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INDEX OF RECORDING LOCATIONS
London locations used for studio recordings:
ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, St.John’s Wood, London NW8 (1931) were visited by the LSO even before the official opening and have been used regularly ever since. Initially restricted to E.M.I. labels, they were opened to all from 1968. Studio 1 has hosted a total of 814 recordings, far more than any other venue. The smaller Studio 2, famous for the Beatles’ recordings, has been used on thirty-one occasions (*) since 1972. (114,122-29,131-35,137-45,147,148,149,

154-62,164-71,174-77,179,181,182,183,186,188,189,190,194,202,207,218,

224-28,230,232,235,236,237,240,244-49,251,253,254,256,257,259,263,264,

265,276-79,282-87,291,295,296,299,301,302,304,306,307,308,317,318,320-26,

328,335,339,340,344,348,350,352,354-57,359,362,364,367,369,379,380,383,

387,388,393,429,440,620,630,691,714,717,722,728,736,738,749,754,757,759,

760,768,769,775,796,801,803,804,816,820,826,827,842,845,846,850*,856,858,

859,862,863,867,872,880,881,883,884,886,887,893,895,896,897,902,903,914,

916,917,924,926,933,936,940,942,947,953,955,962,967,969,979,980,981,988-

91,995,997,1003,1004,1008,1013,1014,1020,1032,1033,1035,1038,1040,1045,

1048,1051,1053,1060,1064,1066,1072,1075,1079,1082,1083,1084,1089,1090,

1094,1100,1108,1110,1122,1123,1127,1128,1131,1137,1142,1148,1152,1153,

1163,1166,1169,1170,1171,1175,1197,1199,1209,1213,1218,1225,1226,1230,

1233,1239,1241,1242,1243,1249,1252,1253,1257*,1258,1261,1263,1264,1267,

1272,1273,1277*,1279,1284,1287,1291,1293,1295,1299,1302,1305,1306,1312

-15,1321,1324,1325,1333,1334,1342,1345,1346,1349,1352,1356,1358,1360,

1361,1362,1366,1367,1377,1380,1386,1388,1388*,1390,1391,1392,1398,1402,

1405,1407,1410,1411,1412,1416,1417,1418,1425,1429,1436,1438,1442,1444,

1446,1448,1457,1458,1471,1472,1473,1479,1480,1482,1488,1492,1493,1495,

1498,1499,1501,1502,1503,1505,1507,1517,1518,1523,1524,1532,1534,1543,

1547,1551,1557,1561,1566,1569,1573,1574*,1578,1580-83,1586,1588,1597,

1600,1601,1604,1608-12,1617,1618,1619,1624,1626,1628,1630,1631,1633,

1634,1635,1642,1648,1653,1657*,1659,1665,1670,1671,1678,1684,1685,1690,

1691,1692,1695,1696,1698,1700,1701,1705,1706,1707,1709,1720,1723,1725,

1727,1731,1732,1733,1736,1738,1740,1741,1743,1744,1748-51,1753,1754,

1760-63,1765,1767,1772,1773,1774,1776,1778,1782,1786,1788,1789,1790,

1794,1797-00,1802,1803,1805-10,1819-22,1826,1828,1829,1834,1835,1838,

1839,1841,1849,1851-54,1856-61,1863,1868,1869,1875,1877,1882,1884,1888

-93,1895-98,1898*,1901,1902,1905,1906,1908,1910,1911,1913,1914,1916,

1918,1920,1921,1922,1925,1926,1930*,1932,1933,1935,1937,1938,1939,1941,

1942,1943,1947,1948,1954,1956-59,1962,1966,1971,1972,1974,1976,1978,

1980,1982-85,1987,1993,1994,1995,1999,2000-3,2006,2009,2010,2011,2014,

2015,2017,2019,2021,2023,2026*,2027*,2028-31,2034*,2035,2036,2037,2039,

2040,2042-46,2048,2049,2050,2054,2055,2058,2059,2063,2065,2067,2069,

2070,2071,2075,2078-81,2082-87,2089,2090,2096,2098,2102,2105-8,2111*,

2117*,2119,2122,2123,2124,2125*,2126,2128,2131,2132,2134,2136,2138,

2140,2141,2145,2147,2149,2150,2152*,2153,2156,2158,2159,2160,2162-65,

2164*,2169,2170,2172,2174*,2174,2175,2177,2181-84,2187,2189,2190,2192,

2193,2195,2196,2197,2199,2202,2207*,2209,2211,2213,2214,2217,2224,

2226*,2228,2230,2231,2235,2236*,2237*,2238,2239,2241,2242*,2243,2245,

2248,2251,2252,2254,2258,2259,2262,2265,2266,2270,2271,2272,2273,2274,

2276,2277,2279,2284,2287*,2293,2297,2299,2301,2302,2303,2307*,2314,

2316,2321,2322,2328,2330,2331,2336,2337,2339*,2341,2342,2345,2346,

2348,2353,2355,2356,2357,2360,2364,2366,2367,2369,2372,2374,2375,2376,

2377,2378,2379,2380,2381,2387,2389,2390,2391,2392,2394*,2395,2401,2402,

2403,2407,2408,2410,2412,2413,2420,2424,2425,2426,2427,2428,2430*,2433,

2435,2437,2441,2443,2444,2445,2446,2447,2452,2452*,2453,2456,2457,

