The Melody Shop

Karl L. King (Composer), Jimmy [Writer/Producer/Keys] Webb (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Aram Khachaturian (Composer), Herbert L. Clarke (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Cole Porter (Composer), Emmanuel Chabrier (Composer), Harry James (Composer), Tomaso Albinoni (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Richard Rodgers (Composer), Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer), William Rimmer (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer), Barrie Gott (Composer), Thomas Brown (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Major Peter Parkes (Conductor), Gary Cutt (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: Major Peter Parkes, Gary Cutt
• Composer: Karl L. King, Jimmy [Writer/Producer/Keys] Webb, Giacomo Puccini, Aram Khachaturian, Herbert L. Clarke, et al.
• Audio CD (June 16, 1998)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chandos
• ASIN: B000007MY1
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Grimethorpe is Never Grim!, January 18, 2001

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Clark Houck Jr. (Chattanooga, Tennessee USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Melody Shop (Audio CD)

West Yorkshire in England consistantly produces eight to ten of the best brass bands in all the world. The Grimethorpe Collery Band's "Melody Shop" demonstrates why this band is always counted among the finest. This particular CD offers the listener a wide variety of musical tidbits. For the lovers of classical music, Grimethorpe's rendition of the Galop from Rossini's "William Tell" will certainly put you in that Lone Ranger mood!(This piece was heard in the movie "Brassed Off" with Grimethorpe providing the soundtrack for the fictional Grimley Band featured in the movie.)For 70s fans, the band does a hard-charging version of Jimmy Webb's "MacArthur Park."

There is even a hymn on the CD. Barrie Gott's "Lightwalk" (from the old hymn tune "Walk in the Light) actually comes out of the Salvation Army Brass Band literature. I doubt that most listeners ever heard a hymn swing like this one!

My personal favorite is the cut of "Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude" by Wagner. It is hard to believe that this is a brass band- and I mean ALL BRASS- playing with such fire and technical accuracy. What a group! What a piece! What a wonderful combination!

If you own no brass band CDs, this is a good place to start a collection. It listens "easy," has some tunes you know, and is consistantly entretaining.