Alec Gallagher
Alec Gallagher
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Paul McGhee: Episodes, Occurrences and Interludes
A performance of Episodes, Occurrences and Interludes by Paul McGhee. Played by Derwent Brass conducted by Keith Leonard. This performance was played at the Wychavon Festival of Brass on 16th October 2012.
The work was commissioned by Derwent Brass to mark its 20th anniversary. It is divided into three sections, running concurrently, and each section comprises two sub-sections. These sub-sections are inspired by stories about the band and its players. I'd like to say that the titles of these sub-sections are self-explanatory, but they're not!
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Maurice Hamers: Die Alpen
Просмотров 10521 день назад
A performance of Die Alpen (The Alps) by Maurice Hamers. Played by the Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas Childs.
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Sets
Просмотров 44Месяц назад
A performance of Sets by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Played by Equale Brass in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast on 15th April 1986. I was unable to find any information about this work but vaguely recall that the title derived from tennis, hence the images. While looking for the information I was also intrigued to discover that Salonen has written a work for brass band - Apokalyptische Phantasie for Brass Band a...
Gordon Jacob: Suite in B flat
Просмотров 65Месяц назад
A performance of Gordon Jacob's Suite in B flat, played by the William Davis Construction Group Band conducted by John Berryman. Part of a BBC Radio 3 Bandstand programme broadcast on 19th January 1980. Just about Jacob's best work for band, in my opinion. Sorry about the hiss.
2023 National Finals: interviews with Edward Gregson and members of the Foden's Band
Просмотров 33Месяц назад
From Music Matters, BBC Radio 3, 21st October 2023. Tom Service talks to Edward Gregson and members of the Foden's Band about banding, contesting and Of Men and Mountains.
Jean Ballisat: Sinfonietta No 2
Просмотров 53Месяц назад
A performance of Sinfonietta No. 2 by the Swiss composer Jean Ballisat. Played by the Cory Band conducted by Arthur Kenney. Broadcast on Bandstand, BBC Radio 3, on 14th November 1985. Sorry about the hiss.
Phil Cunningham arr. Beattie: Loch Katrine's Lady
Просмотров 58Месяц назад
This piece was played by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland brass dectet, conducted by John Logan, at the Philip Jones Spectacular concert on 17th February 2024. The concert took place at St. John's, Smith Square, London. Elsewhere in this playlist you can find Rosamund Brass's performance of a movement from Shostakovich's 2nd string quartet, arranged for brass quartet by Alex Barron, also fro...
James MacMillan: Canite Tuba
Просмотров 912 месяца назад
A performance of James MacMillan's Canite Tuba, played by the Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas Childs. Why this work is not heard more frequently is a mystery.
Gordon Crosse: Chime
Просмотров 313 месяца назад
In his book Before the Music Stopped, Peter Bassano (formerly Peter Goodwin) recounts how Equale Brass had to abandon plans for their fifth CD with Nimbus Records when the producer insisted that the group was playing one of the other pieces, an arrangement of music from Gershwin's "Shall We Dance" wrongly, and asked for changes to the performance. Equale Brass were unable to agree and so the al...
George Gershwin arr. Martin Cotton: Pictures from Shall We Dance
Просмотров 883 месяца назад
In his book Before the Music Stopped, Peter Bassano (formerly Peter Goodwin) recounts how Equale Brass had to abandon plans for their fifth CD with Nimbus Records when the producer insisted that the group was playing this piece wrongly, and asked for changes to the performance. Equale Brass were unable to agree and so the album was never made. Also to be included on this CD were George Lloyd's ...
Simon Dobson: Jesus in Tibet
Просмотров 9513 месяца назад
A performance of Jesus in Tibet by Simon Dobson. Played by the Eikanger-Bjorsvik Band conducted by Florent Didier. Played at the 2024 Norwegian Brass Band Championships.
Judith Bingham: The Stars Above: The Earth Below
Просмотров 1053 месяца назад
A performance of The Stars Above: The Earth Below, by Judith Bingham. Played by Brass Band Berner Oberland conducted by James Gourlay. As with most of Bingham's other works for brass band, The Stars Above: The Earth Below has a strong historical aspect to it and takes us into a very different sound world than that normally associated with brass bands. The work was inspired by W B Yeat's poem "T...
Peter Maxwell Davies: The Pole Star
Просмотров 584 месяца назад
The Pole Star was originally written for brass band. The premiere was given by the Stromness Academy Band, conducted by John Vernon Jones, at the St. Magnus Festival, Orkney, in June 1983. The Pole Star is a march and was written (in Max's distinctive and uncompromising style) when he lived on Hoy, one of the Orkney Islands. I don't know of any recording of this work being played by a brass ban...
Andrew Downes: Toccata for Brass Band
Просмотров 804 месяца назад
A performance of Toccata for Brass Band by Andrew Downes. Played by the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain conducted by Harold Gray. Played as part of a concert given at the Gaumont Theatre, Ipswich, on 24th April 1976.
Arthur Butterworth: Solent Forts
Просмотров 974 месяца назад
Arthur Butterworth: Solent Forts
Dimitri Shostakovich arr. Alex Barron: Adagio (Theme and Variations) from String Quartet No. 2
Просмотров 1355 месяцев назад
Dimitri Shostakovich arr. Alex Barron: Adagio (Theme and Variations) from String Quartet No. 2
Andy Scott: A Child Like You
Просмотров 675 месяцев назад
Andy Scott: A Child Like You
RNCM Festival of Brass 2017: interval discussion
Просмотров 305 месяцев назад
RNCM Festival of Brass 2017: interval discussion
David Bedford: Toccata for Tristan
Просмотров 1655 месяцев назад
David Bedford: Toccata for Tristan
Andrew Downes: The Temple of Solomon
Просмотров 735 месяцев назад
Andrew Downes: The Temple of Solomon
Philip Cashian: Brass Quintet
Просмотров 1465 месяцев назад
Philip Cashian: Brass Quintet
Eric Ball: Journey Into Freedom
Просмотров 2368 месяцев назад
Eric Ball: Journey Into Freedom
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Playgrounds for Angels
Просмотров 1438 месяцев назад
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Playgrounds for Angels
Eric Ball: Four Preludes
Просмотров 1958 месяцев назад
Eric Ball: Four Preludes
Kelly-Marie Murphy: Drumming the Plain, The Horseman is Coming
Просмотров 1059 месяцев назад
Kelly-Marie Murphy: Drumming the Plain, The Horseman is Coming
George Frederick Handel arr. Paul Archibald: Concerto for Brass
Просмотров 1989 месяцев назад
George Frederick Handel arr. Paul Archibald: Concerto for Brass
Ray Steadman-Allen: The Beacons
Просмотров 1049 месяцев назад
Ray Steadman-Allen: The Beacons
Changing Brass: A social history of brass bands, part two
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Changing Brass: A social history of brass bands, part two
Dalwyn Henshall: Variations and Fugue
Просмотров 659 месяцев назад
Dalwyn Henshall: Variations and Fugue

