Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is one of Britain's oldest orchestras, and among the country's regional orchestras (its mission is to serve South and South West England), it has attracted an unusually strong roster of international conductors and collaborators. The orchestra has premiered an impressive number of significant 20th century British works. The Bournemouth Symphony was founded by the city of Bournemouth in 1893 and was called the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra until 1954. Its musical organizer and first director was Dan Godfrey, a bandmaster's son who also helped the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestras. It began as a wind band but added strings and began performing symphonic repertory two years later. Godfrey remained the orchestra's music director until 1933, performing numerous concerts of British music including one, in 1927, consisting entirely of music by women composers. The orchestra's fame was spread by radio broadcasts in the 1930s, but it was reduced to a Sunday-only concert schedule during World War II. After the war, the orchestra rebuilt its schedule and grew in size under conductors Rudolf Schwarz and Charles Groves, taking its present name in 1954. Romanian conductor Constantin Silvestri expanded the orchestra's international reputation, and all its conductors since then have come from outside Britain. Silvestri also helped organize a chamber music offshoot, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Finland's Paavo Berglund (1972-1979) was succeeded by the Israeli Uri Segal and, from 1982 to 1988, by the Soviet Russian Rudolf Barshai. Andrew Litton (1988-1994) was the orchestra's first American conductor; he was succeed by the Russian-American Yakov Kreizberg and by the orchestra's first female conductor, Marin Alsop. The Ukrainian Kirill Karabits has been principal conductor since 2009. Under the last several conductors, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has amassed a catalog of more than 85 recordings, issuing as many as seven in a single year. A 1997 album featuring the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast won a Grammy award in the U.S. Many Bournemouth recordings have appeared on the Naxos label, but the orchestra has also recorded periodically for Warner Classics and Chandos; on the latter label, under Karabits, the group released an album of music by Ukrainian composer Boris Lyatoshynsky in 2019.
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Roy Harris : Symphonies n°5 & n°6
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 4 janv. 2010
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 2, 'London' / The Wasps Overture
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kees Bakels
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 22 nov. 1993
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Litolff: Concertos symphoniques Nos. 2 & 4 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 14)
Peter Donohoe, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 janv. 1997
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Symphonies (Volume 1)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 13 avr. 2007
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Symphonies n°. 3 "Pastorale" et n° 6
Brendan O'Brien, Patricia Rozario, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kees Bakels
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Naxos le 17 juin 1994
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Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kees Bakels
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Naxos le 3 déc. 1998
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Ron Goodwin: My Kind Of Music
Ron Goodwin, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Musiques pour le cinéma - Paru chez Chandos le 1 oct. 1989
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Franck: Symphony in D Minor & Symphonic Variations
Paavo Berglund, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 10 mai 2024
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The Silver Violin
Nicola Benedetti, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 2012
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John Adams : Shaker Loops
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Nathan Gunn, Marin Alsop
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 4 oct. 2004
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Aaron Copland : Dance Symphony - Symphony No. 1 - Short Symphony
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 18 nov. 2008
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Ned Rorem : Symphonies Nos. 1 - 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 28 juil. 2003
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Simpson: Symphony No. 9 & Illustrated Talk by the Composer
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 janv. 1988
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Anthologie de Noël
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Naxos le 2 nov. 2009
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Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 3 & Grazhyna
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 2019
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Transcriptions symphoniques (Volume 2)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 27 janv. 2009
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Stokowski Transcriptions
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Walden, José Serebrier
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 1 avr. 2016
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FINZI: Dies natalis / Farewell to Arms / 2 Sonnets
James Gilchrist, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Naxos le 12 avr. 2008
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Walton/Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1992
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Transcriptions pour orchestre
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Walden, José Serebrier
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 20 juin 2006
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Kurt Weill : Symphonies n° 1 et 2
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 1 août 2005
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