Black Dyke Gold Volume VII

Christmas Collection is a newly revised carol book with original, additional and rearranged carols from New Christmas Praise as well as 10 extended pieces. This CD features some of the available carols, performed by The ISB and Black Dyke Band.

Black Dyke Band celebrates his 60th birthday with this recording, the theme of which derives from Peter Graham’s time in New York and from some of the ‘giants’ of American culture.

This most recent album of music by Philip Wilby is being issued in a year of celebrations; the composer’s 70th birthday falls within it, and it also marks Nicholas Childs’ impressive 100th recording with Black Dyke Band. In addition, there are broader musical preoccupations, whose subject matter may be summarised as comprising ‘English Music with American Connections’