 Among the original ensemble's most celebrated commercial classical recordings are the first recording made by Colin Davis, comprising Mozart's Symphonies 29 and 39 and issued by World Record Club (TZ 130) along with its 1963 recordings with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the "Serenade for Strings" of Edward Elgar and the "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" of Ralph Vaughan Williams for EMI Classics.Hans Swarowsky conducted the ensemble in a World Record Club LP (WRC T 11) of Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Egmont Overture.The original orchestra ceased to perform during the 1960s.