LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The London Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded to be amongst the top five orchestras in the world, on the strength of its performances alone, but there is much more to its work than concerts in concert-halls. Its many activities include an energetic and ground-breaking education and community programme, a record company, exciting work in the field of information technology, and much more.

100 years after it was formed the LSO still attracts the best players, many of whom have flourishing solo, chamber music or teaching careers alongside their orchestral work. The LSO's roster of soloists and conductors is second to none, starting with current Principal Conductor Sir Colin Davis, whose long association with the LSO has reached a pinnacle of achievement over the last few years, with extraordinary concert performances and multi-award-winning recordings. Valery Gergiev takes over as Principal Conductor in January 2007, Daniel Harding joins Michael Tilson Thomas as Principal Guest Conductor in 2006, and Sir Colin Davis stays on as President, only the fifth in the Orchestra's entire history.

LSO St Luke's, the UBS and LSO music education centre on Old Street, is expanding its artistic programme to include more BBC Radio 3 lunchtime chamber concerts, Asian Music Circuit promotions and UBS recitals with top artists from diverse musical backgrounds. LSO Discovery is facilitating music education using new technology and building ever-stronger links with the local community and in Hackney and Islington schools. LSO Live is the best-selling orchestral own-label in the world and is regularly No 1 in the classical downloads charts on iTunes.

Please visit www.lso.co.uk for further information.

