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London Symphony Chorus

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The London Symphony Chorus (abbreviated to LSC) is a large symphonic concert choir based in London, UK, consisting of over 150 amateur singers, and is one of the major symphony choruses of the United Kingdom. [1]

78 relations: A Child of Our Time, A German Requiem (Brahms), André Previn, Anne Sofie von Otter, Antonio Pappano, Arthur Oldham, Barbican Centre, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Haitink, Billy Budd, Billy Budd (opera), Candide (operetta), Charles Mackerras, Choir, Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding, Daphnis et Chloé, David Geffen Hall, Der Freischütz, Diana, Princess of Wales, Elektra (opera), Falstaff (opera), Felicity Palmer, Fidelio, Götterdämmerung, Georg Solti, Glagolitic Mass, Gramophone Classical Music Awards, Grand Prix du Disque, Gurre-Lieder, Gustav Mahler, Hector Berlioz, Howard Goodall, Ian Bostridge, Johannes Brahms, John Alldis, John Eliot Gardiner, La damnation de Faust, Leonard Bernstein, Les Troyens, London Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Mark Elder, Michael Tilson Thomas, Missa solemnis (Beethoven), Mstislav Rostropovich, Oedipus rex (opera), Otello, ..., Peter Grimes, Pierre Boulez, Requiem (Berlioz), Requiem (Mozart), Requiem (Verdi), Richard Hickox, Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz), Simon Halsey, Simon Rattle, Simon Russell Beale, Stabat Mater (Dvořák), Stabat Mater (Rossini), Symphony, Symphony No. 2 (Mahler), Symphony No. 3 (Mahler), Symphony No. 8 (Mahler), Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Symphony of Psalms, The Dream of Gerontius, Valery Gergiev, War Requiem, Weber, 34th Annual Grammy Awards, 39th Annual Grammy Awards, 44th Annual Grammy Awards, 48th Annual Grammy Awards, 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (28 more) »

A Child of Our Time

A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the British composer Michael Tippett (190598), who also wrote the libretto.

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A German Requiem (Brahms)

A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.

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Antonio Pappano

Sir Antonio "Tony" Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is an English-Italian conductor and pianist and music director of the Royal Opera House since 2002.

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Arthur Oldham

Arthur William Oldham OBE (6 September 1926 – 4 May 2003) was an English composer and choirmaster.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.

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Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (born 4 March 1929) is a Dutch conductor.

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Billy Budd

Billy Budd, Sailor is the final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924 as edited by Raymond M. Weaver, a professor at Columbia University.

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Billy Budd (opera)

Billy Budd, Op.

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Candide (operetta)

Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire.

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Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim (דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.

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Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding (born 31 August 1975) is a British conductor.

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Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet in one act with three parts (scenes) by Maurice Ravel described as a "symphonie chorégraphique" (choreographic symphony).

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David Geffen Hall

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Der Freischütz

, Op. 77, J. 277, (usually translated as The Marksman or The Freeshooter) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Elektra (opera)

Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra.

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Falstaff (opera)

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

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Felicity Palmer

Dame Felicity Joan Palmer, DBE (born 6 April 1944), is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor.

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Fidelio

Fidelio (originally titled; English: Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op.

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Götterdämmerung

(Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short).

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Georg Solti

Sir Georg Solti, KBE (born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-born orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Glagolitic Mass

The Glagolitic Mass (Mša glagolskaja; also called Missa Glagolitica or Slavonic Mass) is a composition for soloists (soprano, contralto, tenor, bass), double chorus, organ and orchestra by Leoš Janáček.

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Gramophone Classical Music Awards

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry.

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Grand Prix du Disque

The Grand Prix du Disque is the premier French award for musical recordings.

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Gurre-Lieder

is a large cantata for five vocal soloists, narrator, chorus and large orchestra, composed by Arnold Schönberg, on poems by the Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by Robert Franz Arnold).

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Howard Goodall

Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE (born 26 May 1958) is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television.

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Ian Bostridge

Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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John Alldis

John Alldis (10 August 192920 December 2010) was an English chorus-master and conductor.

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John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other baroque music.

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La damnation de Faust

La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Les Troyens

Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Mariss Jansons

Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons (born 14 January 1943) is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons and the singer Iraida Jansone.

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Mark Elder

Sir Mark Philip Elder, CH, CBE (born 2 June 1947) is a British conductor.

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Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer.

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Missa solemnis (Beethoven)

The Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123, is a solemn mass composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819 to 1823.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič,; 27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor.

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Oedipus rex (opera)

Oedipus rex is an "Opera-oratorio after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky, scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus.

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Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.

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Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book The Borough.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.

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Requiem (Berlioz)

The Grande Messe des morts (or Requiem), Op.

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Requiem (Mozart)

The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Requiem (Verdi)

The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Richard Hickox

Richard Sidney Hickox, CBE (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz)

Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839.

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Simon Halsey

Simon Halsey, CBE (born 8 March 1958) is an English choral conductor.

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Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor.

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Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor, author and music historian.

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Stabat Mater (Dvořák)

Stabat Mater (Op. 58, originally Op. 28,Score, p. V B. 71) for soli, choir and orchestra is a religious cantata by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák based on the text of the Stabat Mater.

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Stabat Mater (Rossini)

Stabat Mater is a work by Gioachino Rossini based on the traditional structure of the Stabat Mater for chorus and soloists.

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.

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Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony of Psalms

The Symphony of Psalms is a three-movement choral symphony composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period.

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The Dream of Gerontius

The Dream of Gerontius, Op.

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Valery Gergiev

Valery Abisalovich Gergiev, PAR (Валерий Абисалович Гергиев;; Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origin.

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War Requiem

The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.

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Weber

Weber (or; German) is a surname of German origin, derived from the noun meaning "weaver".

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34th Annual Grammy Awards

The 34th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1992.

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39th Annual Grammy Awards

The 39th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1997, at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

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44th Annual Grammy Awards

The 44th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 27, 2002 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

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48th Annual Grammy Awards

The 48th Annual Grammy Awards took place on February 8, 2006, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

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52nd Annual Grammy Awards

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards took place on January 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Symphony_Chorus

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