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The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales
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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) (Welsh: Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC) is a Welsh symphony orchestra and one of the BBC's five professional orchestras. The BBC NOW is the only professional symphony orchestra organisation in Wales, occupying a dual role as both a broadcasting orchestra and national orchestra. The BBC NOW has its administrative base in Cardiff, at the BBC Hoddinott Hall on the site of the Wales Millennium Centre, since January 2009.
Members
 | Paul Archibald tr, fh GB |
 | Robert Samuel tr |
 | Sebastian Bell fl 1941-2007 GB |
 | Dominic Seldis cb *1971 GB |
 | Pru Whittaker cl |
 | Leslie Hatfield vn |
 | Sarah Chapman vl GB |
 | Robert Plane cl GB |
 | Nigel Seaman tu |
 | James Clark vn |
 | David Buckland b |
 | Nick Whiting vn GB |
| Philip Borg-Wheeler vl |
| Jane Oldham vl GB |
| Sandy Bartai vc |
| Daniel Trodden |
| William Haskins frh FR |
| Lenny Sayers |
| Rachel Ford vc |
| Christopher Wescott b |
| Phil Girling perc |
| Laura Sinnerton |
 | Jarek Augustyniak b *1965 PO |
| Richard Newington |
Band Membership
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finlandia • Swan Of Tuonela • Oceanides • En Saga • Valse Triste • King Christian II Suite | Jean Sibelius, Thomas Søndergård, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2018 | Album |
| Symphonies Nos 2 & 4, Etc | Ruth Gipps, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Rumon Gamba | 2018 | Album |
| Serenade, Facsimile; Prelude, Fugue And Riffs | Leonard Bernstein, Anne Akiko Meyers | 2018 | Album |
| 'Chinese' Symphony | Bernard van Dieren - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and The BBC National Chorus Of Wales | 2017 | Album |
| Sixteen Sunrises; Symphony No. 5; Concertante Variations | John Pickard, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Martyn Brabbins | 2017 | Album |
| Symphonies 1 & 6 | Jean Sibelius, Thomas Søndergård, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2017 | Album |
| In My Father's House (Choral Music By Philip Stopford) | Philip Stopford, Truro Cathedral Choir, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Directed By Christopher Gray | 2017 | Album |
| Brahms Symphony No. 4 Plus Schubert Lieder | Thomas Søndergård, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Benjamin Appl, John Wilson | 2017 | Album |
| Violin Concertos 1 & 2 | Sergei Prokofiev, Matthew Trusler, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Grant Llewellyn | 2017 | Album |
| Elgar: The New England Connection | George Whitefield Chadwick, Sir Edward Elgar, Andrew Constantine, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2017 | Album |
| Symphony No.10 / The Dharma At Big Sur | Philip Glass, John Adams, Chloë Hanslip, Aurora Orchestra, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Nicholas Collon, Eric Stern | 2016 | Album |
| Carmina Burana | Carl Orff, Sarah Tynan, Allan Clayton, Christopher Maltman, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Massed Youth Choirs Of Wales, Andrew Litton | 2016 | Album |
| Organ Concerto / Requiem (Vol. 23 No. 9) | Francis Poulenc, Maurice Duruflé - Gillian Weir, Ruby Hughes, Gerald Finley | 2015 | Compil. |
| Symphonies 2 & 7 | Jean Sibelius, Thomas Søndergård, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2015 | Album |
| Symphony No. 5 | Dmitri Shostakovich, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 2014 | Album |
| Game Of Attrition: Arlene Sierra, Vol. 2 | Arlene Sierra -- Huw Watkins • The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales • Jac van Steen | 2014 | Album |
| Piano Concerto In G Minor, Op 10 / Piano Concerto In E Flat Minor, Op 31 | Henrique Oswald / Alfredo Napoleão dos Santos - Artur Pizarro, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Martyn Brabbins | 2014 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 Plus St Anthony Variations | Johannes Brahms — Gianandrea Noseda • Grant Llewellyn • Martyn Brabbins (Conductors) – BBC Philharmonic, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2014 | Compil. |
| Violin Concerto / The Spirit Of England | Sir Edward Elgar, James Ehnes, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, David Atherton, Susan Gritton, Andrew Kennedy | 2014 | Album |
| Doctor Who Original Television Soundtrack: Best of Series One Through Seven | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2014 | Compil. |
| Doctor Who - The Day Of The Doctor/The Time Of The Doctor | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2014 | Album |
| Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1, J S Bach - Partita No 3, Tchaikovsky, de Falla, Paganini | Max Bruch, Yehudi Menuhin, Tasmin Little, Nathan Milstein, Ernest Lush, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, David Atherton | 2013 | Album |
| Symphony No. 5 / Symphony No. 5 | Carl Nielsen, Jean Sibelius, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Thomas Søndergård | 2013 | Album |
