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London Philharmonic Orchestra

[b]Not to be confused with [a454293].[/b] [b]For recordings made & released by or licensed from [l=Westminster] in the late 1950s with (mostly) [a=Artur Rodzinski] conducting, please check [a=Philharmonic Symphony Of London][/b]. Excerpts from Wikipedia: The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London. It was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras. The founders' ambition was to build an orchestra the equal of any European or American rival. Between 1932 and the Second World War the LPO was widely judged to have succeeded in this regard. Unlike its London rivals the RPO and the Philharmonia, the post-war LPO was not exclusively associated with one company, and as well as Decca it recorded for Philips, CBS, RCA, Chandos and many other labels. The orchestra has been associated with the Royal Festival Hall since its opening in 1951, and has been its Resident Orchestra since 1992. In the 1960s and 1970s the orchestra was particularly associated with Lyrita, an independent company specialising in neglected British repertoire. In most LPO recordings for Lyrita the conductor was Boult; in the same period he also recorded extensively for EMI, with the LPO his preferred orchestra. For some years in the 1950s and 1960s the orchestra was contracted to two companies at once, and consequently appeared under the name "The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra" in some of its recordings.

Members: Geoffrey Downes, Richard Walton, Keith Harvey, Neil Levesley, Richard Morgan, Tristan Fry, Emlyn Singleton, Dave Lee (3), Nigel Black, Michaela Betts, Paul Beniston, Richard Bissill, Fiona Higham, Alan Civil, Clive Anstee, Alan Dalziel, David Theodore, Simon Estell, Roy Gillard, Michael McMenemy, Daniel Newell, Malcolm Arnold, John Kitchen, Dave Stewart (2), John Davies (4), David Nolan, Patrick Halling, Helen Kamminga, John Ryan (3), Robert St. John Wright, Ralph Izen, Jonathan Snowden, Howard Ball, Vic Saywell, David Munrow, Ernest Greaves, Jeff Bryant, Owen Slade, Sue Bohling, Duncan Riddell, Pieter Schoeman, Nigel Thomas (2), Beverley Jones, Shelagh Sutherland, James Holland, Chris Parkes, Gareth Hulse, Ian Hardwick, Jörg Winkler, Roger Lord, Philip Jones, Boris Rickleman, David Pyatt, Mike Hext, Richard Hosford, Kate Birchall, Philip Dawson, Nancy Elan, Michelle Bruil, Sylvain Vasseur, Jorg Hammann, Regina Beukes, Neil Black (3), Manoug Parikian, Arthur Gleghorn, Raymond Leppard, Roger Birnstingl, Hugh Maguire, Nick Betts, Peter Manning, Sir Thomas Beecham, Daniel Jemison, Douglas Whittaker, Rodney Friend, Sidney Ellison, Cecil Aronowitz, Harold Lester, Alan J. Peters, Catherine Edwards, Gordon Hunt, Simon Carrington (2), David Archer, Kathryn Saunders, Ishani Bhoola, Marie Goossens, Bernard Walton (2), Lindsay Shilling, Raymond Ovens, Russell Gilbert, Stewart McIlwham, Peter Vel, Stephen Trier, Allan Fry, Martin Gatt, Leo Birnbaum, Brian Smith (12), Paul Edmund Davies, Derek James (2), John Turner (5), Benjamin Roskams, Quintin Ballardie, Timothy Jones (3), Richard McNicol, Frank Rycroft, Michael Dobson, Sarah Streatfeild, Kenneth King (2), John Price (4), Robert Hill (6), David Quiggle, Rod McGrath, Nicholas Busch, Geoffrey Browne, Michael Skinner (2), Philippe Honoré, Keith Millar, Stanley Woods, Russell Jordan, Colin Chambers, John Honeyman, Val Kennedy, Juliette Bausor, Lionel Bentley, Geoffrey Gilbert, Colin Horton, Dominic Weir, Richard Cookson, Keith Marjoram, Lyndon Meredith, Brass Of The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kristina Blaumane, Martin Parry (2), Gerald Jarvis, James Merrett, Peter Harvey (2), Peter Nall, Kevin Rundell, Valda Aveling, Michael Turner (9), Alfredo Campoli, Rachel Masters, Vesselin Gellev, Brendan Thomas, Rebecca Shorrock, Helen Rowlands, Gordon Webb, Reginald Kell, Santiago Carvalho, Anne McAneney, Jeremy Cornes, Catherine Craig, Nicholas Carpenter, Helena Smart, Jean Pougnet, Cyrille Mercier, Gareth Newman, Catherine Wilmers, Stephen Waters, Corinna Desch, Angela Moore (2), Helena Rathbone, Paul Richards (7), Leonard Dommett, Thomas Matthews, Simon Archer (2), Kenneth Knussen, Rachel Gledhill, Robert Growcott, William Webster, Geoffrey Price, Maurice Checker, David James (22), Roger Winfield (2), John Chambers (4), Alexander Cameron, Remo Lauricella, Bryan Scott (2), Ronald Calder, Kenneth Goode, Keith Whitmore, Iain Keddie, George Peniston, David Greenlees, Katherine Loynes, Alison Strange, Lee Tsarmaklis, Brian Raby, Bjorn Peterson (2), Rachel Jackson, Gareth Mollison, Naomi Holt, Katharine Leek, Francis Bucknall, Julian Shaw, Geoffrey Lynn, Susanne Beer, Imogen Taylor (2), Robert Truman, Sioni Williams, Thomas Eisner, Susan Sutherley, Robert Pool (2), Matthew Coman, Martin Hobbs, Ben Pollani, Daniel Cornford, Ashley Stevens, Robert Duncan (4), Simon Webb (2), Marie-Anne Mairesse, William Routledge, Gill McIntosh, Celia Chambers, Susan Thomas (3), Tina Gruenberg, Andrew Thurgood, Laurence Lovelle, Joseph Maher, Anthony Byrne, Andrew Barclay, Philip Tarlton, Martin Hohmann, Susanna Riddell, Dean Williams (3), Michael Kellett, Laura Donoghue, Chris Yates (3), Oliver Yates (2), Reginald New, Michael Meeks, Simon Streatfeild, John G. Pritchard, Elisabeth Fletcher, Derek Honner, Frederick Riddle, Peter Mountain (2), Harry Kerr, Robert Cattermole (2), Alex Lindsay, Henry Baldwin, Norman Nelson (3), Charys Green, Roger Lunn, Matthias Feile, John Lowdell, Neill Sanders, Miranda Davis (2), Anneke Hodnett, Francis Bradley, Greg Walmsley, John Francis (17), Bridget Evans (2), David Whiston, Thomas Watmough, Ilyoung Chae, Jeongmin Kim, Jason Koczur, Tim Gibbs, Isabel Pereira (2), Eugene Lee (4), Dean Williamson, David Lale (2), Susanne Martens, Caroline Simon, Adrian Uren, Gregory Aronovich, Clare Robson, Emma Harding, John Roberts (15), Mark Templeton (2), Katalin Varnagy, David Whitehouse, Galina Tanney, Laura Vallejo, Laura Murphy (5), Alan Cumberland, Louise Hawker, Richard Temple Savage, Richard Waters (5), Clare Duckworth, Joyce Fieldsend, Adam Wynter, Henrik Hochschild, Phil Taylor (19), John Alexandra, James Fountain (3), Eugene Feild, Charles Gregory (7), Rodney Stewart (2), Haydn Beck, James W. Brown (2), Elisabeth Wiklander, Janka Ryf, Marie Wilson (8), Michael Thornton (8), Alix Lagasse, Kenneth Essex (2), and Nana Raitaluoto