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Of the five orchestras maintained by the British Broadcasting Company, the BBC Concert Orchestra is the most oriented toward light music, popular music, and jazz. The orchestra's name is somewhat inaccurate: although it does often perform live concerts, the group's most important tasks are connected to radio broadcasting.
The BBC Concert Orchestra grew out of the BBC Theatre Orchestra, which was formed in 1931 and was later renamed the BBC Opera Orchestra. In 1952, that group was reorganized as the BBC Concert Orchestra. The following year, it became the house orchestra for the BBC program Friday Night is Music Night, which as of the late 2010s, remained on the air as the world's longest-running radio program. The orchestra performed a variety of other light music on BBC programs, accompanied popular singers, sometimes teamed with the BBC Big Band, and at times performed operatic and symphonic works. For two decades, the group gave live concerts at London's Camden Theatre, moving to the Hippodrome in North London in 1972. The orchestra's first conductor was Gilbert Vinter. Subsequent conductors have included Charles Mackerras (1954-1956), Vilem Tausky (1956-1966), Marcus Dods (1966-1970), Ashley Lawrence (1970-1989), Barry Wordsworth (1989-2006), Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart (2010-2017, remaining as the principal guest conductor), and Bramwell Tovey (2018-). Composers associated with the BBC Concert Orchestra have sometimes been associated with popular music spheres; they include Radiohead guitarist and keyboardist Jonny Greenwood, who became the orchestra's composer-in-association in 2004. The orchestra's other responsibilities have included recording jingles for BBC News programs.
The BBC Concert Orchestra has a large catalog of recordings, many of them covering British light music, film music, and symphonic music that has not been recorded elsewhere. Many of their recordings have appeared on the Bainbridge, Excalibur, Dutton Laboratories (which has issued a lengthy series of light music/easy listening recordings), Chandos, and Somm labels. In 2019, the orchestra issued an album on Regent of music by its new composer-in-residence, Dobrinka Tabakova.
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The Best Of British Light Music
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland, Barry Wordsworth
Classical - Decca (UMO) 発売日 2003/01/01
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The Film Music of Lord Berners & Constant Lambert
Rumon Gamba, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Mary Carewe, Joyful Company of Singers, Peter Broadbent
Cinema Music - Chandos 発売日 2000/01/01
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Loeffler: Divertissement Espagnol & La Villanelle Du Diable
Classical - Dutton Epoch 発売日 2015/02/02
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Broadway
Renée Fleming, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Rob Fisher
Classical - Decca Music Group Ltd. 発売日 2018/09/07
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BBC Concert Orchestra Plays Songs from The Disney Movies
Pop - Music Manager 発売日 2019/07/30
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Raptures
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Jack Liebeck, Levon Parikian
Classical - Orchid Classics 発売日 2019/11/15
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The Fire That Breaks from Thee
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Rupert Marshall-Luck, Owain Arwel Hughes
Classical - EM Records 発売日 2014/05/15
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Edgar Bainton: Symphony No. 3 & Rutland Boughton: Symphony No. 1 "Oliver Cromwell"
Classical - Dutton Epoch 発売日 2007/02/19
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Humoresque
Rebecca Miller, The BBC Concert Orchestra
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2024/02/21
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British Light Music Premieres, Vol. 5
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, The BBC Concert Orchestra
Classical - Dutton Epoch 発売日 2008/07/21
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Damase: Symphonie, Piano & Flute Concertos
Classical - Dutton Epoch 発売日 2014/07/21
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Gardner: The Ballad of the White Horse, Op. 40
City of London Choir, Ashley Riches, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paulina Voices, Hilary Davan Wetton
Choral Music (Choirs) - EM Records 発売日 2020/01/31
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Sullivan: Irish Symphony, Imperial March, Victoria and Merrie England & In Memoriam
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Linden Harris, Owain Arwel Hughes
Classical - CPO 発売日 1994/11/29
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Classiques pour orchestres
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Crispian Steele-Perkins, William Stephenson, Rumon Gamba
Symphonic Music - Chandos 発売日 2003/09/01
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Frederick Converse: American Sketches
Classical - Dutton Epoch 発売日 2011/10/06
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British Light Music Premieres, Vol. 6
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Classical - Dutton Epoch 発売日 2012/03/05
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Of Such Ecstatic Sound
Rupert Marshall-Luck, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Joseph Spooner, John Andrews
Classical - EM Records 発売日 2018/03/09
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Song of the Birds
Raphael Wallfisch, Vernon Handley, The BBC Concert Orchestra
Classical - Decca (UMO) 発売日 2004/01/01
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British Light Music
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Philip Martin, Roderick Elms, Kenneth Alwyn
Classical - Marco-Polo 発売日 2021/06/25
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo