A new release on the Doyen label by the famous Cory Band from South Wales, celebrating their 140th anniversary, includes Edward Gregson’s 1984 composition Dances and Arias. This was the work that was used as the test piece at the 1984 National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain finals at London’s Royal Albert Hall when the Cory Band won the title, thus celebrating a hat-trick of wins in the competition. The band released an LP recording of the work in the next year, but this is the first time since then that they have recorded it. It has achieved critical acclaim. Also included on the recording are major works by Malcolm Arnold, Wilfred Heaton, Joseph Horovitz, and Philip Sparke.