2460*,2461,2463,2464,2466,2467,2468,2469,2470,2480,2480*,2481,2483,

2484,2485,2485*,2487,2491,2492,2498,2502,2511,2512,2514,2517,2518,2519,

2523,2524,2526,2527,2534,2537,2538,2539,2540,2541,2543,2547,2548,2565,

2568,2570,2571,2574,2575,2576,2579,2583,2584,C10,C17)
AIR STUDIOS, LYNDHURST HALL, Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, London NW3 were converted from a Congregational Church (1884) for Associated Independent Recordings in 1992, replacing the premises that overlooked Oxford Circus. They have been chosen for 98 recordings, all in the main hall apart from one* in the smaller Studio 1 in 2013.

(1801,1811,1814,1817,1830,1832,1843,1844,1846,1855,1871,1883,1898,1903,

1915,1923,1927,1941,1951,1981,1990,1991,2007,2013,2024,2038,2069,2114,

2115,2117,2148,2179,2199,2219,2223,2225,2229,2232,2235,2244,2246,2247,

2255,2256,2268,2275,2278,2289,2290,2292,2294,2296,2312,2317,2340,2354,

2358,2362,2367,2371,2382,2386,2398,2399,2405,2417,2421,2427,2436,2448,

2452,2455,2459,2461,2474,2476,2477,2482,2490,2499*,2500,2501,2506,2508,2511,2513,2515,2530,2542,2545,2546,2549,2550,2551,2557,2561,2572,2581)
AIR STUDIOS, 214, OXFORD STREET, London W1 were adapted from a fourth-floor ballroom in retail/residential property (1927) for George Martin’s Associated Independent Recordings in 1965. They were used for four light music recordings from 1974-88 before closing in 1992, when AIR moved to Lyndhurst Hall. (948,1228,1455,1530)
AIR-EDEL STUDIO, 18, Rodmarton Street, London W1 was converted from mews premises into a lecture hall for the Theosophical Society, which was then used as a recording studio from the 1940s and by the present owners from the 1990s. A small group of strings recorded a film score there in 2010. (2400)
ALL HALLOWS’ Church, Shirlock Road, GOSPEL OAK, London NW3 (1889) hosted just five recordings in 1973, 1995-97 and 2014.

(907,1904,1919,1931,2505)

ALL SAINTS Church, Durham Road, EAST FINCHLEY, London N2 (1892) was visited by chamber ensembles from the LSO for three recordings in 1995.

(1876,1900,1907)

ALL SAINTS Church, Bute Avenue, PETERSHAM, Richmond, Surrey (1908), a venue often favoured for piano recordings, was used just once in 1992 and was converted into a private residence a few years later. (1755)
ALL SAINTS Church, Franciscan Road, TOOTING, London SW17 (1906) has been used on 72 occasions since 1972, particularly for large-scale choral and operatic sessions. (877,878,968,970,1099,1106,1115,1116,1145,1146,1147,

1151,1158,1160,1161,1178,1187,1212,1216,1229,1236,1238,1244,1271,1332,

1348,1351,1359,1376,1393,1394,1403,1423,1427,1431,1443,1449,1456,1481,

1497,1498,1520,1570,1579,1596,1672,1702,1730,1779,1783,1784,1792,1795,

1827,1836,1848,1879,1880,1881,1894,1969,1986,1989,2004,2100,2103,2121,

2139,2176,C15,C19,C22)

ANGEL Recording STUDIOS, 311, Upper Street, ISLINGTON, London N1 were rebuilt from a United Reformed Church, originally Islington Chapel (1888) and were visited for 65 recordings, mostly light music and film soundtracks, from 1983. (1319,1340,1369,1388,1490,1491,1535,1540,1555,1607,1615,1616,

1624,1634,1664,1679,1714,1716,1726,1757,1781,1785,1825,1850,1912,1945,

1946,1950,1960,1965,1973,2005,2020,2047,2051,2060,2068,2072,2088,2091,

2104,2112,2179,2200,2203,2206,2233,2260,2263,2286,2291,2294,2298,2308,

2323,2326,2350,2359,2449,2450,2491,2503,2544,2556,2573)
ANVIL FILM STUDIOS, DENHAM. See DENHAM FILM STUDIOS.
ASSOCIATED BRITISH PICTURE CORPORATION ELSTREE STUDIOS, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire (1926) recorded a soundtrack in 1969. The studios were sold to E.M.I. the same year and remain in use for film and television production. (763)
BARBICAN CONCERT HALL, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2 (1982) has hosted 158 live and eight studio recordings since 1983. It is the home of the LSO Live label, which began recording performances from the orchestra’s concert seasons in 1999.

