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BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra 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. 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. From Wikipedia (

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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39/1
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture
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Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Theme. Andante
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Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Var. 9. Adagio "Nimrod"
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K.626: 3. Sequentia: Lacrimosa (From "Amadeus")

Albums

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Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 6

2026
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Bacewicz: Orchestral Works Vol. 2

2025
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Divertimento for Strings

2025
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Holst - The Planets

2026
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VoiceAccused (Live recordings)

2025
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Boult's Elgar: The Forgotten Recordings (Remastered 2025)

2025
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Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5

2026
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Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4

2025
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Tippett – Britten – Walton

2025
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Dancing music vol.1 (feat. Eduard van Beinum)

2025

Singles & EPs

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Lyatoshynsky: Grażhyna, Op. 58: No. 1, Beginning - Andante sostenuto

Single2026
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Julia Wolfe: Pretty

Single2024
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Judith Weir: Still, Glowing

Single2024
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Kolodub: Solemn Overture

Single2026
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Julius Eastman: Symphony No. II - The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved

Single2024
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Jóhann Jóhannsson: They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (from Miners' Hymns)

Single2024
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Britten: Diversions, Op. 21: Variation II. Romance

Single2025
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COEXISTENCE

Single2024
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Bacewicz: Symphony No. 2 III. Scherzo

Single2025
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Lauri Porra: Utu

Single2024

Videos

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God Save The Queen: Celebrating 60 Years

Michael Garnett1M views
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Spem in alium - as featured in Fifty Shades of Grey - The Tallis Scholars - EPK

The Tallis Scholars598K views
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08. Pomp and Circumstance March No. IV. - (Sir Edward Elgar) - [A Clockwork Orange]

HHMixtapes133K views
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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance | BBC Proms 2014 - BBC

BBC7.6M views
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Elgar's Pomp And Circumstance, Op 39 No 1

Stephen Baggaley4.8K views
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God Save the Queen - Last Night of the Proms 2009

ReallyQueen?1M views
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Perfect Day

Dr. John, Joan Armatrading, Brett Anderson, Laurie Anderson, Courtney Pine, BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Robert Cray Band, David Bowie, Brodsky Quartet, Gabrielle, Lou Reed, Elton John, Sheona White, Bono, Ian Broudie, Thomas Allen, Sir Andrew Davis, Heather Small, Emmylou Harris, Boyzone, Tom Jones, Lesley Garrett, Evan Dando, Skye, Suzanne Vega, Burning Spear, Tammy Wynette, and Shane MacGowan1.1M views
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Henry Purcell - Abdelazar Suite - Rondo

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Francisco Tárrega – Fantasia on a Theme from Verdi's 'La Traviata' – Tatyana Ryzhkova, guitar

MoonRiver_75 usa751 views

Live performances

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Ibrahim Maalouf - Au revoir (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall – Live) – Backstage

Ibrahim Maalouf Official9.4K views
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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis / Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker

Berliner Philharmoniker68K views

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