BBC Philharmonic
British broadcasting symphony orchestra based at Media City UK, Salford, England.
As of 2022, its principal conductor is John Storgårds
Principal conductors:
Sir Charles Groves (1944–1951)
John Hopkins (1952–1957)
George Hurst (1958–1968)
Bryden Thomson (1968–1973)
Raymond Leppard (1973–1980)
Edward Downes (1980–1991)
Yan Pascal Tortelier (1992–2002)
Gianandrea Noseda (2002–2011)
Juanjo Mena (2011–2018)
Omer Meir Wellber (2019–2022)
John Storgårds (2022–present)
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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 • Violin Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich*, István Várdai, Aleksey Semenenko, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds, Martyn Brabbins
2025
BBC Music Magazine
CD
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Ruth Gipps - Martin Owen, Rumon Gamba, BBC Philharmonic
2025
Chandos
CD
Orchestral Works Volume 4
Ruth Gipps, Charlie Lovell-Jones, Bill Anderson (40), BBC Philharmonic, Yuri Torchinsky, Rumon Gamba
2025
Chandos
CD, Album
Symphony No. 13 'Babiy Yar' • De Profundis
Shostakovich*, Arvo Pärt, Albert Dohmen, Estonian National Male Choir, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2024
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
The Symphonies: Nos. 7-12
George Lloyd, BBC Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra
2024
Lyrita
4xCD, Comp
The Symphonies: Nos. 1-6
George Lloyd, BBC Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra
2024
Lyrita
4xCD, Comp
Don Quixote (Complete Ballet), Suite From 'Alegrías', Pedrelliana
Gerhard*, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2024
Chandos
CD
Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Eric Coates, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2024
Chandos
CD
The Piano Concertos
George Lloyd, Martin Roscoe, Kathryn Stott, BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra
2024
Lyrita
2xCD, Comp, RE
Orchestral Works
Grace Williams - BBC Philharmonic, John Andrews (28)
2024
Resonus Classics
CD, Album
Violin Concerto / Five Theatre Miniatures / A Fist Full Of Fives / War Horse Suite / Short Story
Adrian Sutton, Fenella Humphreys, BBC Philharmonic, Michael Seal*
2024
Chandos
CD
A Tribute To Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis, Holst*, Tippett*, Debussy*, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus*, BBC Philharmonic, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir
2024
Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' . Symphony No. 15
Shostakovich*, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2023
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Symphony No. 3; The Isle Of The Dead
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds, Rachmaninov*
2023
BBC Music Magazine
CD
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 / Philharmonic Concerto / Divertimento No. 2 / The Padstow Lifeboat / Commonwealth Christmas Overture / Larch Trees
Arnold*, Michael Collins (3), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
2023
Chandos
CD
Isotonic (Commissions For Clarinet)
Burrell*, Watkins*, Boden*, Jenkins* - Robert Plane, BBC Philharmonic, Geoffrey Paterson, Gould Piano Trio
2023
Resonus Classics
CD, Album
Spectral Canticle
Toru Takemitsu, Jacob Kellermann, Viviane Hagner, Juliana Koch, BBC Philharmonic, Christian Karlsen
2023
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
Weinberg: Dawn / Symphony No. 12
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2023
Chandos
CD, Album
Ballet Treasures: Works By Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Delibes & Satie
BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, John Storgårds, Martin Yates (2)
2023
BBC Music Magazine
CD
Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute
Pierre Sancan, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Adam Walker (6), BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier
2023
Chandos
CD
Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Eric Coates, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2023
Chandos
CD
Martin Owen Plays Strauss, Schumann, Weber
Strauss*, Schumann*, Weber*, Martin Owen, Christopher Parkes*, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Sarah Willis (2), BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2023
Chandos
CD
Emily Howard - The Anvil
Emily Howard (4), BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Kate Royal, Claire Booth, Hugh Cutting, Christopher Purves
2023
Delphian Records Ltd.
