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Robert Shaw
zth, 1916-1999 US, Red Bluff, California
Conductor of Classical
A.k.a. Robert Lawson Shaw
Robert Shaw (April 30, 1916 – January 25, 1999) was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor, the Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for Service to American Music; the George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America, the Gold Baton Award of the American Symphony Orchestra League for "distinguished service to music and the arts," the American National Medal of Arts, France's Officier des Arts et des Lettres, England's Gramophone Award, and was a 1991 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
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Concerto For 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065: III. Allegro on Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concertos III by Cologne Chamber Orchestra Concerto For 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065: II. Adagio on Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concertos III by Cologne Chamber Orchestra Concerto For 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065: I. Allegro on Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concertos III by Cologne Chamber Orchestra Blow the Man Down on Sea Shanties by Traditional & Robert Shaw Nabucco: Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) on Verdi Greatest Hits by Various Artists Agnus Dei (Based on "Adagio for Strings") on Evocation of the Spirit by Robert Shaw & Robert Shaw Festival Singers Praetorius: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Ed. R. Shaw & A. Parker - Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming on A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels On High by Robert Shaw & Robert Shaw Chamber Singers The Battle Cry of Freedom (The North - 1991 Remastered on Battle Cry Of Freedom by Robert Shaw Carmina Burana, Introduction: No. 1, O Fortuna on Orff: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Robert Shaw & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Ave Maria on Classical Music 101 by Various ArtistsTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copland: Fanfare / Rodeo; Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis | Louis Lane, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | 2004 | Album |
| Gloria / Concerto For Organ / Symphony Of Psalms | Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 2004 | Compil. |
| Elegy | Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw Festival Singers | 2002 | Compil. |
| O Magnum Mysterium | Robert Shaw - Robert Shaw Festival Singers / Robert Shaw Chamber Singers | 2000 | Compil. |
| The Firebird / Music From Prince Igor | Igor Stravinsky / Alexander Borodin, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | 2000 | Album |
| Stabat Mater | Antonín Dvořák, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | 1999 | Album |
| Gloria! - Music Of Praise And Inspiriation | Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, Robert Shaw Festival Singers | 1998 | Compil. |
| Barber: Prayers Of Kierkegaard, Bartók: Cantata Profana, Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem | Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1998 | Album |
| Motet No. 3: Jesus, Dearest Master = Jesu, Meine Freude | Johann Sebastian Bach - Robert Shaw Conducting RCA Victor Chorale And Orchestra | 1997 | Album |
| A Robert Shaw Christmas • Angels On High | Robert Shaw / Robert Shaw Chamber Singers | 1997 | Album |
| Appear & Inspire | Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Festival Singers | 1996 | Album |
| Ein Deutsches Requiem | Johannes Brahms, Robert Shaw | 1996 | Album |
| Harmonium / The Bells | John Adams, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Renée Fleming, Karl Dent, Victor Ledbetter - Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1996 | Album |
| Evocation Of The Spirit | Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber, Frank Martin, Arnold Schoenberg - Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Festival Singers | 1995 | Album |
| Elijah | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Barbara Bonney, Florence Quivar, Jerry Hadley, Thomas Hampson | 1995 | Album |
| Songs For Male Chorus | Franz Schubert, Robert Shaw Conducting The RCA Victor Chorale Of Men's Voices | 1994 | Single |
| Stabat Mater | Karol Szymanowski, Francis Poulenc, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1994 | Album |
| Songs Of Angels (Christmas Hymns & Carols) | Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, Robert Shaw | 1994 | Album |
