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Sargent was chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1957, succeeding Boult. He was not the BBC's first choice, but John Barbirolli and Rafael Kubelik turned the post down, and it went to Sargent, despite reservations about his commitment. [ 66 ]
After 1964, the BBC SO was the only one of the five London symphony orchestras that was not self-governed, [n 3] and some musicians felt that the BBC SO's constitution as a body of salaried employees, with no say in the management or repertory of the orchestra, attracted an unadventurous type of player. A former member of the BBC SO said in 1979,
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Subsequently, in the recording studio, Sargent was most in demand to record English music, choral works and concertos. He recorded and worked with many orchestras, but made the most recordings (several dozen major pieces) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic ...
The second set was premiered on 5 August 1952 at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent. The first movement of the second set, Allegro non troppo , was used from 1969 to 2008 as the theme music for the long-running UK television programme What the Papers Say , and was used again for the revived version ...
Players of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1 C, 42 P) Pages in category "BBC Orchestras people" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Lutoslawski – Symphony No 3 / 2010 Chandos / BBC Symphony Orchestra; Brahms – Schoenberg Piano Quartet / 1991 Collins Classics / London Philharmonic; Crosse, Bedford / 1997 NMC / BBC Symphony Orchestra; Gerhard – Various / 1997 Chandos / BBC Symphony Orchestra; Nyman – Trombone Concerto / 1997 EMI / BBC Symphony Orchestra
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