Комментарии

  • @sorabjiorchestralmusic
    @sorabjiorchestralmusic 7 дней назад

    Enjoyed that. Great to hear these mostly unheard pieces. Good job.

  • @TimothyReeves
    @TimothyReeves 8 дней назад

    Those are the most incredible multiphonics ever.

  • @sonkeeggers6298
    @sonkeeggers6298 Месяц назад

    kommentar

  • @Leenhorn
    @Leenhorn Месяц назад

    Amazing playing ❤ I'm going to practice 😂

  • @richardjx5442
    @richardjx5442 Месяц назад

    I saw/heard him do this live‼️

  • @otrebor108
    @otrebor108 Месяц назад

    Incredible performance

  • @giancarlopiligp
    @giancarlopiligp Месяц назад

    😰

  • @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx
    @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx Месяц назад

    The second movement is one of the most beautifully written - such a gentle but infinitely deep melancholy!

  • @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx
    @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx Месяц назад

    So many superb modal moments - completely worthy of the Great Modal Masters - in this piece. Jacob - woefully neglected and simply not 'heard' in the deepest sense. A rich musical feast indeed. Can we now please have one of our modern top-shelf bands dedicate an album to Jacob's music for brass band? Thanks in advance.

  • @stephen_634
    @stephen_634 Месяц назад

    This is the best thing I've ever heard on the horn, it's amazing

  • @brunoschmid4020
    @brunoschmid4020 Месяц назад

    Very fine !

  • @Vs19880
    @Vs19880 Месяц назад

    Lighter heating Frank Lloyd☠️

  • @davidcottrell1308
    @davidcottrell1308 Месяц назад

    amazing. as usual.

  • @BessesothBarnBandChannel
    @BessesothBarnBandChannel Месяц назад

    Excellent piece of research and presentation of British Brass Band History that gets a lot accross without boring your audience

  • @hugoramirez9250
    @hugoramirez9250 2 месяца назад

    Exelente Maestro!!!

