Robert Mann
Discography


 

RECORDINGS WITH THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET

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# Composer Artists Label Year Format
1 J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Sony Music Entertainment 1992 CD
2 Barber Samuel: Dover Beach
Ottmar Schoeck: Notturno
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
CBS 1978 LP
3 Bartok: The Six String Quartets (first complete recorded cycle) JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Winograd) Columbia Records 1950 LP
4 Bartok: The Six String Quartets JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS 1982 LP
5 Beethoven: Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1962 LP
6 Beethoven: Quartets, Op. 95 & Op. 135 JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1963 LP
7 Beethoven: The Early Quartets JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam) Columbia Masterworks [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
8 Beethoven:
The Middle Quartets
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Adam) Epic [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
9 Beethoven: The Late Quartets JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Adam) CBS 1974 LP
10 Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets
Vol. 1 - The Early String Quartets: Op. 18, Nos. 1-6
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records, 1983
Recorded live at the Library of Congress
CD
11 Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets
Vol. 2 - The Middle String Quartets: Op. 59, Op. 74, & Op. 95
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records 1983 CD
12 Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets
Vol. 3 - The Late String Quartets: Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 135, & Grosse Fuge
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records, 1983
Recorded live at the Library of Congress
CD
13 Berg: Lyric Suite JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Winograd) Columbia Records [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
14 Berg: Lyric Suite
Webern: Five Pieces, Op. 5 & Six Bagatelles, Op. 9
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1961 LP
15 Bergsma, William : Third Quartet JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Adam) Columbia Masterworks [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
16 Brahms: The String Quintets JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Walter Trampler, Viola
Sony Music Entertainment 1996 CD
17 Brahms: String Quartets Op. 51 & Op. 67, Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Charles Neidich, clarinet
Sony Music Entertainment 1995 CD
18 Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam)
Leon Fleisher, piano
Epic Records 1963 LP
19 Carter: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Hillyer/Adam) CBS 1974 LP
20 Carter, Elliot : The Four String Quartets
Carter, Elliot : Duo for Violin and Piano
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Christopher Oldfather, piano
Sony Music 1991 CD
21 Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Itzhak Perlman, violin
CBS 1983
22 Chevalier de Saint-Georges: String Quartet No. 1
In Black Composer Series, Vol. 1: Chevalier de Saint-Georges
JSQ [unknown personnel] Columbia Records 1974 LP
23 Copland: Vitebsk, Study on a Jewish Theme for Piano Trio
Sextet for Clarinet, Piano, and String Quartet
Piano Quartet
JSQ [unknown personnel]
Aaron Copland, piano
Harold Wright, clarinet in "A Copland Celebration: Vol. 2"
Sony Music Entertainment, 2000
*REISSUED MATERIAL (Unknown original date)
24 Debussy: String Quartet
Ravel: String Quartet
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1960 LP
25 Debussy: String Quartet
Ravel: Quartet
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Adam) CBS [unknown date] LP
26 Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Dutilleux: String Quartet "Ainsi la nuit"
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Sony Music Entertainment 1993 CD
27 Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 "American"
Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Op. 81
JSQ (unknown personnel)
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Sony Classical, 1992
*REISSUED MATERIAL: Originally released in 1968 and 1977
1977
28 Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 "American"
Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Op. 81
JSQ (unknown personnel)
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Sony Classical, 1992
*REISSUED MATERIAL: Originally released in 1968 and 1977
1977
29 Dvorak: Piano Quartets Op. 23 and Op. 87 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records 1978 LP
30 Dvorak: Quartet, Op. 61
Wolf: Italian Serenade
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1964 LP
31 Fine, Irving: String Quartet JSQ (Mann/Koff/Killyer/Winograd) Columbia Masterworks, Modern American Music Series [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
32 Franck: Piano Quintet
Wolf: Italian Serenade
Jorge Bolet, piano
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS 1982 LP
33 Ginastera: String Quartet No. 2 (First Recording)
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet, Concertino for String Quartet
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam) CBS Records 1974 LP
34 Glenn Gould: So You Want to Write a Fugue? JSQ (unknown personnel)
Elizabeth Benson-Guy, sopranoAnita Darian, mezzo-sopranoCharles Bressler, tenorDonald Gramm, bassVladimir Golschmann, conductorin "The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album"
Sony Music Entertainment, 1998
*REISSUED MATERIAL (unknown original release dates)
CD
35 Haydn: Quartets Op 74, No. / Op. 77, No. 1 JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1957 LP
36 Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 54, Nos. 1-3 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss//Hillyer/Adam) Epic [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
37 Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20, Nos. 1-6 JSQ [unknown personnel] CBS 1979 LP
38 Haydn: Seven Last Words of Christ JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Benita Valente, sopranoJan DeGaetani, mezzo-sopranoJon Humphrey, tenorThomas Paul, bass
Sony Classical 1990 CD
39 Paul Hindemith: String Quartets No. 1 Op. 2
