Brass

Brass Band

Morceaux de concours

Fragile Oasis

Winning Performance at the 2013 of  Stephen Roberts Arabian Nights -  Fantasy on Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade for Brass Band

Tredegar Arabian Nights Winning Performance British Open 2013

Yorkshire Regionals Championship Section 2014 - Black Dyke Band - St Magnus at St George's Hall

This is a remastered recording of the YRBBC 2014 Winning performance of St Magnus, conducted by David King. 


Brighouse & Rastrick (David King) - St Magnus (Kenneth Downie) - 2014 Yorks Champs

Manger Musikklag -  "Revelation" by Phillip Wilby 
Church concert - May 2014
Conducted by Peter Sebastian Szilvaj 

Revelation - Manger Musikklag

"Concerto Grosso" by Derek Bourgeois performed by Manger Musikklag in the Norwegian National Championships in 2014. 

Conductor : Philip Harper

Concerto Grosso - Manger Musikklag

Manger Musikklag preformed the fantastisk piece of Elgar Howarth, "Hymnes at heavens gate" on our Brasswind festival in 2013. 

Conductor - Rune Hannisdal

Hymns At Heaven's Gate - Manger Musikklag

Enregistré lors du Championnat Suisse des Brass Bands le 30.11.2014. 

A Tale Of Sorcerers

*****, Concerto n°10 for Brass Band, Percussion & Onde Martenot.
This pièce without title is a true invitation to emotion. Several times I asked myself how could I call a work that tends to speak of emotion, passion and feelings. But for this, my choice was just stopped on the title "*****". Why? Because it is to me quite impossible to name the exact moment when our heart is beating deeply, when we feel an indescribable element who slides under the skin, when a tear escapes quietly from a sight, when our hair stands on all over our body, when our soul takes possession of our flesh. 
Being fascinated by this phenomenon that art causes to humans when it is understood and crossed, the opportunity to work on this mesmerizing creation really pleased me.

Initially, I wrote this piece so instinctivly and probably without worrying about the main problem; The emotion must be induced in the audience, but first among the performers. To transmit a feeling, a mood, the musician must first understand the literature, seize it and give back to the audience in the most accomplished playing. 
The harmonies are nothing. Counterpoint is only mathematical. And orchestration is an artifice. The alchemist then merges these elements to make a Total Art, an Emotion. 
Specifically, after a couple of different versions of this piece and weeks thinking about my goal, this latest version has finally been accepted. There is scarcely no relation between the first test and the final Full Score. 
Questioning the composer was daily and collaboration with the performers was a terrific learning experience.

*****, Concerto n°10 for BB, Percussion & Onde Martenot

Manger Musikklag performed the great piece by Philip Sparke, Perihelion - Concerto for Brassband at the Norwegian Nationals February 2015. This was the own-choice winning performance and the conductor was Philip Harper. 

Perihelion - Close To The Sun - Manger Musikklag

My piece "...as a Glow" as played at last ECC in Freiburg.
Audience Prizewinner
Band Prizewinner

As A Glow - ECC2015

Fire in the sky

11/12 Minute work for tuba and brass band (also scored with wind band or orchestra). Les Neish commissioned the work, and this is the premiere performance given by him and the Grimethorpe Brass Band (conducted by Howard Evans)

Shine - for solo tuba

Own choice piece played by Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia at Swiss Nationals (November 2015

The Fallen Bride Live In Stravinsky

The Legend of King Arthur

B of the Bang

Soprano Cornet Solo, Only For You by Paul Lovatt-Cooper.

Played by Paul Duffy & Black Dyke Band

Recorded live at De Lawei hall in Drachten, Holland, 2010

Only For You

Destroy, Trample, as Swiftly as She. Commissioned for the European Brass Band Championships, performed by the Tredegar Town Band.

The Fallen Bride Live In Stravinsky

Ludovic Neurohr, Composer