  • @JohnHolroyd-mf7ol
    @JohnHolroyd-mf7ol 2 месяца назад

    Met him in 2016 at Aldeburgh, really nice no nonsense chap but knew everything about music.

  • @msmith53
    @msmith53 2 месяца назад

    Thanks so much for posting this info!! An era of intelligence and inspiration!

  • @PHMPublishing
    @PHMPublishing 2 месяца назад

    Alec, How did you get hold of this? Its is an off air recording? I produced this with the RNCM team for the broadcast. I have a copy here at home and it sounds better than this! If everyone agrees, I'd be perfectly happy to post the one I have. It is not a BBC copyright recording, I'll contact David Thornton and Torstein about it.

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 2 месяца назад

      Hello Paul, as indicated in the notes accompanying the video, it was broadcast by Radio 3 on 1st March 2010 (from the 2010 festival). I simply recorded it from the radio. Unfortunately the recording software I had at the time wasn't brilliant, which is why the sound isn't great. If you have a better recording I'd love to hear it. And indeed, any other recordings you might have! (Salford Toccata for instance, or Fire on Whaleness). @alecgallagher9196 1 minute ago (edited) I should also add that it wasn't my initial intention to make any of my recordings public, only for my own enjoyment. But as everyone else seems to be uploading copyright material nowadays, I thought I'd make some of these rare recordings available to all who want to listen. I understand that RUclips has an agreement of some sort with copyright holders to allow this to happen. David Thornton already knows about this recording because he contacted me shortly after I posted it, asking the same question as you! (see below)

    • @PHMPublishing
      @PHMPublishing 2 месяца назад

      @@alecgallagher9196 The recording copies i habe of these were given to me for archive purposes and not for further dissemination. The RNCM Band played so well

  • @CaptainAshleyDawson
    @CaptainAshleyDawson 3 месяца назад

    Hi Alec, do you have the recording of Tippett's Mask of Time fanfare from this same recording and the other Lollipop stuff? Thanks, Ashley

  • @CaptainAshleyDawson
    @CaptainAshleyDawson 3 месяца назад

    Hi Alec, This is a terriffic channel! I was a teenager in 1986 and remember listening to this concert live on the radio! Do you happen to have a recording of the rest of the PJBE finale concert from BBC radio 3? (I notice you have uploaded the 'similar' Philip Jones memorial concert which includes some of the same music, including 'Pictures from an exhibition' which was a 'musical milestone' for me!) If so, I would love to hear the rest of it! I remember one of the 'surprise' pieces for Philip Jones was a performance of a march from Tippett's 'The Mask of Time' - which I have never been able to find on a recording since! The PJBE lollipops were also great, including the 'extras' added in especially for the occasion. You have other really rare BBC Radio recordings of some of my favourite - but really difficult to find live recordings of - brass band test pieces (especially Frontier! by Michael Ball, and Fusions by Howard Blake). I remember hearing them live on the Radio at the time, and wishing I could find recordings of them. Thanks once again. Ashley👍

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 3 месяца назад

      Hi Ashley, thanks for your kind comments. Sadly, and for reasons which I can't now fathom, I didn't record the entire concert, only the Bach and Rautaavaara. I've been kicking myself ever since.

    • @CaptainAshleyDawson
      @CaptainAshleyDawson 3 месяца назад

      I know the feeling 😂

  • @tsjukemar
    @tsjukemar 3 месяца назад

    Part 3 WAY too fast!!!

  • @avroncotton
    @avroncotton 4 месяца назад

    A great pictorial montage of a wonderful area.

  • @donnaquixote7538
    @donnaquixote7538 4 месяца назад

    Beautiful performance! 💓

  • @thomasanderson6879
    @thomasanderson6879 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for posting this sadly neglected work. The soloist gives a superb, understated performance and lets Orr's score speak for itself. It was a wee trip down memory lane for me, because I played euphonium with Whitburn Band in the 1980s and we recorded it for Bandstand with John Wallace, around 1986 if I remember correctly. For a piece of serial music it is very lyrical and I hope it doesn't remain neglected for much longer.

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 4 месяца назад

      My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it. As it happens, I also have a recording of the Whitburn/John Wallace performance too, conducted by Peter Parkes. I couldn't decide which to upload so went for the Wilbraham one. The other work on that Whitburn broadcast was Orr's Caledonian Suite.