No. 4, Op. 22No. 7
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Wergo, a division of Schott Music & Media 1998 CD
40 Paul Hindemith: Streichquartette No. 2 Op. 10
No. 6
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Wergo, a division of Schott Music & Media 1997
41 Paul Hindemith: String Quartets No. 3, Op. 16
No. 5, Op. 32
(Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Wergo, a division of Schott Music & Media 1996 CD
42 Ives: The Two String Quartets JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam) CBS [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
43 Kuhlau: Flute Quintets Op. 51, Nos. 1-3
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records 1988 1988 CD
44 Lerdahl, Fred : First String Quartet
Donald Martino: String Quartet
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CRI 1987 CD
45 Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 and Op. 44, No. 1 JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) Epic [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
46 Mennin, Peter: Quartet No. 2
Andrew Imbrie: Quartet in B-Flat
JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Winograd) Columbia Masterworks, Modern American Music Series [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
47 Mozart: String Quartets K. 499 and K. 575 JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Winograd) Columbia Records 1953 LP
48 Mozart: Quartets K. 387 and K. 465 JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1957 LP
49 Mozart: String Quartets K. 387 and K. 421 JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) CBS [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
50 Mozart: String Quartet in C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance"
Schubert: String Quartet in G Major, D. 887
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) Sony Music Entertainment, 1996
*REISSUED MATERIAL:Originally released in 1980
1985 CD
51 Mozart: String Quartet in C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance"
Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 74 No. 1Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77 No. 1Schubert: String Quartet in C minor, D. 703 "Quartettsatz"
JSQ (Mann/Koff/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) Testament, 2005
*REISSUED MATERIAL:Originally released in 1957, 1960Copyright by Sony BMG Entertainment
CD
52 Mozart: 2 Piano Quartets
Mozart: Flute Quartet
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam/Winograd)
Lukas Foss, pianoJulius Baker, flute
Recorded live at the Library of CongressDOREMI, 2006
*REISSUED MATERIAL:
Performed live in 1965 (Piano Quartets) and 1950 (Flute Quartet)
CD
53 Mozart: The Six String Quintets
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick)
John Graham, violaMarlboro Ensemble
CBS Odyssey, 1990
*REISSUED MATERIAL:
Originally released in 1979
1979 CD
54 Mozart: The 6 "Haydn" Quartets
Haydn: Andante & Minuet, Op. 103Mozart: The Six 'Haydn' Quartets
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick)
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Hillyer/Rhodes/Adam/Krosnick)
CBS 1985 LP
55 Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K. 581
Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam)
Harold Wright, clarinetStanley Drucker, clarinet
Recorded live at the Library of Congress in 1963 & 1968
DOREMI
2007 CD
56 Mozart: The Last Four String Quartets JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS 1976 LP
57 Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4
Overture on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano, Op. 34
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Yefim Bronfman, pianoIsrael Philharmonic OrchestraZubin Mehta, conductorGiora Feidman, clarinet
Sony Music Entertainment 1994 CD
58 Schoenberg: The Complete String Quartets
Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3
JSQ (Mann/Koff/Hillyer/Winograd)
Uta Graf, soprano
Columbia Masterworks [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
59 Schoenberg: The Five String Quartets
Benita Valente, soprano
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS 1977 LP
60 Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht, Op. 4
Schoenberg: Trio Op. 45
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)
Walter Trampler, viola
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Sony Music 1992 CD
61 Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Schoenberg: Trio, Op. 45
Members of JSQ (Mann/Hillyer/Adam)
Erika Stiedry-Wagner, recitationRudolf Kolisch, violin and violaStefan Auber, celloEduard Steuermann, pianoLeonard Posella, flute and piccoloKaoman Bloch, clarinet and bass clarinet
CBS, 1989
*REISSUED MATERIAL:
Originally released in 1951 (Pierrot) and 1967 (Trio)
1951 CD
64 Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 12-15 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Odyssey, 1989
*REISSUED MATERIAL:Originally released in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1989)
1989 CD
62 Schubert: "Trout" QuintetDvorak: Piano QuintetFranck: Piano QuintetMozart: Trio K. 548 JSQClaudio Arrau, pianoJulius Levine, bass Recorded live at the Library of CongressDOREMI, 2003
*REISSUED MATERIAL:Performed live in 1963 (Schubert/Franck) and 1964 (Mozart/Dvorak)
CD
63 Schubert: Quintet in C, Op. 163 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Adam)
Bernard Greenhouse, cello
CBS 1974 LP
65 Schubert: Quintet, D. 956 JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick)Bernard Greenhouse, cello CBS Records, 1988
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66 Schubert: Quartet in D Minor "Death and the Maiden," Quartettsatz JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam) RCA 1960 LP
67 Schubert: Quartet No. 15 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records 1980
68 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam)
Leonard Bernstein, piano
Columbia Records [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
69 Schubert: Quartets Nos. 12 &1 JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) CBS Records 1983 LP
70 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Hillyer/Adam)
Leonard Bernstein, piano
Columbia Records [unknown year] [Unknown Year] LP
71 Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47
Brahms: Piano Quintet, Op. 34

