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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Concertos pour Orchestre n°4 & 5
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classical - Released by Naxos on Apr 27, 2010
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Concertos pour violon n°1 et 2
Chloë Hanslip, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 29, 2009
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Concerto pour piano - Symphonie n°4
Gabriela Imreh, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Spalding
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jan 27, 2009
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Méditations sur un thème de John Blow
Classical - Released by Naxos on May 9, 2010
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Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Sonata alla toccata
Peter Donohoe, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jan 1, 2005
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Vaughan Williams: The Garden of Proserpine & In the Fen Country - Hadley: Fen & Flood (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams)
Joyful Company of Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel
Classical - Released by Albion on May 31, 2011
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Michael Daugherty : Route 66 - Ghost Ranch - Time Machine
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Mei-Ann Chen, Laura Jackson
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jan 1, 1998
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Concertos russes pour violon
Sergey Ostrovsky, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 26, 2011
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Moeran: Symphony in G Minor / Sinfonietta
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Classical - Released by Naxos on Aug 1, 2002
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Walton: Cello Concerto; Symphony No. 1
Andrew Litton, Robert Cohen, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1995
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Béla Bartók : Le Château de Barbe-Bleue
Gustáv Belácek, Andrea Melath, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Opera - Released by Naxos on Nov 20, 2007
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Symphonic Pieces from Les Misérables and Miss Saigon
Claude-Michel Boublil, Alain Schonberg, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Seann Alderking
Film Soundtracks - Released by First Night Records on Nov 30, 1993
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1; Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jul 1, 2016
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Symphonies (Volume 3)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Classical - Released by Naxos on May 27, 2008
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Dan Godfrey - Encores
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Dutton Epoch on Oct 6, 2011
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Symphonies (volume 2)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Classical - Released by Naxos on Oct 30, 2007
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Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety", Overture from Candide & Fancy Free
Jeffrey Kahane, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Jan 1, 1991
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ELGAR-PAYNE: Symphony No. 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel
Classical - Released by Naxos on Feb 1, 2000
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Symphonies (Volume 4)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Robert Plane, David Lloyd-Jones
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 29, 2008
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Delius: Orchestral Works
Richard Hickox, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Aug 1, 2016
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RAWSTHORNE: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Ellett, David Lloyd-Jones
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jan 31, 2005
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