| Grand & Glorious: Great Operatic Choruses | Robert Shaw / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | 1994 | Album |
| Amazing Grace (American Hymns And Spirituals) | Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw | 1993 | Album |
| Itaipu / The Canyon | Philip Glass - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Robert Shaw | 1993 | Album |
| The Creation (sung in English) | Robert Shaw | 1992 | Album |
| Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri (Four Sacred Pieces); Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms | Giuseppe Verdi, Igor Stravinsky, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Robert Shaw | 1991 | Album |
| The Best Of Wagner | Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1991 | Compil. |
| VIII (Symphony Of A Thousand) | Gustav Mahler - Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1991 | Album |
| Encores À La Française • Organ Concerto | Michael Murray / Robert Shaw / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | 1990 | Album |
| Mass In B Minor (Complete) | Johann Sebastian Bach | 1990 | Album |
| Mass In B Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Delores Ziegler, Marietta Simpson, John Aler, William Stone, Thomas Paul | 1990 | Album |
| Mass In G Major / Motets For Christmas And Lent | Francis Poulenc - Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw | 1990 | Album |
| Mass No.2/Mass No.6 | Franz Schubert, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus | 1990 | Album |
| Vespers (All-Night Vigil) | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Robert Shaw Festival Singers / Robert Shaw | 1990 | Album |
| Mass In C / Elegiac Song / Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage | Ludwig van Beethoven : Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1990 | Album |
| Belshazzar's Feast; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis | Sir William Walton, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | 1989 | Album |
| Highlights From Verdi's Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi / Erna Berger · Nan Merriman · Jan Peerce · Leonard Warren · Italo Tajo · Renato Cellini · The Robert Shaw Chorale · Robert Shaw | 1989 | Album |
| War Requiem, Op. 66 | Benjamin Britten, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Lorna Haywood, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Benjamin Luxon, The Atlanta Boy Choir | 1989 | Album |
| Bach Arias And Great Songs Of Faith: Handel, Mendelssohn, Bach | Marian Anderson Orchestra Conducted By Robert Shaw | 1989 | Compil. |
| Gloria / Magnificat | Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Dawn Upshaw, Penelope Jensen, Marietta Simpson, David Gordon, William Stone | 1989 | Album |
| String Symphony / Sunday Morning / Eagles | Ned Rorem - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Louis Lane | 1988 | Album |
| Alto Rhapsody • Nänie • Gesang Der Parzen • Schicksalslied | Johannes Brahms - Marilyn Horne, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1988 | Album |
| Missa Solemnis In D Major, Op.123 / Mass In C Minor K.427 "The Great" | Ludwig van Beethoven / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Robert Shaw | 1988 | Album |
| Requiem, Op. 48 / Requiem, Op. 9 | Gabriel Fauré • Maurice Duruflé • Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus • Judith Blegen, James Morris | 1987 | Album |
| Mass In B Minor, BWV 232 | Johann Sebastian Bach - Soloists, The Robert Shaw Chorale And Chamber Orchestra, Directed by Robert Shaw | 1987 | Album |
| Requiem & Operatic Choruses | Giuseppe Verdi - Susan Dunn, Diane Curry, Jerry Hadley, Paul Plishka, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1987 | Album |
| When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd | Paul Hindemith - Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, William Stone, Jan DeGaetani | 1987 | Album |
| The Passion According To St. John | Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Shaw, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Collegiate Chorale | 1986 | Album |
| Requiem, K. 626 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Arleen Auger, Delores Ziegler, Jerry Hadley, Tom Krause | 1986 | Album |
| Symphony No. 9 | Robert Shaw, Ludwig van Beethoven, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | 1985 | Album |
| Symphony Of Psalms / Gloria | Igor Stravinsky / Francis Poulenc - Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Sylvia McNair | 1985 | Album |
| Requiem (Grand Messe Des Morts) | Hector Berlioz, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, John Aler | 1985 | Album |
| Choral Masterpieces | Robert Shaw | 1985 | Album |
