BBC Concert Orchestra
(1952-present)

group and orchestra

Aged 72

The BBC Concert Orchestra is a British concert orchestra based in London, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's five radio orchestras. With around fifty players, it is the only one of the five BBC orchestras which is not a full-scale symphony orchestra. The BBC Concert Orchestra is the BBC's most populist ensemble, playing a mixture of classical music, light music and popular numbers. Its primary role is to produce music for radio broadcast, and it is the resident orchestra of the world's longest running live music programme, Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

BBC Music Day 2017 #BBC East 7

Watford Colosseum Built in 1938 as the Assembly Hall. World renowned for its acoustics, Star Wars, The Sound of Music and Lord of the Rings soundtracks were recorded here. Awarded by BBC Three Counties Radio

Watford Colosseum, Watford, United Kingdom where it performed

Hippodrome Theatre, Golders Green Home of the BBC Concert Orchestra 1969 – 2003

Hippodrome Theatre, Golders Green, London, United Kingdom where it sited