Robert Shaw
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Biography
From his early beginnings as a glee club recruiter for the well known bandleader and TV presenter Fred Waring, Robert Shaw, then a postgraduate from Pomona College, rose through the ranks to become America's most respected and best known choral conductor.
In 1941 Shaw founded the Collegiate Chorale, a symphonic choir based in New York which still exists today. In the 1940s the choir was noted, and often criticised, for its liberal policy on racial integration. Upon hearing the choir perform Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' the Italian conductor and notorious musical perfectionist Arturo Toscanini remarked, "In Robert Shaw I have at last found the maestro I have been looking for".
Shaw went on to found the Robert Shaw Chorale which in its heyday, and depending on the piece being performed, could have as many as 60 voices. The choir made some memorable recordings for RCA Victor and their 1957 release 'Christmas Hymns and Carols' reached number five in Billboard's Pop Charts. The choir became an international attraction until it was finally disbanded in 1965. Shaw went on to become musical director of The San Diego Symphony and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and founded a chorus for the orchestra during his term at Atlanta. Shaw continued to be a key figure in American classical music right up until his death from a stroke in 1999 at the age of 82.
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano
Michael Gandolfi: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano
Jennifer Higdon: City Scape & Concerto for Orchestra
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Top Tracks
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- Orff: Carmina Burana: In Taberna Quando Sumus by Robert Shaw
- J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: I. Magnificat by Robert Shaw
- Haydn: The Creation, Hob. XXI:2: Awake the Harp by Robert Shaw
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by Robert Shaw
- J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: III. Sanctus by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Handel: Messiah, HWV 56: And Suddenly There Was with the Angel - Glory to God by Robert Shaw
- Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589: I. Gloria in excelsis by Robert Shaw
- Brahms: Nänie, Op. 82 by Robert Shaw
- Brahms: Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89 by Robert Shaw
- Brahms: Schicksalslied, Op. 54 by Robert Shaw
- What Is This Lovely Fragrance?
- Ave Maria
- A Hymn to the Virgin
- O Magnum Mysterium
- The Carol of the Birds
- Alleluia
- Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, H 81b: No. 1, Villenelle, H 82b featuring Elly Ameling
- Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80: I. Prélude by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243: Et misericordia featuring Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Thompson: Alleluia by Robert Shaw
- Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243: Quia fecit mihi magna featuring Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243: Omnes generationes featuring Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I Am Laid in Earth - With Drooping Wings featuring Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243: Quia respexit featuring Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
