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A Whit Friday street party

Hannah explores the towns taken over by marching brass bands for one day a year, and heads to Japan to discover its small but mighty banding scene.

Hannah explores the towns taken over by marching brass bands for one day a year. Rosie Banham of Oldhams Delph Band explains the allure of the Whit Friday parade and recommends a favourite marching band piece. Plus Hannah heads to Japan to discover its small but mighty banding scene with a brass arrangement of a traditional Japanese folk song. Elsewhere in the show theres a hymn for Manchester from Tubular Brass, a tribute to Benjamin Britten from composer Simon Dobson, and a track demonstrating an early adoption of electronic equipment into brass bands.

Produced by Olivia Swift
A Reform Radio production for ѿý Radio 3

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Jun 2025 20:00

Music Played

  • ҶӞ̫

    Jounetsu Tairiku

    Ensemble: Brighouse and Rastrick Band. Conductor: Dr Jonathan Corry.
    • World Of Brass.
  • Richard Wainwright

    Manchester

    Performer: Tubular Brass. Performer: Stuart Lingard. Conductor: Sandy Smith.
    • KMJ recordings.
  • William Spofforth

    Hail! Smiling Morn

    Performer: Delph Band.
    • World Of Brass.
  • George Allan

    Knight Templar

    Performer: Black Dyke Band.
    • World Of Brass.
  • Simon Dobson

    Diversions (After B. Britten's Diversions, Op. 21): No. 2, Scherzo. His Vitality

    Performer: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • NMC.
  • Philip Harper

    Fuego!

    Performer: Cory Band. Performer: Tom Hutchinson. Conductor: Philip Harper.
    • Doyen.
  • Kosaku Yamada

    Aka Tonbo

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
  • Philip Sparke

    Concerto, for cornet and brass band II. Lento assai

    Performer: Breeze Brass Band. Performer: Roger B. Webster. Conductor: Kazuyoshi Uemura.
    • Kosei.
  • Elgar Howarth

    Concerto for Eb Tenor Horn and Brass Band - Molto Moderato

    Performer: Eikanger-Bj?rsvik Musikklag. Performer: Lesley Howie.
    • World Of Brass.
  • Tim Souster

    Echoes

    Performer: Desford Colliery Band.
    • Doyen.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Jun 2025 20:00