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English Chamber Orchestra

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Baroque Music for Trumpet (1984)	Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & (1983)	Suite for Chamber Orchest (1983)
Rhapsody in Blue / Piano (1983)	Music for Cello & Orchest (1983)	Piano Concertos Nos. 11, (1980)
Piano Concertos No. 9 & 2 (1978)	Piano Concertos No. 20 & (1978)	Debussy: Petite suite / S (1977)
Le nozze di Figaro (1977)	Violin Concertos, Album 2 (1975)	L'elisir d'amore (1970)

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1960 to Present...

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The English Chamber Orchestra

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The English Chamber Orchestra (ECO) is a British chamber orchestra based in London. The full orchestra regularly plays concerts at Cadogan Hall, and the ECO Ensemble performs at Wigmore Hall. The orchestra regularly tours in the UK and internationally, and holds the distinction of not only having the most extensive discography of any chamber orchestra, but also of being the most well-travelled orchestra in the world; no other orchestra has played concerts in as many countries as the ECO.
The ECO has its roots in the Goldsbrough Orchestra, founded in 1948 by Lawrence Leonard and Arnold Goldsbrough. The group took its current name in 1960, when it expanded its repertoire beyond the Baroque 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's time.
Shortly afterwards, it became closely associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, playing in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Owen Wingrave, Curlew River 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, Colin Davis and Daniel Barenboim. In 1985 Jeffrey Tate was appointed the ensemble's first principal conductor. In 2000, Ralf Gothóni was appointed the ECO's second principal conductor.
In June 2009, the ECO named Paul Watkins its new music director, effective with the 2009-2010 season, for an initial contract of three years.