(1314,1374,1387,1388,1419,1453,1568,1613,1631,1687,1689,1703,1711,1712,

1715,1768,1866,1887,1909,1924,1964,1975,1998,2018,2037,2053,2056,2061,

2064,2066,2074,2077,2092,2095,2097,2099,2101,2110,2113,2129,2130,2133,

2142,2143,2144,2146,2151,2155,2157,2166,2168,2178,2180,2186,2188,2190,

2191,2194,2203,2205,2208,2210,2218,2221,2240,2249,2250,2253,2257,2261,

2264,2267,2269,2276,2281,2282,2283,2288,2289,2295,2300,2304,2305,2306,

2309,2310,2311,2313,2315,2318,2319,2320,2324,2325,2327,2333,2334,2335,

2338,2343,2344,2347,2351,2361,2363,2365,2368,2370,2373,2383,2384,2385,

2388,2396,2397,2406,2409,2411,2414,2415,2419,2429,2431,2432,2438,2439,

2440,2451,2462,2471,2472,2473,2475,2478,2479,2493,2494,2495,2496,2497,

2504,2507,2509,2510,2520,2522,2525,2528,2529,2531,2533,2535,2558,2559,

2560,2562,2563,2564,2566,2567,2577,2578,2580,2582,2585,C30)
BARKING ASSEMBLY HALL, Broadway, Barking, Essex (1961) was used for eighteen recordings, most engineered by Robert Auger, from 1969-81. The hall has since become the Broadway Theatre. (724,735,737,744,748,750,762,

784,798,819,874,875,913,946,949,1018,1190,1240)

BATTERSEA TOWN HALL, Lavender Hill, London SW11 (1893), visited for a BBC studio recording in 1972, later became Battersea Arts Centre. (867)
BBC STUDIOS, Clarendon Road, ELSTREE, Hertfordshire (1937), originally built as Rock Film Studios and taken over in 1984, were visited for a television programme in 1986. (1444)
BBC TELEVISION CENTRE, Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12 (1960) was the venue for five video recordings in 1961-67 and three of “André Previn’s Music Nights” in 1974-76. The Centre closed in 2013.

(487,488,503,652,661,984,1013,1053)

BBC TELEVISION THEATRE. See LIME GROVE STUDIOS.
BISHOPSGATE INSTITUTE, 230, Bishopsgate, London EC2 (1894), a hall frequently used for rehearsals, hosted two recordings in 1967 and 1971.

(681,818)

BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALLS, Lee Road, London SE3 (1895) were rescued from dereliction in 1979 and the restored 700 seat Great Hall was used on eighteen occasions from 1991-2013. (1694,1766,1769,1775,1793,1845,

1847,1873,1928,1940,1949,2016,2057,2073,2167,2486,C20,C21)

BRENT TOWN HALL. See WEMBLEY TOWN HALL.
35, BRITANNIA ROW, ISLINGTON, London N1, where studios originally owned by Pink Floyd were set up in commercial premises in 1975, was visited for backing sessions in 1977 and 1982. (1283,A201)
CADOGAN HALL, Sloane Terrace, London SW1 (1907), a Christian Science church converted to a concert hall in 2004, saw its first LSO sessions in 2013.

(2489)
CARLTON ROOMS, 140, MAIDA VALE, London W9 (1913) originally housed the Maida Vale Picture Palace, which closed in 1940. Subsequently used by dance bands, the LSO recording there just once in 1955, the premises became a bingo hall in 1961 and the Islamic Centre England in 1998. (349)

CBS STUDIOS, 31-37, WHITFIELD STREET, London W1 (1971) were used mainly for light music on ten occasions in 1973-89. After Sony’s acquisition of CBS, the studios became THE HIT FACTORY, visited five times in 1991-94, and then WHITFIELD STREET Recording STUDIOS, where another ten recordings were made in 1996-2004.

(914,1307,1322,1337,1344,1383,1415,1441,1494,1598; 1717,1722,1770,1787,

1868; 1954,1970,2076,2093,2116,2135,2171,2212,2216,2222)
CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL for Boys, Queen Victoria Street, London EC4 (1986) was visited in 1994 to record with the organ. (1854)
CONWAY HALL, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1 (1929), a small hall belonging to South Place Ethical Society used for recitals and chamber music, was chosen for six small-scale recordings in 1956, 1974, 1994 and 1995.

(374,946,951,1866,1870,1899)

CTS STUDIOS, 49, Kensington Gardens Square, BAYSWATER, London W2 were converted from a banqueting hall in 1959 and hosted a single light music recording in 1971. The studios closed in 1972 and the site was re-developed in the 1980s. (840)
CTS STUDIOS, WEMBLEY. See DE LANE LEA.
DE LANE LEA, The Music Centre, Engineers Way, WEMBLEY, Middlesex (1971) subsequently took the name of the defunct Bayswater CTS (Cine-Tele Sound) STUDIOS. The LSO worked there on 102 occasions from 1972 to 2003, mostly for light music or film sessions. CTS (by then part of the Lansdowne Group) re-located to Watford in 2000, owing to the planned redevelopment of Wembley Stadium and its environs. In 2002 it re-opened under new owners as PHOENIX STUDIOS, but was closed and demolished in 2004. (853,991;1009,