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Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
20TH CENTURY COMPOSITIONS - ORFF, C. / RACHMANINOV, S. / RAVEL, M. / REGER, M. / STRAUSS, R. / STRAVINSKY, I. / RESPIGHI, O. / PROKOFIEV, S.	C49007
A TO Z OF CONDUCTORS	8.558087-90
BACH, J.S.: Italian Concerto / Toccatas / Concerto for 2 Keyboards, BWV 1061 (Schnabel) (1936-1950)	8.111286
BACH, J.S.: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Karajan) (1952-1953)	8.111053-54
BACH, J.S.: Violin Concertos / MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5 (Heifetz) (1946-53)	8.111288
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 7 / Overture to Coriolan (PAL)	100148
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Cello Sonata No. 2 (Schnabel) (1932)	8.110640
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Schnabel) (1932, 1935)	8.110638
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Weingartner) (1935, 1938)	8.110856
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 / BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Casals) (1927, 1929)	8.111262
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 / Overtures (VPO, BBC SO, LSO, Walter) (1930-1938)	8.111032
BERLIOZ, H.: Damnation de Faust (La) (excerpts) / MASSENET, J.: Werther (excerpts) (Jobin, Kolassi, Fistoulari) (1954)	9.80307
BEST OF BRITISH	8.570573-74
BLISS: Colour Symphony / HINDEMITH: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" (Bliss, Hindemith) (1955)	9.80004
BOCCHERINI / HAYDN / ELGAR: Cello Concertos (Casals) (1938, 1945)	8.110305
BOTTESINI COLLECTION (The), Vol. 2	8.570398
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 / TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rubinstein) (1929, 1932)	8.111271
BRITTEN (THE BEST OF)	8.556838
BRITTEN: Piano Concerto / Johnson Over Jordan Suite	8.557197
BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem / Gloriana Suite / Sea Interludes	8.557196
BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (The) / Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge	8.557200
CASALS, Pablo: Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2 (1927-1930)	8.110976
CHALIAPIN, Feodor: A Vocal Portrait (1907-1936)	8.110748-49
CHOPIN, F.: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Ballon, Ansermet) (1950)	9.80691
DISCOVER OPERA	8.558196-97
DVORAK, A.: Cello Concerto (Nelsova, London Symphony, Krips) (1951)	9.80783
ELGAR / BRUCH: Violin Concertos (Menuhin) (1931-1932)	8.110902
ELGAR / WALTON: Violin Concertos (Heifetz) (1941, 1949)	8.110939
ELGAR, E.: "Engima" Variations / PURCELL, H.: Suite for Strings from the Dramatic Music (arr. A. Coates) (London Symphony, Sargent) (1953)	9.80785
ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture / Enigma Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches (Elgar) (1926-1933)	8.111022
ELGAR: Symphony No. 2 / Cello Concerto (Harrison, Elgar) (1927-28)	8.111260
EL-KHOURY: New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed	8.570134
FUCHS, K.: American Place (An) / Eventide / Out of the Dark	8.559224
FUCHS, K.: Canticle to the Sun / United Artists	8.559335
GINASTERA: Panambi / Estancia (Complete Ballets)	8.557582
GREAT VIOLINISTS	8.110980-81
GRIEG, E.: Piano Concerto / FALLA, M.: Noches en los jardines de Espana (Curzon) (1951)	9.80318
HOLST: Planets (The) (Holst) / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 4 (Vaughan Williams) (1926, 1937)	8.111048
LEIDER, Frida: A Vocal Portrait (1921-1943)	8.110744-45
LEONARD BERNSTEIN ANNIVERSARY BOX (NTSC)	2057068
LEVITSKI, Mischa: Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 (1927-1933)	8.110769
LUX AETERNA - Claudio Abbado Conducts Verdi's Messa da Requiem (1982, 1985) (PAL)	101451
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5	8.557990
MENDELSSOHN, F.: Violin Concerto in E minor (De Vito, Sargent) (1951)	9.80535
MEYERBEER, G.: Patineurs (Les) (arr. C. Lambert) / MASSENET, J.: Le Cid: Ballet Music (Robert Irving) (1952, 1957)	9.80453
MOZART, W.A.: Piano Concerto No. 27 / Concerto for 2 Pianos in E flat major / Rondo in A minor (Schnabel) (1934-1946)	8.111294
NORDENTOFT: Entgegen / Zenevera Sesio / Hymne	8.224068
ODE TO FREEDOM - BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 (NTSC)	2072038
Oratorio Arias: Marshall, Lois - HANDEL, G.F. / HAYDN, F.J. / MENDELSSOHN, F. (1957)	9.80620
ORIGINAL FILM MUSIC THEMES: Things to Come (1936-1947)	8.120597
PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 1 / SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto (Menuhin) (1955)	9.80041
POULENC, F.: Biches (Les) / Aubade (Jacquinot, Fistoulari) (1953-1954)	9.80481
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Vision Fugitives (Prokofiev) (1932, 1935)	8.110670
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 / LISZT: Paganini Etudes (Horowitz) (1930)	8.110696
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, N.: Piano Concerto / Opera Excerpts (Jacquinot, Fistoulari, Weldon) (1952-1953)	9.80563
SAINT-SAENS, C.: Introduction et rondo capriccioso / Havanaise / SARASATE, P.: Zigeunerweisen / WIENIAWSKI, H.: Legende (Campoli) (1953, 1956)	9.80511
SCHOENBERG: 5 Orchestral Pieces / BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 (orch. Schoenberg)(Schoenberg, Vol. 5)	8.557524
SCHUMANN, R.: Symphony No. 4 / MENDELSSOHN, F.: Symphony No. 4, "Italian" (Krips) (1953)	9.80544
STRAVINSKY: Apollo / Agon / Orpheus (Stravinsky, Vol. 4)	8.557502
STRAVINSKY: Firebird / Pulcinella (PAL)	100130
STRAVINSKY: Igor Stravinsky - A Portrait (NICE)	8.558186-87
STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella / Le baiser de la fee (The Fairy's Kiss) (Stravinsky, Vol. 5)	8.557503
STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring (The) / The Nightingale (Stravinsky, Vol. 3)	8.557501
TCHAIKOVSKY / WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concertos (Elman) (1929, 1950)	8.110912
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: Piano Concerto No. 1 / LISZT, F.: Hungarian Fantasy (Katchen) (1955)	9.80467
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Swan Lake (London Symphony, Fistoulari) (1952)	9.80724-25
TEYTE, Maggie: Vocal Portrait (A) (1932-1948)	8.110757-58
THOMAS: Desire Under the Elms	8.669001-02
VERDI: Don Carlo (Christoff, Filippeschi, Gobbi) (1954)	8.111132-34
VERDI: Requiem (PAL)	100146
VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Heifetz) (1935-1947)	8.110943
Vocal Recital (Bass): Arie, Raphael - MUSSORGSKY, M.P. / GLINKA, M.I. / LISHIN, G. / GRECHANINOV, A.T. (Recital of Russian Songs) (1953)	9.80439
WAGNER, R.: Siegfried (Ring Cycle 3) (Excerpts) (Melchior, Tessmer) (1929-1932)	8.110091-92
WALTON, W.: Facade Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / LAMBERT, C.: Horoscope Suite (Irving) (1953)	9.80159
WALTON, W.: Orb and Sceptre / BAX, A.: Coronation March / ELGAR, E.: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1, 4 / Imperial March (Sargent) (1953)	9.80308