Recordings
Recordings on CD and cassette tape, currently available:-
Sales Contact
Mr Ralph Munt Tel:01484 606538
Prices: CDs £10.00, Cassette Tapes £5.00
(plus postage and packaging)
'Colne Valley Christmas Festival II'
CDs only
– second live recording of Concert with Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band, on
Sunday 11th December 2005 in Huddersfield Town Hall .
Musical Director: Thom Meredith
Accompanist: Keith Swallow
Organ: Gordon Stewart
Band Musical Director: Richard Evans
Band: The New Colonial, Everybody loves the Blues,
Little Fugue in G Minor, The Londonderry Air, Pie Jesu, Helter Skelter, White Christmas
Choir: Fanfare for Christmas Day, Rise up Early, The Holly and the Ivy, The Sussex Carol,
Pine Cones and Hollyberries, Hodie Christus Natus Est, Away in a Manger (Tune:Normandy), Hail
Smiling Morn, Winter Wonderland, When the Saints go marching in.
Choir/Organ/Band: The Holy City
Choir/ Band: A Christmas Fantasy (Langford)
'Colne Valley Christmas Festival'
CDs only
Live recording of Christmas Concert in Huddersfield Town Hall, Dec 2004 with Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band
Musical Director: Thom Meredith
Accompanist: Keith Swallow
Organ: Gordon Stewart
Band Musical Director: Richard Evans
Band: Los Hermanos de Bop, Sleigh Ride, Virtuosity, Clog Dance,
Humming Chorus (Madam Butterfly), The Swan (Carnival of the Animals),
Christmas Festival Overture, Troika (Midnight Sleigh Ride), Away in a Manger.
Choir: On this day Earth shall ring,
See amid the Winter's Snow, O Holy Night, Pine Cones and Hollyberries,
Wassail Song, The Star of Bethlehem, The Morning Star,
We need a little Christmas, The Lost Chord.
'Sacred Colne Valley'
Recorded in Marsden Parish Church, West Yorkshire
with Marsden Band
Musical Director: Thom Meredith
Accompanist: Keith Swallow
Organ: Rodney Pearson
Let there be Light, Thank you my Lord, Jesus Shall Reign, I Was Glad, Take my Life,
My Lord What a Mornin', The Holy City, The Lord's Prayer (Fanshawe),
In Heavenly Love Abiding, The
Old Rugged Cross, Breathe on me Breath of God, I Hear thy Welcome Voice,
God is Working his Purpose Out, Give me that Old Time Religion,
Praise the Lord his Glories Show, You'll Never
Walk Alone, Fourfold Amen.
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'Champions in Concert'
From live concert recordings in the Huddersfield Town Hall with Brighouse and Rastrick Band and Susan Braime, Soprano
Conductor: Thom Meredith
Accompanist: Keith Swallow
Choir: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Domine Non Sum Dignus,
Ride the Chariot, The Last Words of David, The Happy Wanderer,
The Colonel of the Crimson Hussars, The Ghosts' High Noon,
The Fly Duet, Chorus and Drinking Song (Cavalleria Rusticana),
Rejoice in the Lord Alway, Yellow Bird, Love Could I Only Tell Thee, Funiculi Funicula.
Brighouse and Rastrick Band : Galop, Hetty Winthrop investigates
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'Classic Colne Valley'
Conductor: Thom Meredith
Accompanists: Keith Swallow/Philip Baxter
Choir: The Fishermen of England, The
Sailors’ Chorus, A Crown of Praise, Night, The Rhythm of Life,
The Last Words of David, Feasting I Watch, The Tide Rises, When the Saints Go Marching in, Yellow Bird, Bonjour
mon Coeur, Ride the Chariot, Kymbayah, Alexander’s Ragtime Band,
Lord Lovelace, O Sacrum Convivium, Morte Christe, Psalm 126.
Keith Swallow Solo Piano: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Ritual Fire Dance
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Double Album at the very special value price of £5.00 (for both CDs) plus P & P
Two original vinyl LP recordings digitally reproduced and re-released on a double
CD :-
Disc One was recorded in 1970 with the Choir under the direction of the Choir's Conductor at that time,
John Gulley. Brass Ensemble and Percussion of the School of Music, Huddersfield
Polytechnic, Accordionist: Brian Askew. Keith Swallow is the Piano Accompanist,
Disc Two features the Choir under the direction of George E. Stead, conductor of the Choir
for 45 years. The original vinyl recording was released in November 1968 shortly before the
sudden and untimely death of Mr Stead in the December of the same year. His composition
Psalm 126 is featured on the disc. Accompanists: Piano Keith Swallow, Organ Roy Newsome
Disc One: Drinking Song, Rolling Down to Rio, When I think upon the Maidens, Go Lovely Rose,
Uist Tramping Song, Sacramento, I dare not ask a Kiss, Simon the Cellarer, The Old Brigade,
The Song of the Jolly Roger, The Two Roses, The Silver Birch, Linden Lea, The Sailors' Chorus,
The Happy Wanderer, My Love is like a Red, Red Rose, Comrades in Arms.
Recorded in 1970.
Disc Two: Sound an Alarm, Matona my Beloved, I am a Roamer, A Roving, Night (Schubert),
Psalm 126, A Farewell, O Sacrum Convivium, Ave Verum Corpus, Rejoice in the Lord Alway, Love
could I only tell Thee, Feasting I watch, The Long Day Closes.
Recorded in 1968