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Next concert: Saturday 19th May 2007, 7.30pm

Programme:

• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A major, op.141
• Shostakovich: 'October' Symphonic Poem, op.131

The venue for the above concert is St. Cyprian's Church, Glentworth Street, London NW1. To book tickets, please use the order form.

Recordings

All of our concerts since May 2001 have been recorded by Dunelm Records and the CDs, which are produced and packaged to a professional standard, are available to order direct from our website.

This singular Fifth Symphony is worth hearing... There is undoubtedly real intensity throughout; tremolos and crescendos can be truly electrifying, lower strings give us the definitive clod-hopping article at the beginning of the scherzo and the brass, capped by a powerful first trumpeter, could at times be Svetlanov's boys. Many a more sophisticated middle-of-the-roader has conveyed less of the Symphony's gritty spirit than this.

BBC Music, of the LShO's live concert recording of the 5th Symphony.

This account conveys the symphony's tragic desperation much more tellingly than most 'professional' recordings to have appeared over the last two decades...part of an ongoing project that, live and on disc, clearly deserves support.

International Record Review of the LShO's live concert recording of the 4th Symphony.

The most recent release was recorded at our concert at St. Cyprian's Church in November 2004, where we performed Shostakovich's 12th Symphony, and Jonathan Ayling of the London Philharmonic Orchestra joined us again to play the 2nd Cello Concerto. We hope you will consider purchasing it!

Contacts

If you're interested in playing in the orchestra, or in coming to hear us play, please contact us, preferably by filling out the contact form, or by sending a message to Martin Watts.