1041,1061,1107,1118,1157,1180,1182,1191,1219,1231,1273,1286,1298,1300,

1308,1316,1320,1326,1327,1338,1339,1343,1344,1353,1363,1365,1370,1371,

1378,1389,1400,1422,1426,1428,1454,1460,1463,1464,1489,1516,1547,1549,

1552,1553,1556,1563,1567,1584,1585,1590,1592,1603,1606,1614,1620,1652,

1654,1662,1663,1666,1668,1675,1686,1688,1699,1713,1735,1737,1752,1759,

1764,1804,1812,1816,1818,1824,1831,1833,1837,1842,1864,1865,1867,1886,

1908,1917,1936,1944,1952,1979,1996,2012,2022,2041,2055;2179,2187;

A202,A203)
DENHAM FILM STUDIOS, North Orbital Road, Denham, Buckinghamshire (1936) were originally built for London Film Productions and visited for 38 soundtrack recordings from 1937-61. Film making ceased in 1951 but ANVIL Films took over part of the site in 1966 and thirteen more recordings were made there from 1969-80, before the sound studios closed and the buildings were demolished. (173; 732,806,807,819,1081,1107,1132,1150,1159,1165,1181,

1196,1205; A102,A103,A105-A114,A116-A120,A122,A127,A131,A132,A142,

A143,A144,A148,A151-A154,A162,A168,A170,A172,A173,A175,A188,A189)
EALING FILM STUDIOS, Ealing Green, London W5 (1931), opened by Associated Talking Pictures and the venue for three 1954 soundtracks, were sold to the BBC the following year and remain in use for television.

(A181,A182,A184)

FAIRFIELD HALLS, Park Lane, CROYDON, Surrey (1962), which include a theatre and a 1750 seat concert hall, hosted six commercial and four live recordings from 1966-77 and two further studio recordings using the hall’s organ in 2008 and 2011.

(646,661,680,793,847,904,978,996,1084,1011,2332,2404)

GOLDSMITHS’ COLLEGE HALL, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 was built as the Royal Naval School (1845). Latterly part of the University of London, it was used for a single recording in 1985. (1379)
HAMMERSMITH TOWN HALL, King Street, London W6 (1939) was the venue for a BBC studio recording in 1959. (427)
HAYES STUDIOS, Blyth Road, MIDDLESEX (1912), the scene of the LSO’s first two recordings in 1913-14, were purpose built by H.M.V. for acoustic recording and so became obsolete with the introduction of electrical recording in 1925. (1,2)
HENRY WOOD HALL, Trinity Church Square, Southwark, London SE1 was rebuilt from the derelict Holy Trinity Church (1824) as a rehearsal hall, initially shared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The LSO made 95 recordings there from 1975-96 and since 2009. (1030,1031,1036,1047,1069,1102,1103,

1104,1112,1120,1124,1135,1155,1156,1162,1167,1168,1188,1189,1192,1193,

1194,1195,1200,1215,1260,1269,1270,1285,1329,1397,1399,1401,1409,1413,

1424,1432,1433,1434,1435,1439,1440,1450,1452,1470,1477,1486,1487,1496,

1504,1512,1513,1514,1524,1528,1529,1539,1541,1550,1558,1564,1565,1589,

1591,1599,1625,1629,1637,1639,1640,1661,1697,1710,1718,1719,1724,1729,

1734,1777,1780,1813,1823,1885,1955,2349,2393,2418,2434,2442,2459,2521,

C08,C09,C14,C29)

HIPPODROME, North End Road, GOLDERS GREEN, London NW11 (1913), originally a music hall, became a BBC studio in 1968 and home to the BBC Concert Orchestra from 1972. The LSO were guests for a single recording in 2001. By 2008 it had become the El-Shaddai International Christian Centre.

(2127)
THE HIT FACTORY, WHITFIELD STREET. See CBS STUDIOS.

HOLLYMOUNT STUDIO, Holly Mount, HAMPSTEAD, London NW3, a former chapel, was the probable venue for an Argo chamber ensemble recording in 1952. (274)
HORNSEY TOWN HALL, Crouch End Broadway, London N8 (1934) was used for just one commercial recording in 1958, when Walthamstow was unavailable, and once by the BBC in 1964. (417,564)
KINGSWAY HALL, Kingsway, Holborn, London WC2 (1912) was built as the Methodist West London Mission and was the venue for 421 recordings from 1926-83, making it second only to Abbey Road in popularity. After sale to the GLC in 1984, various schemes for refurbishment and alternative use came to nothing and the derelict hall was demolished in 1997 to make way for an hotel.

