Leeds Best of Brass 2025/26

Paul Drury - Quick March: Jubilee
Franz von Suppé / Gordon Langford - Overture: Die Schöne Galathée
Thomas P Westendorp / Alan Fernie - I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen featuring cornet horn soloist Kirsty Abbotts
Richard Rodgers / Sandy Smith - ‘On Your Toes’ ballet sequence
Johann Strauss II / Howard Snell - Cuckoo Waltz (In the Woods)
Mike Batt / B Crookes - Caravan Song
Peter Graham - A Time for Peace featuring flugelhorn soloist Noah Mallinson
William Walton / Michael Antrobus - Spitfire Prelude & Fugue
Howard Snell - Bank Holiday
Trad / Gordon Langford - Lark in the Clear Air featuring tenor horn soloist Helen Clarke
Etienne Crausaz - Dancing on the Sand
Two Preludes:
Claude Debussy / Howard Snell - Girl with Flaxen Hair & Cakewalk
Norman Bearcroft - The Better World featuring euphonium soloist Daniel Holm
John Ireland - Minuet from ‘A Downland Suite’
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Robert Childs - Marche Slav

Founded in 1855 as the Saltaire Band by Sir Titus Salt, the band had a long association with Hammonds Sauce Works. Now, with Morgan Griffiths as Musical Director, the band performs as Hammonds Band. Alongside contesting and performing throughout Europe, the band has also enjoyed working with multi-instrumentalist Shri Sriram to fuse brass band and traditional Indian music together. In 2024 the band welcomed former winner of the prestigious Craxton Memorial Trust Award, Anabel Voigt on solo horn.