RG series 101 – 199 (1957-60), first stereo recordings (1958-60)

Another couple of years of the Argo RG series LPs, much of them taken up with the beginnings of the marathon effort to release all of Shakespeare’s plays on disc – and a fair amount of other ‘spoken word’ albums.

December 1958 sees the first stereo album issued by Argo – Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, starring a young Jane Asher.

Stereo albums in the list below issued with ZRG prefix and the digit 5 ahead of the RG series number – so, the mono RG 145 becomes ZRG 5145 in the stereo version.

Spoken word albums in yellow, classical in grey, folk green, others red.

ARGO No	PERFORMER	TITLE	YEAR
RG 101 RG 102	Dennis Noble/Carmen Prietto	Gay – The Beggar’s Opera (re-cut from 1955 3 disc recording)
RG 103	Members of Cambridge University; Dir George Rylands	English Prose 1485-1640 Malory to Donne	1957
RG 104	Members of Cambridge University; Dir George Rylands	English Prose 1621-1781 Burton to Johnson	1957
RG 105	Members of Cambridge University; Dir George Rylands	English Prose 1722-1790 Defoe to Burke	1957
RG 106	Members of Cambridge University; Dir George Rylands	English Prose 1816-1853 Austen to Bronte	1957
RG 107	Members of Cambridge University; Dir George Rylands	English Prose 1863-1903 Dickens to Butler	1957
RG 108	Zimbler Sinfonietta; solo violin George Zazovsky	Vivaldi – Four Seasons	1958?
RG 109	Arthur Grumiaux – violin Gregory Tucker – piano	Bach – Chaconne Fiocco – Suite No 1 Mozart – violin sonatas 18, 21	1958
RG 110
RG 111	Boston Percussion Group	Chavez – Toccata Farberman – Evolution	1958
RG 112	Jacobean Ensemble	Purcell – Ten Sonatas in Four Parts	1958
RG 113
RG 114	Renaissance Singers, Cond. Michael Howard	Byrd: Mass in 3 voices/Motets	1958
RG 115
RG 116	T.S. Elliot	Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats	1958
RG 117	The Temperance Seven Plus One	The Temperance Seven Plus One	1958
RG 118
RG 119	Robert Speaight	Poems by: Collins/Gray/Goldsmith	1958
RG 120	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; dir.Boris Ord	An Easter Matins	1958
RG 121 RG 122 RG 123 RG 124	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Othello	April 1958
RG 125 RG 126 RG 127	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	As You Like It	April 1958
RG 128 RG 129 RG 130 RG 131	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Troilus and Cressida	April 1958
RG 132 RG 133 RG 134	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Julius Caesar	1958
RG 135 RG 136 RG 137 RG 138	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Coriolanus	1958
RG 139 RG 140 RG 141	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Richard II	1958
RG 142 RG 143 RG 144	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Shakespeare Sonnets	1959?
RG 145 RG 146  ZRG 5145 ZRG 5146	Various Artists, incl Jane Asher/Vivienne Chatterton/ Tony Church	Alice in Wonderland	Oct 1958
RG 147	Boston Wind Ensemble; Cond. Eric Simon	Strauss – Sonatina/Serenade/ Suite for 13 wind instruments/	1958
RG 148	Renaissance Singers, Choristers of Ely Cathedral,	Music for the Feast of Christmas	1958
RG 149 ZRG 5149	Westminster Cathedral Choir, dir. George Malcolm	Victoria – Responsories for Tenebrae	1959
RG 150	Shirley Collins	Sweet England	1959
RG 151 ZRG 5151 (7-track EP)	Choir of King’s College/ Preston/Jacobean Consort of Viols; Dir David Willcocks	Gibbons – Church Music	Apr 1959
RG 152 ZRG 5152	Choir of St John’s Cambridge; Dir George Guest	Goldschmidt/Mendelssohn/ Bach/Mozart/Stainer/Brahms/ Lidon	May 1959
ZRG 153	E. M. Forster	Forster – The Road from Colonus/What I believe	1959
RG 154	Arthur Miller	Excerpts from the Crucible and Death of a Salesman	1959
RG 155	Frank Pettingell	Dickens – A Christmas Carol	1959
RG 156	John Betjeman	Betjeman – Poems	1959
RG 157	Frank Pettingell	Dickens Duets	1959
RG 158	Siobhan McKenna	W. B. Yeats poems	1959
RG 159	J. B. Priestley	J. B. Priestley	1959
RG 160 RG 161 RG 162 RG 163 ZRG 5160- ZRG 5163	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	The Merchant of Venice	Mar 1959
RG 164 RG 165 RG 166 RG 167 ZRG 5164- ZRG 5167	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Measure for Measure	Sep 1959
RG 168 RG 169 RG 170 RG 171 ZRG 5168 – ZRG 5171	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	King John	Sep 1959
RG 172 RG 173 RG 174 ZRG 5172- ZRG 5174	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Oct 1959
RG 175 RG 176 RG 177 ZRG 5175- ZRG 5177	Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, Director George Rylands	Macbeth	Oct 1959
RG 178	John Masefield	Masefield – The Story of Ossian	1959
RG 179 ZRG 5179	Welles/English/Whitworth/ Bevan/Renaissance Singers/ Choristers Canterbury Cathedral (a) Elder/Finch/Renaissance Singers/Choristers Canterbury Cathedral/Korchinska (harp)(b)	Vaughan Williams – Mass in G minor (a)  Britten – A Ceremony of Carols (b)	Jan 1960
RG 180 RG 181	Various artists, incl Asher/ Chatterton/Duncan/Margareta Scott	Carroll – Alice through the Looking Glass	1959
RG 182	William Butler Yeats Michael Macliammoir	W.B. Yeats – poetry and extract from a talk	1959
RG 183	Jean Vilar	French Poetry Anthology	1960?
RG 184	W. H. Auden	Reading from his Poems	1960?
RG 185	Barrault/Renaud	French Drama Anthology	1960?
RG 186 ZRG 5186	Renaissance Singers, dir Michael Howard	Palestrina – Missa Aeterna/ Music for the Common of the Apostles	1959
RG 187 ZRG 5187	Boston Chamber Artists, cond. by Eric Simon	Korngold – Much Ado About Nothing Suite Marches – Beethoven/Schubert/ Krenek/Berg/Strauss	1959
RG 188
RG 189
RG 190 ZRG 5190	King’s College Choir, Preston, dir Willcocks	Festival of Lessons and Carols	Oct 1959
RG 191	Robert Graves	Reads Selected Poems	1960
RG 192	Robert Donat	readings of favourite poems	1959
RG 193	Michael Macliammoir	Revolutionary Speeches of Ireland	1959
RG 194
RG 195
RG 196	Louis MacNeice	Poems	1961?
RG 197	Heinrich Schnitzler	Anthology of German Poetry	1960
RG 198	Lord Boothby	Europe Since The War	1960
RG 199	Moira Lister	People in Love	1960?

~ by folkcatalogue on March 9, 2010.