The Best Of Brass Bands

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Album Summary

Composers

• Gordon Langford (1930 - )
• Unspecified
• Alfred M. Fletcher
• Edrich Siebert
• Richard Wagner (Classical) (1813 - 1883)
• Traditional Spiritual
• Anonymous, English
• Roy Newsome (1930 - )
• Hamish MacCunn (1868 - 1916)
• Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986)
• William Relton
• Fred Langford
• Allan Street
• John Darwell
• Anonymous
• Francis Rowley
• Johann Strauss II (Junior) (1825 - 1899)
• Philip Phile (circa 1734 - 1793)
• Richard Lloyd (1933 - )
• Reed Kotler
• James Curnow (1943 - )
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
• Dave Brubeck (1920 - 2012)
• Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (1876 - 1956)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948 - )
• William Croft (1678 - 1727)
• Eric Ball (1903 - 1989)
• Neal Hefti (1922 - 2008)
• Joseph Kosma (1905 - 1969)
• Howard Snell
• Erik Leidzen
• Arthur B. Rubinstein (Film)
• Ray Woodfield (1931 - )
• William Henry Monk (1823 - 1889)
• John Newton ("Amazing Grace" Composer) (1725 - 1807)
• Anonymous, Swedish
• Anonymous, German
• Frederick Charles Maker (1844 - 1927)
• Angelo Badalamenti (1937 - )
• Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991)

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Langford, Gordon : Marching with Sousa

• Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: March

Anonymous : The Old Rugged Cross

• Running Time: 3 min. 2 sec.

Kosma, Joseph : Autumn Leaves (Les feuilles mortes), for voice & piano

• Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1947

Fletcher, Alfred M. : The Boys in Blue, for brass band

• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.

Anonymous : All in This April Evening, hymn

• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Form: Choral

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214

• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1858

Anonymous : Crimond (The Lord's my shepherd)

• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.

Leidzen, Erik : Military Overture, for brass band (after Mendelssohn)

• Running Time: 8 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Anonymous : When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, hymn

• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Procession To The Minster

• Running Time: 6 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1848

Lloyd, Richard : Fill thou my life, for chorus & organ

• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Woodfield, Ray : Caprice for euphonium

• Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Anonymous, English : Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, hymn

• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.

Curnow, James : Blenheim Flourishes

• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Monk, William Henry : Abide with me :: Eventide)

• Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1861

Newsome, Roy : Neapolitan Scenes, for brass band (after Massenet)

• Running Time: 4 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Strauss, Richard : Festmusik der Stadt Wien, for brass & timpani, o.Op. 133 (TrV 286, AV 133)

• Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1942-1943

Newton, John : Amazing Grace

• Notes: Composition written: 1779.
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1779

MacCunn, Hamish : Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Op. 3

• Running Time: 9 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 11/05/1887

Brubeck, Dave : Blue Rondo a la Turk

• Running Time: 4 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1950

Anonymous, Swedish : How Great Thou Art (Tune :: O store Gud)

• Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral

Arlen, Harold : Somewhere Over the Rainbow (for the film The Wizard of Oz)

• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1939

Anonymous : Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

• Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.

Blankenbur, Hermann Ludwig : Abschied der Gladiatoren (The Gladiators' Farewell), march for band, Op. 48

• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: March
• Written: 1904

Anonymous, German : All Creatures of Our God and King

• Running Time: 1 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Relton, William : The Trouble with the Tuba Is, for tuba & brass band

• Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.

Webber, Andrew Lloyd : Pie Jesu, for soprano, treble & orchestra (from the Requiem)

• Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1985

Maker, Frederick Charles : Dear Lord and Father of mankind, hymn

• Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1887

Langford, Fred : Carnival for Bass

• Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.

Croft, William : O Worship the King

• Running Time: 2 min. sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral

Newsome, Roy : Fantasy on Swiss Airs, for brass band

• Running Time: 6 min. sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Anonymous : Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer

• Running Time: 2 min. 30 sec.

Badalamenti, Angelo : Twin Peaks, theme from the television score

• Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Street, Allan : Kim, for trumpet & band

• Running Time: 4 min. 50 sec.

Ball, Eric : Tournament for Brass

• Running Time: 12 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Anonymous : For all the Saints, hymn

• Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
• Form: Choral

Mercury, Freddie : Bohemian Rhapsody

• Running Time: 6 min. sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Darwell, John : Rejoice, the Lord is King, hymn

• Running Time: 1 min. 57 sec.

Hefti, Neal : Batman (Theme)

• Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Unspecified : Serenade for brass band

• Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.

Rowley, Francis : I Will Sing the Wondrous Story, hymn

• Running Time: 6 min. 11 sec.

Snell, Howard : Folk Festival, for brass band (after Shostakovich)

• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Anonymous : Now Thank We All Our God

• Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.

Siebert, Edrich : Bally Castle Bay, for band

• Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Phile, Philip : The President's March ("Hail, Columbia")

• Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: March
• Written: 1793

Anonymous : O God, Our Help in Ages Past

• Running Time: 1 min. 14 sec.

Rubinstein, Arthur B. : The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, theme from the television score

• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Siebert, Edrich : The Piper in the Meadow, for brass band

• Notes: This work was written in collaboration with Bob Barratt.
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Anonymous : The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended

• Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.

Traditional Spiritual : Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: by 1865

Kotler, Reed : Tuesday Blues

• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.