WCB Recordings
We've produced a selection of CDs which are available for sale - sample them here, and also listen to some other recordings made down the years.
A Werneth Celebration (2008)
Flourish (2003)
Werneth Concert Band (1991)
Other Recordings
A Werneth Celebration (2008)

The band's most recent CD, "A Werneth Celebration" was released in December 2008, just a month after the recordings were completed. It commemorates the band's 25th anniversary and it's available from the Secretary for £10 - or grab a copy at one of our concerts. The sleeve notes are very nicely produced and contain a history of the band as well as pictures from the our 25 years up to that point. This album features more tracks than ever before, and also includes recordings by the then-newly-formed Werneth Swing Band.
Title | Composer | |
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Werneth Concert Band | ||
A Werneth Celebration | Darrol Barry | Listen here |
Folk Song Suite - 1st Mvt - Seventeen Come Sunday | R. Vaughan Williams | Listen here |
Folk Song Suite - 2nd Mvt - Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy) | R. Vaughan Williams | Listen here |
Folk Song Suite - 3rd Mvt - Songs From Somerset | R. Vaughan Williams | Listen here |
Variations on Scarborough Fair | Calvin Custer | Listen here |
Piano Concerto No.2 Opus 102 Soloist: Roger Pearce |
D. Shostakovich arr. Malcolm Cockerill. |
Listen here |
Convergence | John Moss | Listen here |
When The Stars Began To Fall | Trad. arr. Fred J. Allen | Listen here |
On The Wings Of Swallows | Michael Sweeney | Listen here |
March of the Belgian Paratroopers | P. Leemans arr. Charles Wiley |
Listen here |
Werneth Suite for Concert Band - Skittish Scherzo | Terence Greaves | Listen here |
Werneth Suite for Concert Band - Sad and Sentimental Waltz | Terence Greaves | Listen here |
Werneth Suite for Concert Band - Rondo From Rio | Terence Greaves | Listen here |
Waltz No. 2 from Jazz Suite | D. Shostakovich arr. J. de Meij |
Listen here |
Symphonic Soundtrack | John Williams arr. John Moss |
Listen here |
Werneth Swing Band | ||
American Patrol | F.W. Meacham arr. Paul Lavender |
Listen here |
Ja-Da Soloists: Sian Fullaway (Trumpet), Howard Wilde (Tenor Saxophone) |
B. Carleton arr. S. Nestico |
Listen here |
I've Got You Under My Skin | Cole Porter arr. Jerry Nowak |
Listen here |
Other Recordings
In 2012, 1st Clarinet player and sometime conductor Bill Watson recorded a selection of his own compositions, including Priestnall March, performed by none other than Werneth Concert Band. Click here to hear it in full.
Recordings of the band performing live can be found (with varying levels of sound and picture quality) on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auqX9uTRnE&feature=related and on our facebook page.
Flourish (2003)
In March 2003 we recorded tracks for our CD 'Flourish' which was released in July 2003. This was our second professional recording, and may be obtained from the Secretary at a cost of £8.00. The tracks on this CD are:
Title | Composer | |
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Flourish for Wind Band | R. Vaughan Williams | Listen here |
Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew | James Cumow | Listen here |
Pavane in Blue | Ted Huggens | Listen here |
Regenesis (Song of the Planet) | John Higgins | Listen here |
Shenandoah | Frank Ticheli | Listen here |
Jamaican Folk Suite | Harold L. Walters | Listen here and here and here |
Encanto | Robert W. Smith | Listen here |
Spiritual Sounds | Trad. arr. Alan Fernie | Listen here and here |
Spanish March 'Amparito Roca' | Jaime Texidor | Listen here |
Gallimaufry | Guy Woolfenden | Listen here |
Glory | John Cacavas | Listen here |
Think Of Me (with Coral de Veus Blanques Preludi) |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | Listen here |

Werneth Concert Band (1991)
Our first professional recording - "Werneth Concert Band" - made in November 1991 at the BBC's Studio 7 in Manchester has been remastered onto CD and a few copies are still available for £6 - again please contact the Secretary. The tracks on this CD are:
Title | Composer | |
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Bandology | Eric Osterling | Listen here |
Invicta | James Swearingen | Listen here |
Rondo for Rosie | Ted Huggens | Listen here |
Sarabande and Polka | Malcolm Arnold | Listen here |
Timpat | Robert Leist | Listen here |
Frolic for Trombones | Reginald Heath (arr. R Bashford) | Listen here |
Little English Suite | Clare Grundman | Listen here |
Trumpeter's Lullaby | Leroy Anderson (arr. P. Lang) | Listen here |
Elegy for Wind Band | David Chapman | Listen here |
Mazama | Jay Chattaway | Listen here |
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