WAR MEMORIALS Tredegar Town Band Ian Porthouse conductor Cory Band Philip Harper conductor Robert Childs conductor NMC D226 • Cory Band has been the number one ranked brass band in the world for the past eight years. Based in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, it was founded in 1884. In 2016 the band reclaimed its European Champions title in Lille, France. • The Tredegar Town Band are 2016 Welsh Champions and Double British Open Champions. The band appeared in the BAFTA winning fi lm Pride featuring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton. • Both bands will be competing in the British Open Championships (Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 10 September) and the National Brass Band Championships (Royal Albert Hall, London, 8 October) • Britten's Occasional Overture was written as a fanfare to launch BBC Radio 3 (then called the BBC Third Programme) 70 years ago on 29 September 1946. BBC Radio 3 Celebrates its 70th Anniversary throughout September. The period between the two world wars was one of the richest in music composed for brass bands.   Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Arthur Bliss, John Ireland and others added their voices to a growing repertoire, but little of that paid tribute to the loss of so many young lives, countless brass musicians among them.   The musical war memorials receiving their first recorded performances here are of more recent vintage.   They are framed by the music of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), whose pacifist sympathies are enshrined in some of his finest music, the War Requiem being the most well known. TRACK LISTING 01. Benjamin Britten (arr. Hindmarsh)       Occasional Overture     7’42       Tredegar Town Band • Ian Porthouse conductor 02. Robin Holloway       Men Marching (War Memorial No 1) Op 50 No 1     11’11       Cory Band • Philip Harper conductor 03. Lucy Pankhurst       Voices (In Memoriam)     10’43       Tredegar Town Band • Ian Porthouse conductor 04. Robin Holloway       From Hills and Valleys (War Memorial No 2) Op 50 No 2     13’20       Cory Band • Philip Harper conductor 05. John McCabe       The Maunsell Forts (Nocturne for brass band)     16’29       Cory Band • Robert Childs conductor 06-13.Britten, Higgins, Pankhurst, Dobson, McGhee       Diversions after Benjamin Britten and St. Edmundsbury Fanfare     19‘27       Tredegar Town Band • Ian Porthouse conductor NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879