CD - Premier Brass 2014 (live recording) - Steven Mead (soloist) with Amsterdam Staff Band and Brassband Schoonhoven |
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Here is a brand new release from a concert that took place on Sat. 21st June 2014. It's a live recording of highlights from the concert. Steve was the guest soloist and his featured items are:
Variations - Lloyd Webber Arr.Wilson
Timepiece (duet) - Norman Bearcroft (duet with Simon Smedinga
Batipopo Duo - unaccompanied duet with Misa Mead
The Water is Wide (O Waly Waley) - Arr. Stephen Roberts
The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Rimsky Korsakov Arr. Mark Freeh
Other works on this great new disc are:
South Shields Celebration (Cordner), The Water of Tyne (Harper), African Symphony (McCoy), Credo (Barry), Lux Arumque (Withacre),
Letter from Home (Sparke), Motivation (Himes), Variations on a Celestial Theme (Downie), Madiba (Scott)
The Premier Brass series of concerts began in 2002, nnd the Amsterdam Staff Band of the Salvation Army hosts a concert that features a renowned brass band. This 2014 edition of Premier Brass featured one of the best bands in the Netherlands, Brassband Schoonhoven, guest conducted by the Belgian conductor Ivan Meylemans. The Amsterdam Staff Band was conducted by Olaf Ritman.