Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
The Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra has had foreign conductors and has presented music from other parts of Spain as well as other countries. Yet as its name suggests, the ensemble has been uniquely identified with music of Catalonia.
Barcelona has supported a variety of civic and private orchestras since the mid-19th century, including the Orquesta Pau Casals, disbanded after the fall of Spain's Republican government. The Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, founded by conductor Eduardo Toldrà, replaced it in 1944. Toldrà remained chief conductor until 1962, after which the group was renamed the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona. In 1994 it was given its current name, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya in Catalan (the group's website includes neither Spanish nor English), or OBC for short.
The orchestra has given the premieres of major works by Catalonian composers including Xavier Montsalvatge's Mediterranean Symphony in 1948, Càntic Espiritual in 1960, and Desintegració morfològica de la xacona de J.S. Bach in 1963; Federico Mompou's Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin in 1961; and many works by Josep Soler, including the opera-oratorio Oedipus et Ioacasta in 1974. The OBC has recorded for Koch International, BIS, Columna Musica, Alpha, and Naxos, on which it released a set of orchestral music by Enrique Granados in 2017. The orchestra formed its own house label in the mid-2010s. Its conductor since 2015 has been Kazushi Ono.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Meyerbeer: Ballet Music from the Operas
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz
Classical - Released by Naxos on 3 Mar 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Eugen d'Albert: Piano Concertos, Cello Concerto, Symphony No.
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Andreas Kolly, Antônio Meneses, Ronald Zollmann, Sinfonieorchester Basel
Classical - Released by Pan Classics on 28 Apr 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Manén: Violin Concerto No. 3 "Ibérico" & Symphony No. 2 "Ibérica"
Ana María Valderrama, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Sep 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rhapsody In Blue
Michel Camilo, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
Jazz - Released by Telarc on 28 Feb 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruneau: Orchestral Works
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang
Classical - Released by Naxos on 12 Oct 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Violin Concerto No. 1 / Golem / 2 Tableaux from Belshazzar
Elmar Oliveira, Česká filharmonie, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Gerard Schwarz, Joseph Silverstein
Violin Concertos - Released by Milken Family Foundation on 21 Oct 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Granados: Suite Sobre Cantos Gallegos, Torrijos & Marcha de los Vencidos
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Cor Madrigal, Pablo Gonzalez
Classical - Released by Naxos on 4 Mar 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Granados: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Jesús Álvarez Carrión, Gemma Coma-Alabert, Pablo Gonzalez, Cor Lieder Càmera
Classical - Released by Naxos on 10 Jun 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Xavier Montsalvatge : Simfonia de Rèquiem - Manfred - Bric à brac
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Victor Pablo Pérez
Classical - Released by Naxos on 6 Jan 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Guernica / Symphony No. 4 / Zapata
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Salvador Mas-Conde
Classical - Released by Naxos on 15 Jul 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Concerto No. 2 / Concerto for Four Guitars / Celebracio
Michael Sanderling, Quatuor de Guitares de Versailles, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Colman Pearce
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Jul 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bizet-Serebrier: Carmen Symphony / Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 Jan 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Dark Backward of time
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Ofelia Sala, Salvador Mas-Conde
Classical - Released by Naxos on 27 Jul 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Violin Concerto No. 1 / Folk Dreams / Sardana
Andres Cardenes, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Aeschbacher
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Sep 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Milken Archive Digital Volume 14, Album 1
Benzion Miller, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica, Elli Jaffe, Marios Papadopoulos, Jorge Mester
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Milken Archive Digital on 4 Sep 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo