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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: Var. 9. Adagio "Nimrod"
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro / Act 3: "Ecco la marcia... andiamo." - "Amanti costanti"

Albums

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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Divertimento for Strings

2025
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Remastered 2023)

2023
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Edward Elgar

2023
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Boult's Elgar: The Forgotten Recordings (Remastered 2025)

2025
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Smyth: Der Wald

2023
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Johannes Brahms

2023
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2-3 & Piano Sonata No. 7

2024
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Mahler Pioneers

2023
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Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos

2024
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Ravel & Grieg (Live)

2023

Singles & EPs

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Der Wald: I. Prologue

Single2023
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Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time

Single2011
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Walton: Sinfonia Concertante: III. Allegro vivo, sempre scherzando

Single2025
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Beethoven: Symphony No.1, OP. 21

EP2022
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Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

EP2009
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

Single2009
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso (Radio Edit)

Single2021
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Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos

EP1956
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Sibelius: Finlandia Finlandia, En Saga, The Swan of Tuonela, Karela Suite & Pohjola's Daughter

EP2014
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Britten: Diversions, Op. 21: Variation II. Romance

Single2025

Videos

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God Save the King - Queen Elizabeth II Funeral Service at Westminster Abbey

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happy new year 2019 BBC Symphony, Chorus & Singers Auld Lang Syne

Happy new year 2019 fireworks21K views
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Elgar's Pomp And Circumstance, Op 39 No 1

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God Save The Queen: Celebrating 60 Years

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Parry - Jerusalem (Last Night of the Proms 2012)

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Christmas with Philip Stopford and Truro Cathedral Choir

Regent Records1K views
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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance | BBC Proms 2014 - BBC

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Various Artists - Perfect Day

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

The Tallis Scholars594K views

Live performances

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