BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orchestras not to be self-governing. The BBC SO is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).The orchestra was originally conceived in 1928 as a joint enterprise by the BBC and the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, but the latter withdrew the next year and the task of assembling and training the orchestra fell to the BBC's director of music, Adrian Boult. Among its guest conductors in its first years was Arturo Toscanini, who judged it the finest orchestra he had ever conducted. During and after the Second World War, Boult strove to maintain standards, but the senior management of the post-war BBC did not allocate the orchestra the resources to meet competition from new and well-funded rivals.
After Boult's retirement from the BBC in 1950, the orchestra went through a fallow period. Boult's successor, Sir Malcolm Sargent, was popular with the public but had poor rapport with his players, and orchestral morale dropped. Sargent's successor, Rudolf Schwarz, made relatively little impact, and although the BBC appointed high-profile chief conductors in the 1960s and 1970s – Antal Doráti, Colin Davis, Pierre Boulez and Gennady Rozhdestvensky – the BBC SO remained underfunded. However, because it was the sole symphony orchestra in London that offered its players full-time contracts, players of high repute, including Alan Civil (horn) and John Wilbraham (trumpet), enrolled as regular members.
As a result of initiatives begun in the 1960s by the BBC controller of music William Glock, performing standards rose appreciably. Under Andrew Davis in the 1990s and Jiří Bělohlávek in the 2000s, the orchestra prospered. By the second decade of the 21st century, the BBC SO was regarded by critics as of first-class status. From the outset, the orchestra has been known for pioneering new music, and it continues to do so, at the Proms, in concerts at the Barbican Centre, and in studio concerts from its base at BBC Maida Vale studios. Provided by Wikipedia
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Autumnal by Knussen, Oliver
[London, England] : NMC Records, 2012“…(BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Oliver Knussen, conductor)…”
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Orchestral works by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
[London, England?] : Apex/Warner Classics/Teldec, 2001“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Violin concertos
Perivale, Middx : Signum Classics, 2016“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Symphonies 5 & 6 by Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904
England : Warner Classics, 2006“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Sinfonia intrepida by Whettam, Graham
London : Redcliffe Recordings, 2000“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Siècle.
[London, England] : Onyx, 2017“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Arturo Toscanini the HMV recordings. by Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957
[S.l.] : EMI Records, 2013“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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A young person's guide to music by Ardley, Neil
New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 1995“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Piano concerto, op. 31 by Wood, Hugh
[England] : Collins Classics, 1993“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Verklärte Nacht
Colchester, Essex, England : Chandos, 2021“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Arles: Harmonia Mundi, 2010“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Symphony no. 2 in E flat ; Funeral march (Chopin ; orch. Elgar) ; The dream of Gerontius : prelude ; Sospiri ; Imperial march / Elgar by Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
Hayes, Middlesex, England : EMI, 1990“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Violin concerto ; Three orchestral pieces ; Piano sonata ; Passacaglia by Berg, Alban, 1885-1935
Essex : Chandos, 2022“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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The young person's guide to the orchestra by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
[London, England?] : Apex/Warner Classics/Teldec, 2001“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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In memoriam ; Suite from "The tempset", op. 1 ; Symphony in E major, "Irish" by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Colchester, Essex, England : Chandos, 2000“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Violin concertos by Foerster, Josef Bohuslav, 1859-1951
Prague, Czech Republic : Supraphon, 2008“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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A violin for all seasons
Colchester, Essex, England : Chandos, 2016“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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Falstaff : Froissart ; Romance for bassoon and orchestra ; Grania and Diarmid : incidental music & funeral march by Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
[Place of publication not identified] : Apex, 2005“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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A young person's guide to music by Ardley, Neil
London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 1995“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
1st American ed.
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Konzert für Klavier und Orchester = Piano concerto = Concerto pour piano ; Chain 3 ; Novelette by Lutosławski, Witold, 1913-1994
Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, 1992“…BBC Symphony Orchestra…”
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