François-Xavier Roth
Features, videos, recordings and concerts with our Principal Guest Conductor
François-Xavier Roth has been one of our Principal Guest Conductors since 2017. He first collaborated with the Orchestra when he won the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in 2000, and has conducted the LSO every year since.
Videos
News & Stories
François-Xavier Roth on the 2023/24 Season
‘As a conductor, I always want to have contact with new music. Reading and studying a new score is like musical fitness – it’s stimulating for my eyes, for my brain, and for my music-making, and it affects my reading of the older music.’
Recordings
Reviews
‘Roth was very much in his element, meanwhile, in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony … – an interpretation of great integrity and subtlety, swift without ever once seeming hectored, the overriding sense of wonder at the beauties of nature deeply felt yet understated, and attaining genuine sublimity.’ ★★★★ The Guardian, May 2023
‘Roth’s ear for orchestral colour suggested, in that well-worn cliché, a sensitive restoration of an old master painting.’ Seen and Heard International, Feb 2023
‘Under the energetic direction of François-Xavier Roth, it turned out to be a most generous and stimulating evening.’ ★★★★★ Bachtrack, Mar 2018
