2024 4BR Band of the Year — 4barsrest
2024年12月25日 · Winner: Brass Band Treize Etoiles. 2. Flowers. 3. Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag. Although they didn't dominate the contesting world as they did in 2023, the remarkable Swiss band still retained the European title in Palanga and won the British Open in truly memorable fashion in Birmingham.
2024 4BR Player of the Year — 4barsrest
2024年12月25日 · Winner: Paul Richards. 2. Vidar Nordli. 3. Mathilde Roh. The closest category of this year's awards sees Paul Richards, the superb soprano cornet player of Flowers Band adding to his extensive tally of accolades in 2024 by becoming '4BR Player of the Year'.
4BR Band of the Year — The conductors and players — 4barsrest
2024年12月29日 · Once again in 2024 there were plenty of outstanding individual as well as ensemble performances to enjoy throughout the banding world. The demands of modern solo and test-pieces may well highlight great technical virtuosity, but sometimes it is the little moments of melodic lyricism that makes the hair on your neck stand on end.
2025 Spring Festival judges announced — 4barsrest
2024年12月23日 · The adjudicators for the 2025 British Open Spring Festival to be held at Blackpool's Winter Gardens on Saturday May 10th has been announced. The list comprises (in alphabetical order): Lt Col David Barringer MBE, Morgan Griffiths, Alan Morrison, Lynda Nicholson, Andrea Price and Helen Varley.
2024 4BR Contest Performance of the Year — 4barsrest
2024年12月25日 · Winner: Brass Band Treize Etoiles — The Lost Circle (British Open) 2. Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag — Jesus in Tibet (Norwegian National Championships)
Wilfred Heaton — His Life - His Music (Part 1) — 4barsrest
2025年1月18日 · In the first of a series of exclusive extracts from his much anticipated biography to be released at the RNCM International Brass Band Festival, author Paul Hindmarsh explores the early life of the enigmatic composer. Saturday, 18 January 2025 Paul Hindmarsh’s much-anticipated biography of the ...
Athena Brass — A unique beacon of excellence — 4barsrest
2025年1月10日 · Formed in 2003, Athena Brass is the first all-female brass band in the United States of America. Their regular performances at the International Womens’ Brass Conferences have gained widespread critical acclaim, with their most recent appearance at the event in Mito City, Japan in 2024 also bringing widespread mainstream media attention.
LP review: Concerto - 4barsrest
2025年1月2日 · A contrasting Concerto Grosso is offered by Denis Wright’s ‘Trio Concerto’ (completed shortly before his death in 1967), unabashedly romantic in outlook and style (premiered in the same year by the National Youth Brass Band), the energised opening leading into a tender elegy and sprightly finale. ‘Concerto’ may well have been the end of a recording era, yet as the Parkes/Chandos ...
Review: CD review: Resurget Cineribus — 4barsrest
2025年1月4日 · The featured soloists certainly know how to deliver in the spotlight. The splendid David ‘Cookie’ Koch imbues Children of Sachez’ with insouciant flair, whilst Chris Jackson provides playful mid-West nimbleness on the Eb tuba with Kevin Norbury’s ‘Badinage’.. Thrilling conclusion. Andrew Wainwright’s ‘Metamorphosis on …
Review: CD review: Regionals 2025 — 4barsrest
2024年10月16日 · ‘Arkansas’ (2009) is a distinctly non-urban musical landscape; its triptych form based on a trio of well known folk tunes from America’s ‘Natural State’, with the composer’s own little nods to classical formations. A resolute opening of optimism leads to a lyrical ballad of pioneering spirit with a brisk, vivacious finale bringing the work to a bold end.