Members of JSQ (Mann/Hillyer/Adam)
Montreal String Quartet
Glenn Gould, piano
Sony Classical, 1993
*REISSUED MATERIAL:Originally released in 1969 (Schumann), 1957 (Brahms)
72 Schumann: Piano Quintet Op. 44
String Quartets Op. 41
JSQ (Mann/Cohen/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam)
Leonard Bernstein, piano
Recorded live at the Library of Congress in 1963, 1966 & 1967
DOREMI
2006 CD
73 Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life"
Franck: String Quartet in D Major
JSQ (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Sony Music Entertainment 1997 CD
74 Subotnick, Morton: A Fluttering of Wings JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Rhodes/Krosnick) Nonesuch 1984 LP
75 Verdi: String Quartet in E minor
Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 "Voces Intimae"
JSQ: (Mann/Smirnoff/Rhodes/Krosnick) Sony Classical 1992
76 Gershwin "Miniatures for Strings": Lullaby
Haydn: Andante and Minuet (String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 103)
Schubert: Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 103
Mendelssohn: Variations and Scherzo
Puccini: I Crisantemi
Wolf: Intermezzo
JSQ (Mann/Carlyss/Hillyer/Adam) CBS 1974

 

SOLO AND CHAMBER RECORDINGS

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# Composer Artists Label Year Format
1 Bartok: Contrasts, Out of Doors, Sonata for Solo Violin Stanley Drucker, clarinet
Robert Mann, violin
Leonid Hambro, piano
Bartok Records 1990 CD
2 Bartok: Two Sonatas for Violin and Piano Robert Mann, violin; Leonid Hambro, piano Bartok Records 1999 CD
3 Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas: Volume I, Nos. 6, 8, 9 & 10 Robert Mann, violin; Stephen Hough, piano Musicmasters 1987 CD
4 Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas: Volume II, Nos. 1 & 3 Robert Mann, violin; Stephen Hough, piano Musicmasters 1988 CD
5 Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas: Volume III, Nos. 2, 4, 5 & 7 Robert Mann, violin; Stephen Hough, piano MusicMasters 1989 CD
6 Brahms: The Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano Robert Mann, violin; Stephen Hough, piano MusicMasters 1996 CD
7 Kupferman, Meyer: Fantasy Sonata Robert Mann, violin; William Masselos, piano Desto Records 1973 LP
8 Mendelssohn String Quintets Mendelssohn String Quartet; Robert Mann, viola II BIS 2002 CD
9 Mozart: Sonatas for Violin & Piano K. 454, 301 & 376 Robert Mann, violin; Yefim Bronfman, piano MusicMasters (Recorded live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) 1985 CD
10 Mozart: Quartet in G Minor for Piano and Strings, K. 478
In "Music from Ravinia, Vol. 3 - Mozart"
Robert Mann, violin; Michael Ouzounian, viola; Lynn Harrell, cello; James Levine, piano RCA Records 1979 LP

 

RECORDINGS OF COMPOSITIONS BY ROBERT MANN

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# Composer Artists Label Year Format
1 Robert Mann: "Tales" - The Emperor and the Nightingale, The Princess on the Pea, How the Whale Got His Throat, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1 Robert Mann, violin/conductor; Leonid Hambro, piano; Lucy Rowan, narrator; Zimbler Sinfonietta Bartok Records CD
2 Robert Mann: "Just So Stories" - The Elephant's Child, How the Whale Got His Throat, How the Camel Got His Hump Lucy Rowan, narrator; Baca Ensemble: Robert Mann, violin; Nicholas Mann, violin/viola; Maureen Gallagher, viola; Bonnie Hampton, cello; Nathan Schwartz, piano Musical Heritage Society 1984

Growing up as a nature-loving child in Portland, Oregon, Robert Mann wanted to be a forest ranger, but it was violin lessons—and his parents’ encouragement—that ultimately launched him on a remarkable journey that would span a lifetime and five continents as he pursued his passion for classical music as a violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher. In this fascinating and far-ranging memoir, he looks back at the struggles and triumphs of that journey, as well as the unique insights and experiences he’s gained along the way.

From their beginnings in 1947, the Juilliard String Quartet set out to play new music as if it had been composed long ago, and to play a classical piece as if it had just been written. At first, the fledging combo struggled to compete with the more established European string quartets, while also coping with the inevitable difficulties of trying to blend four singular personalities and talents into a harmonious whole, but by the time Mann retired from the group some fifty-one years later, the Julliard String Quartet had played close to six thousand concerts on every continent except Africa and Antarctica and become an enduring, beloved institution in American music. They won three Grammys for their recordings, while sharing their distinctive sound with such notable figures as Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and even Albert Einstein.

A Passionate Journey is Robert Mann’s story, an engrossing glimpse into a life filled with musical milestones and into the fascinating mind of a musical giant.