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Take Five but It's Song of Storms

Northop Silver Band's performance of Of Distant Memories, by Edward Gregson, at the National Brass Band Championship Finals, Royal Albert Hall, October 12th 2013

Of Distant Memories

Black Dyke - Symphony in Two Movements (Edward Gregson) - EBBC 2013

Recording of the test piece from the Norwegian National Championships 2010. 
The piece was written by Thomas Doss.
Conductor - Peter Sebastian Szilvaj


Sketches From Nowhere - Manger Musikklag

Vita Aeterna Variations - Black Dyke British Open 2014

Live recording of the Fountain City Brass Band at the 2014 NABBA competition. I am playing timpani. 

Vienna Nights - Wilby

Spiriti - Black Dyke Band

Brass Band Berner Oberland
National Championships of Switzerland 2015
Set Test

Triumph of Time by Peter Graham - Brass Band Berner Oberland

Music of the Spheres

Epitaph For Hillsborough

Wingates brass band performing the 2011 Brass Band/Wind band category winner of the BASCA British Composer Awards; In Pitch Black by Lucy Pankhurst. Conducted by David Thornton - featured on the CD 'Perspectives of Pretoria'.
The work was commissioned by the Wingates Band as part of the 2010 Pretoria Pit Disaster centenary commemorative events in West Houghton.

In Pitch Black

Sneak peak of my recording of York's Prophecies for Euphonium

York Prophecies Clip

Evergreen - Sandy Smith (tenor horn) Grimethorpe Colliery Band

O Magnum Mysterium, by Morton Lauridsen.  

All 8 parts performed by John Caputo

O Magnum Mysterium

Meechan

Purcell Variants: Movement 1

'Grieg Variations' is a through-composed work in the traditional style of a 'theme & variations'. The work opens with the main melodic fragment featured throughout Grieg Variations which comes from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No.2; the final movement - 'Solveig's Song'.

This theme is followed by a set of 9 variations, each taking inspiration from various melodies and styles found within the Peer Gynt Suite. The first variation, a light-footed scherzo based upon the tonal line of Solveig's Song is followed by an 'Alla marcia' variation - in which the music is inspired by the 2nd movement - 'Arab Dance' - of the original suite. The 3rd variation takes a far darker and more aggressive turn in a variation set around the music of the 1st movement of the Peer Gynt Suite before a relaxation into a solemne revisiting of the original theme. Opening with a sombre and longing solo for Flugel horn, the focal point of this 4th variation is an extended solo for the Solo Euphonium, marked 'molto espressivo'. The new material here is used as a theme throughout this variation, being reprised by the full band immediately after as the music builds to a climax point at the top of the musical line.

Following this, there are 2 cadenzas for the Solo Horn and Solo Cornet respectively; the former inspired by the thematic material of Solveig's Song, and the latter from the Oboe cadenza at the beginning of Grieg's '2 Lyric Pieces, Op.68'. These cadenzas lead swiftly into the 7th variation, a bustling rhyhm-driven movement set in complex time. The 3rd movement of the Peer Gynt Suite No.2 - 'Peer Gynt's Homecoming' - makes it's first appearance in variation 8 in a triumphant battle-like setting before a combination of both this material and the Solveig's Song combine to bring Grieg Variations to it's close -not without a little nod to potentially Grieg's most famous work - In The Hall of the Mountain King.

Vita Aeterna Variations - Black Dyke British Open 2014

Jacob Guilbeau

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