| Ein Deutsches Requiem | Johannes Brahms - Arleen Auger, Richard Stilwell, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1984 | Album |
| Messiah - Favorite Choruses & Arias | Georg Friedrich Händel, Robert Shaw / Kaaren Erickson / Sylvia McNair / Alfreda Hodgson / Jon Humphrey / Richard Stilwell / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus | 1984 | Album |
| Messiah (The Complete Oratorio) | Georg Friedrich Händel - Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus | 1984 | Album |
| The Many Moods Of Christmas | Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1983 | Album |
| Gloria and Concerto in G Minor | Francis Poulenc, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Michael Murray | 1982 | Album |
| West Side Story / Romeo And Juliet | Leonard Bernstein, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | 1981 | Album |
| Carmina Burana | Carl Orff, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus, The Atlanta Boy Choir, Judith Blegen, Håkan Hagegård, William Brown | 1981 | Album |
| Prologue To Mefistofele / Te Deum | Arrigo Boito, Giuseppe Verdi, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus, John Cheek, The Young Singers Of Callanwolde, The Morehouse-Spelman Chorus | 1980 | Album |
| Symphony No. 9 | Ludwig van Beethoven, George Szell, The Cleveland Orchestra, Adele Addison, Jane Hobson, Richard Lewis, Donald Bell, Robert Shaw | 1978 | Album |
| The Firebird (Suite, 1919 Version) / Overture And Polovetsian Dances From Prince Igor | Igor Stravinsky / Alexander Borodin – Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1978 | Album |
| The Nutcracker (Suite), Romeo And Juliet | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw | 1977 | Album |
| Christmas With Robert Shaw | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw | 1976 | Album |
| Nativity: A Christmas Concert with Robert Shaw | Robert Shaw | 1976 | Album |
| Adeste Fideles | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Robert Shaw | 1976 | Album |
| Christmas With Robert Shaw And The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Chorus | Robert Shaw | 1976 | Album |
| The Westminster Commencement 1975 | Westminster Choir College, Joseph Flummerfelt, Robert Shaw, Joan Lippincott | 1975 | Album |
| The Great Choruses From Handel's Messiah | Robert Shaw | 1972 | Album |
| The American Family Album Of Favorite Christmas Music | Arthur Fiedler / The Boston Pops Orchestra, Robert Shaw / The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1970 | Compil. |
| Irish Folk Songs | Robert Shaw - The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1968 | Album |
| Gloria / Kyrie | Antonio Vivaldi, The Robert Shaw Chorale And The Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw | 1966 | Album |
| Operni Zborovi | Giuseppe Verdi - The Robert Shaw Chorale Uz Pratnju RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | 1966 | Single |
| Gloria / Kyrie | Antonio Vivaldi, The Robert Shaw Chorale And The Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw | 1966 | Album |
| Symphony Of Psalms / Gloria | Igor Stravinsky / Francis Poulenc - Saramae Endich, The Robert Shaw Chorale and RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw | 1965 | Album |
| The Cleveland Composers' Guild Presents Vol. 1 | Robert Shaw | 1964 | Album |
| This Is My Country, Robert Shaw Chorale And RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | Robert Shaw | 1964 | Album |
| Yours Is My Heart Alone / All-Time Favorites | The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1963 | Compil. |
| Hallelujah! And Other Great Choruses | Robert Shaw | 1962 | Album |
| Bach B Minor Mass | Johann Sebastian Bach, The Robert Shaw Chorale & The Robert Shaw Orchestra, Saramae Endich, Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Mallory Walker, Ara Berberian, Robert Shaw | 1961 | Album |
| Bach Cantatas No. 56 / No. 82 | Johann Sebastian Bach - Mack Harrell | 1960 | Album |
| Carmen (Abridged) | Georges Bizet, Fritz Reiner | 1959 | Album |
| Christmas Hymns And Carols Volume 1 | Robert Shaw, The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1957 | Album |
| Verdi: Aida | Giuseppe Verdi, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Robert Shaw, Herva Nelli, Eva Gustavson, Richard Tucker, Giuseppe Valdengo, Norman Scott, Dennis Harbour, Virginio Assandri, Teresa Stich-Randall | 1956 | Album |
| Verdi IL TROVATORE (Highlights) | Giuseppe Verdi, Zinka Milanov, Fedora Barbieri, Jussi Björling, Leonard Warren, Margaret Roggero, Paul Franke, Nicola Moscona, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw | 1955 | Album |
