Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab is one of the most popular singers in his native Egypt and the Middle East

Monday 8 December 2008 saw the first ever track to be recorded by members of LMO in the orchestras’ own studio at Timbers in Weybridge, Surrey – thus fulfilling a personal dream of LMO Founder and Music Director, Andy Brown.

Read a blog post about this recording

Amy Nuttall is best known for her TV role as Chloe Atkinson in Emmerdale and is also known as the youngest actress ever to play the lead role in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in the West End.

In another new and exciting development in her career, she recorded 4 tracks with Arranger / Conductor Julian Kershaw and a 48 piece LMO at EMI studio 1. Julian wrote for a 30 piece string section, 6 woodwind, 8 brass, harp, piano and 2 percussion.

The session will formed part of an album for EMI Classics and it was engineered / produced by Jonathan Allen.

Athlete are signed to Parlophone with whom they released their first album “Vehicles and Animals” in 2003.  LMO strings and brass recorded 5 tracks for their ‘Tourist’ album. Adam Peters arranged and conducted the sessions which involved a 24-piece string section, horn and trombone, and seperately a string octet.  The sessions took place at Abbey Road Studio 1, with David Juritz leading.