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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 orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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Discography

Album

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1990 The Two Violin Concertos Prokofiev; Itzhak Perlman, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky 1
1991 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge / Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 1
1993 Marriage of Figaro: Highlights Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis 1
1994 The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 8: Medtner: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Piano Quintet in C major Nikolai Medtner; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev, Dmitri Alexeev, New Budapest Quartet 1
1997 Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 / Overture "In the South" / Pomp & Circumstance Marches 1, 3 & 5 Sir Edward Elgar; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 1
1997 Symphony no. 3 "Collages" / Epithalamion / Piano Concerto Roberto Gerhard; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Bamert, Geoffrey Tozer 1
1999 Clarinet Concerto / Symphonia: Sum Fluxai Pretium Spei Elliott Carter; Michael Collins, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen 2
2000 BBC Music, Volume 9, Number 2: Billy the Kid, etc. Aaron Copland; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin 1
2000 Piano Concerto no. 1 / Piano Concerto no. 2 / Penguinski Herbert Howells; Howard Shelley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox 1
2000 Symphony No. 5 Anton Bruckner; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein 1
2001 Jeremiah, Symphony no. 1 / The Age of Anxiety, Symphony no. 2 Leonard Bernstein; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin 1
2001 Enigma Variations / Cockaigne Overture / Introduction and Allegro / Serenade for Strings in E minor Elgar; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 1
2002 The Planets / Egdon Heath Gustav Holst; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 1
2003 36 Greek Dances / The Return of Ulysses Nikos Skalkottas; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nikos Christodoulou 1
2003 Symphony No. 2 / In the South (Alassio) Elgar; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 1
2004 Sibelius: Symphony no. 7 / Tapiola / Pohjola's Daughter / Grieg: The Last Spring Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Koussevitzky 1
2004 Kaddish / Chichester Psalms / Missa Brevis Leonard Bernstein; BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, The London Oratory School Schola, Leonard Slatkin, Jamie Bernstein 1
2004 The Conductors' Transcriptions Johann Sebastian Bach; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin 1
2005 Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / ASKO Concerto Elliott Carter; Nicolas Hodges, Fred Sherry, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Asko Ensemble, Oliver Knussen 1
2009 BBC Music, Volume 17, Number 7: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 23 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Clifford Curzon, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, Bernhard Klee, George Hurst 1
2010 Orchestral Works: Concerto for Orchestra / Symphony no. 3 / Chain 3 Witold Lutosławski; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner 1
2010 Massenet: Piano Pieces/ Debussy: Fantaisie / Ravel: Concertos Jules Massenet, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 1
2011 Orchestral Works 2: Symphonic Variations / "Paganini" Variations / Piano Concerto / Symphony no. 4 Witold Lutosławski; Edward Gardner, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Louis Lortie 1
2012 Prague / A Summer's Tale Josef Suk; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek 1
2012 Orchestral Works 3: Symphony no. 2 / Grave / Cello Concerto / Mala suita Witold Lutosławski; Paul Watkins, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner 1
Boult’s Planets Holst, Walton, Vaughan Williams; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult 1
The Symphony: Beethoven No. 6 / Brahms No. 2 Beethoven, Brahms; Sir Adrian Boult, Sir John Pritchard, BBC Symphony Orchestra 1

Album + Compilation

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1990 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 / Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 Compilation Sibelius, Dvořák; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham 2
1995 Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela / Nielsen: Helios Overture / Grieg: Holberg Suite Compilation Sibelius, Nielsen, Grieg; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky 1
1996 Elgar: Cello Concerto / Bach: Cello Suites No. 1 & 2 Compilation Elgar, Bach; Jacqueline du Pré, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli 1
Enigma Variations / Pomp and Circumstance / The Crown of India Compilation Elgar; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein 1

Album + Live

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
2009 The Isle of the Dead, op. 29 / Two Études-tableaux / Pictures at an Exhibition Live Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky; Evgeny Svetlanov, BBC Symphony Orchestra 1
2009 BBC Music: Volume 18 No. 3: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Violin Sonata No. 2 Live Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Robert Soetens, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Henry Wood, James Ehnes, Andrew Armstrong 1
Last Night of the Proms (The 100th Season) Live BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 1

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