Updated: 28/2/20
Some of Goff Richards’ Music
Our thanks go to Phillip Hunt for his help in collating this list of Goff’s
The titles in blue are links to compositions on individual pages
Abide With Me
(arrangement – hymn tune)
A Buffalo Bill Bonanza
A Cornish Festival
Commissioned by the BBC for a Radio Two “Listen to the Band” weekend in the Hall for Cornwall, Truro in 1998.
The piece has three movements: the first carries the title of the work Cornish Festival, the second is Munion pronounced by Goff as Moo–Nion and the final movement is Celebration.
The first public performance was by the massed bands of, Bodmin, Camborne, Mount Charles and St Austell on 14th June 1998 and was conducted by Goff Richards.
Used as a contest test piece including:
2012: West of England Bandsmen’s Festival (Class B)
A Disney Fantasy
A Jewish Folk Festival
An American Trilogy
(arrangement)
A Night in Havana
(euphonium solo)
A Saddleworth Festival Overture
A Special Place
A Yorkshire Festival
Armenian Fire Dance!
Arrows Ablaze
A Swiss Folk Fantasy
Atlantic Quest
Barnard Castle
(march)
Written for the Barnard Castle Band in County Durham (Phillip Hunt)
Bel-Air
Bishops Blaize
Blast
Brass Intrada
Brass Ablaze
(march)
Used as a contest test piece including:
2009: West of England Bandsmen’s Festival (Class B)
Brass Band Blues
Breezin’ Down Broadway!
(arrangement)
Commissioned by the St Breward Band
Written in memory of Goff’s Uncle, Jack Wills, himself a talented arranger, who encouraged and coached Goff in his early days of composition. (Phillip Hunt)
First performed by the St Breward Band
Calling Cornwall
Can Can
(arrangement)
The can-can, by Jacques Offenbach is a dance that became popular in the music halls in the 1840s. It is associated with a chorus line of female dancers and the main features are the vigorous manipulation of skirts and petticoats, along with high kicks, splits, and cartwheels.
Camberley
(march)
Cantabile
(euphonium/baritone sole)
Caprice
(cornet solo with piano)
Caprice
(full band)
Caro Nome Che Il Mio Cor from Rigoletto
(arrangement – cornet solo)
Celebration
Celtic Spirit
Dedicated to Nigel Boddice (Phillip Hunt)
Celtic Knots
Chaplin
(arrangement – vibraphone solo)
Chanson d’Amour
(arrangement)
Cherchebi
Used as a contest test piece including:
The National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain (Third Section)
Christmas Piece
City Cruiser
Confection for Brass
Continental Caprice
Cornish Rock
Cornish Through and Through
Cossack Dance
Country Scene
Crimond
(arrangement – hymn tune)
Used as a contest test piece including:
2015: West of England Bandsmen’s Festival (Class A)
Cross Patonce
Dark-Haired Marie
(arrangement)
For Russell Gray (Phillip Hunt)
Demelza or The Maid of the Moor
(tenor horn)
1980s: Written by “Hugh Nash,” a pen name of Goff Richards, for soprano player Brian Evans, and based around a character in the BBC programme Poldark. Goff was retained and contracted to write music for Studio Music at the time… so wrote the solo for Brian to play on his solo CD; which was recorded by Dave Horsfield under the pseudonym… Demelza is published by Kirklees which was David’s company… now run by his son Graham.
Dehwelans
Cornish for Homecoming
Commissioned by the St Keverne Youth Band and played before HM the Queen on 1st May 2002 at Trelissick Garden, Truro on her Jubilee Tour. (Phillip Hunt)
Die Dornenvogel or The Thorn Birds Theme
(arrangement)
Disney Spectacular
Dizzie Lizzie
(trombone solo)
Doyen
Written to commemorate the launch of the Doyen luxury motor coach and is a sort of musical journey which includes sounds of the coach starting up, cruising at speed and slowing down as it reaches its destination (Phillip Hunt)
Elvis Rocks!
(arrangement)
Exploding Brass
Fanfare for a New Age
Faroese Folk Song: Song to Spring
(arrangement)
Flying Fingers
(cornet trio)
Flying Home
(euphonium duet)
Georgia On My Mind
(arrangement – trombone or tenor horn solo)
Gymmopedie No. 1
(arrangement)
Hamabe No Uta or Song of the Seashore
(arrangement – euphonium solo)
Harmony in Brass
(march)
Higgyjig (8)
(tenor horn solo)
Hollywood!
