World of Brass mailing - February 2007
National Brass Band Championships 2006 is the complete record of last year’s National Championships Finals as it includes all five winning performances from the five sections.
Essential Dyke Volume VII is the latest in the Essential Dyke series and includes the band’s winning performance of Philip Wilby’s Vienna Nights, the test piece of the 2006 British Open Brass Band Championships.
Kirsty Abbotts is acknowledged as one of the finest principal cornet players around and is renowned for her lyrical tone. This can be heard to great effect on her first solo CD Soliloquy where she is accompanied by her band, Carlton Main Frickley Colliery.
Many of the finest trumpet players in the world were brought together last year by Paul Archibald to present a concert at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The line-up included Hans Gansch, Florian Klingler, Rod Franks and Maurice Murphy. You can hear this star-studded collection of trumpeters on the latest CD on the Brass Classics label, Proclamation.
Arriving towards the end of March will be three more new releases.
Grimethorpe in Concert Volume III is the latest release from Grimethorpe Colliery Band and their first since reverting to their original name following a change of sponsor.
In November, Grimethorpe narrowly managed to complete a double hat-trick at the Brass in Concert Championship having been pipped at the post by Brighouse and Rastrick Band.
Our latest DVD includes the winning programme from Brighouse and Rastrick Band and also features the whole of the World of Brass in Concert featuring Grimethorpe Colliery Band and the sensational Brass Band of Central Florida. There was so much great material from this year’s event that we found it impossible to squeeze everything onto two discs, hence our decision to make it a triple DVD this time.
The own choice test piece section of the European Brass Band Contest 2006 was won by Buy As You View Band playing Kenneth Downie’s specially commissioned The Promised Land. They have now made a studio recording of this wonderful music along with some other brass band blockbusters. The Promised Land is surely an early contender for CD of the Year. The band has also reverted to its original name, Cory, as the three year sponsorship agreement with Buy As You View comes to an end.
The deadline for entries for the European Soloists Competition 2007 is Wednesday 28th February. The cornet solo chosen for the final round is Robert Redhead’s Life Abundant. Up to now, this solo has not been commercially available but we are pleased to announce that the original manuscript has now been originated and is available in our Judd Street Collection format.
During the course of next week our administration and warehouse operations will be re-locating to Wellingborough. This means that our offices are now closed until Monday 5th March although you will still be able to place your order at www.worldofbrass.com. Orders for UK and European countries within the European Union will be despatched from our London shop but the re-location will mean a delay in the despatch of orders to the rest of the world. We thank you in advance for your patience during this period.
Finally, we always try our best to help, so we’d love to hear from you if you think there’s anything we could do better. Please call our Mail Order department on their new number 01933 445445 from Monday 5th March, email us at worldofbrass@sp-s.co.uk or write to us at World of Brass, Salvationist Publishing and Supplies Ltd.
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