Sound Inn Brass with Hans Gansch (Trumpet) and Steven Mead (Euphonium)
CD 25015

Not content with being one of the finest and most famous euphonium players in the world, Steven Mead now seems intent on becoming one of the most exciting conductors around. Here he has teamed up with the legendary Hans Gansch and the Austro-German brass ensemble SoundINNBrass, and the result is pretty spectacular.

Katrina Marzella (Baritone) with Leyland Band and John Wilson (Piano)
CD 24999

When it comes to brass band soloists, cornet and euphonium players have traditionally hogged the limelight, and the contemporary ‘giants’ of these instruments, like Roger Webster, Martin Winter, Richard Marshall, David Childs, David Thornton and Steven Mead, have been mainly responsible for the cornerstone recordings of recent years.

The Band of the Coldstream Guards
Conductor: Lt. Col. Graham Jones MBE
Egon CD SFZ 146

This recording was made in London’s Henry Wood Hall in July 2008, prior to the Regimental Band of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards’ tour of Japan later in the year, the ninth time that the band had travelled there since 1985.
The disc opens with Lt. Col. Graham Jones’ march in the traditionally British military style, Salute to Victory, before a lively arrangement by Lance Corporal James Scott of music from three television series of the 1970s
in Who Loves ya Baby? Featuring the themes from Space 1999, Kojak and The Streets of San Francisco, the band is joined by guitars and a vigorous percussion section in what is an enjoyable work.