This recording was made by Columbia Masterworks Records.

In 2006, Sony BMG merged its Broadway music labels, including RCA Victor to the new Masterworks Broadway Records.

All of these recordings are now under Masterworks Broadway Records, which has remastered and reissued many of these albums.

* RCA Red Seal Records: The prestigious RCA Red Seal classical music label is now part of Sony Masterworks.

DGG / Polydor's entrance into the US market in 1969 ( DGG had distribution deals in the US with Decca Records and MGM Records beforehand ) came at a time when the big US classical labels — Columbia ( Masterworks ) and RCA ( Red Seal and Victor ) were dropping their unlucrative classical artists and making poor-quality pressings.

The quartet began recording with Sony Classical ( formerly Columbia Records and CBS Masterworks ) in 1949, and the group's discography currently numbers over 100 items, including repertoire well-traveled and unfamiliar.

This 1986 CBS Masterworks Records release was nominated for a Grammy award.

Schuller is editor-in-chief of Jazz Masterworks Editions, and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Washington, D. C. Another recent effort of preservation was his editing and posthumous premiering at Lincoln Center in 1989 of Charles Mingus ' immense final work, Epitaph, subsequently released on Columbia / Sony Records.

He also made some recordings for Columbia Records which were issued on 78-rpm discs and on LP ( Columbia 4-disc 78-rpm set M 414, reissued 1949 on Columbia 10-inch LP, Columbia ML 2080 and Mexican Columbia DCL 98, reissued on Columbia 12-inch LP, LL 1015 ; CBS Masterworks 3-LP set 32 31 0001 ( mono )/ 32 31 002 ( stereo ); CBC Masterworks LP 32 11 0064 ; Columbia LP M32685 ; Odyssey LP Y 31534 ).

Winters and Williams later went on to sing the title roles in the most complete recording made up to that time of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, for Columbia Masterworks Records in 1951.

Beginning in 1960, Shepard worked for fourteen years for Columbia Records, eventually becoming co-director of CBS Masterworks.

CTI's post-A & M Records output is now owned by Sony Music Entertainment and distributed by Masterworks Jazz, while Grover Washington, Jr .' s Kudu albums have been re-issued on Motown and its MoJazz imprint.

Columbia Records made a recording in 1959 of the Jones Beach production ( which opened in June 1958 ), which was released on CD by Masterworks Broadway.

Columbia Masterworks Records recorded the original Broadway cast in late 1953 ; the recording was later reissued on CD by Masterworks Broadway Records.

And he was heard singing Ol ' Man River in three different record albums of the show – the 1951 motion picture soundtrack album on MGM Records, a 1962 studio album featuring Barbara Cook and John Raitt on Columbia Masterworks, and the RCA Victor album made from the Lincoln Center production.

Sony Classical Records was started in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of the American Columbia Records.

Columbia Records used the Masterworks brand name not only for classical and Broadway records, but also for spoken-word albums such as Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly's successful I Can Hear It Now series.

The production was a critical success, and was subsequently recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks, one of the first complete recordings of a non-musical stage production ever made.

The Forever War is the first title in the SF Masterworks series.

Two " complete " recordings of the opera have been made: the first in 1978, released on the Tomato label ( TOM-4-2901 ) in 1979, and later on CBS Masterworks followed by Sony Classical ; the second in 1993, released that same year on the Nonesuch label.

The first wildly-successful spoken word album was a 1948 Masterworks entry, the first I Can Hear It Now album, edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly and supervised by former CBS staffer J. G.

Columbia Masterworks was also the first recording company to release an album of an entire stage production-the record-breaking 1943 Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Paul Robeson, José Ferrer, and Uta Hagen.

In 1946, Columbia Masterworks released the first album of Show Boat featuring the cast of an actual production of the show, not just one or two singers from it as had been done before.

* Porgy and Bess ( Columbia Masterworks 1951 ), the first recording of the full opera ( after the customary cuts ), with Lawrence Winters as Porgy and Camilla Williams as Bess.

The first printing of Masterworks books from Marvel started in 1987 ( 3 or 4 per year ) and continued until 1994 ( 27 volumes ), most with a suggested retail price of US $ 39. 95 ( Hulk $ 34. 95 ).

The 2012 release Masterworks is an all classical music compilation featuring music by Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Rossini and Part.

Many years later, in 1962, Columbia Masterworks would release a 4-LP album of the complete Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, starring its original Broadway cast: Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard, and Melinda Dillon.

And in 1964, Columbia Masterworks would release a complete album of the 1964 Broadway revival of Hamlet, starring Richard Burton and directed by John Gielgud-the longest-running Hamlet in Broadway history to date.

The most successful film soundtrack release on Columbia Masterworks was The Graduate in 1967, featuring the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, then the best-selling pop music act on the roster of the parent Columbia label.

Partly as a result of the immense popularity of this release, Columbia Masterworks published a series of soundtrack albums involving films that starred Dustin Hoffman, who had played the title character in The Graduate, including a spoken-word recording of excerpts from the soundtrack of Little Big Man.

In 1968, Wendy Carlos's landmark electronic-music album Switched-On Bach, containing transcriptions of a number of Bach's most famous compositions for the Moog synthesizer, was issued on Columbia Masterworks, which continued to release Carlos's output until the mid -' 80s.

Columbia Masterworks Records was a record label started in 1927 by Columbia Records.

Laughton did not appear himself in either production, but John Brown's Body was recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks.

In a reversal of the usual situation, in which American Decca had released original Broadway cast albums of three Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, this was the only film soundtrack album of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show ever released by Decca, while the Broadway cast album had been released by Columbia Masterworks.

A highlight of de Waart's final season, 1984 – 85, was four sold-out performances of Mahler's eighth symphony, utilizing the Symphony Chorus, the Masterworks Chorale, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus.

A tour was to commence in 2001, but due to Khoroshev's sexual assault charges during Yes's 2000 Masterworks Tour, the project was shelved.

In 2000, Kansas was the opening act for Yes during their " Masterworks " tour.

It was originally released as Columbia Masterworks ML 4963 in 1955, and was rereleased on CD, combined with the unrelated work Carnival of the Animals, as part of the Columbia Masterworks series.

It was based on the columns and on the Columbia Masterworks album, but with additional music by Kleinsinger and dialog by Mel Brooks.

He also directed several short films that played as part of their live show, as well as a documentary called On The Road with Tenacious D which was a featured part of their DVD collection, The Complete Masterworks.

The result of this labour was an almost universally lauded trilogy of works collectively titled Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers.

In 1999 it was republished by Millennium, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, as part of the SF Masterworks series.