Black Dyke Band

The annual RNCM International Brass Band Festival brings together some of the greatest bands in the world performing a combination of traditional banding music with new commissions and a few surprises as well. Mark Forrest introduces one of the highlights from this year's festival, a concert given at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester by the Black Dyke Band under its Musical Director, Nicholas Childs. The programme features new work from Hollywood film composer Bruce Broughton, inspired by the devastating Californian fires from last year, alongside a new percussion concerto from Cornish composer Simon Dobson. Also in the programme, music from the festival's featured composer Philip Sparke and an arresting arrangement from a part of Respighi's powerful Roman Tryptch.

Paul Lovatt-Cooper: Fanfare for Bradford (In Actio Nobilate)
Bruce Broughton: Wildfire (world premiere)
Philip Sparke: Gemini (duo concerto for cornet, euphonium and brass band)
Edward Gregson: Symphony in Two Movements

Interval

Jacob Vilhelm Larsen: Aureum Spiriti (world premiere)
Simon Dobson: Percussion Concerto
Ottorino Respighi: (arr. Howard Snell) Feste Romane

Black Dyke Band
Tom Hutchinson (cornet)
Adam Bokaris (euphonium)
Yasuaki Fukuhara (percussion)
Nicholas Childs (conductor)