1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, conducted by Harry Mortimer, performed by the massed bands of Black Dyke, CWS Manchester, GUS and Fairey - 1972 Brass Band festival in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Incredibale combination of bands including G.U.S. Footwear band of which my dad was cornet player. Lovely rare footage of the percussion section in action. Many thanks for this.❤
Incredible! It really does sound like an orchestra, including strings! Whoever rescored this version is a genius! Realized by superlative playing, and good to see the great Harry Mortimer in action. Thanks for this post! (I'm not normally a fan of brass bands, incidentally!)
I can't imagine the massive sound out of these 4 bands together. Event the percussion is covered. I believe even the seismographs in the area recorded it as well.
@@Mark64W That's right. He was solo cornet for most of Elgar Howarth's remarkable ground breaking tenure at G during the 1970s when EH pretty much single handedly broke and moved the boundaries of the Brass Band concert repertoire - I used to have 2 LP recordings from that time, one featuring EH playing his own cornet concerto and another with Paulin as soloist playing some cream puff whimsical piece in 3 short movements ( I think). You can also see and hear Paulin on the Arrividerci Grimethorpe documentary shot in the late 1970s. Btw. McCann and Paulin were contemporaries and are both Scots also 🙂
