Richard Mohr
Biography
Richard Mohr (June 13, 1919 – November 23, 2002) was one of RCA Victor’s most prominent producers of classical and operatic music recordings from 1943 through 1977. His producing credits included recording the casts of the world premieres of Samuel Barber's Vanessa and Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, as well as the first LP recordings of Ernani, Luisa Miller and Lucrezia Borgia and three versions each of Rigoletto, Aida, La Traviata and Il Trovatore. Mohr was born in Springfield, Ohio, and died in West Milford, New Jersey
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Pastoral Symphony
1962
My Favorite Chopin
1961
Arias
1961
The Nutcracker
1960
Concerto No. 1
1955
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
1994
The World's Favorite Symphonies: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125 ("Choral")
1972
Romeo And Juliet
1968
Bolero • La Valse • Pavan For A Dead Princess
1963
Great Scenes From Porgy And Bess
1963
Also Sprach Zarathustra
1962
Beethoven "Emperor" Concerto
1961
Mario!
1959
Symphony No. 5 / Coriolan Overture
1959
Concerto No. 2 / Concerto No. 1
1957
Concerto For Orchestra
1956
Dvořák's Symphony - From The New World
1954
Credited work
2,802 releases · 453 albums · active 1950–2026
- Production · 2,541
- Other credits · 411
- Performance · 7
- Engineering · 3
Studios: Orchestra Hall, Chicago · Symphony Hall, Boston · Walthamstow Assembly Hall · Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma
Frequent collaborators
- Verdi
- Leontyne Price
- Beethoven
- Brahms
- Tchaikovsky
- Puccini
- Fritz Reiner
- Prokofieff