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Incredible performance

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The second movement is one of the most beautifully written - such a gentle but infinitely deep melancholy!

So many superb modal moments - completely worthy of the Great Modal Masters - in this piece. Jacob - woefully neglected and simply not 'heard' in the deepest sense. A rich musical feast indeed. Can we now please have one of our modern top-shelf bands dedicate an album to Jacob's music for brass band? Thanks in advance.

This is the best thing I've ever heard on the horn, it's amazing

Very fine !

Lighter heating Frank Lloyd☠️

amazing. as usual.

Excellent piece of research and presentation of British Brass Band History that gets a lot accross without boring your audience

Exelente Maestro!!!

Met him in 2016 at Aldeburgh, really nice no nonsense chap but knew everything about music.

Thanks so much for posting this info!! An era of intelligence and inspiration!

Alec, How did you get hold of this? Its is an off air recording? I produced this with the RNCM team for the broadcast. I have a copy here at home and it sounds better than this! If everyone agrees, I'd be perfectly happy to post the one I have. It is not a BBC copyright recording, I'll contact David Thornton and Torstein about it.

Hi Alec, do you have the recording of Tippett's Mask of Time fanfare from this same recording and the other Lollipop stuff? Thanks, Ashley

Hi Alec, This is a terriffic channel! I was a teenager in 1986 and remember listening to this concert live on the radio! Do you happen to have a recording of the rest of the PJBE finale concert from BBC radio 3? (I notice you have uploaded the 'similar' Philip Jones memorial concert which includes some of the same music, including 'Pictures from an exhibition' which was a 'musical milestone' for me!) If so, I would love to hear the rest of it! I remember one of the 'surprise' pieces for Philip Jones was a performance of a march from Tippett's 'The Mask of Time' - which I have never been able to find on a recording since! The PJBE lollipops were also great, including the 'extras' added in especially for the occasion. You have other really rare BBC Radio recordings of some of my favourite - but really difficult to find live recordings of - brass band test pieces (especially Frontier! by Michael Ball, and Fusions by Howard Blake). I remember hearing them live on the Radio at the time, and wishing I could find recordings of them. Thanks once again. Ashley👍

Part 3 WAY too fast!!!

A great pictorial montage of a wonderful area.

Beautiful performance! 💓

Thanks for posting this sadly neglected work. The soloist gives a superb, understated performance and lets Orr's score speak for itself. It was a wee trip down memory lane for me, because I played euphonium with Whitburn Band in the 1980s and we recorded it for Bandstand with John Wallace, around 1986 if I remember correctly. For a piece of serial music it is very lyrical and I hope it doesn't remain neglected for much longer.

You may like to know that the session tapes of a commercial recording of this work, played by Equale and made by Nimbus, has surfaced after 35 years. The tapes are in good order, and Adrian farmer, the original engineer at Nimbus has prepared a master tape, which we hope will be suitable for commercial release now that the George Lloyd catalogue has moved to Nimbus.

Thank you for posting this - too bad Grimethorpe's wonderful performance from the RNCM Festival of Brass is unavailable! :)

Super piece!

When was this composed?

I have no idea why, but I've suddenly developed anew a taste for brass band music. Whatever happened to brass bands when Bandstand stopped on Radio 3? It was fascinating to hear composers like Phyllis Tate writing for the medium. This isn't exactly Grimethorpe Aria but it introduced performers and their traditional audiences to mildly modern composers. Tate was a name that cropped up from time to time but others, like Derek Bourgeois and Edward Gregson, showed they were no slouches with brass band music. I hope this piece is still part of the repertoire of several bands at least. Thanks very much for sharing.

This work is also called "The Three Ridings Suite" as per the version in the Roy Newsome Archive at Salford Uni. The movements are: I (West Riding) Prelude: Roundhay, II. (North Riding) Nocturne: Swaledale, III (East Riding) March: Ferensway. The finale was based on the finale of his Kingston Sketches, and AH reused the Nocturne as Nocturne Sables D'Or in his Four Breton Sketches.

A very young looking Jim Handy there, bless him, lovely guy!

Wunderbar

Hi Alec, do you know when this was recorded? And BTW thank you so much for so many of your postings. We were listening to the same broadcasts at the same time but most of my recordings are irretrievable now so this has been a real journey down memory lane.

This is incredible horn playing. Could you pass on the score?

This is so jarring and uncomfortable. Not how I feel when I'm in the Dales

Ja,geweldig dit ,was voor mij 1967 dat ik dit mocht mee spelen als jongentje van 12,13 jaar ,mooie tijd.

although the recording sounds vice versa

SEMITONE LOWER...derr

I sang in this premiere...a great experience!

50?yee god's

I listened to almost every band at Belle Vue in 1980. Some fabulous playing of an iconic band score from a handful of bands on the day. Imps were outstanding. I seem to remember that some dynamics were removed for this contest (errata for trombones) and later re-instated. I still have the short score of "Energy" I bought that day.

Do you have the link to the video this came from, please?

This work and concert was conceived and produced by BBC Radio 3. Robin’s visceral work is impressive and played with authority by Grimethorpe and Frank Renton. This must be an off air recording as the originals will be in the BBC archive or deleted.

It's great, like Malcolm Arnold on steroids!

Perfect is dull. Nice to hear the première of this terrific piece!!!

I want to sound as good as owen

Owen has such a beautiful tone on his horn

Fantastic - thank you!

So the UK was cloning these Belgian pieces of technology...

Anomaly spotting is not one of my strengths - if anything I will listen carefully and intently to the programme! 🎺🎵🎶📯🎷

Thank you for this. My love for the PJBE goes back to the 70's.

BBC Genome states 'BBC Pebble Mill'. Apparently Studio 1 at Pebble Mill was large enough to house a full-size symphony orchestra. I assume it had an organ as well?

Brilliant. Even if general playing standards have moved on technically over the last 37 years Philip Jones Brass Ensemble's ability to achieve a unified ensemble sound is something that to my ears, has rarely been equalled.

Pontins and Area test piece for the (old) 2nd Section mid 80's - superb piece, happy memories!

This brings back memories of one of my first test pieces in the West of England Regional Contest, at the Colston Hall when I played in the former Swindon Youth Band.