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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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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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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture
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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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Mozart: Ouverture de La flûte enchantée (Mono Version)

Single2015
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Holst: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Single2013
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Beethoven: Symphony No.1, OP. 21

EP2022
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Sibelius: Finlandia Finlandia, En Saga, The Swan of Tuonela, Karela Suite & Pohjola's Daughter

EP2014
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Holst: Uranus, the Magician

Single2013
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso (Radio Edit)

Single2021
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Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell Op. 34

EP2013
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Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 1, Op. 138 (Mono Version)

Single2015
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Holst: Mercury, the Winged Messenger

Single2013

Videos

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God Save The Queen: Celebrating 60 Years

Michael Garnett513K views
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Spem in alium - as featured in Fifty Shades of Grey - The Tallis Scholars - EPK

The Tallis Scholars593K views
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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance | BBC Proms 2014 - BBC

BBC6.6M views
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"Macho King" Randy Savage Titantron 2024 HD (WWE 2K24)

Fresh Prince of Harvey1.3K views
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Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell)

Chris Hill825K views
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Parry - Jerusalem (Last Night of the Proms 2012)

Mandetriens199K views
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Pomp and Circumstance, Op.39 - No.1 in D major ( Edward Elgar )

Alejandro Avila31K views
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"Rule Britannia!" – British Patriotic Song

Zorgée1.6K views
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Francisco Tárrega – Fantasia on a Theme from Verdi's 'La Traviata' – Tatyana Ryzhkova, guitar

MoonRiver_75 usa743 views

Live performances

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