CD
Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva / Symphony No. 14
Shostakovich*, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds, Elizabeth Atherton, Jessica Dandy, Peter Rose (3)
2023
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works, Volume 2
Ruth Gipps, Juliana Koch, BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
2022
Chandos
CD
Symphony No. 4 • Symphony No. 11
Shostakovich* / Gennady Rozhdestvensky*, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic
2022
ica Classics
2xCD, Comp
Pop Songs
Jan Vogler, BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber
2022
Sony Classical
CD, Album
Symphonies Nos 4 & 6; Plus In The Fen Country
Ralph Vaughan Williams, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson*
2022
Symphony In C / Symphony In Three Movements / Divertimento / Circus Polka / Greeting Prelude
Stravinsky*, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis*
2022
A Vision Of The Sea
David Matthews (9) - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra*, Jac van Steen
2021
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Percussion Concertos
HK Gruber - Colin Currie, Juanjo Mena, John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic
2021
Colin Currie Records
CD, Album
Instrumental Music
Edward Gregson, Soloists from the Hallé Orchestra*, Soloists from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra*
2021
Naxos
CD, Album
Remembering
Jakob Kullberg, Nørgård*, Saariaho*, BBC Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia
2021
BIS
CD, Album
Symphony No.1, Symphony No.5
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena / Franz Schubert
2021
BBC Music Magazine
CD, Album
Symphony No. 6
Bruckner*, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2021
Symphony No 4 & Viola Concerto
James MacMillan (2), Lawrence Power (2), BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins
2020
Hyperion
CD, Album
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905"
Shostakovich*, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2020
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
Piano Concertos Nos 3 And 5 ‘Egyptian’; Allegro Appassionato; Rhapsodie D’Auvergne
Saint-Saëns*, Louis Lortie, BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
2020
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Eric Coates, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2020
Chandos
CD, Album
Music Of Israel
Paul Ben-Haim, Claudia Barainsky, John Bradbury (4), BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber
2020
Chandos
CD, Album
Symphonies Nos 5&7
Beethoven*, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
2020
Symphony No. 3 'American' / Symphony No. 6 'After Delacroix' / Spectre Of The Rose Waltz / Archipelago / Hot-Time Dance
George Antheil, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2019
Chandos
CD, Album
The Film Music Of Gerard Schurmann
Gerard Schurmann, Rumon Gamba, BBC Philharmonic
2019
Chandos
CD
Symphony No. 1 'Zingareska' / Suite From 'Capital Of The World' / Mckonkey's Ferry / Nocturne In Skyrockets / The Golden Bird
George Antheil - BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2019
Chandos
CD, Album
Symphony / Herminie Etc
Arriaga*, Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2019
Chandos
CD, Album
Chains Like The Sea
Bernard Rands, Johannes Moser, BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell
2019
NMC (3)
CD, Album
La Vida Breve
Falla*, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2019
Chandos
CD, Album
The Orchestral Music Of Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove, Lawrence Zazzo, BBC Philharmonic, Timothy Redmond
2019
Orchid Classics
CD, Album
Orchestral Works Vol. 1
Eric Coates, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2019
Chandos
CD, Album
The Symphonic Euphonium II
David Childs Plays Vaughan Williams*, Gregson*, Mealor*, Ball* / BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon
2019
Chandos
CD, Album
Symphonies
Parry* / Moeran* – Vassily Sinaisky, BBC Philharmonic
2019
Panis Angelicus: Works For Treble Voice
Emilia Jaques, Cassian Pichler-Roca, Darius Battiwalla, BBC Philharmonic
2019
British Tone Poems, Volume 2
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
2019
Enigma Variations Plus Cockaigne Overture, Organ Sonata (orch. Jacob)
Edward Elgar*, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra / Charles Mackerras*, Juanjo Mena, Vernon Handley
2018
BBC Music Magazine
CD, Album
Orchestral Works 3 – Piano Concerto No. 1 • Concierto Argentino • Variaciones Concertantes
Ginastera* – Xiayin Wang, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2018
Chandos
CD, Album
Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4
Saint-Saëns*, Louis Lortie, BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
2018
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works 4 - Symphonies
Copland*, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2018
Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Holst*, Guy Johnston, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis*
2018
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Symphonies
Copland*, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15)
2018
The Film Music Of William Alwyn - Volume 4
William Alwyn, BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
2017
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works
George Antheil, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
2017
Chandos
CD
Scapegoat (Piano Concerto No 1) / Piano Concerto No 2
George Lloyd, Martin Roscoe, BBC Philharmonic
2017
Albany Records
CD
The Three Symphonies
Enescu*, BBC Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky*
2017
Chandos
3xCD, Comp
Falstaff / Orchestral Songs / 'Grania And Diarmid' Incidental Music And Funeral March
Elgar*, Sir Andrew Davis*, Roderick Williams (3), BBC Philharmonic
2017
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
Orchestral Works
Busoni* - John Bradbury (4), Nelson Goerner, BBC Philharmonic, Neeme Järvi
2017
Chandos
24xFile, AAC, Comp, RM, 256
