https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8jyUQGAVCo Both 'Molly on the Shore' and 'Ye Banks and Braes o Bonnie Doon', ingeniously orchestrated for brass by our trumpet player and composer-in-residence Ryan Linham, were originally set by Grainger for many different combinations of instruments. These settings not only immortalise the folk melodies but preserve in some measure…
A staggering amount of thought has been put into the programming of our debut album: British Folk Music Vol. 1. The repertoire aimed to demonstrate the standard brass quintet in a brand new light. Though one that draws from our musical traditions in England and our heritage as British Brass…
Frank Bridge’s 1916 setting of the bawdry sea song makes as good a case as any for his music to be listed alongside the other great English folk settings of the early 20th century. Although less celebrated than that of his colleagues, the folk settings ‘Cherry Ripe’ and the paired…