The BBC Symphony Orchestra at 80

The BBC Symphony Orchestra has had twelve Chief Conductors in its eighty year history. See them all - from Boult to Belohlavek - in a film compiled specially for the orchestra's 80th birthday.

1930-49 Adrian Boult
1950-57 Malcolm Sargent
1957-62 Rudolf Schwarz
1963-66 Antal Dorati
1967-71 Colin Davis
1971-1975 Pierre Boulez
1975-76 Rudolf Kempe
1978-1981 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
1982-1989 John Pritchard
1989-2000 Andrew Davis
2000-2006 Leonard Slatkin
2007- Jiri Belohlavek

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[Anthony Kershaw]

C Davis, Kempe, Boulez, Boult

Then

Pritchard, A Davis, Slatkin

Hmmmmmmmm

[a mac]

Andrew Davis is conducting Elgars Dream of Gerontious full performance on utube

[hinakomalin]

So nice to see many audience's heads moving to Sir Colin Davis. What is Boulez conducting anyway?

[olmaleo]

Kempe (Ein Heldenleben and Dvorak 9) is on DVD, and Rozh too.. (Ica classics).

[callasnuts]

Slatkin is doing Coplands El Salon Mexico,Andrew Davis propably Elgar

[ThePlutino]

sorry, what are Andrew Davis and Leonard Slatkin conducting?

[klavierspieler72]

MORE ROZHDESTVENSKY, PLEASE!!!! HE IS SO MARVELLOUS, MY FAVOURITE CONDUCTOR!!!!

[zaygezunt]

Absolutely right! I would love to see these wonderful conductors and performances in full. As a Sir Malcom Sargent (Flash Harry) admirer I am constantly looking for footage. The BBC has fantastic archives ... please share them with the people who care most about music.