Editing London Philharmonic Orchestra (section)

==Recordings==
In its early years, the LPO recorded exclusively for Columbia, a division of EMI. The orchestra's first gramophone set was made before its debut concert; with Sargent and the Royal Choral Society the LPO recorded choruses from ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'' and ''[[The Creation (Haydn)|The Creation]]'' at [[Kingsway Hall]] in September 1932.<ref>Stuart, p.&nbsp;19.</ref> The first [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]] recording was in October, under Sir Henry Wood.<ref>Stuart, pp.&nbsp;19–20.</ref> Beecham's first discs with the orchestra were made in January 1933, with his ballet suite ''The Origin of Design'', arranged from music by [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]].<ref>Stuart, p.&nbsp;72</ref> From then until his last LPO recording in December 1945 Beecham recorded ninety-nine [[Gramophone record#78 rpm disc developments|78-rpm]] sets with the orchestra.<ref name=disco>Stuart, pp.&nbsp;443–450.</ref> Other conductors who worked in the EMI studios with the orchestra in its early years included Elgar, [[Felix Weingartner]], [[John Barbirolli]], and [[Serge Koussevitzky]].<ref name="s2">Stuart, p.&nbsp;2.</ref> Soloists in concerto recordings included the pianists [[Artur Schnabel]] and [[Alfred Cortot]] and the violinists [[Fritz Kreisler]] and [[Jascha Heifetz]].<ref name="s2" />

In 1946, the orchestra began recording for Decca, EMI's rival. The LPO's first recording for the label, Stravinsky's ''[[Petrushka]]'', conducted by [[Ernest Ansermet]], was followed by a large number of sessions as the company rebuilt its catalogue after the war.<ref name="decca"/> Among those who recorded with the orchestra for Decca were van Beinum, Sargent, de Sabata, Furtwängler, [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Charles Munch]], [[Clemens Krauss]], [[Hans Knappertsbusch]], [[Erich Kleiber]] and the young Solti.<ref name="decca">Stuart, Philip. [http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/decca.html ''Decca Classical, 1929–2009''], AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved 5 September 2014.</ref> The orchestra's first [[stereophonic]] recording was made for Decca in 1956, with Boult in Vaughan Williams's [[Symphony No. 8 (Vaughan Williams)|Eighth Symphony]].<ref>Stuart, p.&nbsp;114.</ref>

Unlike its London rivals, the RPO and the Philharmonia (both of whom recorded for many years only for EMI and its associates, with the rarest of exceptions), the post-war LPO was not exclusively associated with one company, and as well as Decca it recorded for Philips, [[Sony Classical Records|CBS]], [[RCA Red Seal Records|RCA]], [[Chandos Records|Chandos]] and many other labels.<ref>Stuart, p.&nbsp;4.</ref> 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.<ref>Simeone and Mundy, pp.&nbsp;80–96.</ref> In the 1960s and 1970s the orchestra was particularly associated with [[Lyrita]], an independent company specialising in neglected British repertoire.<ref name=decca/> 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.<ref>Stuart, p.&nbsp;140.</ref>

The LPO plays on many opera recordings, some taped live at Glyndebourne and the Festival Hall and others in the studios of Decca and EMI. They range from early works such as Cavalli's ''[[L'Ormindo]]'' (recorded 1968) and Glydebourne's staging of Handel's ''[[Theodora (Handel)|Theodora]]'' (1996) to central repertoire such as ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' (1974), ''[[Carmen]]'' (1975 and 2002) and ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg|Die Meistersinger]]'' (2011), and première recordings of 20th-century works including Vaughan Williams's ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1972), Shostakovich's ''[[Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera)|Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk]]'' (1979) and [[Péter Eötvös|Eötvös]]'s ''[[Love and Other Demons]]'' (2008).<ref>[http://glyndebourne.com/shop/cds-audio?page=all "CDs and audio"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020124459/http://glyndebourne.com/shop/cds-audio?page=all |date=20 October 2014 }}, Glyndebourne. Retrieved 8 September 2014 (''Theodora'', ''Carmen'' (2002), ''Die Meistersinger'' and ''Love and Other Demons''); Stuart, Philip. [http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/decca.html ''Decca Classical, 1929–2009''], AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved 5 September 2014 (''L'Ormindo, Così fan tutte'' and ''Carmen'' (1975)); [https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Boult+Pilgrim%27s+Progress "The Pilgrim's Progress"], WorldCat. Retrieved 8 September 2014; and [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=lady+macbeth+of+mtsensk&qt=results_page#%2528x0%253Amusic%2Bx4%253Alp%2529format "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"], WorldCat. Retrieved 8 September 2014.</ref>

