Cat No. JM47432
Price £13.95
Composer: Doyen
Category: BRASS BAND CDs

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Grimethorpe Colliery Band ( UK Coal ) conducted by Elgar Howarth.

Tracks:
01. Energy (Robert Simpson)(10.20)
02. - 04. Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)(15.25)
05. - 07. Euphonium Concerto (Joseph Horovitz)(16.50)
08. Connotations (Edward Gregson)(12.39)
09. - 12. Jazz (Philip Wilby)(14.32)

Total playing time 69.46

The Modern Era
This, the fourth disc in The History of Brass Band Music series, brings the repertoire up-to- date (2005) so far as the mainstream is concerned. Inevitably, with the obvious exception of the concerto, all the pieces are their composers’ response to commissions from various competition organisations. Inevitably too, I have had to discard several composers and their contributions, there is only so much space on a disc. Thus there is no Sparke, a composer I admire and no McCabe, this an omission I very much regret, and on this disc no Bourgeois though he will feature on the final disc ‘New Adventures’.
Simpson’s Energy is essential listening for a student of band writing, the first motivic work it is a tough but exhilarating ride from its slow motion beginning to its almost reckless burn out ending. Gregson captured exactly the right manner and, style in his Connotations for that moment in the mid 70’s when the percussion section was released from its serfdom to an equal role with the brass. Horovitz’s Euphonium Concerto provides the first major work for solo euphonium in band history.

Contest Music I regard, as I did when I first read the score, as a masterpiece of the genre, as I do Wilby’s superlative Jazz. Here is music which establishes the brass band as a genuine force in the modern world.
Elgar Howarth.
1970 - 2000
future titles in this series:
Classics
Arrangements
New Adventures