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The orchestra came to international attention throughout the 1980s and 1990s in large part due to their series of recordings for Nimbus Records, in particular, their advocacy for the works of early- and mid- 20th-century British music by composers like Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, George Butterworth, John Ireland, Gerald Finzi and Lennox Berkeley ...
He was born in Birmingham, England. [1]Boughton has guest conducted with many of the world's leading orchestras from San Francisco to Helsinki.As founder, artistic and music director with the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO), Boughton developed the orchestra's repertoire through the Viennese classics to contemporary music.
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The New Symphony Orchestra (NSO) was founded in London in 1905 by the clarinettist Charles Draper and the flautist Eli Hudson. After ten years it became the orchestra of the Royal Albert Hall, and continued under that name until 1928, after which it resumed its original name, giving concerts during the 1930s.
A number of concertos and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn) and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra.. English horn concertos appeared about a century later than oboe solo pieces, mostly because until halfway through the 18th century different instruments (the taille de hautbois, vox humana and the oboe da caccia) had the role of the tenor or alto ...
The Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra has been revived after more than 60 years to help musicians who have struggled due to Covid-19.
Osborne was born in Manchester, England, to a Scottish family. He studied composition with Kenneth Leighton , Egon Wellesz , and Witold Rudziński . His compositions include the opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union , [ 8 ] Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra [ 9 ] commissioned by the City of London Sinfonia , I am Goya , [ 10 ...
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