    • @thomasanderson6879
      @thomasanderson6879 4 месяца назад

      @@alecgallagher9196 Are you sure this isn't the Whitburn recording? The solo euphonium player sounds very like I did and even splits a note I remember splitting (you never forget those!).

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 4 месяца назад

      Absolutely sure! The soloist doesn't have the Wallace 'waver' for one thing. Obviously that particular note was eminently splittable!

  • @LloydMusicLtd
    @LloydMusicLtd 5 месяцев назад

    You may like to know that the session tapes of a commercial recording of this work, played by Equale and made by Nimbus, has surfaced after 35 years. The tapes are in good order, and Adrian farmer, the original engineer at Nimbus has prepared a master tape, which we hope will be suitable for commercial release now that the George Lloyd catalogue has moved to Nimbus.

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 5 месяцев назад

      Very interesting, thank you. I'll be first in the queue for a copy. I read about this recording in Peter Bassano's book Before the Music Stopped. He said that the recording was abandoned because of artistic differences between the quintet and the producer, relating to music by Gershwin. Also lost on that occasion was a recording of Gordon Crosses Chime. If that recording has been found too that would be exciting.

  • @garyblakepeterson7613
    @garyblakepeterson7613 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for posting this - too bad Grimethorpe's wonderful performance from the RNCM Festival of Brass is unavailable! :)

  • @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx
    @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx 5 месяцев назад

    Super piece!

  • @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx
    @Allen_Brass_Banding-mp8jx 5 месяцев назад

    When was this composed?

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 5 месяцев назад

      In 2016. Murphy's music is seriously underexposed in the UK, although she did write a piece in memory of Bram Tovey which was played at the 2023 RNCM festival. Check out her Hartford Accident and Indemnity too - also to be found in this playlist. Great stuff!

  • @Gwailo54
    @Gwailo54 5 месяцев назад

    I have no idea why, but I've suddenly developed anew a taste for brass band music. Whatever happened to brass bands when Bandstand stopped on Radio 3? It was fascinating to hear composers like Phyllis Tate writing for the medium. This isn't exactly Grimethorpe Aria but it introduced performers and their traditional audiences to mildly modern composers. Tate was a name that cropped up from time to time but others, like Derek Bourgeois and Edward Gregson, showed they were no slouches with brass band music. I hope this piece is still part of the repertoire of several bands at least. Thanks very much for sharing.

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 5 месяцев назад

      You're very welcome. Sadly, I don't think it is in the repertoire of any bands any more. Although, there is just the remotest possibility it might get an airing in the next year or so.

  • @fionahedges4261
    @fionahedges4261 6 месяцев назад

    This work is also called "The Three Ridings Suite" as per the version in the Roy Newsome Archive at Salford Uni. The movements are: I (West Riding) Prelude: Roundhay, II. (North Riding) Nocturne: Swaledale, III (East Riding) March: Ferensway. The finale was based on the finale of his Kingston Sketches, and AH reused the Nocturne as Nocturne Sables D'Or in his Four Breton Sketches.

  • @exhornnerd
    @exhornnerd 6 месяцев назад

    A very young looking Jim Handy there, bless him, lovely guy!

  • @jimryon1002
    @jimryon1002 7 месяцев назад

    Wunderbar

  • @sorabjiorchestralmusic
    @sorabjiorchestralmusic 7 месяцев назад

    Hi Alec, do you know when this was recorded? And BTW thank you so much for so many of your postings. We were listening to the same broadcasts at the same time but most of my recordings are irretrievable now so this has been a real journey down memory lane.

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 7 месяцев назад

      My pleasure! Always nice to share things with like-minded people! This recording actually comes from an old LP by the Hendon Band called "Eric Ball - an Eightieth Birthday Tribute".

    • @sorabjiorchestralmusic
      @sorabjiorchestralmusic 7 месяцев назад

      I thought it might be, I’m on that LP on Eb bass. Such a shame Hendon Band folded. Had some real ‘characters’ not least the conductor the mighty Don Morrison and one of the best euphs of all time Barry Perrin. He was just at the end of his career when I played but still an incredible player.

  • @herbers8791
    @herbers8791 7 месяцев назад

    This is incredible horn playing. Could you pass on the score?

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 7 месяцев назад

      I doubt that it's published. I think the only source for a copy of the dots would be Mr Lloyd himself. He's on the web and lives in Germany nowadays. Good luck!

    • @StocksIn60Seconds
      @StocksIn60Seconds 2 месяца назад

      Just write it out from what you hear. He wouldn’t care, lol.

