Active from 1940 | Genre Classical | |
Albums Sonanta Suite, Melancolía - Spanish Arias and Songs Record labels Deutsche Grammophon, Columbia Records Similar Josep Pons, Spanish National Youth Orc, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Community of Madrid Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra | ||
The Orquesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Orchestra) is a symphonic orchestra that is based in Madrid, Spain.
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History
Although the orchestra originated as of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, it was legally founded in 1940, by the merging of Pérez Casas' Filarmónica and the Orquesta Sinfónica of Enrique Fernández Arbós.
The first official concert of the newly founded orchestra was in March 1941 at the Teatro María Guerrero in Madrid conducted by eminent Portuguese conductor Pedro de Freitas Branco (1896-1963). The principal conductors of these first years of the orchestra were Ernesto Halffter, José María Franco, Enrique Jordá, Eduard Toldrà and Jesús Arámbarri, until the designation of the first principal conductor of the orchestra, Bartolomé Pérez Casas. After his death the new principal conductor was Ataúlfo Argenta, who was in the orchestra from 1945 as the keyboard instruments player.
Principal conductors
2014-15 roster
Source: The Spanish National Orchestra's official website
Songs
La TempranicaCanciones y Romanzas de la Zarzuela · 2016
No Sé Por Qué Te Quiero2012
La Procesion Del Rocio1999