[citation needed] The name London Chamber Orchestra was first used in 1921 by the English conductor, organist, pianist and composer Anthony Bernard in December 1921.

[9] The brothers' time running the orchestra came to a close after racking up large debts, and the company was dissolved with musicians' fees unpaid.

[13] In February 2024, The Observer reported that the LCO had failed to pay their players over a five-month period after musicians walked out of a concert at London's Cadogan Hall.

[15] The LCO has given more than 100 UK premieres, including works by Malcolm Arnold, Manuel de Falla, Gabriel Fauré, Leoš Janáček, Maurice Ravel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, and, most recently, Graham Fitkin and James Francis Brown.

In 2006 the LCO premiered Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's The Golden Rule, written to mark Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday.