AboutOfficial Site: http://www.englishchamberorchestra.co.uk/The ECO is one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, having performed in more countries than any other orchestra, recorded over 1,200 works and played with the world’s greatest musicians. Benjamin Britten, the Orchestra’s first Patron, was a tremendous musical influence on the ECO until his death in 1976. The ECO also enjoyed a long relationship with Daniel Barenboim, one of the highlights of which was the performance and recording (EMI) of the complete cycle of Mozart Piano Concertos. The 80s were marked by the appointment of Jeffrey Tate as the ECO’s first Principal Conductor (succeeded by Ralf Gothoni in 2000) and recordings of the complete Mozart Symphonies and late Haydn Symphonies along with two further celebrated cycles of the complete Mozart Piano Concertos (recorded for CBS with Murray Perahia and for Phillips with Mitsuko Uchida). The Orchestra continues to attract musicians of the stature few chamber orchestras can match. This Summer the ECO tours Summer festivals in France, Germany and the UK with Hilary Hahn and Roy Goodman before returning to France for further concerts with Ralf Gothóni. In the Autumn/Winter the orchestra continues its residency in Bristol and its London Series at Cadogan Hall and Wigmore Hall, with guest artists including Nicola Benedetti, Benjamin Grosvenor, John Williams, Mischa Maisky and Raymond Leppard. Since its inception the ECO has regularly commissioned new works, most recently Sir John Tavener’s Pratirupa (premiered in London in November 2004), Simon Proctor’s Concertino for Bassoon (premiered in Bristol in November 2005) and Anthony Gilbert’s Sheer premiered at Prague Spring Festival in May 2006). The ECO is proud of its outreach programme, Close Encounters, which takes music into communities and schools around the UK and overseas. |
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