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I believe this is the lap of honour performance, as there is a documentary on RU-vid which follows a few bands to this contest, and during the competition performance the audience only starts to applaud after the last note starts. In the lap of honour, everyone starts to applaud way before then, like in this recording!
What a lovely sound! I absolutely adore the sound of the brass ensemble in a classical style. Why has this style of music become so uncommon in the modern day?
This piece URGENTLY needs a new recording. It was composed around the time the BEATLES were recording THE BEATLES (otherwise known as ‘The White Album’) and PAUL MCCARTNEY was writing THINGUMYBOB for the Black Dyke Mills Band (ie 1968). This brass band band piece, DOING, is based on - or a reaction to - the Beatles song YOU CAN’T DO THAT from 1964 on their album A HARD DAYS NIGHT. The composer is in effect saying ‘yes, I can do this.’
I'm not sure what recordings some people are listening to but I've still got a cassette recording of the radio broadcast from Swinton's winning performance at the 1989 British Open (Ken Bruce is the compare) and this is definitely the same one with Gary Lord on sop with the extra long last note in the second movement and Steve Walker on solo trom rattling the double tonguing in on the last movement.
Thanks for placing it right 🥰 the Fairey win from RAH from 1986 and this is often mixed up. Here is a link to the Fairey win from the Nationals Diversions, Op. 97 (1986 NATIONALS) - Fairey Engineering ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VZK6PRr6b-E.html
If I want to know how to play any cornet solo, I listen to Jim Shepherd play it first. Just beautiful. Phrased correctly to sound as it would be if it when sung, which so many players don't seem to bother with.
Marvellous! Shame the Mike placing constrains Lyndon Baglin's wonderful euph tone - still, plenty from the top end, I'm guessing Tony Whittaker and Peter Teal.
I would be interested to know any more names from B&R on the recording . I'm pretty sure it would have been Derek Roebuck on G Trombone . Do you know who was on soprano cornet ? Thanks , Mark .
@@Mark64W Afraid not. When I retire I shall get my LPs from the garage. I attended the 1968 (?) RAH contest and seem to recall B & R winning on Meistrrsingers and then recorded. Some other names perhaps Stewart Swallow (flugal), Chris Garfitt trombone, just names from the back of the LP.
so well played by the band ,, after many years of playing with bands its not my first choice as music i enjoy playing ,, my old partner on Bb Bass and I use to call this stuff 'squeak + fart music ,,, but we played it in any case for the good of the band ..
Sun Life..sadly no longer performing..a great ensemble..much loved by so many Bandspersons !..Bourgeois really stretched an ensemble, technically and stylistically..superb performance of a masterwork with the great Dr. Roy at the helm..