In a discography of the LPO published in 1997, Philip Stuart listed 280 recordings made at Kingsway Hall and 353 at Abbey Road.<ref>Stuart, p.&nbsp;412.</ref> By the early 2000s the late 20th-century boom in classical recordings had ended, and with studio work in decline for all orchestras, the LPO set up its own CD label in 2005, featuring recordings taken mainly from live concerts. With the exception of Steinberg, all the orchestra's principal conductors from Beecham to Jurowski are represented in the label's releases.<ref>[http://www.lpo.org.uk/recordings/about-the-lpo-label.html "About the LPO Label"], London Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 5 September 2014.</ref> The orchestra lists among its best-selling recordings Mahler's [[Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)|Eighth Symphony]], conducted by Tennstedt, and works by [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]] and [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] with Jurowski.<ref>[http://www.lpo.org.uk/recordings/bestsellers.html "Bestsellers"], London Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 5 September 2014</ref>

===Film scores and other non-classical recordings===
Although not rivalling the LSO's total of more than 200 film score recordings, the LPO has played for a number of soundtracks, starting in 1936 with ''[[Whom the Gods Love (1936 film)|Whom the Gods Love]]''. The orchestra played for ten films made during the Second World War, and then did little soundtrack work until the 1970s, with the major exception of ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (soundtrack)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962). Later scores have included those for ''[[Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film)|Antony and Cleopatra]]'' (1972), ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar (film)|Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' (1973), Disney's ''[[Tron]]'' (1982), ''[[The Fly (1986 film)|The Fly]]'' (1986), ''[[Dead Ringers (film)|Dead Ringers]]'' (1988), ''[[In the Name of the Father]]'' (1993), the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy (2001–03) and most of the music for the [[The Hobbit (film series)|three films]] derived from ''[[The Hobbit]]'' (2012–14).<ref>[http://www.lpo.org.uk/recordings/film-highlights.html "Film highlights"], London Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 5 September 2014.</ref> In 2013, the LPO recorded several new arrangements of rock songs by Japanese rock star [[Yoshiki (musician)|Yoshiki]] on his studio album ''[[Yoshiki Classical]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Drop: Yoshiki – GRAMMY Museum|url=https://grammymuseum.org/event/the-drop-yoshiki/|access-date=2021-11-17|language=en-US}}</ref>

The orchestra has made many non-classical recordings, including such titles as ''Hawaiian Paradise'' (1959), ''[[Evita (album)|Evita]]'' (1976), ''Broadway Gold'' (1978), ''Folk Music of the Region of Asturias'' (1984), ''Academy Award Themes'' (1984), ''Japanese Light Music'' (1993), ''The Symphonic Music of Pink Floyd'' (1994) and ''The Symphonic Music of The Who'' (1995).<ref name="s443">Stuart, p.&nbsp;443–450.</ref> In May 2011 the orchestra recorded the 205 national anthems to be used at medal ceremonies at the [[2012 Summer Olympics|Olympic]] and [[2012 Summer Paralympics|Paralympic]] Games in London the following year.<ref>[http://www.paralympic.org/news/london-2012-hands-baton-london-philharmonic-orchestra "London 2012 Hands Baton to London Philharmonic Orchestra"], IPC, 15 April 2011.</ref> The LPO performed a version of "[[Move Closer to Your World]]" by [[WPVI-TV]] for a brief period in 1996.<ref>[http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/vignette.php?version=theme&id=1994 SouthernMedia's News Music Search Archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927234349/http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/vignette.php?version=theme&id=1994 |date=2011-09-27 }}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|Xvbj1webD1w|Footage of use by WPVI bearing 1996 copyright date}} Retrieved 2011-08-31</ref>

=== Tobacco industry sponsorship ===
The LPO has been [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/30/arts-institutions-ditch-tobacco-sponsors-health-experts-letter condemned] by health experts for accepting [https://lpo.org.uk/support-us/thank-you/ sponsorship] from Japan Tobacco International ([[Japan Tobacco|JTI]]).