Cat No. JM49231
Price £13.95
Material: Doyen
Category: BRASS BAND CDs

Your chance to hear how one of the top bands from forty years ago sounded - quite different from today. Instrument technology along with a different approach to playing have created a very different sound over the years. These recordings have been carefully digitally remastered from four of twelve LPs recorded on the Pye label by Black Dyke between 1966 and 1980 – so no, you are not going to hear "scratchie" sounds on your CD player, but perfectly CLEAR WONDERFUL RECORDINGS worthy of any CD you buy of a band recorded yesterday - they are :

1. “Champions Again ! “
2. “High Peak for Brass”
3. “Triumphant Brass”
4. “The Trumpets”

These recordings are a great snapshot in time, to hear the timbre of brass bands in the mid to late 60's on our modern audio CD and mp3 players. There is some quite beautiful lyrical playing especially in SPECTRUM & TRIUMPHANT RHAPSODY along with Geoffrey Brand's interpretation of these great works for band, and of course a rare opportunity to hear Vinter's last major work THE TRUMPETS, which is Waltonian in its appeal with strong similarities between this work and BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.

THE TRUMPETS is surely worth a BBC Proms live performance sometime in the near future !

The comprehensive CD booklet notes by Tim Mutum are enlightening, and give a good overview of Gilbert Vinter's life, making this a "must have" purchase for all brass band enthusiasts around the world.

Tracks :
01. John O'Gaunt by Gilbert Vinter, Black Dyke Mills Band 1969 10.46
02. Spectrum by Gilbert Vinter Black Dyke Mills Band 1970, 11.55
03. Triumphant Rhapsody by Gilbert Vinter Black Dyke Mills Band 1972, 12.03
The Trumpets by Gilbert Vinter, Black Dyke Mills Band 1968
04. I. Blazon 2.40
05. II. Destruction, 6.04
06. III. Dedication, 6.16
07. IV. Revelation, 21.58

Highlights of the 2007 National Finals at both Harrogate and in London.

Featuring Black Dyke Band, Seindorf Beaumaris Band, Point of Ayr Colliery Band, Wellington (Telford) Band, Lostock Hall Memorial Band, Grimethorpe Colliery Band