(38,39,44,47,50,53,54,56,60,62-65,71,73-78,80,81,82,87-100,103,104,105,107

-12,114-17,120,130,136,146,172,178,180,184,185,187,191,192,193,195-01,203

-6,208-11,214-17,219-23,229,231,234,238,239,241,242,243,250,252,255,258,

260,261,266-73,275,280,288,289,290,292,293,294,297,298,300,303,305,313

-16,319,327,329-34,337,341,342,345,346,347,351,353,358,360,361,363,370-73,

375-78,381,382,385,386,394-00,402,404,405,406,412,413,419,421,422,428,

439,442,443,446,447,448,457,460,462,470,472-75,492,493,494,497,505,523,

524,525,529,530,532,533,538,539,543,544,549,557,558,559,564,566,567,568,

571,572,574,585,589,590,596-99,604,605,617,619,625,627,628,629,635,636,

637,640-43,645,648,654,655,658,660,662,665,667-70,673,675,678,679,683,

684,688,689,690,692,693,694,696,698,699,703,704,706-11,715,716,720,721,

726,731,734,741,751,770,771,773,778,779,780,783,786,788,791,794,795,799,

802,805,810,812,813,821,822,824,825,829,838,839,843,848,849,851,855,857,

860,861,865,866,871,879,882,885,889-92,894,898,905,906,908,909,910,916,

925,928,930,932,934,935,937,944,945,952,956,957,958,960,971,973,974,977,

982,984,986,990,994,1007,1012,1013,1017,1025,1027,1028,1039,1043,1049,

1050,1052,1055,1057,1062,1063,1070,1071,1078,1080,1085,1087,1096,1098,

1111,1114,1125,1126,1130,1133,1134,1138,1139,1149,1174,1176,1203,1204,

1210,1233,1235,1245,1251,1265,1266,1274,1280,1289,1292,1296,1297,1303,

1309,1317,1318,1327,C01,C02,C04,A003-A008)
LANSDOWNE STUDIOS, Lansdowne Road, NOTTING HILL, London W11 were established in the 1960s in the basement of Lansdowne House (1904) and hosted the strings for a film session in 2002. (2159)
LIME GROVE STUDIOS, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12 (1915), built as Gaumont Film Studios, were used for a 1948 soundtrack, then as the BBC TELEVISION THEATRE from 1949-91: probably for a ballet in 1957 and for operas in 1960 & 1967. They were demolished in 1993 and the site is now occupied by a housing development. (A149; 386,462,661)
LONDON OPERA CENTRE, 490, Commercial Road, STEPNEY, London E1 (1933) was built as the Troxy cinema, which closed in 1960. Converted by the Royal Opera to a training school for young singers in 1963, it was visited for two recordings in 1969 and 1972, before becoming a bingo hall in 1992.

(763,852)

MAIDA VALE STUDIOS, Delaware Road, London W9 (1909), were originally the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club, which was converted to broadcasting studios (and a base for the BBC Symphony Orchestra) in 1934.

Thirteen BBC recordings from 1936-76 have been published and a single commercial recording was made there in 2000.

(153,363,365,401,413,421,450,458,471,476,725,759,1042,2094)
MEMORIAL HALL, 14, FARRINGDON STREET, London EC4 (1875),

a Congregationalist church used for a BBC studio recording in 1956, was demolished and replaced by an office block in 1970. (363)

MERTON PARK FILM STUDIOS, 269, Kingston Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 (1930) were the location for a 1947 documentary. They closed in 1967 and were subsequently demolished. (A134)
M.G.M. FILM STUDIOS, Elstree Way, ELSTREE, Hertfordshire (1937), initially Amalgamated Studios, were taken over by M.G.M. in 1948 and visited for two soundtrack recordings in 1953-55. (A180,A183)
ODYSSEY STUDIO, 26-27, Castlereagh Street, London W1, later the home of Jazz fm, a commercial radio station, was the venue for a single light music recording in 1980. (1234)
OLYMPIC STUDIOS, 117, Church Road, BARNES, London SW13 were built as Byfeld Hall (1906) and used as a music hall, theatre and cinema until 1952. The recording studios, which opened in 1966, were visited on 27 occasions, mostly for light music, from 1969-1987. Following purchase by Virgin in 1988 and rebuilding the following year, the studios passed to E.M.I. ownership in 1993 and two further recordings were made there in 2001.

(745,853,929,943,975,1041,1054,1065,1107,1113,1121,1185,1237,1302,1317,

1323,1341,1344,1347,1350,1380,1381,1382,1395,1396,1404,1445,2117,2120)
PETTY FRANCE STUDIOS, 63-64, Buckingham Gate, London SW1, set up in the rented concert hall of the London Soldiers’ Home (which had opened in the early 1890s), hosted 34 Columbia recordings from 1919-26. Rendered obsolete by the introduction of electrical recording, the studios closed in 1932 and the site was later re-developed. (3-36)
PHOENIX STUDIOS, WEMBLEY. See DE LANE LEA.
PINEWOOD FILM STUDIOS, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire (1936) were used to record thirteen soundtracks between 1938-49. (A104,A119,

A129,A136,A137,A158,A159,A161,A165,A169,A171,A172,A174)

PORTMAN ROOMS, Baker Street, London W1 (1870?), which hosted the concerts of the North London Orchestral Society in the 1890s, were among several halls to which Columbia resorted between the adoption of electrical recording and the opening of Abbey Road Studios. The LSO made a single anonymous visit in 1928. The hall was destroyed in an air raid in May 1941 and in 1957 the site was redeveloped as Michael House, the head office of Marks and Spencer plc. (61)
QUEEN’S HALL, Langham Place, London W1 (1893), used by H.M.V. for 35 recordings from 1926 until Abbey Road Studios opened in 1931, was destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1941. The Small Hall at the top of the building, also used as a studio in 1931, was regularly hired by H.M.V. as a control room for recording sessions relayed from the main hall or from Kingsway Hall.

