Editing Philharmonia Orchestra (section)

==Recordings==
The orchestra's first recording, a sinfonia by [[J. C. Bach]], made in July 1945, was never released. [[Hugo Wolf|Wolf]]'s ''[[Italian Serenade]]'' recorded at the same sessions, was the Philharmonia's first published record.<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 148</ref> It was conducted by [[Walter Susskind]], who made many recordings with the orchestra over the next fifteen years. In the same period, others who worked regularly with the orchestra were [[Alceo Galliera]] and [[Paul Kletzki]].<ref>Hunt, p. 5</ref> For Viennese operettas, [[Lovro von Matačić]] and [[Otto Ackermann (conductor)|Otto Ackermann]] were Legge's favoured conductors.<ref>Hunt, pp. 6–7</ref>

Many of the orchestra's highest-profile releases were operas. Within days of its inauguration the Philharmonia played in a complete recording of [[Henry Purcell|Purcell]]'s ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'' conducted by [[Constant Lambert]].<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p.  148</ref> Among the opera sets in which the orchestra played in the 1950s were the 1952 ''Tristan und Isolde'' mentioned above, and six sets conducted by Karajan: ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' (1953), ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' (1954), ''[[Ariadne auf Naxos]]'' (1954), ''[[Die Fledermaus]]'' (1955), ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' (1956) and ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' (1956).<ref>Hunt, pp. 138, 141,  147, 149 and 152; and Hunt and Pettitt, p. 260</ref> Later sets from the 1950s were ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' (Galliera, 1957);<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 303</ref> ''[[Capriccio (opera)|Capriccio]]'' (Sawallisch, 1957);<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 311</ref> ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' (Serafin, 1959),<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 341</ref> ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]'' and ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' (both Giulini, 1959).<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 361</ref>

Other recordings by the Philharmonia in the 1940s and 1950s include [[Leonard Bernstein]] as soloist and conductor in Ravel's [[Piano Concerto in G (Ravel)|Piano Concerto in G]],<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 150</ref> a series of [[William Walton|Walton]]'s major works, conducted by the composer,<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, pp. 154–339</ref> Schumann's [[Piano Concerto (Schumann)|Piano Concerto]] with [[Dinu Lipatti]] as soloist and Karajan conducting (his first recording with the orchestra),<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 174</ref> Mozart's Horn Concertos with Brain as soloist and Karajan conducting,<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 248</ref> and cycles of Beethoven and Brahms symphonies conducted by Klemperer.<ref>Hunt and Pettitt, p. 333</ref>

In the 1960s and 1970s the orchestra made many recordings. Of those made for EMI, the company later reissued many in the series "Great Recordings of the Century". They include piano concertos by Beethoven with [[Emil Gilels]] and [[Daniel Barenboim]] as soloists, Chopin with [[Maurizio Pollini]] and Mozart with [[Annie Fischer]]; symphonies by Bruckner and Mahler conducted by Barbirolli and Klemperer; orchestral music by [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]] (conducted by Giulini) and Wagner (Klemperer); choral works including Bach's [[Mass in B minor]], ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'', Beethoven's '' [[Missa solemnis (Beethoven)|Missa solemnis]]'' and Brahms's ''[[A German Requiem (Brahms)|German Requiem]]'' under Klemperer, and Verdi's [[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]] under Giulini; Mahler's orchestral songs sung by [[Christa Ludwig]] and [[Janet Baker]]; and in the operatic repertoire ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' conducted by [[Karl Böhm]] and ''[[Fidelio]]'' and ''[[Der fliegende Holländer]]'' conducted by Klemperer.<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/label/221034-Great-Recordings-Of-The-Century "Great Recordings of the Century"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614035252/http://www.discogs.com/label/221034-Great-Recordings-Of-The-Century |date=14 June 2015 }}, Discogs, retrieved 4 July 2018</ref>

In the 1980s, in addition to the recordings made with its chief conductors, mentioned above, the orchestra recorded extensively. Recordings from this decade include the symphonies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Walton, conducted by [[Bernard Haitink]] for EMI; a Sibelius symphony cycle conducted by Ashkenazy and the Mozart piano concertos with Ashkenazy directing from the keyboard, for Decca; ''Madama Butterfly'' with Maazel (CBS) and [[Gabriel Fauré|Fauré's]] [[Requiem (Fauré)|Requiem]] with Giulini (DG).<ref name=discogs>[https://www.discogs.com/artist/454293-Philharmonia-Orchestra?limit=500 "Philharmonia Orchestra"], Discogs, retrieved 4 July 2018</ref> In the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st, the orchestra's recordings included more discs conducted by Ashkenazy, including symphonies by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky for Decca; Beethoven and Schumann symphonies with [[Christian Thielemann]] for DG, and a series of recordings of the major works of Stravinsky, and another of those of Schoenberg, conducted by [[Robert Craft]], released on the [[Naxos Records|Naxos]] label.<ref name=discogs/>

