The OCL is subsidized by the city of Lausanne and the canton of Vaud and is a member of the Swiss Association of Professional Orchestras.
The majority of its concerts are recorded by the Lausanne-based radio station Espace 2.
Subsequent artistic directors have been Armin Jordan (1973–1985), Lawrence Foster (1985–1990), Jesús López Cobos (1990–2000), Christian Zacharias (2000–2013), and Joshua Weilerstein (2015–2021).
For Outhere Music, the orchestra has released recordings of Louis Spohr’s complete Clarinet Concertos, performed and led by Paul Meyer, in 2012, as well as a recording of music of Arnold Schoenberg with Heinz Holliger released in the autumn of 2013.
For Deutsche Grammophon, Renaud Capuçon has recorded the complete violin concertos of Mozart with the OCL.