Orchestral Works
Busoni*, John Bradbury (4), Nelson Goerner, BBC Philharmonic, Neeme Järvi
2017
Orchestral Works 1 – Estancia • Ollanty • Pampeana No. 3
Ginastera*, Juanjo Mena, Lucas Somoza Osterc, BBC Philharmonic
2016
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works 2 – Piano Concerto No. 2 • Panambí
Ginastera* – Juanjo Mena, Xiayin Wang, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Chamber Choir
2016
Chandos
CD, Album
Complete Symphonies, Symphonic Fragments from 'La Donna Serpente'
Noseda* conducts Casella* . BBC Philharmonic
2016
Chandos
2xCD, Comp
Piano Concerto No. 1 'Concierto Fantàstico' - Suite Española - Rapsodia Española - Suite From 'The Magic Opal'
Albéniz*, Juanjo Mena, Martin Roscoe, BBC Philharmonic
2016
Chandos
CD
Orchestral Works
Dohnányi*, James Ehnes, Howard Shelley, Clifford Lantaff, BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert
2016
Chandos
5xCD, Album, Comp, RE
Orchestral Works 2 - Symphonies
Copland*, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (15), Jonathan Scott (9)
2016
Orchestral Works Vol. 1 - Ballets
Copland* - BBC Philharmonic - John Wilson (15)
2016
Caroline Mathilde: Ballet Suites; Chat Moss; Ojai Festival Overture
Peter Maxwell Davies / BBC Philharmonic, Maxwell Davies*
2015
Naxos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works, volume 4
Casella*, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda, Gillian Keith
2015
Chandos
CD, Album
The Symphonies
Malcolm Lipkin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Lionel Friend, Edward Downes, Adrian Leaper
2015
Lyrita
CD, Comp
Complete Symphonies
Nielsen*, John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic
2015
Chandos
3xCD + Box
British Violin Concertos
Haydn Wood, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Frederick Delius - Tasmin Little, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis*
2015
Chandos
CD, Album
Piano Concertos / Aubade
Francis Poulenc, Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier, Edward Gardner, BBC Philharmonic
2015
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Pierné*, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2015
Chandos
CD, Album
Sir Malcolm Arnold: Complete Symphonies
Malcolm Arnold, Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
2015
Classic Chandos
4xCD, Comp, RE, RM
Canto A Sevilla
Turina*, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena, María Espada, Martin Roscoe
2014
Chandos
CD, Album
Dream Song - Aztec Dances - Horn Concerto - Concerto For Orchestra
Edward Gregson, Wissam Boustany, Richard Watkins, BBC Philharmonic, Bramwell Tovey
2014
Chandos
CD, Album
Piano Concertos Nos 1-5
Prokofiev*, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
2014
Chandos
2xCD
Complete Symphonies / Three Late Fragments
Jean Sibelius, John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic
2014
Chandos
3xCD, Album, Box
The Film Music of Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa, BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
2014
Chandos
CD, Album
Phantasy / Four Orchestral Pieces / Overture, Elegy And Rondo
Bax*, Philip Dukes, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis*
2014
Chandos
CD, Album
The Beltane Fire / The Turn Of The Tide / Sir Charles His Pavan
Maxwell Davies* - BBC Philharmonic : Davies*
2014
Naxos
CD, Album, Comp
Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky*, Nobuyuki Tsujii*, Yutaka Sado, BBC Philharmonic
2014
Avex-classics
CD, Album, RE, Blu
Schumann Symphony No. 1 | Schubert Symphony No. 4
Schumann*, Schubert* - BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda, Juanjo Mena
2014
Symphony No. 3 Plus St Anthony Variations
Johannes Brahms, Gianandrea Noseda, Grant Llewellyn, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra* & Chorus Of Wales*
2014
Live In Concert
John Grant With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra*
2014
The Lighthouse
Peter Maxwell Davies : Neil Mackie (2), Christopher Keyte, Ian Comboy, Members Of The BBC Philharmonic*
2014
The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams* / Moeran* / Delius* / Elgar* / Holst* / Tasmin Little, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis*
2013
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Noseda*, Casella*, BBC Philharmonic
2013
Chandos
CD
Danzas Fantásticas
Turina* - Clara Mouriz, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
2013
Chandos
CD, Album
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Introduction & Allegro, Elegy, Pomp & Circumstance Marches
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis*, Paul Watkins (3)
2012
Chandos
CD, Album
Orchestral Works
Weber*, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena, Karen Geoghegan
2012
Chandos
CD, Album
Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 1 • Mavis in Las Vegas
Peter Maxwell Davies, BBC Philharmonic
2012
Naxos
CD, Album
Symphony No. 3 / Cross Lane Fair
Peter Maxwell Davies, BBC Philharmonic
2012
Naxos
CD
Brideshead Revisited: No. 24, Always Summer
BBC Philharmonic
Lloyd: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat: Rondo
BBC Philharmonic
Brideshead Revisited: No. 11, Venice
BBC Philharmonic
Under Suspicion
BBC Philharmonic
Brideshead Revisited: No. 1, Sebastian
BBC Philharmonic
Brideshead Revisited: No. 20, Near Escape
BBC Philharmonic
Sheep May Safely Graze
BBC Philharmonic
Le dernier sommiel de la Vierge
BBC Philharmonic
Faure: Pavane, Op. 50
BBC Philharmonic
Carnival, Op. 92, B. 169: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
BBC Philharmonic
Pavane, Opus 50
BBC Philharmonic
Chopin: Funeral March from Op. 35
BBC Philharmonic
Bach: Komm suesser Tod, BWV 478
BBC Philharmonic
Symphony 1 - Beethoven
BBC Philharmonic
Faure: Pie Jesu from Requiem, Op. 48
BBC Philharmonic
Mars, the Bringer of War
BBC Philharmonic
Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
BBC Philharmonic
Franck: Panis Angelicus
BBC Philharmonic
Massenet: Le dernier Somneil de la Vierge from La Vierge
BBC Philharmonic
Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
BBC Philharmonic