{{external media|audio1=[[Charles Dutoit]] conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra [https://archive.org/details/cd_tchaikovsky-in-saint-petersburg_charles-dutoit-philharmonia-orchestra-pasc/disc1/01.+Pascal+Devoyon%3B+Charles+Dutoit+-+Philharmonia+Orchestra+-+Tchaikovsky+-+Piano+Concerto+%231+In+B+Flat+Minor%2C+Op.+23+-+1.+Allegro+Non+Troppo+E+Molto+Maestoso.flac performing] works by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23, with [[Pascal Devoyon]]; Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35, with [[Pierre Amoyal]] in 1991 – via [[Internet Archive]]}}

Live recordings of some of the orchestra's early concerts have been issued on CD, including Strauss conducting the ''Sinfonia Domestica'', Furtwängler and Flagstad in the first performance of the ''Four Last Songs'', and Toscanini's Brahms cycle. A later live recording was the last concert conducted by Klemperer (September 1971: Beethoven Overture: ''[[King Stephen (Beethoven)|King Stephen]]'', and [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)|Fourth Piano Concerto]] with [[Daniel Adni]]; and Brahms's [[Symphony No. 3 (Brahms)|Third Symphony]]).<ref>[https://testament.co.uk/richard-strauss-2-cd-set-fo-the-price-of-1.html Strauss] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704121027/https://testament.co.uk/richard-strauss-2-cd-set-fo-the-price-of-1.html |date=4 July 2018 }}; [https://testament.co.uk/wilhelm-furtwangler-kirsten-flagstad.html Furtwängler] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704121022/https://testament.co.uk/wilhelm-furtwangler-kirsten-flagstad.html |date=4 July 2018 }}; [https://testament.co.uk/arturo-toscanini-562.html Toscanini] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704121022/https://testament.co.uk/arturo-toscanini-562.html |date=4 July 2018 }}; and [https://testament.co.uk/otto-klemperer-804.html Klemperer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704121022/https://testament.co.uk/otto-klemperer-804.html |date=4 July 2018 }}, Testament Records, retrieved 4 July 2018</ref>

In 2009 the orchestra began a collaboration with the record label [[Signum Records|Signum]], with the release of a live recording of [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg's]] ''[[Gurrelieder]]''; later recordings by the Philharmonia on Signum have ranged from the symphonic repertoire (including symphonies by Beethoven, [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]], Brahms, Elgar, [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]], [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]], Schubert and Tchaikovsky) to opera and ballet ([[Béla Bartók|Bartók]]'s ''[[Duke Bluebeard's Castle]]'' and ''[[The Miraculous Mandarin]]'').<ref>[https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/shop "Philharmonia online shop"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224035218/http://philharmonia.co.uk/shop |date=24 December 2017 }}, Philharmonia Orchestra, retrieved 4 July 2018</ref>

===Film scores===
The [[British Film Institute]] lists more than a hundred films with soundtrack scores played by the Philharmonia. They include ''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film)|The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (1946); ''[[Hamlet (1948 film)|Hamlet]]'', ''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'' and ''[[Scott of the Antarctic (film)|Scott of the Antarctic]]'' (1948);  ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]'' and ''[[Passport to Pimlico]]'' (1949);  ''[[The Cruel Sea (1953 film)|The Cruel Sea]]'' (1953);  ''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of the Bulge]]'' (1965); '' [[Lady Caroline Lamb (film)|Lady Caroline Lamb]]'' (1972); ''[[King David (film)|King David]]'' (1985); ''[[The King and I (1999 film)|The King and I]]'' (1999); ''[[Great Expectations (2012 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (2012);  and ''[[The Lady in the Van]]'' (2015).<ref>[https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b918d8d73 "The Philharmonia Orchestra"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921073107/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b918d8d73 |date=21 September 2017 }}; and [https://web.archive.org/web/20190208234017/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac460a4f "New Philharmonia Orchestra"], British Film Institute, retrieved 4 July 2018</ref>

===Voyager Golden Record===
In 1977, a recording of the first movement of [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's 5th Symphony]] by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Klemperer was selected by NASA to be included on the [[Voyager Golden Record]], a gold-plated copper record that was sent into space on the [[Voyager program|Voyager space craft]]. The record contained sounds and images which had been selected as examples of the diversity of life and culture on Earth.<ref>{{cite web |title=Voyager – Music on the Golden Record |url=https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/ |website=voyager.jpl.nasa.gov |access-date=4 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Late Junction: The songs they sent to space |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Zy10WWyStk9W7kXQs3CFpV/the-songs-they-sent-to-space |website=www.bbc.co.uk |publisher=[[BBC Radio 3]] |access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Sagan|first=Carl|author-link=Carl Sagan|title=Murmurs of Earth |date=2 April 2013 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-80202-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtN3CQDLQCsC |language=en}}</ref>