The National Philharmonic Orchestra was a British orchestra created exclusively for recording purposes. It was founded by RCA Records producer and conductor Charles Gerhardt and orchestra leader and contractor Sidney Sax. The orchestra was created partly due to the requirements of an extensive recording project for the Reader's Digest.
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Sidney Sax
British violinist
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Charles Gerhardt
American conductor
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Carlos Païta
Argentine conductor
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Henry Mancini
American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist (1924-1994)
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Plas Johnson
American musician
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Leopold Stokowski
British conductor
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Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
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Roy Budd
British jazz musician and composer
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William Motzing
Composer, conductor, arranger
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Tom Scott
American jazz musician
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William Steinberg
American conductor
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Sue Evans
American musician
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Philip Catherine
musician
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Emil Richards
American musician
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Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
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Tom Malone
American musician
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Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor and violinist
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Henry Lowther
British musician
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Chuck Domanico
American musician
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Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
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Doug Sax
American mastering engineer
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Andrei Gavrilov
Russian musician
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Ian Underwood
American musician
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David Zinman
American conductor and violinist
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John Alldis
English chorus-master and conductor
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Dave Taylor
American musician
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Alan Rubin
Jazz trumpeter, Blues Brothers member
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Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
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Eberhard Weber
German musician
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Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor (1867-1957)
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Erich Leinsdorf
American conductor
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Wayne Andre
American trombonist
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André Previn
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
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Jake Hanna
American drummer
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Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
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Adam Makowicz
Polish-Canadian musician
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John Mauceri
American conductor, producer and arranger
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Michael Kamen
American film score composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Bobby McFerrin
American jazz vocalist
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John Scott
English composer and conductor
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Mel Lewis
American musician
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Yōsuke Yamashita
Japanese jazz pianist, composer, author (1942-)
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Artur Rodziński
Polish conductor
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Horacio Gutiérrez
Cuban-American pianist
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Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Ray Cooper
British musician
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
orchestra based in London
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Michał Urbaniak
Polish musician
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Larry Carlton
American musician
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Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)