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The English Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. The full orchestra regularly plays concerts at Cadogan Hall
Cadogan Hall

Cadogan Hall is a 900-seat concert hall on Sloane Terrace in Chelsea, London, in the United Kingdom. Previously, the building was the First Church of Christ, Scientist, completed in 1907 to designs by the architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm....
, and the ECO Ensemble performs at Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music....
. It is also the resident orchestra at Grange Park Opera
Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera is a professional opera company based in Hampshire. The company was founded in 1997 by Wasfi Kani, OBE and presents an annual summer opera festival during the months of June and July....
, and regularly tours in the UK and internationally.

It has its roots in the Goldsbrough Orchestra, founded in 1948 by Lawrence Leonard
Lawrence Leonard

Lawrence Leonard was a United Kingdom conducting, cello, composer, professor and writer.Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the ?cole Normale de Musique de Paris....
 and Arnold Goldsbrough. The group took its current name in 1960, when it expanded its repertoire beyond the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 period for the first time.






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The English Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. The full orchestra regularly plays concerts at Cadogan Hall
Cadogan Hall

Cadogan Hall is a 900-seat concert hall on Sloane Terrace in Chelsea, London, in the United Kingdom. Previously, the building was the First Church of Christ, Scientist, completed in 1907 to designs by the architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm....
, and the ECO Ensemble performs at Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music....
. It is also the resident orchestra at Grange Park Opera
Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera is a professional opera company based in Hampshire. The company was founded in 1997 by Wasfi Kani, OBE and presents an annual summer opera festival during the months of June and July....
, and regularly tours in the UK and internationally.

It has its roots in the Goldsbrough Orchestra, founded in 1948 by Lawrence Leonard
Lawrence Leonard

Lawrence Leonard was a United Kingdom conducting, cello, composer, professor and writer.Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the ?cole Normale de Musique de Paris....
 and Arnold Goldsbrough. The group took its current name in 1960, when it expanded its repertoire beyond the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 period for the first time. Its repertoire remained limited by the group's size, which has stayed fairly consistently at around the size of an orchestra of Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
's time.

Shortly afterwards, it became closely associated with the Aldeburgh Festival
Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival is an England arts festival devoted mainly to European classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings....
, playing in the premieres of Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
's A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream....
, Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave

Owen Wingrave is an opera for television in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 85, and a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a short story by Henry James....
, Curlew River
Curlew River

Curlew River — A Parable for Church Performance is the first of three Church Parables by Benjamin Britten. The work is based on the Japanese language noh play Sumidagawa of Juro Motomasa , which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the Far East in early 1956....
 and several other of his works. Britten conducted the orchestra on several occasions, and made a number of records with the group.

The orchestra did not at this time have a principal conductor, but worked closely with a succession of guest conductors including Raymond Leppard
Raymond Leppard

Raymond John Leppard, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom conducting and harpsichordist.He was born in London and grew up in Bath, England, where he was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, now known as the Beechen Cliff School....
, Colin Davis
Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is an England Conducting. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano....
 and Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim is a renowned piano and conducting. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, Spain, and the Palestinian Authority....
. In 1985 Jeffrey Tate
Jeffrey Tate

Dr Jeffrey Tate CBE is an England conducting. He was born with spina bifida, and also has kyphosis. His family moved to Farnham, Surrey when he was young and he attended Farnham Grammar School between 1954 and 1961 gaining a State Scholarship to Cambridge University, where he directed theatre productions....
 was appointed the ensemble's first principal conductor.

In 2000, Ralf Gothóni
Ralf Gothoni

Ralf Georg Nils Goth?ni is active as pianist, conductor, chamber musician, professor and composer. In addition to all these activities he published, in 1998, essays such as Luova hetki ....
 was appointed principal conductor.

Trivia

  • The orchestra worked with the South African
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
     choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube . They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won #Awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards....
     on the group's album No Boundaries
    No Boundaries (Ladysmith Black Mambazo album)

    No Boundaries is a 2005 album by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the English Chamber Orchestra. It was released on January 25, 2006 and featured many Western classicals tracks composed by Mozart and Bach as well as Joseph Shabalala originals ....
     in January 2005.
  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
     conducted the orchestra for the performance of the St. John Passion
    St. John Passion

    Several composers have written works known by the title St John Passion, which denotes a Passion based on the Gospel of John. Among them are:...
     with Peter Pears
    Peter Pears

    Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears was an England tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without taking his degree....
     performing as tenor soloist.


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