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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Toru Takemitsu : Orchestral Works
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jul 25, 2006
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Walton : Symphonies 1 & 2
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Symphonic Music - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on Oct 20, 2017
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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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Philip Glass : Symphony No. 4, 'Heroes' - The Light
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jan 30, 2007
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Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8
Christopher Dowie, David Timson, Lynda Russell, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kees Bakels
Symphonic Music - Released by Naxos on Jun 30, 1998
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades & Humoreske No. 5
Ida Haendel, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Jan 1, 1976
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Intégrale de la musique de ballet d’opéra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Classical - Released by Naxos on Feb 20, 2012
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Transcriptions de Leopold Stokowski
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jun 1, 2005
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / Flos Campi
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Green, Paul Silverthorne, Paul Daniel, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
Classical - Released by Naxos on Nov 6, 2004
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TIPPETT: Piano Concerto / Fantasia on a Theme of Handel / Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
Howard Shelley, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Keyboard Concertos - Released by Chandos on Jun 1, 2001
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Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classical - Released by Onyx Classics on Aug 20, 2015
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Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite / Niagara Falls
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, William Stromberg
Classical - Released by Naxos on Mar 25, 1999
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Howells: Stabat Mater, Te Deum & Sine Nomine
Benjamin Hulett, Alison Hill, The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 1, 2014
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The Silver Violin
Nicola Benedetti, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 2012
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Philip Glass : Symphonies n° 2 et n° 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classical - Released by Naxos on Nov 1, 2004
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Khachaturian: Spartacus & Gayaneh
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Onyx Classics on Nov 1, 2010
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Avet Rubeni Terterian: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Kirill Karabits, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Nov 1, 2019
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Synthèses Symphoniques de Stokowski
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 1, 2007
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 7 "Leningrad" & 11 "The Year 1905"
Paavo Berglund, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on May 1, 2000
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Britten: Four Sea Interludes & The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Richard Hickox, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brendan O'Brien, Jack Maguire, Celia Craig
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Nov 1, 1993
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Winter Legends
Ashley Wass, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
Classical - Released by Naxos on Apr 4, 2011
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