I. Antonín Dvořák - Sixth Symphony Op. 60 in D major

II. Antonín Dvořák - 7th Symphony Op. 70 in D minor

III. Antonín Dvořák - 8th Symphony Op. 88 in G major

IV. Leoš Janáček - Sinfonietta Op. 60 (conductor Simon Rattle); Bedřich Smetana - Symphonic Poem "Vyšehrad" (conductor Colin Davis)

V. Bedřich Smetana - The symphonic poems "Vltava", "From the Forests and Fields of Bohemia" and "Blaník"

In the 1990s, record corporations began to change their strategies to reduce the time orchestras spent in recording studios. Thus, the management of the London Symphony Orchestra made the decision to set up its own record label, allowing the ensemble to take artistic and technical control of its recordings to leave to posterity concert performances of extraordinary quality. The LSO Live company was founded in 1999, with James Mallinson as producer, who had a good working relationship with the London Orchestra's then Principal Conductor Sir Colin Davis. The sound engineer was Tony Faulkner, who contributed to the quality of the recordings, preserving, with the updating of technologies, the sonic freshness, character, dynamics and varied color palette of the London Symphony Orchestra.

As part of the "Disc of 2024" projectorganized by Radio România Muzical, I propose an anniversary album featuring Czech Romantic music - a collection of 4 CDs released on August 30, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the LSO Live label of the London Symphony Orchestra, one of the most important orchestral ensembles in the world, which celebrated its 120th anniversary. This album also marks the Year of Czech Music - 120 years since the death of Antonin Dvořák, 170 years since the birth of Leoš Janáček and two centuries since the birth of Bedřich Smetana.

Included in the set are Dvořák's Symphonies Nos. 6-9, Janáček's Sinfonietta (conducted by Simon Rattle) and Bedřich Smetana's renowned symphonic poem cycle "My Homeland", concert recordings made by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall between 1999 and 2018.

Most of these recordings were conducted by the distinguished British musician Sir Colin Davis, the orchestra's principal conductor since 1995 and then its president until his death in 2013. Throughout his prodigious tenure at the helm of the London Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis brought a special brilliance, breadth, positive energy on the concert stage and a good connection with the audience to the instrumental ensemble, qualities that can be admired on this exceptional album, printed under state-of-the-art technical conditions.