| Doctor Who - The Snowmen/The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2013 | Album |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra / Tod Und Verklärung | Richard Strauss, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Kazushi Ono | 2013 | Album |
| The Beauty Stone | Sir Arthur Sullivan - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Rory Macdonald | 2013 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6 / The Sea | Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge | 2013 | Album |
| Cello Concerto No.1 / Sonata For Cello And Piano | Dmitri Shostakovich - Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Pascal Rophé | 2013 | Album |
| Doctor Who - Series 7 | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2013 | Album |
| Doctor Who - Series 6 (Original Television Soundtrack) | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2012 | Album |
| Violin Concertos / Circus Polka, Pacific 231, Rugby | Igor Stravinsky / Frank Martin / Arthur Honegger - Baiba Skride, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Thierry Fischer | 2012 | Album |
| Jerusalem / The Birds Of Aristophanes / England / Thge Glories Of Our Blood And State / Te Deum / Magnificat (Works For Chorus And Orchestra) | Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Amanda Roocroft, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, Neeme Järvi | 2012 | Album |
| Orchestral Works: The Collector's Edition | Frank Bridge – Sarah Connolly, Philip Langridge, Roderick Williams, Alban Gerhardt, Howard Shelley, The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2012 | Album |
| Human Planet | Nitin Sawhney / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2012 | Album |
| Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2011 | Album |
| Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works | The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2011 | Album |
| Piano Concertos 1 & 2 · Fantaisie | Charles-Marie Widor - Markus Becker, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Thierry Fischer | 2011 | Album |
| Doctor Who - Series 6 | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2011 | Album |
| Flos Campi • Suite For Viola And Small Orchestra • Viola Concerto | Ralph Vaughan Williams / Sir John Blackwood McEwen / Lawrence Power, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales And The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, Martyn Brabbins | 2011 | Album |
| Violin Concerto, Op 17 • Poëme • Violin Concerto | Frédéric d'Erlanger, Frederic Cliffe / Philippe Graffin, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, David Lloyd-Jones | 2011 | Album |
| American Classics | George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Ferde Grofé, Duke Ellington | 2010 | Compil. |
| Berlioz Te Deum Symphonie Funebre Et Triomphale | Hector Berlioz | 2010 | Album |
| Doctor Who - The Specials - Original TV Soundtrack | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2010 | Album |
| Gershwin Second Rhapsody Bernstein Chichester Psalms | Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, Duke Ellington, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2010 | Album |
| Doctor Who Series 5 - The Original TV Soundtrack | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2010 | Album |
| Symphonies Nos.2 & 6 | David Matthews, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Jac van Steen | 2010 | Album |
| Te Deum - Symphonie Funèbre Et Triomphale | Hector Berlioz | 2010 | Album |
| Popol Vuh: The Mayan Creation | Alberto Ginastera, The London Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Gisèle Ben-Dor | 2010 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No.2, Op.44 / Capriccio Italien, Op.45 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - John Lill, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Walter Weller, Roberto Minczuk | 2010 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No. 1 / Academic Festival Overture | Johannes Brahms | 2009 | Album |
| Orchestral Works (Volume 1) | Gustav Holst - The Joyful Company Of Singers, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2009 | Album |
| Torchwood Children Of Earth (Original Television Soundtrack) | Ben Foster, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2009 | Album |
| Wallenstein • Saugefleurie • Choral Varié • Lied | Vincent d'Indy, Lawrence Power, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Thierry Fischer | 2009 | Album |
| Symphony No. 2 Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, Véronique Gens, Pamela Helen Stephen, Robert Tear, Richard Hickox | 2009 | Album |
| Rückert-Lieder / Alto Rhapsody | Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Christianne Stotijn, Jac van Steen, Yasuo Shinozaki, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2008 | Album |
| Great Proms Premieres | Sir William Walton / John Ireland / Guto Pryderi Puw - Nobuko Imai, Kathryn Stott, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2008 | Album |
| Doctor Who - Original Television Soundtrack - Series 4 | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2008 | Album |
