In his book Before the Music Stopped, Peter Bassano (formerly Peter Goodwin) recounts how Equale Brass had to abandon plans for their fifth CD with Nimbus Records when the producer insisted that the group was playing one of the other pieces, an arrangement of music from Gershwin's "Shall We Dance" wrongly, and asked for changes to the performance. Equale Brass were unable to agree and so the album was never made. Also to be included on this CD was George Lloyd's "A Miniature Triptych". Both the Lloyd and Gershwin pieces can be found elsewhere in this playlist.
Chime began life as Otley Chime, written for the reopening of Otley Hall in Suffolk. Crosse edited the work to the one heard in this recording.
This performance is from the Cheltenham Festival in, I think, 1983, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 15th June 1984. James Watson is playing trumpet.