looking at new CD releases and old favourites and updating the traditional image of banding Frank Renton and Simone Rebello present the the Overall Radio 2 Young Brass Award 2012 winner.
Celebrating the UK's best brass playing. The winner receives a trophy, a chance to perform with a top brass band and a guest appearance on Friday Night Is Music Night.
The trumpet is the highest-pitched instrument in the brass section. It is also one of the oldest instruments, with examples dating back to 1500BC. History Trumpets were used in battles and hunting at ...
Price’s total output comes to more than 300 pieces, 40 of them large-scale works, plus 100 or so songs, chamber works and settings of spirituals for piano and voice. But long before her death in 1953, ...
The ‘Brass Quintet Concerto’ is a pure example ... the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the UK’s Classic FM radio station. Howard describes the piece as “a short, vibrant and ...