| Debussy -Prélude á l'apres- midi d'un faune, Roussel - Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No 2, Satie - Parade | BBC Symphony Orchestra - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, David Robertson, Peter Eötvös, David Porcelijn, Walter Weller | 2008 | Album |
| Sinfonietta / Glagolitic Mass | Leoš Janáček / BBC Philharmonic, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, Bristol Choral Society, Richard Hickox, Sir Charles Mackerras | 2008 | Album |
| Symphony No. 1 / Organ Sonata | Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Hickox, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2007 | Album |
| Fountains Of Rome - Pines Of Rome - The Birds | Ottorino Respighi - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2007 | Album |
| Doctor Who - Series 3 (Original Television Soundtrack) | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2007 | Album |
| Elgar; Symphony No 3, Pomp and Circumstance March No 6, So Many Princesses Who Have Gone | Richard Hickox, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2007 | Album |
| Orchestral Works Including The 8 Symphonies | Alexander Glazunov, Tadaaki Otaka, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2007 | Album |
| Psaume XLVII / La Tragédie De Salomé / Suite Sans Esprit De Suite | Florent Schmitt - Christine Buffle, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Thierry Fischer | 2007 | Album |
| Concertos For Organ And Orchestra | Ottorino Respighi, Francis Poulenc, Josef Rheinberger, Peter King, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, François-Xavier Roth | 2007 | Album |
| Turangalîla Symphony | Olivier Messiaen / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Roger Muraro, Jacques Tchamkerten, Thierry Fischer | 2006 | Album |
| Symphony No.7 | Anton Bruckner - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Petri Sakari | 2006 | Album |
| The Revenge: A Ballad Of The Fleet / Songs Of The Sea / Songs Of The Fleet | Charles Villiers Stanford, Richard Hickox, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, Gerald Finley | 2006 | Album |
| Doctor Who (Original Television Soundtrack) | Murray Gold, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Ben Foster | 2006 | Compil. |
| Elgar Enigma Variations | Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Michael Tippett, Tadaaki Otaka, David Atherton, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2005 | Album |
| Symphony No. 2 / In The South | Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Hickox, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2005 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No. 1 / Suite No. 3 In G | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Ulster Orchestra, Alexander Melnikov, Alexander Titov, Vladimir Altschuler | 2005 | Album |
| BBC Proms - Respighi: Pines Of Rome / Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition | The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 2005 | Album |
| A Royal Night Of Variety • The Pageant Of London • Berceuse • Chant D'espérance • Serenade • Orchestral Songs | Frank Bridge - Sarah Connolly, Philip Langridge, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2005 | Album |
| The Berkeley Edition Volume 5 | Lennox Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, Richard Hickox, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Howard Shelley, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2004 | Album |
| Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 | Frank Bridge – Alban Gerhardt, The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2004 | Album |
| The Poisened Kiss | Ralph Vaughan Williams, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2003 | Album |
| Orchestral Works Volume 3 | The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox, Frank Bridge | 2003 | Album |
| BBC Now Making Music In Ammanford | The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2003 | Album |
| Live From The Proms: L`heure Espagnole, Rapsodie Espagnole | Maurice Ravel / BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 2003 | Album |
| The Berkeley Edition, Volume 1 | Lennox Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, David Pyatt, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2002 | Album |
| A String Around Autumn | Philip Dukes, Sharon Bezaly, Noriko Ogawa, Tadaaki Otaka, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Toru Takemitsu | 2002 | Album |
| Symphony No. 2, Mazurka, From Darkness To Light | Alexander Glazunov / Tadaaki Otaka, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2002 | Album |
| The Berkeley Edition Volume 2 | Lennox Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, Nicholas Daniel, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2002 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish), Manfred Overture, Genoveva Overture | Robert Schumann, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Walter Weller | 2002 | Album |
| Symphony No. 4 'The Inextinguishable'; Clarinet Concerto | Carl Nielsen - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales / Tadaaki Otaka & Petri Sakari • Robert Plane | 2001 | Album |
