The orchestra has put together three digital compilation albums this summer, released on their own LSO Live record label 

Launched in 1999, LSO Live is a GRAMMY Award-winning record label created by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) — allowing them ownership of their recordings and enabling them to reach new audiences. 

LSO’s three new digital compilation albums are: “ Introducing Overtures & Preludes,” “ LSO at the Movies,” and “ On the Big Stage.”

Involving LSO’s back catalog of recordings, the three albums highlight stage and screen performances led by conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Marin Alsop, Barry Wordsworth, Richard Kaufman, among others.

Released on July 22, “ Introducing Overtures & Preludes” celebrates LSO’s best musical openers, featuring overtures and preludes that have become showpieces in their own right. 

The album includes Bernstein’s well-loved Candide Overture , Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila overture, as well as those by von Weber, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner, Berlioz, Tiomkin, Strauss II, and Beethoven. 

Released on August 5, “ LSO at the Movies” explores classical works that have inspired filmmakers’ visions for the big screen. This album features Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals , Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme , as well as works by Stravinsky, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, Verdi, Holst, Mozart, Smetana, and more. 

Today, August 19, “ On the Big Stage,” was released and highlights operatic and musical favorites — including music from Bizet’s Carmen , Wagner’s Die Walküre , and Verdi’s Aida . Also included in this album are works by Berlioz, von Weber, Beethoven, Gounod, Borodin, Schumann, Britten, Janáček, and Bernstein. 

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LSO Live has made over 100 recordings conducted by world-class artists, including Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, and Bernard Haitink. 

Since collecting its first GRAMMY Award in 2002, LSO Live has won many international prizes including Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and Classical Brit awards, plus Opus Klassik, Orphées d’or, Chocs de l’année, and Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.