Black Dyke Band
The Black Dyke Band is among the world's premiere brass bands, as well as one of the oldest. In addition to consistent competition victories in Britain and beyond, the band has collaborated with prominent classical and pop artists, including Paul McCartney.
The John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band dates ultimately to 1816, when a brass-and-wind band was formed by employees at the Black Dyke Mills of Queensbury, West Yorkshire, England. That group disbanded after some years of operation, as did a successor, the Queenshead Band. However, a third incarnation, formed in 1855 with 18 musicians and sharp new uniforms made of cloth from the mills, proved permanent. Many of the members were mill employees, and the group has sometimes been known as the Black Dyke Mills Band. Although the mills are no longer in operation, the band continues to rehearse in its original quarters and to use its original logo featuring a stag and the Latin words "act justly and fear nothing." From the beginning, the band maintained a reputation for high quality. The group made its first recording in 1904.
Known far beyond Yorkshire, it embarked in 1906 on a 200-concert tour of the U.S. and Canada. The band has included members who have gone on to successful careers in the classical music world, including Jack Pinches, who became the solo trombonist in the band at age 16 and later served as the principal trombonist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Black Dyke principal cornetists William Lang and Maurice Murphy, who became principal trumpeters of the London Symphony Orchestra. The band has been a consistent winner at competitions in Britain and continental Europe; in 2014, it won the British Brass Band Championships for the 23rd time, a record; it has also won 15 times at the European Brass Band Championships. The group's most recent win at the British Brass Band Championships came in 2023.
The Black Dyke Band has a lengthy catalog of recordings, stretching back into the LP and 78 rpm eras. For many years, it was associated exclusively with the Chandos label, which, for a time, maintained its own brass band subsidiary, and it continues to record occasionally for Chandos. Since 2007, the Black Dyke Band has recorded mostly for Naxos, which issued the band's recording John Rutter: Anthems, Hymns and Gloria for Brass Band in 2020. The group returned in 2023 on the album Peter Graham: Force of Nature on Naxos. By that time, including compilations, the band boasted a recording catalog of some 100 digital items; over its entire long history, the band has issued about 350 albums.
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Spectacular Classics, Vol. 4
Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 12 Mar 2014
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Champions Of Brass
Black Dyke Band, Geoffrey Brand, Major Peter Parkes, Roy Newsome
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 May 1992
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Die Alpen
Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 24 Apr 2014
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Black Dyke Plays Overtures
Black Dyke Band, Major Peter Parkes, David Hurst
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Aug 1992
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Black Dyke Plays Beatles
Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 7 Mar 2014
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Christmas With Black Dyke
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 12 Jun 2013
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Non Stop Entertainment (The Music of Christoph Walter)
Pop - Released by ObrassoRecords on 9 Sep 2023
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Encores
Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J. Childs & Robert B. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 26 Apr 2013
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I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Christmas Music - Released by ObrassoRecords on 22 Jul 2016
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Morning Cloud
Black Dyke Band, Sir Edward Heath, Roy Newsome, Phillip Mccann
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Aug 1994
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Epic Brass
Black Dyke Band, Major Peter Parkes, Roy Newsome
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jan 1992
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Another Encore
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 21 Jul 2017
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Spectacular Classics, Vol. 8
Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 26 Nov 2013
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Life Divine
Black Dyke Band, Derek Broadbent, Major Peter Parkes
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Apr 1992
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Greetings From All Over The World
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 1 Sep 2018
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Blitz
Black Dyke Band, Major Peter Parkes
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Feb 1992
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Spectacular Classics, Vol. 2
Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 23 Dec 2013
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Black Dyke Band & Nicholas J. Childs
Classical - Released by ObrassoRecords on 11 Apr 2014
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Black Dyke Band, Major Peter Parkes
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Feb 1992
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