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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK regionals 2012 1. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea* © Chester Music Derek Bourgeois 17.12 Championship section: Williams Fairey Band conducted by Major Peter Parkes 2. Mountain Views © Obrasso Verlag Bertrand Moren 10.29 First section: Black Dyke Band conducted by Dr Nicholas J. Childs 3. Cross Patonce* © Studio Music Goff Richards 12.18 Second section: Leyland Band conducted by Richard Evans 4. Olympus © Harper Music Publications Philip Harper 11.25 Third section: Cory Band conducted by Dr Robert Childs 5-7. English Folk Song Suite © Boosey & Hawkes Ralph Vaughan Williams 9.53 5. March – Seventeen Come Sunday 3.10 6. Intermezzo – My Bonny Boy 3.11 7. March – Folk Songs from Somerset 3.32 Fourth section: Black Dyke Band conducted by Dr Nicholas J. Childs *Tracks 1 and 3 by kind permission of Polyphonic Recordings Tracks 2, 5, 6 and 7 recorded at Morley Town Hall, July 2011 Track 4 recorded Urdd Hall, Cardiff July 2011 DOY CD286 Code No. Booklet-Pgs12&1 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK and completed a hat-trick of European the various sections, the band has won regionals 2012 titles in 2010. prizes at all the major competitions in Bands in the Championship section will composition with Herbert Howells and the brass band arena. Leyland Band won have the challenge of Derek Bourgeois’ conducting with Sir Adrian Boult. He has In 2002 the band was selected to play for the the 1994 British Open Championships, regionals 2012 music. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea composed six symphonies, eight concertos, Queen’s Jubilee celebrations and have since the All England Masters in 1989, 1992 was originally written for the National Brass several other extended orchestral works, performed in many of the world’s finest and 2003 and the 2005 National Brass Band Championships held at the Royal five major works for chorus and orchestra concert venues including the Grieg Hall, Band Championships. Leyland Band has Albert Hall, London on 16 October 1993. and two operas. As well as a considerable Stravinsky Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and also rightly earned its reputation as an The winners were the Williams Fairey Band quantity of chamber, vocal and instrumental Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. In 2003 they unrivalled concert entertainer by producing conducted by Major Peter Parkes and it is music, he has composed nine extended performed with the Royal Philharmonic dynamic and unique performances both at that performance we hear on this disc. works for brass band and two symphonies Orchestra at the Last Night of the Welsh home and abroad. Leyland Band has always for symphonic wind orchestra. He has Proms and were more recently featured fostered a strong sense of originality. The composer said of the piece: “There is no also written a large amount of music for during the opening celebrations of the new specific programme to the music. It started television productions. From 1970 to 1984 he Welsh Millennium Centre. In 1980, the ensemble was the first western life as a piece of absolute music, but when was a Lecturer in Music at Bristol University. brass band to tour Japan, a country it I reached the difficult fugue section in the The Cory Band are recognised as one the revisited during a tour that also included Prestissimo, I was reminded of the fugue in He was the conductor of the Sun Life Band Principality’s finest and most innovative South Korea in the 1990s. In the last decade, Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings, from 1980 until 1983 and during the same music ensembles. Their numerous CD four coast to coast tours of the United States which Elgar himself described as ‘a devil of period was Chairman of the Composers, recordings and live concert performances of America are testament to the band’s far- a fugue’. The final section of my piece was Guild of Great Britain, and a member of the have received worldwide acclaim. reaching appeal. Numerous performances composed in an idyllic cottage overlooking Music Advisory Panel of the Arts Council. In in continental Europe have been a feature Lulworth Cove in Dorset. Remembering September 1984 he gave up his university Leyland Band of the band’s work on the concert platform. Elgar’s ‘devil’ and with a spectacular view of post to become the Musical Director of the Musical Director Richard Evans It has also had great success at the Brass the deep blue sea, as well as realising how National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. The Leyland Band was established in 1946 in Concert Championships, having been difficult this piece was going to be for the In 1988 he founded the National Youth in the heart of industrial Lancashire as awarded the Brass in Concert crown on four competing