The Nashville Symphony's discography ranges from repertoire by Beethoven and Bernstein to ground-breaking collaborations with Béla Fleck and Ben Folds. To date, our recordings have earned 14 GRAMMY® Awards and 27 GRAMMY® nominations. Learn more below.
Organ Concertos - Oquin, Parker, Rouse
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Paul Jacobs, organ
TRACK LISTING
Horatio Parker: Organ Concerto in E-Flat Minor, Op. 55
Wayne Oquin: Resilience
Christopher Rouse: Organ Concerto
Charles Ives: Variations of America
(Naxos, 2024)
John Adams - My Father Knew Charles Ives • Harmonielehre
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
TRACK LISTING
My Father Knew Charles Ives
Harmonielehre
(Naxos, 2021)
Tobias Picker – Opera Without Words
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Tobias Picker, narrator
TRACK LISTING
The Encantadas
Opera Without Words
(Naxos, 2020)
Christopher Rouse – Symphony No. 5
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
TRACK LISTING
Symphony No. 5
Supplica
Concerto for Orchestra
(Naxos, 2020)
GRAMMY® Award: Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Aaron Jay Kernis – Color Wheel
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
TRACK LISTING
Color Wheel
Symphony No. 4 “Chromelodeon”
(Naxos, 2020)
Jonathan Leshnoff – Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos”
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Jason Vieaux, guitar
TRACK LISTING
Symphony No. 4 "Heichalos"
Guitar Concerto
Starburst
(Naxos, 2019)
GRAMMY® Nominee: Best Classical Compendium
Choose Your Music Service or stream below
John Harbison – Requiem
Ticheli, Warnaar & Ranjbaran – Wind Concertos
Terry Riley – The Palmian Chord Ryddle / At the Royal Majestic
Jennifer Higdon – All Things Majestic
Richard Danielpour – Songs of Solitude • War Songs
Michael Daugherty – Tales of Hemingway
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Zuill Bailey, cello | Paul Jacobs, organ
TRACK LISTING
Tales of Hemingway | American Gothic
Once Upon A Castle
(Naxos, 2016)
GRAMMY® Awards: Best Classical Compendium, Best Instrumental Solo, Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Ben Folds – So There
Live From Music City: The Best of Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony
Joan Tower - Violin Concerto
Stephen Paulus – Three Places of Enlightenment
PERFOMERS
Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Jun Iwasaki, violin | Carolyn Wann Bailey, violin
Daniel Reinker, viola | Anthony LaMarchina, cello
Nathan Laube, organ
TRACK LISTING
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, "Three Places of Enlightenment"
Veil of Tears | Grand Organ Concerto
(Naxos, 2014)
GRAMMY® Award: Best Classical Compendium
Roberto Sierra – Sinfonía No. 4
Richard Danielpour – Darkness in the Ancient Valley
Béla Fleck – The Impostor
Joseph Schwantner – Chasing Light...
Astor Piazzolla – Sinfonía Buenos Aires
Michael Daugherty – Metropolis Symphony
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, violin
Érik Gratton, flute | Ann Richards, flute
Terrence Wilson, piano
TRACK LISTING
Metropolis Symphony | Deus ex Machina
(Naxos, 2009)
GRAMMY® winner: Best Orchestral Performance | Best Classical Contemporary Composition | Best Engineered Album, Classical
GRAMMY® nominee: Best Classical Album | Best Instrumental Soloist with an Orchestra
Riders In The Sky – ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn
Maurice Ravel – L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Alastair Willis, conductor
Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano
Members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Members of the Nashville Symphony Chorus
Chattanooga Boys Choir
TRACK LISTING
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Shéhérazade
(Naxos, 2009)
GRAMMY® nominee: Best Classical Album
Abraham Lincoln Portraits
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony | Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Barry Scott, narrator | Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, violin
Anthony LaMarchina, cello | Roger Wiesmeyer, piano
Nashville Symphony Chorus | George Mabry, director
TRACK LISTING
Ives - Lincoln, the Great Commoner
Persichetti - A Lincoln Address
Harris - Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Bacon - Ford’s Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865
Gould - Lincoln Legend
McKay - To a Liberator (A Lincoln Tribute)
Turok - Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty
Copland - Lincoln Portrait
(Naxos, 2009)
Gian Carlo Menotti – Amahl & the Night Visitors
John Corigliano – A Dylan Thomas Trilogy
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
Franz Lizst – Piano Concerto No. 1
Joan Tower – Made in America
Leonard Bernstein – Dybbuk | Fancy Free
The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony | John Mauceri, conductor
Alvy Powell, Porgy | Marquita Lister, Bess
Lester Lynch, Crown | Nicole Cabell, Clara
Robert Mack, Sportin’ Life
Monique McDonald, Serena
Nashville Symphony Chorus
Blair Children’s Chorus
Tennessee State University Band
TRACK LISTING
Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version
(Decca, 2006)
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras
Morton Gould – Fall River Legend
Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis
Elliott Carter – Symphony No. 1
Amy Beach – “Gaelic” Symphony
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
George Whitefield Chadwick – Orchestral Works
Charles Ives – Symphony No. 2
Howard Hanson – Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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