With the LSO, he recorded Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Night on the Bare Mountain", Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 and "Lieutenant Kijé Suite", and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9. With the Philharmonia, he recorded, among other things, Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" and "Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3", and Dvořák's "Symphonic Variations". With the BBC, he also recorded Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, Handel's "Water Music", which he also recorded with the RPO, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" incidental music, Humperdinck's overture to "Hänsel und Gretel", and one of Britten's best known works, "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" (1946, RLPO; 1958, BBC). He also conducted Britten's "Simple Symphony" with the RPO. Sargent narrated and conducted "Instruments of the Orchestra", an educational film produced by the British government.