World of Brass Mailing - August 2007
Track lists for the Double CD and Double DVD of our Highlights products from the European Brass Band Championships 2007 have now been confirmed. We’re on course to release the CD later this month while the DVD will be launched at the British Open Brass Band Championship on Saturday 15th September at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
The test piece for this year’s British Open Brass Band Championship is Kenneth Downie’s brand new work Visions of Gerontius. Study scores are now available exclusively from World of Brass so why not purchase yours now and avoid the queues at the contest?
Also available are study scores for Music for Battle Creek by Philip Sparke, the test piece for the Championship Section of the National Brass Band Championships to be held at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 20th October.
World of Brass is the only place where you can buy BOTH of the study scores for the two major UK contests of the year.
Chris Jaudes is one of the most sought-after lead trumpeters on Broadway and has performed with stars like Celine Dion, Bob Hope, Barry Manilow and Liza Minnelli to name just a few. His solo CD, simply called Chris Jaudes, on which he is accompanied by the New York Staff Band, is now available. An added bonus is the appearance of Joe Alessi (Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) who joins Chris on two tracks. This recording is sure to cement Chris’ reputation as an outstanding trumpeter further still.
Brass Partout are a virtuoso brass ensemble from Germany and their latest CD Black Castles is now available. The CD features music from six English composers in a timeline commencing with Edward Elgar and finishing with Mark-Anthony Turnage. Of particular interest is Derek Bourgeois’ suite for ten-piece brass, William and Mary.
Bourgeois’ other major work for ten-piece brass, Concerto Grosso, can be heard on BRASS from the fantastic brass section of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. Writing in British Bandsman, Dudley Bright (Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra) said ‘I can’t help but to enthuse about this CD. From first to last, it exudes a quality to satisfy the most discerning of brass enthusiasts’. Click here to read his full review.
Arrangements for the RSA 85 concert to celebrate the 85th birthday of Ray Steadman-Allen are now racing ahead. The concert will take place on Saturday 22nd September at Fairfield Halls, Croydon. In addition to The International Staff Band and The International Staff Songsters, we are pleased to announce that Bramwell Tovey will be the piano soloist in Fantasia for Piano and Band on ‘Christ is the Answer’. We are thrilled that such a distinguished musician as Mr Tovey is able to take part in this event. Other soloists will include Susan Turner (vocal) and Derick Kane (euphonium) who will both be performing solos especially written for them by Ray Steadman-Allen.
In recent weeks, the Facebook phenomenon has even reached the World of Brass office. Not wishing to feel left out of the latest social networking trend, we started the official World of Brass Facebook group. We invite you to join the World of Brass group to learn a little bit more about us and who we are.
Our next update will be in September when we will inform you of new recordings from Brass Band of Central Florida, Ian Bousfield, Robert Childs and Philip Cobb and also the latest instalment in our History of Brass Band Music series from Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
Written by Ian McKenzie on August 7th, 2007 with
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