bands, I soon found the title that Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain, which the Leyland Motors Band, taking its name occasions. had been eluding me." held its first course in the Summer of 1989. from the world famous truck and bus He was also guest conductor of the National company. Now an independent group of 30 Leyland Band has appeared in numerous Derek Bourgeois (b.1941) Youth Brass Band of Great Britain in 1994. musicians, the band has retained its local television and radio broadcasts, specifically Derek Bourgeois was born in Kingston connection and proudly bears the name of for the Granada Band of the Year, BBC on Thames in 1941. He graduated from In 1990 he was appointed Artistic Director of its home town. Radio 3 and Listen to the Band. It has an Cambridge University with a first class the Bristol Philharmonic Orchestra. He left impressive discography and has recorded honours degree in music and a subsequent the National Youth Orchestra in August 1993 The past 25 years of the band’s existence over 40 commercial CDs. doctorate. He spent two years at the to become the Director of Music of St Paul’s has been the most consistently successful Royal College of Music where he studied Girls’ School in London. in its history. After a meteoric rise through Code No. Booklet-Pgs2&11 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK National Championships and regained the status and three years later achieved the Bourgeois’ major works for brass band in major dissonance and violent percussion title in 2011. distinction of performing what is believed addition to the piece on this disc include blows creating the sound of lightning strikes to have been the first radio broadcast by Blitz and Diversions for Brass Band, all three and treacherous landslides. From its earliest days Black Dyke Band has a brass band. A significant honour was used as test pieces for the National Brass regionals 2012 always encouraged young people to enjoy bestowed on the band in 1976 when they Band Championships at Royal Albert Hall, Then the music gradually calms down music at the highest level; in 2006 under the were chosen to represent Wales and the London. leading into an andante doloroso reminiscent guidance of Dr Nicholas Childs and with the brass band movement on a tour of the USA of a funeral song dedicated to all those who support of Leeds Metropolitan University as part of their bicentennial celebrations. nm lost their lives climbing mountains. the band formed the Yorkshire Youth Brass Band. The purpose behind the creation of In 1998 Just Rentals, a locally based company, The music of Swiss composer Bertrand The final main passage of the piece is a furious the YYBB is to inspire young people aged agreed to support the band, resulting in Moren is the challenge for the First section allegro reassembling all the constituent 11-18 who have already achieved Grade 4, it being known as the ‘Just Rentals’ Cory bands with Mountain Views, played here by themes that have contributed, through using the umbrella of members of Black Band. Just Rentals changed their name to Black Dyke Band conducted by Dr Nicholas various parts well-entwined and marked Dyke Band and facilities of the band’s Buy As You View to reflect developments Childs. by distinct nuances, building towards a partners, Leeds Metropolitan University. in their business and with this the band glorious finale. We may be reminded through became known as the ‘Buy As You View’ This piece is a musical representation of this passage of the journey of a mountain The band logo of the stag’s head and Latin Cory Band. In 2007, the band once again the impressions that mountains give us. climber, the effort involved as well as the quotation are taken from the armorial became known as The Cory Band. In 1980 Although it is not exactly programme music, doubts and hazards faced along the way. bearings granted in 1857 to John Foster, the band became European Champions and it does carry some quite precise allusions. Upon the successful completion of the ascent founder of the band. The quotation in 1984, their centenary year, they won the A very soft and slow introduction tends to comes the final reward – the revelation of a translates to: third in a hat-trick of National titles at the conjure up a picture of mountains at dawn, magnificent view of the mountain landscape. A C T J U S T L Y A N D F E A R N O T H I N G Royal Albert Hall, London. with their true majesty and glory still hidden in the dark of night. Chords gradually rising Bertrand Moren (b.1976) Cory Band Further contest successes came in 2000 in a big crescendo open our eyes to a full Bertrand Moren was born on 26 June 1976 Musical Director Dr Robert Childs following the appointment of Dr Robert panoramic view, revealing the main theme of and began playing the piano when he was The Cory Band hails from the Rhondda Childs as their Musical Director.