London Symphony Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra is a British ensemble based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras. It was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's
The London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
Clockwise from top left: Adolf Borsdorf, Thomas Busby, John Solomon and Henri van der Meerschen, founding fathers of the LSO
Elgar and the LSO, Queen's Hall, 1911
Sir Thomas Beecham, benefactor of the wartime LSO
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British symphony orchestra based in London, England.
London Symphony Orchestra
…orchestras, to which it lost players and bookings: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1930s and the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic after the Second World War. The profit-sharing principle was abandoned in the post-war era as a condition of receiving public subsidy for the first…
The RPO at Cadogan Hall, its home since 2004
Beecham rehearsing in 1948
Clifford Curzon, soloist at the RPO's Silver Jubilee concert
Cadogan Hall, the RPO's home since 2004