Ballad (Trombone Solo) - Fritz Voegelin

Ballad for Band - Gordon Jacob

Ballad for Benny - Philip Sparke

The birth of Philip Sparke's second son, Benjamin, was the inspiration for composing Ballad for Benny. A short calm introduction leads to the main ballad theme, a gentle waltz melody. Following the work's climax in which the complete band plays the main theme the sound fades and the piece ends in calm and serenity.

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Ballad for Trombone - Eric Banks

Ballade - Fritz Voegelin

Ballade - John Golland

Ballade and Spanish Dance - Bruce Fraser

Ballade Nord-Irlandaise - The Water is Wide - Barton

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Ballade pour Adeline (Piano Solo) - Paul de Senneville

Ballet for Band - Joseph Horovitz

Composer Joseph Horovitz will celebrate his 90th birthday in May, with 2016 already seeing a welcome retrospective of some his finest works at the RNCM Brass Band Festival in Manchester in January.It included Ballet for Band, written in 1983 at the set-work for the National Final at the Royal Albert Hall, and which has since become one his most popular major test-pieces - played on numerous occasions throughout the banding world. It is a wonderfully elegant, mischievous composition - a brass band ballet, not of programmatic intent but of fertile imagination; beautifully crafted with a delicacy of touch as light on its feet as any arabesque.The composer has admitted that he had a clear vision of the characters that inhabit his score, yet has never divulged any details - leaving the bands and listeners, as he says, "...to exercise their own imaginations rather than being influenced bymine!"