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NewsBBC announces 20 per cent cut in salaried orchestral posts
The move is among a raft of new measures announced by the corporation on 7 March
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NewsBBC orchestras and choirs announce autumn programme highlights
A mixture of online and live performances with small, socially-distanced audiences make up the autumn season
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VideoPizzicato Polka at 2020 Proms
In this video the BBC Concert Ochestra under Bramwell Tovey played Johann Strauss’s Pizzicato Polka as part of a Viennese Night at the BBC Proms on 31 August 2020. Watch: Beethovenia: all nine symphonies reimagined Read: Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020
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NewsBBC announces new ‘Instrumental Sessions’
Violinists and double bassists from across the BBC’s five orchestras will be among those performing in single-instrument ensembles
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ReviewThe Fire That Breaks from Thee. Holst: Walt Whitman Overture. Milford: Violin Concerto in G minor, op.47. Stanford: Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.162
The Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Two rediscovered English concertos given ideal interpretative advocacyMusicians: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) BBC Concert Orchestra/Owain Arwel HughesComposer: Holst, Milford, StanfordHolst’s rarely heard early Walt Whitman Overture, with hints of ceremonial Wagner, is a fitting up-beat to his teacher Stanford’s Second Violin Concerto, which ...
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ArticleRózsa: Cello Concerto op.32, Sinfonia concertante op.29
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Philippe Graffin (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry WordsworthComposer: RózsaFor all his success as a film composer (he won three Academy Awards), Miklós Rózsa throughout his long life set great store by his ‘serious’ music. Although trained at the prestigious Leipzig ...