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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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Symphony_Orchestra) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Auld lang syne
BBC Symphony & Chorus & Singers
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture
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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39/1
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Superman
The BBC Orchestra
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Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36 - Var. 9. Adagio "Nimrod"
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Albums

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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2-3 & Piano Sonata No. 7

Album • 2024
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Mahler Pioneers

Album • 2023
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44 & The Bells, Op. 35 (2023 Remaster) (Live)

Album • 2023
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Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos

Album • 2024
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Ravel & Grieg (Live)

Album • 2023
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Brahms by Arrangement, Vol. Two: Orchestrations by Robin Holloway

Album • 2023
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Remastered 2023)

Album • 2023
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Edward Elgar

Album • 2023
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Smyth: Der Wald

Album • 2023
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Johannes Brahms

Album • 2023

Singles

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Der Wald: I. Prologue

2023
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Julia Wolfe: Pretty

2024
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Judith Weir: Still, Glowing

2024
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso (Radio Edit)

2021
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Julius Eastman: Symphony No. II - The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved

2024
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Jóhann Jóhannsson: They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (from Miners' Hymns)

2024
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Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time

2011
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COEXISTENCE

2024
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

2009
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Lauri Porra: Utu

2024

Videos

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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance | BBC Proms 2014 - BBC

BBC • 5.9M views
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Holst: The Planets, 'Mars' - BBC Proms

BBC • 2.5M views
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BRYN TERFEL - RULE BRITTANIA 1994

Ron Surgenor • 5.4K views
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God Save The Queen: Celebrating 60 Years

Michael Garnett • 315K views
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BBC Symphony Orchestra - Jerusalem & British National Anthem & Auld Lang Syne 2011

fritz51218 • 104K views
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Pomp and Circumstance March no.4 (BBC Proms)

brassbone player • 278K views
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Parry - Jerusalem (Last Night of the Proms 2012)

Mandetriens • 192K views
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Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell)

Chris Hill • 751K views
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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory' (Prom 75)

BBC Music • 999K views
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Merry Brexit Day Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major, Op. 39 (abridged) Elgar

14N • 1.9K views

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Presenting Haydn

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Presenting Liszt

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Essential Classical

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