Regent Brass at the National Brass Band Championships, 2023

St James - A New Beginning (Philip Harper)

The world première of 'Castle in the Sky' by Robin Fiedler on 1st December 2023 at Regent Hall, London. This is performed by the joint forces of the Camden Youth Brass Band and Regent Brass, conducted by Alan Duguid.

This work was made possible through Making Music's 'Adopt a Creator' scheme.

Programme Note: 

Castle in the Sky was written for Regent Brass and Camden Brass Band
for Adopt a Music Creator 2023, using materials from two workshops led
with the bands within the Scheme. Thinking of brass band as a medium,
I wanted to paint the image of something heavy and somewhat imposing,
yet floating and moving flexibly. I associate brass instruments with having
found (or returned to) one’s core as a person and being able to act
and engage with life from a grounded place. The castle, in its role as
the base and centre of a ruling force or entity, is meant as a metaphor for
this core, but it needs to defy gravity and float in order to remain flexible
and open as we grow and go through life. Within the workshops, Regent
Brass was set a task to improvise around images of extraordinary,
alien-looking animals, whereas Camden Brass were imagining themselves
to be superheroes, composing their own theme tunes. Castle in the Sky
means to be an affirming synthesis and representative of the belief that
as people, somewhere between dreaming big and embracing our quirks
and strangenesses, we can become something that defies anything that
pulls us back. (Robin Fiedler, London, August 2023)

Castle In The Sky (Robin Fiedler)

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Music for Jock Tamson (Alan Fernie)

Performed by Regent Brass at Chalk Farm Salvation Army Hall, March 2024

The Kingdom Triumphant (Eric Ball)

Performed at Chalk Farm Salvation Army Hall, March 2024

The Long Day Closes (Arthur Sullivan arr. Ball)

Performed at Chalk Farm Salvation Army Hall, March 2024. Horn Soloist: Neil Rossiter

September Fantasy (Eric Ball)

Performed at the SCABA Spring Contest, February 2024

March: Rosslyn (Eric Ball)

Regent Brass at the London & Southern Counties Area Contest 2025 (3rd place)

Introduction, Elegy and Caprice (Morley Calvert)

Tilbury Band performing at the London & Southern Counties Regional Contest 2009 (second section)

Resurgam (Eric Ball)

Redbridge Brass at the London & Southern Counties regional contest, 2015 (championship section)

The Torchbearer (Peter Graham)

Redbridge Brass at the Grand Shield 2014 (opening not recorded)

On Alderly Edge (Peter Graham)

Redbridge Brass performing at the 2015 Butlins Entertainment contest

Chaos from 'Reflection of Earth' (Gavin Greenway arr. Baker)

RCB performing the 'revised version' of this work at their first ever contest, the SCABA Autumn Contest 2012

Variations on 'Laudate Dominum' (Edward Gregson)

Recorded live in concert at St Silas, Pentonville, 6th October 2024.

L’homme armé: Variations (Christopher Marshall)

Second Suite in F (Gustav Holst)

Recording from Regent Hall Brass Arts Festival, 2025

Atlantic Zephyrs (Gardell Simons)

Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Gavin Bryars)

Immortal Theme (Ray Steadman-Allen)

Military March from 'Othello' (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arr. Robinson)

Cloud Rider (Dan Price)

Strange Light (Peter Yarde-Martin)

Four Dances from 'Checkmate' (Sir Arthur Bliss arr. Ball)

Summer is Gone (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arr. Duguid)

Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely (Kelly-Marie Murphy)

His Provision (Ivor Bosanko arr. Gates)

Gold Saturday (Errollyn Wallen)

Regent Brass performing at the Wychavon Festival of Brass 2025

Tangled Space (Peter Yarde-Martin)

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Alan Duguid

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