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The London Symphony Orchestra is one of the worldâ€™s top orchestras. Our home is at the Barbican in the City of London, where we perform over 80 concerts every year, and at LSO St Lukeâ€™s, a converted 18th-century church just up the road which is the base for our LSO Discovery community and education programme. We also run a record label, LSO Live. Each year we tour to several different countries, and return to some regularly where we have residencies.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/5/2007
Band Website: lso.co.uk
Band Members: We have 96 of the finest players London has to offer, plus another 63 admin staff to keep everything running smoothly.
Influences: Classical, jazz, film, electronica, Mahler, Beethoven, Strauss, Bruckner, Elgar, Schubert, James MacMillan, Janacek, Britten, Dvorak... just about anyone really!
Sounds Like: The LSO sounds like the LSO - although you could argue we sound quite like some other orchestras as well! We are particularly known for our brass sound, thanks to the great Maurice Murphy, trumpet extraordinaire.

Watch our videos of interviews with LSO players, conductors and broadcasters talking about the music and themes in the 2008/09 concert season:

Ã‰migrÃ©
The LSO's Principal Double Bassist Rinat Ibragimov (from Russia) and Second Violinist David Ballesteros (from Tenerife), two of the LSO's 'Ã‰migrÃ©s', tell us about their own journeys, physically and emotionally, from their homelands to London. lso.co.uk/emigre

Love Brahms?
What is it about Brahms that can polarise people? LSO players and Conductor Laureate AndrÃ© Previn tell us why they just can't get enough of him, despite Tchaikovsky, Britten and Dukas thinking otherwise. lso.co.uk/lovebrahms

Last Words
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson profiles the final works of Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Strauss and why so many composers left their best work til last. lso.co.uk/lastwords

Heirs & Rebels
Sir Colin Davis and broadcaster Rob Cowan talk about British music in the 1930s and profile Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and the influence of Elgar. lso.co.uk/heirsandrebels

Exotiques
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson talks about the influence of the east on Debussy and in particular in the classic Prelude de l'apres midi d'un faune, performed in the film by the LSO under Valery Gergiev. lso.co.uk/exotiques

2008/09 Artist Portrait: Nikolaj Znaider
Violinist Nikolaj Znaider outlines the concertos he is playing with the LSO in May 2009, all linked by the city of Vienna: the concertos of Schoenberg, Korngold and Brahms. lso.co.uk/znaider

Record Label: LSO Live
Type of Label: Major