Year Title Composer 1944 Carmen Jones Georges Bizet / Oscar Hammerstein II orch. Robert Russell Bennett 1945 Boris Godunov Modest (excerpts) Mussorgsky
Conductor Performing Org. Joseph Littau Original Broadway cast & orchestra Choral preparation by Shaw
1945 Leonard Various Warren: Operatic Arias and Sea Shanties 1945 On the Town Leonard (excerpts) Bernstein
Frieder Weissmann & Morris Levine
1 or more Leonard Warren selections with (baritone) orchestra & chorus prepared by Shaw
Leonard Bernstein
RCA-VO, RCA-VC Choral preparation by Shaw
1945 Six Chansons Paul Hindemith
Robert Shaw RCA-VC
Nicolai Berezowsky
Soloists Muriel Smith (soprano), Luther Saxon, Carlotta Franzell, Jessica Russell RCA-VO, RCA-VC Alexander Kipnis Choral preparation (bass); Ilya by Shaw Tamarin (tenor)
1945 In Which a Author: A. A. House Is Built Milne at Pooh Corner
Various
Robert Shaw RCA-VO
1. Georges Bizet 2. Giuseppe Verdi
1. Fritz Reiner 2. Renato Cellini
Georges Bizet
Erich Leinsdorff
1946 Liebeslieder Waltzes
Johannes Brahms
1945 Christmas Varioius -194 Hymns & 6 Carols [Vol. 1] 1946 Marian Anderson recital album 1946 "Set Down Servant" and "Soon Ah Will Be Done " 1946 Magnificat 1946 Motet, "Jesu, meine Freude," and Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" 1946 Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" 1946 Airborne Symphony
78 rpm: RCA Victor M/DM-995 (4 record set)
Robert Shaw (reader)
1945 Beloved Hymns 1946 A Treasury of Grand Opera 2 selections: 1. Carmen: Toreador Song 2. Il trovatore: Di quella pira 1946 Carmen (excerpts?)
1-2. RCA-VO, RCA-VC Choral preparation by Shaw
Record Numbers Miscellaneous Info 78 rpm: Decca "Billy Rose's DA-366, production" DA-29133-29138 33⅓ rpm: Decca Dl-79021 (1955) 78 rpm: RCA Victor DM-1000 33⅓ rpm: RCA VM-1000, RCA Bluebird LBC-1082 (1955), RCA Camden 415 (1958), RCA Victrola VIC-1396 (1969) CD: RCA 60522 (1991) 78 & 33⅓ rpm: RCA Victor LM-1168
1. Robert Merrill (baritone) 2. Jussi Bjoerling (tenor)
78 rpm: RCA Victor 11-8868 78 rpm: Y-13 and VY13
According to Mussulman's Shaw biography, this record won an (unnamed) award for best children's record.
RCA Victor Red Seal ERA 56 RCA LM-1074, LM-1847
RCA-VO, RCA-VC Gladys Swarthout RCA LM-1007, M/ Choral preparation (mezzo); Licia DM-1078 by Shaw Albanese (soprano); Ramon Vinay (tenor); Robert Merrill (baritone) Robert Shaw RCA-VC Pierre RCA M/DM-1076 Luboschutz & Genia Nemenoff (pianos) Robert Shaw RCA-VC
J.S. Bach. G.F. Robert Shaw Handel, Various
Re-recorded in 1965 with the Robert Shaw Chorale & in 1992 with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers RCA Victor Red Seal, Re-recorded in 1954 LM-1112 and by the Robert Shaw MO-1077 (4 record Chorale: RCA LM/ set) LSC-2139 Marian Anderson RCA M/DM-1087 (contralto)
Spirituals, arr. Shaw
Robert Shaw RSC
45 rpm: RCA Victor 10-1277
J. S. Bach J. S. Bach
Robert Shaw RCA-VC, RCA-VO Robert Shaw RCA-VC, RCA-VO
RCA M/DM-1182 RCA LM-9035 and LM-25
J. S. Bach
Robert Shaw RSC, RCA-VO
RCA Victor LM-1100
Marc Blitzstein
Leonard Bernstein
RCA Victor M/ DM-1117
New York City Robert Shaw Symphony (narrator) Orchestra RCA-VC (prepared by RS)
Issued in 1949 with Cantata No. 131