(41,42,43,45,46,47,50,51,52,55,57,58,66,67,68,69,70,72,74,79,80,83,84,85,86,

101,102,106,113,118,119,121,A001,A002,A006)
RED BUS Recording STUDIOS, 34, Salisbury Street, MARYLEBONE, London NW8, opened in converted commercial premises in the 1970s, were visited by the strings for a backing session in 1993. (A204)
RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, Crisp Road, HAMMERSMITH, London W6 (1935), where seven film soundtracks were recorded in 1945-47, closed as film studios in 1954 and were then used by the BBC before becoming an Arts Centre in 1975. (A121,A123,A126,A130,A138,A139,A140)
ROSSLYN HILL CHAPEL, Hampstead, London NW3 (1862) was chosen on just three occasions in 1974, 1975 and 1994. (987,1024,1872)
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, Kensington Gore, London SW7 (1871) was used for a film soundtrack in 1955, then as a studio on three occasions in 1970, 1984 and 1985. In addition 37 live recordings from 1927-2011 (seventeen of them from Promenade Concerts) have been published.

(40,49,173,233,235,425,443,480,519,540,548,580,583,586,587,602,652,653,

677,714,719,774,790,800,834,862,870,917,945,1029,1209,1259,1335,1375,

1466,1840,1988,2052,C24,C28,A186)

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 (1951) was officially opened with a recorded concert in which a contingent from the LSO took part. It has since hosted 44 more live recordings, most recently for the orchestra in 1990, as well as a studio recording of an organ concerto in 1977.

(262,366,438,445,487,498,550,554,561,569,607,626,628,637,639,661,672,687,

698,747,749,761,787,841,857,870,873,943,1010,1037,1077,1082,1086,1088,

1109,1117,1170,1183,1186,208,1281,1298,1683,C18,C25)

Church of ST.ALBAN THE MARTYR, Brooke Street, HOLBORN, London EC1 (1863) was used for an a capella recording by the Chorus in 1997-98.

(C23)
ST.AUGUSTINE’S Church, Kilburn Park Road, KILBURN, London NW6 (1877) was visited for eight recordings from 1990-95.

(1649,1721,1728,1756,1796,1874,1878,1893)
ST.BARNABAS Church, Holden Road, WOODSIDE PARK, North Finchley, London N12 (1914) was used on thirteen occasions from 1980-89.

(1198,1221,1224,1232,1248,1268,1275,1278,1368,1408,1478,1576,C06)

ST.GILES CRIPPLEGATE Church, Wood Street, Barbican, London EC2 (1550) hosted fifteen recordings from 1972-88, plus a concert in 2012.

(854,888,900,901,922,923,927,939,941,954,959,983,1002,1095,1511,2454)

ST.JOHN’S Church, SMITH SQUARE, Millbank, London SW1 (1728) was converted into a 600 seat concert hall in 1969 and used, mainly by Deutsche Grammophon, for fifteen recordings from 1977-92. (1093,1184,1201,1202,

1203,1214,1330,1331,1354,1355,1462,1667,1669,1697,1771)

The Church of ST.JUDE-ON-THE-HILL, Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11 (1908) was the chosen venue for 32 Chandos and Cala recordings from 1982-92, with one further visit in 2004. (1288,1459,1467,1468,1469,1500,1521,1542,1544,1545,1546,1548,1571,1572,

1595,1602,1605,1623,1636,1645,1646,1651,1660,1673,1680,1681,1693,1745,

1746,1747,1758,2215,C16)
ST.LUKE’S Church, 161, Old Street, FINSBURY, London EC1 (1733), derelict since 1959, was rebuilt and reopened in March 2003 as the home of LSO Discovery, the orchestra’s community and education programme. The first recording sessions took place a few months later. (2185,2198,2199,2204,2220,

2234,2280,2285,2289,2352,2416,2447,2465,2488,2532,2536,2553,2554,2555,

2569)
ST.PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, Ludgate Hill, London EC4 (1708), was the venue for a concert in 1968, a televised concert in 1970 and City of London Festival concerts in 2008 and 2012. (713,774,2329,2458)
ST.PETER’S Church, Bishopsford Road, MORDEN, Surrey (1932) was visited on nine occasions from 1976-87.

(1056,1187,1217,1246,1247,1250,1414,1474,1475)

SCALA THEATRE, Charlotte Street, London W1 (1905), used for two recordings in 1926 and 1935, was demolished in 1972 and luxury apartments now occupy the site. (37,150)
SHEPPERTON FILM STUDIOS, Studios Road, Littleton Park, Shepperton, Middlesex, which began as Sound City Film Producing and Recording Studios (1932), were visited in 1934. Three more soundtracks were made in 1950-55, during the British Lion era. The studios are still in use for film and television production. (A101,A176,A178,A185)
THAMES STREET STUDIOS, 89, Upper Thames Street, London EC4, were in a converted warehouse taken over by Decca from the BBC in 1933 and used for four recordings in 1935-37. They closed in 1938 following Decca’s acquisition of premises in West Hampstead and the site, beside Cannon Street Station, is now occupied by Mondial House. (150,151,152,163)
TWICKENHAM FILM STUDIOS, The Barons, St.Margarets, Middlesex (1929) hosted Frank Zappa’s recording with the LSO in 1983. (1301)
WALTHAMSTOW ASSEMBLY HALL, Forest Road, London E17 (1943) was the most popular of the civic venues, used by most major labels and visited on 202 occasions since 1946. (212,213,309-12,368,384,392,403,410,411,414,415,