  • @greengreen4251
    @greengreen4251 8 месяцев назад

    This is so jarring and uncomfortable. Not how I feel when I'm in the Dales

  • @dirkvanderweerd5896
    @dirkvanderweerd5896 8 месяцев назад

    Ja,geweldig dit ,was voor mij 1967 dat ik dit mocht mee spelen als jongentje van 12,13 jaar ,mooie tijd.

  • @MyGraeme1
    @MyGraeme1 8 месяцев назад

    although the recording sounds vice versa

  • @MyGraeme1
    @MyGraeme1 8 месяцев назад

    SEMITONE LOWER...derr

  • @micspencer190
    @micspencer190 9 месяцев назад

    I sang in this premiere...a great experience!

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 8 месяцев назад

      An acquaintance of mine played in it and said exactly the same. Amazing that such young singers coped with such difficult harmonies, intervals and rhythms. Well done!

  • @derekdawson4978
    @derekdawson4978 9 месяцев назад

    50?yee god's

  • @Geoff_Tuba_UK
    @Geoff_Tuba_UK 9 месяцев назад

    I listened to almost every band at Belle Vue in 1980. Some fabulous playing of an iconic band score from a handful of bands on the day. Imps were outstanding. I seem to remember that some dynamics were removed for this contest (errata for trombones) and later re-instated. I still have the short score of "Energy" I bought that day.

    • @cottoneyemoe
      @cottoneyemoe 3 месяца назад

      My score has the following annotation on the inside cover: "COMPOSER'S ALTERATION: All parts from [55] to the end to be played fortissimo, and dynamic fluctuations between [55] and [57] + 4 bars, to be ignored." I don't know when this was added, but it seems to have been in effect here, though not at the 1991 British nationals. It was certainly a straight ff at the 1996 Norwegian nationals.

    • @Geoff_Tuba_UK
      @Geoff_Tuba_UK 3 месяца назад

      Confusing. I played in 1991 RAH London without crescendo and all fortissimo. From memory it was for that day it was introduced.

  • @Deearepee1963
    @Deearepee1963 9 месяцев назад

    Do you have the link to the video this came from, please?

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 9 месяцев назад

      It cam from this video: ruclips.net/video/argAK1DpOnA/видео.html&lc=Ugw6Edd87QFh8lnE5xl4AaABAg.9ug-7dar9lg9vcz_48Zv0C

    • @Deearepee1963
      @Deearepee1963 9 месяцев назад

      Thank you 😊

  • @PHMPublishing
    @PHMPublishing 9 месяцев назад

    This work and concert was conceived and produced by BBC Radio 3. Robin’s visceral work is impressive and played with authority by Grimethorpe and Frank Renton. This must be an off air recording as the originals will be in the BBC archive or deleted.

  • @lloydpayne6668
    @lloydpayne6668 9 месяцев назад

    It's great, like Malcolm Arnold on steroids!

  • @301Alexhorn
    @301Alexhorn 9 месяцев назад

    Perfect is dull. Nice to hear the première of this terrific piece!!!

  • @FrancisGregory
    @FrancisGregory 9 месяцев назад

    I want to sound as good as owen

    • @julianastephens6287
      @julianastephens6287 8 месяцев назад

      Bet you can 😉

    • @FrancisGregory
      @FrancisGregory 8 месяцев назад

      😂😂@@julianastephens6287

    • @SOBIESKI_freedom
      @SOBIESKI_freedom 7 месяцев назад

      Practice... especially long notes.

    • @FrancisGregory
      @FrancisGregory 7 месяцев назад

      I actually played his second movement just recently for my exam, but the first and last movement @@SOBIESKI_freedom is quite a bit more tricky

  • @AG-fl3kl
    @AG-fl3kl 9 месяцев назад

    Owen has such a beautiful tone on his horn

  • @christhomas8662
    @christhomas8662 9 месяцев назад

    Fantastic - thank you!

  • @adelaidedupont9017
    @adelaidedupont9017 9 месяцев назад

    So the UK was cloning these Belgian pieces of technology...

    • @alecgallagher9196
      @alecgallagher9196 9 месяцев назад

      Oh yes. Although Sax himself was accused of plagiarism on more than one occasion, of course.

    • @adelaidedupont9017
      @adelaidedupont9017 9 месяцев назад

      @@alecgallagher9196 Go on!

  • @adelaidedupont9017
    @adelaidedupont9017 9 месяцев назад

    Anomaly spotting is not one of my strengths - if anything I will listen carefully and intently to the programme! 🎺🎵🎶📯🎷