Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Established in 1948 and shaped over four decades by Vassil Stefanov, its first chief conductor, the radio's orchestra has divided its life between public concert and the recording studio. Its steadiest commitment has been to Bulgarian symphonic music: the complete piano concertos of Pancho Vladigerov, symphonies by Emil Tabakov, works of Marin Goleminov and Lyubomir Pipkov have gone out on Naxos, Balkanton, Gega New and Toccata Classics, while a far larger body of performance remains in the radio's Golden Fund, unpublished but preserved. Vassil Kazandjiev, Milen Nachev, Rossen Milanov and Emil Tabakov followed Stefanov in charge; Mark Kadin has held the post since 2016.