International composers whose works it has performed include John Cage (whose 1976 CBC commission resulted in Lectures on Weather), and Peter Maxwell Davies (who wrote the oratorio Job for the opening of Vancouver's Chan Centre in May 1997). The CBC Radio Orchestra's repertoire encompasses the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, but it has gained most recognition for its support of contemporary music.
The CBC Radio Orchestra's broadcasts were produced by Ernest Morgan 1938-42, David S. Bernardi was succeeded by trombonist and conductor Alain Trudel in 2006. John Eliot Gardiner (b Dorset, England ) was named Avison's successor in 1980, and was replaced in 1983 by Mario Bernardi. Their concerts are still regularly broadcast on CBC Radio Two, and also on occasion on Radio One and CBC TV's arts program "Opening Night." The musicians, who play together only 70 days a year, are among the best sight-readers in North America. The CBC Radio Orchestra originally comprised 25 musicians and was increased to 35 in 1952. The CBR Symphony Orchestra, founded also by Dilworth and conducted by Arthur Benjamin, flourished in the early 1940s. Similar orchestras in Vancouver had antedated the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra: the CNRV Concert Orchestra (pre-1934) under Percy Harvey another, heard around 1935 on CRCV's 'Jewels of the Madonna,' with Jean de Rimanoczy as conductor and the CBR Concert Orchestra.
The CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1938 by Ira Dilworth, who appointed John Avison conductor. Other CBC radio orchestras included the CBC Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg orchestras, all of which were eliminated by the early 1990s by federal budget cuts.
Longest-lived regularly performing Canadian radio orchestra, and last remaining radio orchestra in North America. CBC Radio Orchestra (CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra 1938-80 CBC Vancouver Orchestra 1980-2000).
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