Robert Shaw Discography

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Year 1944

Title Carmen Jones

1945

Boris Godunov (excerpts)

1945

Leonard Warren: Various Operatic Arias and Sea Shanties

1945

On the Town (excerpts)

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein

1945

Six Chansons

Paul Hindemith

1945

In Which a House Author: A. A. Milne Is Built at Pooh Corner

1945

Beloved Hymns

1946

A Treasury of 1. Georges Bizet Grand Opera 2. Giuseppe Verdi 2 selections: 1. Carmen: Toreador Song 2. Il trovatore: Di quella pira Carmen Georges Bizet (excerpts?)

1946

1946

Liebeslieder Waltzes

Composer Georges Bizet / Oscar Hammerstein II orch. Robert Russell Bennett Modest Mussorgsky

Various

Conductor Joseph Littau

Nicolai Berezowsky

Frieder Weissmann & Morris Levine

Robert Shaw

Performing Org. Original Broadway cast & orchestra Choral preparation by Shaw

Soloists Muriel Smith (soprano), Luther Saxon, Carlotta Franzell, Jessica Russell RCA-VO, RCA-VC Alexander Kipnis Choral preparation by (bass); Ilya Tamarin Shaw (tenor)

1 or more selections Leonard Warren with orchestra & (baritone) chorus prepared by Shaw RCA-VO, RCA-VC Choral preparation by Shaw RCA-VC Robert Shaw (reader)

Robert Shaw

RCA-VO

1. Fritz Reiner 2. Renato Cellini

1-2. RCA-VO, RCAVC Choral preparation by Shaw

Johannes Brahms Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw

1946

Robert Shaw

RCA-VC

1947

Mass in B Minor

J. S. Bach

Robert Shaw

1947

Petites voix

Francis Poulenc

Robert Shaw

RCA-VC Women

1947

Symphony No. 9 Ludwig van Beethoven

Serge Koussevitzky

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Berkshire Music Festival Chorus (prepared by Shaw)

1946 1946

78 rpm: RCA Victor DM1000 33⅓ rpm: RCA VM-1000, RCA Bluebird LBC-1082 (1955), RCA Camden 415 (1958), RCA Victrola VIC1396 (1969) CD: RCA 60522 (1991) 78 & 33⅓ rpm: RCA Victor LM-1168 78 rpm: RCA Victor M/DM995 (4 record set) 78 rpm: RCA Victor 118868 78 rpm: Y-13 and V-Y13

RCA Victor Red Seal ERA 56 RCA LM-1074, LM-1847

According to Mussulman's Shaw biography, this record won an (unnamed) award for best children's record.

Pierre Luboschutz & RCA M/DM-1076 Genia Nemenoff (pianos)

RCA-VC

Marian Anderson - J.S. Bach. G.F. recital album Handel, Various "Set Down Spirituals, arr. Servant" and Shaw "Soon Ah Will Be Done " Magnificat J. S. Bach Motet, "Jesu, J. S. Bach meine Freude," and Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" Cantata No. 140, J. S. Bach "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Airborne Marc Blitzstein Symphony

1946 1946

Miscellaneous Info "Billy Rose's production"

Erich Leinsdorff RCA-VO, RCA-VC Gladys Swarthout RCA LM-1007, M/DMChoral preparation by (mezzo); Licia 1078 Shaw Albanese (soprano); Ramon Vinay (tenor); Robert Merrill (baritone)

1945- Christmas Hymns Varioius 1946 & Carols [Vol. 1]

1946

1. Robert Merrill (baritone) 2. Jussi Bjoerling (tenor)

Record Numbers 78 rpm: Decca DA-366, DA-29133-29138 33⅓ rpm: Decca Dl79021 (1955)

Marian Anderson (contralto)

Re-recorded in 1965 with the Robert Shaw Chorale & in 1992 with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers RCA Victor Red Seal, LM- Re-recorded in 1954 by 1112 and MO-1077 (4 the Robert Shaw record set) Chorale: RCA LM/LSC2139 RCA M/DM-1087

Robert Shaw

RSC

Robert Shaw Robert Shaw

RCA-VC, RCA-VO RCA-VC, RCA-VO

RCA M/DM-1182 RCA LM-9035 and LM-25

Robert Shaw

RSC, RCA-VO

RCA Victor LM-1100

Leonard Bernstein

New York City Symphony Orchestra RCA-VC (prepared by RS) RCA-VO, RCA-VC Choral preparation by Shaw

Robert Shaw (narrator)

45 rpm: RCA Victor 101277

RCA Victor M/DM-1117

Anne McKnight & 78 rpm: RCA Victor June Gardner DM/WDM-1145 & 1146 (sopranos); Lydia Summers (mezzo); Lucius Metz (tenor); Paul Matthen (bassbaritone) 78 rpm: RCA Victor 101409 LM/DM-1190, LM-6001

Issued in 1949 with Cantata No. 131


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