418,420,423,424,426,430-35,444,449-56,458,459,461,463,469,481,482,483,

486,489,490,491,497,499,500,501,506,507,508,520,521,531,534,535,542,550,

555,556,560,562,563,570,573,575,579,581,588,595,603,606,607,615,616,618,

621-24,626,631,634,639,644,649,650,651,657,671,674,682,685,686,700,712,

719,729,733,740,742,743,755,756,766,772,776,777,781,785,789,792,808,809,

811,823,828,832,833,835,899,911,912,921,950,964,965,972,985,998,1005,

1021,1058,1059,1076,1086,1097,1101,1105,1119,1129,1136,1154,1164,1201,

1206,1207,1211,1223,1227,1276,1294,1296,1303,1310,1328,1336,1364,1372,

1373,1381,1406,1430,1437,1461,1476,1484,1509,1522,1526,1527,1531,1538,

1560,1562,1575,1587,1593,1594,1621,1622,1641,1643,1644,1647,1650,1656,

1658,1704,1739,1953,1968,1977,1992,1997,2008,2025,2227,2516,C12)

WANDSWORTH SCHOOL, Sutherland Grove, Southfields, London SW18 (1927) had an excellent boys choir, which made a number of recordings with the LSO in 1968-73. This was presumably the connection through which the premises were made available for a recording during the Christmas holidays in 1973, and for occasional use as a rehearsal venue. Following closure of the school, some of the buildings were demolished in 2001 and others converted to housing. (938)
WATFORD TOWN HALL, Rickmansworth Road, Watford, Hertfordshire (1940), renamed WATFORD COLOSSEUM in 1994, was the venue for 116 recordings, beginning with film sessions in 1945. From 1957 it was visited by Mercury and subsequently by many other labels, all using mobile recording units until 2001, when a permanent control room was installed by CTS after that company had been obliged to leave its Wembley premises.

(389,390,391,407,408,409,436,437,438,441,477,478,485,511-17,545,546,547,

576,577,578,582,583,611,613,614,647,656,659,687,723,753,758,782,830,837,

869,876,1006,1026,1044,1046,1067,1073,1074,1141,1143,1144,1172,1173,

1177,1179,1220,1222,1254,1255,1256,1262,1280,1282,1304,1311,1384,1385,

1420,1421,1447,1451,1465,1483,1506,1508,1510,1515,1519,1525,1533,1536,

1537,1554,1559,1577,1638,1655,1674,1676,1677,1682,1708,1742,1749,1791;

1929,1934,1961,1963,1967,2032,2062,2109,2115,2118,2137,2161,2173,2201,

C07,A124,A125,A128,A179)
WEMBLEY TOWN HALL, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middlesex (1940) was first used for a BBC studio recording in 1946, then from 1954 it hosted a further 67 entries, being particularly favoured by Philips from 1962-75. Following a reorganization of local government, it was renamed BRENT TOWN HALL and used for one further recording in 1984.

(212,343,401,416,464-68,495,496,502,509,510,522,526,528,536,537,551,552,

565,584,591-94,600,601,608,609,610,612,632,633,638,663,664,676,695,697,

701,702,705,713,718,727,730,739,746,753,797,814,815,844,864,915,931,961,

976,992,999,1000,1015,1016,1019,1022,1034; 1357)
WEST HAM CENTRAL MISSION, 409, Barking Road, London E13, the Baptist Memorial Church (1921), was used on three occasions in 1974-75.

(963,993,1001)

WEST HAMPSTEAD STUDIOS, 165, Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6 were converted from the Falcon Works (1884) as recording studios for Crystalate in 1933 and purchased four years later by Decca, who rebuilt them in 1961. The LSO recorded there on eleven occasions from 1954-74. Following the sale of Decca to Polygram, the premises were converted to rehearsal studios for English National Opera in 1981 and renamed Lilian Baylis House.

(336,338,471,504,520,527,550,553,764,765,966)

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL, Ashley Place, Victoria Street, London SW1 (1903) was used by Philips for two recordings in 1969 and 1971. (767,817)
WHITFIELD STREET STUDIOS. See CBS STUDIOS.
One 1952 recording was made at an unidentified London venue. (281)

London locations used only for live recordings:
BRIXTON ACADEMY, 211, Stockwell Road, London SW9 (1929), until 1972 the Astoria cinema and theatre, was the venue for a televised concert in 1999.

(2033)
COLISEUM, 32-35, ST MARTIN’S LANE, London WC2 (1904) was originally a variety theatre, but has been the home of English National Opera since 1968. It was the source of a pirated opera broadcast in 1969. (752)

MUSIC ROOM, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Buckingham Gate, London SW1 (1837) was the scene of a televised concert involving the cello section in 2002.