| Christmas Greetings From Robert Shaw And .......... (Good King Wenceslas And Other Christmas Selections) | Robert Shaw | 1954 | Single |
| I Pagliacci / Cavalleria Rusticana | Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Jussi Björling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Robert Merrill, Zinka Milanov, Leonard Warren, Robert Shaw, Renato Cellini | 1953 | Album |
| I Pagliacci / Cavalleria Rusticana | Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Jussi Björling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Robert Merrill, Zinka Milanov, Leonard Warren, Robert Shaw, Renato Cellini | 1953 | Single |
| Robert Shaw Conducts Christmas Hymns And Carols Volume II | Robert Shaw, The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1952 | Album |
| Beloved Hymns | The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw | 1952 | Single |
| Il Trovatore (Der Troubadour) | Giuseppe Verdi, Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, Fedora Barbieri, Leonard Warren, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw | 1952 | Album |
| Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 • Mahler - Kindertotenlieder | Marian Anderson / Fritz Reiner | 1951 | Compil. |
| Porgy And Bess | George Gershwin / Risë Stevens Mezzo-Soprano Robert Merrill Baritone Robert Shaw Conductor The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Conductor RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 • Mahler - Kindertotenlieder | Marian Anderson / Fritz Reiner | 1951 | Compil. |
| Bach Cantata No. 4 (Christ Lay In The Bonds Of Death) | RCA Victor Chorale And Orchestra, Robert Shaw | 1950 | Album |
| Mass In G Major / A Ceremony of Carols | Francis Poulenc / Benjamin Britten - Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw | 1950 | Album |
| In Which A House Is Built At Pooh Corner For Eeyore.... | Robert Shaw | 1946 | Album |
| Works By Stephen Paulus | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi, Robert Shaw, Stephen Paulus, William Preucil | Album | |
| Verdi: Te Deum / Boito: Mefistofele: Prologue | Nicola Moscona, Robert Shaw, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini | Album | |
| On The Town: Lonely Town / Ballet Music | Leonard Bernstein | Album | |
| Ein Deutsches Requiem / Te Deum | Johannes Brahms, Giuseppe Verdi, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Arleen Auger, Richard Stilwell | Album | |
| Liebeslieder Waltzes / Evening Songs | Johannes Brahms, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw | Album | |
| Onward, Christian Soldiers / Holy, Holy, Holy | Robert Shaw Conducting RCA Victor Chorale | Album | |
| Great Sacred Choruses | The Robert Shaw Chorale Conducted By Robert Shaw, Hugh E. Porter | Single | |
| Glagolitic Mass / Te Deum | Leoš Janáček / Antonín Dvořák / Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | Album | |
| Verdi: Te Deum / Boito: Mefistofele: Prologue | Nicola Moscona, Robert Shaw, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini | Album | |
| Coro Di Zingari Il Trovatore, Act II / La Pensiero Sull Ali Dorate "Nabucco" Act III | Robert Shaw, The Westminister Symphony Orchestra | Single | |
| Christmas with Robert Shaw And The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Chorus | Robert Shaw | Album | |
| Bizet - Carmen (Highlights) | Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce, Licia Albanese, Robert Merrill, Fritz Reiner, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw | Album | |
| Highlights from Die Fledermaus "The Bat" | Johann Strauss Jr., Fritz Reiner | Single | |
| The Toscanini Treasury Of Great Music Vol. 10 | Arturo Toscanini, Giuseppe Verdi, Luigi Cherubini, NBC Symphony Orchestra, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw | Album | |
| Cantatas 131 and 140 | Johann Sebastian Bach : Robert Shaw, The Robert Shaw Chorale | Album | |
| Cavalleria Rusticana / I Pagliacci | Jussi Björling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Zinka Milanov, Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, Robert Shaw, Renato Cellini | Album | |
| Fledermaus: Highlights | Johann Strauss Jr., Fritz Reiner | Album | |
| Coro Di Zingari Il Trovatore, Act II / La Pensiero Sull Ali Dorate "Nabucco" Act III | Robert Shaw, The Westminister Symphony Orchestra | Single | |
| The Bells Of St. Mary's / The Lord's Prayer | RCA Victor Chorale And Orchestra, Robert Shaw | Single | |
| On The Town: Opening Scene / Ballet Music | Leonard Bernstein | Album | |
| Alleluia | Tomaso Albinoni, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach / Robert Shaw Et Jörg Faerber | Album | |
| Christmas Hymns - Part 1 & 2 | RCA Victor Chorale, Robert Shaw | Album |
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