Editing BBC Symphony Orchestra (section)

==Recordings==
From their first years the BBC SO and its predecessor the BBC Wireless SO were active in commercial recording studios. Under Percy Pitt the Wireless SO recorded mostly shorter works and some that were abridged, but represented composers as diverse as Glazunov, Tchaikovsky (the entire ''[[Nutcracker Suite]]'' on six 78 rpm sides, for instance), Mendelssohn, Wolf-Ferrari, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, and Grieg, as well as a few recordings with the BBC Wireless Singers directed by [[Stanford Robinson]]. Under Boult the BBC Symphony Orchestra recorded a wide range of music from Bach to Mozart and Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner and Elgar. In the 1950s and 1960s it recorded a range of music with Sargent, mostly British but with several Sibelius discs in addition. With Doráti the orchestra made recordings of works by Bartók, Gerhard and Messiaen. Under Colin Davis it made its first opera sets: Mozart's ''[[Idomeneo]]'' and ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', and Berlioz's ''[[Benvenuto Cellini (opera)|Benvenuto Cellini]]'', as well as works by Beethoven and Tippett. Under Boulez the orchestra recorded mostly twentieth century music – works by Bartók, Berg, Schoenberg and Boulez himself – and also Berlioz.<ref name=k499>Kenyon pp. 499–507</ref> Andrew Davis has recorded extensively with the orchestra for the Teldec label and others.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Andrew+Davis+BBC+Symphony+Orchestra&qt=owc_search "Andrew Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra"], WorldCat. Retrieved 1 August 2012</ref> Under Bělohlávek the orchestra has recorded [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů]]'s complete symphonies, and also his ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh (Martinů)|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]''.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/390390086 "The Epic of Gilgamesh"], WorldCat. Retrieved 1 August 2012</ref>

With guest conductors, the BBC SO has recorded Elgar and Vaughan Williams under the composers, Beethoven under Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Barbirolli, and Sibelius under Beecham and Koussevitsky.<ref name=k499/>