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Proud
of its pioneering role in bringing digitally recorded music
before the public, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has produced
a discography of more than 60 releases, many in collaboration
with the world-famous ASO Choruses. ASO recordings have won
admiring critical notices as well as awards from a number
of audio and record-review publications in both the USA and
Britain, along with a total of 18 Grammy awards from the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). The ASO records
for Telarc, with additional releases available on the Argo,
New World, Nonesuch, Philips, Pro Arte, Sony Classical, and
Vox labels.
In 1979,
the Telarc Records LP issue of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite
and excerpts from Borodin's Prince Igor, with the ASO and
Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw, was the first commercial
recording in America using the then-new digital process. Within
weeks it was a national bestseller, receiving a Grammy nomination
and an Audio Excellence Award. Since than, digital techniques
have changed the face of the recording industry.
ASO recordings
won an impressive five Grammy awards in 1986, four of them
in various categories (including the one for Best Classical
Album) for the Berlioz Requiem recording conducted by Robert
Shaw. In addition, Telarc's Robert E. Woods was honored as
Classical Producer of the Year for his work on that album
and others. Another ASO CD that won four Grammy awards was
the Verdi Requiem, also conducted by Mr. Shaw, which was honored
in 1989. In all, ASO recordings have been honored with a total
of 18 Grammy statues.
Telarc
issued the first recording of the ASO under its new Music
Director, Robert Spano, in the summer of 2001. The CD pairing
Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral favorites Sheherazade and Russian
Easter Overture has drawn enthusiastic reviews from many web
and print publications.
New ASO
recording releases during the 2001-02 season include "Great
Choral Classics," an anthology of movements from previous
recordings by Robert Shaw with the ASO and Choruses, and the
first ASO/Telarc recording by new Principal Guest Conductor
Donald Runnicles, Carl Orff's Carmina burana.
ASO recordings
are available for sale through the Woodruff Arts Center Gift
Shop.
GRAMMY AWARDS
FOR RECORDINGS BY THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
1986,
Berlioz: Requiem (Telarc CD-80109)
Best Classical Album
Best Choral Performance
Best Vocal Solo Performance, Classical - John Aler, Tenor
Best Engineered Recording, Classical - Jack Renner, Engineer
1986,
Fauré: Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande
(Telarc CD-80084)
Best Orchestral Performance
1988,
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (Telarc
CD-80132)
Best Choral Performance
1988,
Fauré: Requiem / Duruflé: Requiem (Telarc CD-80135)
Best Engineered Recording, Classical - Jack Renner, Engineer
1989,
Verdi: Requiem / Opera Choruses (Telarc CD-80152)
Best Classical Album
Best Choral Performance
Best Engineered Recording, Classical - Jack Renner, Engineer
1989,
Rorem: String Symphony / Sunday Morning / Eagles (New World
NW-353)
Best Orchestral Performance (Robert Shaw and Louis Lane, conductors)
1990,
Britten: War Requiem (Telarc CD-80157)
Best Choral Performance
Best Engineered Recording, Classical - Jack Renner, Engineer
1991,
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
/ Bernstein: Missa brevis (Telarc CD-80181)
Best Choral Performance
1998,
Adams: Harmonium / Rachmaninov: The Bells (Telarc CD-80479)
Best Choral Performance
1999,
Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard / Bartók: Cantata profana
/ Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem (Telarc CD-80479)
Best Classical Recording
Best Choral Performance
Best Engineered Classical Recording - Jack Renner, Engineer
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