Ian Bousfield will be heard on BBC Radio 3 next week in a performance of Buxton Orr’s lyrical Trombone Concerto. The programme is a broadcast of highlights from the Royal Northern College of Music’s annual Festival of Brass which took place in January. The brass bands heard include Black Dyke, YBS, Brighouse and Rastrick, Fodens (Richardson) and Grimethorpe (UK Coal) Band.

RNCM Festival of Brass 2006
19:00 Wednesday 8th March 2006
BBC Radio 3

Performance on 3
Celebrating Mozart and Landscapes and Images

Petroc Trelawny introduces highlights from a unique event in the brass band calendar. The festival themes of Celebrating Mozart and Landscapes and Images are featured.

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen: Hommage à W A Mozart (Festival Commission, first performance)
Elgar Howarth: Cornet Concerto
Håkan Hardenberger (cornet)
Grimethorpe (UK Coal) Band
Allan Withington (conductor)

Peter Meechan: Snake Eyes (Festival Commission, first performance)
RNCM Brass Ensemble
James Gourlay (conductor)

Herbert Howells: Pageantry
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
James Gourlay (conductor)

Martin Ellerby: Terra Australis (UK Première)
YBS Band
David King (conductor)

Buxton Orr: Trombone Concerto
Arthur Bliss: Kenilworth
Ian Bousfield (trombone)
Fodens (Richardson) Band
Garry Cut (conductor)

Philip Wilby: Music for the Moving Image (UK Première)
Malcolm Arnold, arr Farr: Four Cornish Dances
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs (conductor)