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Performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Published by Studio Music Company. An exciting programme item with musical interest for the whole band.

Performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Published by Studio Music Company. Leading Edge was composed for the Buckinghamshire Symphonic Wind Ensemble at the request of John Davie, to whom it is dedicated. There's no programmatic element to the piece; the title refers more generally to the tension in the music that is only finally resolved towards the very end.

Performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. A three movement suite of dances comprising Stomping Dance, Waltz Interlude and Duende, attempting to capture some of the elements of this most fundamental of human activities, the urge to move our bodies to the rhythm of the music.

Performed by the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company. Published by Studio Music Company. This was written at the request of a bassoonist for a solo to feature the lyrical, singing quality of the instrument that is often overlooked in favour of its more comic qualities. The music is slow and tranquil, evoking the memory of a moment out of time spent gazing up at clouds drifting across the sky.

Arranged by Rob Wiffin. Performed by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Published by Studio Music Company. The dreamlike quality of Debussy’s 1890 piano piece is emphasised by the way the oboe solo lines weave in and out of the texture. This arrangement was originally written for the RAF Massed Bands Tour 2000. More recently it was performed in the music before the Service at The National...

Recorded by the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company. Published by Studio Music Company. An unashamed (well, maybe a little ashamed!) look back to the disco era.

Recorded by the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company. Published by Studio Music Company. Way back in the last century the Band of the Coldstream Guards, together with a rock rhythm section that included guitar legend Jeff Beck, made it into the pop charts with a rock version of Handel’s Water Music entitled Heavy Water. Having asked the band whether they still had the music, I discovered an...

Performed by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Published by Studio Music Company. A solemn and expressive work, Pavan: Sicut Aquilae (As of Eagles) was inspired by the text from Isaiah 40 “They shall rise up with wings as of eagles” and was written to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Recorded by Chris Jeans and Virtuosi GUS Band. Published by Studio Music Company. A slow, bluesy trombone solo written for Chris Jeans.

Performed by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Published by Studio Music Company.. A tribute to the Mambo King - Tito Puente - this Latin piece offers solos to trumpet and percussion.

Performed by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Published by Studio Music Company. This extended fanfare was composed in tribute to the heroism of the men of the wartime RAF Bomber Command for the occasion of its 60th Anniversary Commemorations in February 2002 at St Paul’s Cathedral. The title refers to the Lancaster Bomber. In a letter to the head of Avro after the war, Marshal of the R...

Arranged by Rob Wiffin. Performed by the Band of the Welsh Guards. Published by Studio Music Company. This arrangement of nursery rhymes was made for the 2006 Party at the Palace. It includes Here we go round the Mulberry Bush, Incy Wincy Spider, Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice, Three Blind Mice, Singing Polly Wolly Doodle, Old MacDonald had a Farm, One Man Went To Mow a Meadow, and Oh Dear What ...

Performed by the Western Band of the Royal Air Force. Published by Shout Music Publishing. This is a demanding Latin-jazz piece that makes technical demands on all sections of the band. The title comes from the fact that at the time of writing it I would do anything rather than finish it - even defrost the fridge!

Performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Published by Studio Music Company. High Spirits is a concert overture written in the composer's unashamedly lighter vein. The musical language is unambiguously tonal and the piece sets out to be attractive and joyful throughout, being upbeat both in style and tempo.

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