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 21 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 ones for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance) for the Berlioz Requiem recording conducted by Robert Shaw. In the years since, ASO recordings have continued to be regularly honored with Grammy statues.

ASO recordings released in 2004 include a CD pairing the Concerto for Orchestra by Jennifer Higdon with her ASO-commissioned City Scape, and the Berlioz Requiem, both conducted by Robert Spano. The most recent recording, released in August 2005, is a CD of the Mozart Requiem in the edition by Robert Levin, with the ASO and Chamber Chorus conducted by Donald Runnicles. Like all recent ASO Telarc releases, these were issued in both regular CD format and the new Super Audio CD format.

ASO recordings are available for sale through the Symphony Store, phone 404-733-4345.

GRAMMY AWARDS
FOR RECORDINGS BY THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

1986

Berlioz: Requiem Robert Shaw conducting (Telarc CD-80109) Best Classical Album Best Choral Performance Best Vocal Solo Performance, Classical - John Aler, Tenor Best Engineered Recording, Classical - Jack Renner, Engineer

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

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

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-80365) Best Choral Performance

1999

Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard / Bartók: Cantata profana / Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem (Telarc CD-80479) Best Classical Album Best Choral Performance Best Engineered Classical Recording - Jack Renner, Engineer

2003

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Telarc CD-80588) Best Classical Album Best Choral Performance Best Engineered Classical Recording - Michael Bishop, Engineer

2005

Berlioz: Requiem (Robert Spano conducting; Telarc CD-80627) Best Choral Performance

Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra / City Scape (Telarc CD-80620) Best Engineered Classical Recording - Jack Renner, Engineer