| Orchestral Music: La Mer · King Lear · Children's Corner · Première Rapsodie · Six Épigraphes Antiques | Claude Debussy - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales / Tadaaki Otaka | 2001 | Album |
| Complete Symphonies | Edmund Rubbra, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 2001 | Album |
| Symphony No. 8, "Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin" / Ode To The Queen / Symphony No. 5 | Edmund Rubbra - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 1999 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6 • Lanterne Des Morts • A Contemplation Upon Flowers • Scena For Strings | Alun Hoddinott — Lillian Watson, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Bryden Thomson | 1998 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 7 | Edmund Rubbra / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 1998 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No. 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, John Lill, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1997 | Album |
| Symphony No. 1, A Tribute, Sinfonia Concertante | Edmund Rubbra / Howard Shelley, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 1997 | Album |
| Symphony No. 7 In C Major, Op. 60, 'Leningrad' | Dmitri Shostakovich, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Mark Wigglesworth | 1997 | Album |
| Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 6 | Edmund Rubbra / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 1996 | Album |
| Symphony No. 9 "Sinfona Sacra"; The Morning Watch | Edmund Rubbra / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, The BBC National Chorus Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 1996 | Album |
| American Trombone Concertos, Vol.2 | Christian Lindberg, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Grant Llewellyn | 1996 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6 · Symphony No. 7 | Alfred Schnittke - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1996 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 • Chantefleurs Et Chantefables | Witold Lutoslawski, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka, Valdine Anderson | 1995 | Album |
| Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring - Britten: Four Sea Interludes, Etc (Vol.III No.11) | The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 1995 | Album |
| Psyché / Le Chasseur Maudit | César Franck | 1995 | Album |
| Concerto For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra / Peinture For Orchestra / Sonata For Alto Saxophone And Piano | Edison Denisov, Claude Delangle, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka, Odile Delangle | 1995 | Album |
| Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 10 Symphony No. 11 (Premiere Recording) | Edmund Rubbra, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox | 1995 | Album |
| Symphony No. 1: Introduktion And Allegro | Sir Edward Elgar, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1995 | Album |
| Anne Evans Sings Wagner At The 1994 Proms: Wesendonck Songs / Scenes From Götterdämmerung | Richard Wagner - Anne Evans, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1995 | Album |
| Symphony No. 10 | Gustav Mahler, Deryck Cooke, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Mark Wigglesworth | 1994 | Album |
| Gubaidulina: Pro et Contra, Firsova: Cassandra | Sofia Gubaidulina, Elena Firsova, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1994 | Album |
| British Trombone Concertos | Derek Bourgeois, Elgar Howarth, Gordon Jacob, Christian Lindberg, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Grant Llewellyn | 1994 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No. 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, John Lill, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1994 | Album |
| Symphony No. 5 | Gustav Mahler / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka | 1993 | Album |
| Duke Bluebeard's Castle | Béla Bartók – Gwynne Howell, Sally Burgess, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Mark Elder | 1993 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 - Helios - Oboe Concerto - Requiescat | William Mathias - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Grant Llewellyn, David Cowley | 1992 | Album |
| An Alpine Symphomy, Op.64 | Richard Strauss / The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Mariss Jansons | 1992 | Album |
| A Colour Symphony / Metamorphic Variations | Arthur Bliss, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Barry Wordsworth | 1991 | Album |
| Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No. 2 (Summer Music) | William Mathias - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 1990 | Album |
| Dewi Sant (Saint David) | Arwel Hughes - Yvonne Kenny, Martyn Hill, David Wilson-Johnson, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Welsh Chorus, Owain Arwel Hughes | 1990 | Album |
| The Best Of Aled Jones | Aled Jones, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 1985 | Album |
| All Through The Night | Aled Jones, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 1985 | Album |
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