Joe Tucciarone / Science Photo Library
This is a collation of YouTube videos of discontinued recordings and broadcast recordings uploaded by music enthusiasts. Audio quality is poor and the video of little value but it includes some interesting material.
Category: Symphonies · Other Orchestral Music · Music for Brass Band · Talks
Symphonies
Symphony No. 3
London Symphony Orchestra / Jascha Horenstein with Robert Simpson
Rehearsal of 2nd Movement
May 1966
YouTube
Symphony No. 3
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Groves
Proms premiere
21st August 1967
YouTube: Allegro ma non troppo / Adagio
Symphony No. 3
London Symphony Orchestra / Jascha Horenstein
Studio recording
1970
YouTube
Symphony No. 3
Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra / Ainslee Cox
American premiere
8th December 1974
YouTube
Symphony No. 6
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Groves
Premiere
YouTube
![Robert Simpson: Symphony No 6 [Groves-LPO] premiere](https://robertsimpson.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FIBVH14gcb-A%2F0.jpg)
Symphony No. 7
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Brian Wright
Premiere
1984
YouTube
![Robert Simpson: Symphony No 7 [Wright-RLPO] premiere](https://robertsimpson.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FcsGtvTgw2wk%2F0.jpg)
Symphony No. 8
Royal Danish Orchestra / Jerzy Semkow
Premiere
YouTube
![Robert Simpson: Symphony No 8 [Semkow-Royal Danish Orch] premiere](https://robertsimpson.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FrNh9rNwRtUQ%2F0.jpg)
Other Orchestral Music
Piano Concerto
John Ogdon, piano;
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Constantin Silvestri
Live broadcast from the Colston Hall, Bristol, 20 September 1968
(starts 35'20" in)
20th September 1968
YouTube
Piano Concerto
Piers Lane, piano
BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth
Live performance at the London Proms
6th August 1998
YouTube
Flute Concerto
Music for Brass Band
Energy – symphonic study
GUS (Footwear) Band / Stanley Boddington
World Brass Band Championship
1971
YouTube
Energy – symphonic study
Sun Life Band / Christopher Adey
Winning performance, Butlins Mineworkers Championships
1984
YouTube
Energy – symphonic study
Staffordshire Band (C.I.Group Band) / Mike West
at the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain
Royal Albert Hall
5th October 1991
YouTube
Energy – symphonic study
Amsterdam Brass / Pierre Volders
Kunstgreep theatre, Oostzaan
21st February 2016
YouTube
Volcano – symphonic study
Birmingham School of Music / Roy Curran
Premiere
October 1979
YouTube
Talks
Simpson on Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ scoring
Robert Simpson introduces a 1968 broadcast of the ‘Eroica’ Symphony which he conducted in its original scoring
1968
YouTube
Simpson on Anton Bruckner
Robert Simpson talks about Bruckner – an archive item from the 1970s
YouTube
Simpson on Carl Nielsen’s 4th Symphony
Robert Simpson discusses Carl Nielsen’s 4th Symphony with musical extracts from Ole Schmidt and the London Symphony Orchestra, from the Complete Nielsen Symphonies box set from Unicorn
YouTube
Simpson on Nielsen’s 5th Symphony (1st movt.)
Robert Simpson speaks on Nielsen’s 5th symphony, with samples performed by the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Jascha Horenstein
YouTube