Written for the Regional Championships in 1996 and is indicative of the music of “tinsel town” (Phillip Hunt)
Used as a contest test piece including:
2003: West of England Bandsmen’s Festival (Class C)
1996: Regional Championships of Great Britain (Second Section)
2013: Regional Championships of Great Britain (Third Section)
Homage to the Noble Grape
H S B
(march)
For Hilgay Silver Band (Phillip Hunt)
Hymns of Praise
(arrangement)
Written for The National Youth Brass Band of Scotland and first performed at The European Brass Band Championships in Glasgow in 2004. (Phillip Hunt)
I’ll walk with God
I Will Follow Him
(arrangement)
It’s Showtime
JM96689 for Four Trombones
James Bond Collection
(arrangement)
Jean-Elizabeth
(euphonium solo)
For Rikki McDonnell (Phillip Hunt)
John Nineteen: Forty-One
(arrangement)
Jukebox
A full length Musical for brass band, soloists and chorus
Justice with Courage
Used as a contest test piece including:
1993: West of England Bandsmen’s Festival (Class B)
Kumbayah
(arrangement)
Kirbky Lonsdale
Lee Fair
Let There Be Light
(hymn tune)
Light as Air Little
Little Swiss Suite
(brass quartet for two cornets, tenor horn and euphonium)
Londonderry Air
(arrangement)
Love is Forever
(euphonium solo)
Love Story
(arrangement)
Mack the Knife
(arrangement)
Mack the Knife or The Ballad of Mack the Knife is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera. (Phillip Hunt)
Maid of the Moor
See Demelza
Maple Leaf Rag
(arrangement – tuba quartet)
Marchamba
Marching Through Georgia
(arrangement)
May Dance
Meditation from Thais
(arrangement – euph solo)
Memory from Cats
(arrangement)
Midnight Euphonium
(treble/bass clef with piano)
Midnight Euphonium
(full band)
1992: For Brass Band World Magazine (Phillip Hunt)
Mid West
(march)
Mythic Trevithick
Newstead
A reflection of the Wirral (Phillip Hunt)
New York, New York
(arrangement)
Night in Havana
(euphonium solo)
Northern Festival
British Bandsman 9th February 2002
Nottingham
(hymn tune – arrangement)
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
(arrangement)
Oceans
Old Grumbie from Cats
(arrangement)
One Day
(trumpet)
Our Love is Here to Stay
(arrangement – flugel or trumpet solo)
Out in Front
Over the Rainbow
(arrangement for tenor horn)
Pastorale
(trumpet)
Pendennis!
Written for Pendennis Brass, Falmouth (Phillip Hunt)
Pilatus, Mountain Air
(euphonium solo)
Pokarekare Ana
(love song arrangement – trombone or soprano solo)
Pops for Brass
Quest
Rainy Day in Rio
(bass trombone solo)
Reach For The Stars!
Written for The Wardle Band Association (Phillip Hunt)
Red Bird
(euphonium solo)
Rhumba
(tenor trom solo with piano)
Rock Around the Croc
(arrangement)
Rock Music 1, 2, 3
Rock Ovation!
Romance from the Gadfly
(arrangement)
Romantic Interlude II
Royal Duchy
Russky Percussky
St Petroc
(brass quartet)
Schneewalzer – Snow Waltz
(arrangement)
Serenata
(arrangement)
Shepherd’s Song
(arrangement)
Shining Brass
Silver Mountain
Simple Gifts – Lord of the Dance
(arrangement)
Sir Duke
(arrangement)
Skimbleshanks – The Runaway Cat from Cats
(arrangement)
Something
(arrangement – trom solo)
Song for Friends
Songs of the Quay
Splinky Spanky
From his musical, Jukebox (Phillip Hunt)
Suite for Euphoniums
(for four euphoniums)
Stage Centre
(march)
Stanhope Celebration
Still Time
Strike up the Band
(arrangement)
Sweet Nightingale
(tenor trombone solo)
Swiss Folk Fantasy
Taylor Made
That’s a Plenty (arrangement)
That’s a Plenty is a 1914 ragtime piano composition by Lew Pollack.
The Aeronauts
The Celt of Glencoe
The Elvira Madigan Theme
The European
The Girl from Zamora
(cornet and flugel duet)
The Golden Lady
The Homecoming
The Invisible Force
Commissioned in 1994 to commemorate the sponsorship of Camborne Town Band by South Western Electricity. (Phillip Hunt)
The Jaguar
(march)
The Lanner Falcon
(march)
Commissioned by Lanner and District Brass Band
The Pink Panther
The Saints
(arrangement)
The Shepherd’s Song
The Spirit of Youth!
There’s No Business Like Show Business
(arrangement)
Three Saints
See Three Saints page
Trailblaze
Triple Gold
For St Austell Town Band’s 150th Anniversary (Phillip Hunt)
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
(arrangement)
Two Christmas Fanfares
Tzena-Tzenza-Tzenza
Una Paloma Blanka
(arrangement)
Voyage of Discovery
Composed specifically as a Test Piece, Goff stating that he, “lets the music find its own course, culminating in a big conclusion. The music has taken me where it wants to go!”
Used as a contest test piece including:
2006: Regional Championships of Great Britain (First Section)
When The Saints Go Marching In
(arrangement)
Yesterday
(cornet section – arrangement)
Zimba’s Dance
(arrangement)
Zimba Zamba
Marimba solo written for Dame Evelyn Glennie. (Phillip Hunt)
Zorba’s Dance
(arrangement)