parts & Score

Categories: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month, Brass Band Catalogue - New & Recent Publications
Composer: Tom Davoren

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Composed for the 2008 Mineworkers and All England Masters champions, Desford Colliery Band, phoenix Rising pays homage to the band’s recent resurgence as a real force in the banding movement, echoing its prominance in the contest scene of the 1980s and 90s.

Emulating the rise of a Phoenix from the flames, the piece juxtaposes sweeping melodic gesture and relentless driving rhythm, culminating in a high adrenaline tour de force.

The work received its official world premier at the Regent Hall Festival of Brass gala concert on the eve of the 2008 National Brass Band Championships and has since been taken up by bands across the globe, seeing performances in New Zealand and Belgium.

Playable by 2nd section bands upwards.

JM50154 SEIZE THE DAY - Parts & Score

Category: Brass Band Catalogue - Featured Work This Month
Composer: Peter Graham

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Programme Note
Seize the Day was written for the London-based International Staff Band of the Salvation Army, conductor Dr Stephen Cobb, the title serving as the theme for the band’s USA West Tour 2010.

As befits music being performed during a trip to the United States the work is based upon three traditional American spirituals. The first, The Gospel Train, is introduced following a carillon-like intrada in trombones and bells with supporting cornet flourishes. Ostinati drive the musical locomotive along until an abrupt halt ushers in another kind of vehicle, the celestial Sweet Chariot, featuring euphonium and trombone soloists.

The finale, Amen, celebrates the arrival at our destination with some tongue-in- cheek West Coast (and Swinging London!) references before a reprise of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot brings the music to a majestic and joyful conclusion.