(2154)
OLYMPIC STADIUM, STRATFORD, London E15 (2012) was built for the London Olympic Games and the orchestra played at the televised opening and closing ceremonies. (2452,2455)

RAINBOW THEATRE, 232, Seven Sisters Road, FINSBURY PARK, London N4 (1930), originally the Astoria cinema and now the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, was visited for a rock concert in 1972. (889)
SADLER’S WELLS THEATRE, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1 (1931) was the venue for a pirated opera broadcast in 1972. The theatre was demolished for rebuilding in 1997. (868)

A few studio recordings have been made away from London:
THE MALTINGS Concert Hall, SNAPE, near Saxmundham, Suffolk was converted from industrial buildings (1859-85) for Benjamin Britten’s Aldeburgh Festival and one of his operas was recorded there for television in February 1969. The hall was burnt out on 7 June 1969 but quickly restored. Its highly praised acoustic evidently outweighed its remoteness (more than eighty miles from London) for Teldec, who took the LSO there for sessions in 1989.

(731,831,1627)

KING’S COLLEGE Chapel, King’s Parade, CAMBRIDGE (1446-1515) was visited to record with the chapel choir in 1962. (518)
ELY CATHEDRAL, Cambridgeshire (12th century) was used for a video recording in 1973. (920)
ALL SAINTS Church, Pilgrim Street, NEWCASTLE (1796), converted to an auditorium in 1984, was the venue when the Chorus recorded with the Northern Sinfonia on two occasions in 1988-89. (C11,C13)
The Jack Martin Music School (1962), GEORGE WATSON’S COLLEGE, Colinton Road, EDINBURGH, was used for two opera recordings deriving from Edinburgh Festival productions in 1971 and 1977. (836,1093)
ST.DAVID’S HALL, Working Street, CARDIFF (1982) was visited for a recording with massed Welsh choirs reinforcing the LSC in 1987-88. (1485)
ALTE OPER, FRANKFURT (1880) was the venue for a video recording during a continental tour in 1993. (1815)
AULA ACADEMICA, SALZBURG (1631), the Great Hall of the University, was used for a commercial recording while the LSO was in Austria to perform at the 1977 festival. (1092)
PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES, MEXICO CITY (1900-30) played host to a commercial recording in between concert performances when the orchestra was on tour in 1976. (1068)

The remaining locations feature in live concert recordings:
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, Herefordshire (12th century) was visited in 1927 as one of the first festival excursions for the H.M.V. Mobile Recording Van.

(48)
LEEDS TOWN HALL, Victoria Square, Leeds, Yorkshire (1858) hosted the LSO’s concerts at the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival of 1928, to which H.M.V. sent its recording van. (59)

ORFORD CHURCH, near Aldeburgh, SUFFOLK (c1325) was the scene of a broadcast festival concert in 1961. (479)
COLSTON HALL, Colston Street, BRISTOL (1951) was the venue for a broadcast concert from the 1964 Bath Festival. (574)
The CATHEDRAL and Abbey Church of St.Alban, ST.ALBANS, Hertfordshire (1077-1115) witnessed the Chorus’s contribution to a festival concert in 1981.

(C03)
SYMPHONY HALL, Broad Street, BIRMINGHAM (1991) was the venue for the Chorus’s participation in a Mahler symphony in 2004. (C26)

BRIDGEWATER HALL, Lower Mosley Street, MANCHESTER (1996) was visited by the Chorus for a perfornance with the Hallé in 2009. (C27)
BRANGWYN HALL, The Guildhall, SWANSEA, Glamorgan (1934) was the venue for 1960 Swansea Festival concerts. (468)
USHER HALL, Lothian Road, EDINBURGH (1914) hosted six broadcast festival concerts from 1961 to 1982. (484,519,1093,1140,1290)
SALLE PLEYEL, Rue du Faubourg St.Honoré, PARIS (1927), a 2400 seat concert hall, was tried for an LSO Live recording in 2014. (2510)
THÉÂTRE DE L’ARCHEVÊCHÉ, AIX-EN-PROVENCE, a courtyard adapted as an open-air theatre for the Festival in 1948, saw video recordings of two opera performances in 2011. (2422,2423)
TONHALLE, ZURICH (1895), a 1450 seat concert hall, was visited for an LSO Live recording in 2011. (2414)
GROSSER KONZERTHAUSSAAL, VIENNA (1913) was the source of broadcast festival concerts in 1963 and 1969. (541,747)
GROSSES FESTSPIELHAUS, SALZBURG (1960) provided a platform for the LSO for five festival concerts in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1994.

(918,919,1023,1091,1862)

SCHAUSPIELHAUS, EAST BERLIN (1821) was the venue for a 1989 televised concert in which a contingent from the LSO participated. (1632)
GREAT HALL OF THE CONSERVATORY, MOSCOW (1898) was the scene of the Chorus’s 1983 concert with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra. (C05)
CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK (1891) was the source of pirated recordings from a series of concerts given in 1967. (666)
PRUDENTIAL HALL, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (1997) saw Gergiev’s farewell concert in 2015. (2552)
BUNKA KAIKAN, TOKYO (1961) was the venue for a televised concert in 1963. (535)
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