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==Fennell's recordings== Conducting the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the [[Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra]] and various other groups, Fennell recorded many of the standards of the wind band repertoire. He became one of America's most-recorded conductors. Starting with "American Concert Band Masterpieces" in 1953, Fennell recorded over 300 compositions on 29 albums for [[Mercury Records]] with the Eastman-Rochester "Pops", London "Pops" (actually the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] in shirt-sleeves), and free-lance groups of New York musicians. However, best known are the 22 of the 29 Mercury releases made with Fennell's own [[Eastman Wind Ensemble]]. One of these albums, ''Lincolnshire Posy,'' with music by [[Percy Grainger]] (recorded in 1958), was selected by [[Stereo Review]] magazine as one of the ''50 best recordings of the Centenary of the Phonograph 1877-1977''. The two-volume ''Civil War-Its Music and Its Sounds'', recorded in December 1960, was a notable set also made with the [[Eastman Wind Ensemble]], this time performing on period or [[original instruments]]. In 1961, Fennell received a citation and a medal from the Congressional Committee for the Centennial of the Civil War for this album. In 2003, the 1958 Mercury album ''Winds in Hi-Fi'' was chosen by the [[National Recording Preservation Board]] for the [[National Recording Registry]]. {{citation needed| date=October 2014}} Nearly all of Fennell's Mercury recordings were reissued on [[compact disc]]. Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble were also featured in the premiere issuance of Mercury material on [[compact disc]]. In 1986, 24 Sousa marches performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble were transferred to compact disc by [[Philips Records]], which now owned the Mercury catalog.<ref>Mercury 434 300-2, copyright 1992 Philips Classic Productions, manufactured and marketed by PolyGram Classics & Jazz, A Division of Poly Gram Records, Inc., New York, New York.</ref> Fennell made the first symphonic digital recording in the United States for [[Telarc]] with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, on April 4β5, 1978.<ref>{{cite web|last=Eddy|first=Tracy|title="The Bass Drum Heard 'Round the World": Telarc, Frederick Fennell, and an Overture to Digital Recording|url=http://www.todaysengineer.org/2005/Jul/history.asp|publisher=IEEE|access-date=September 26, 2011|archive-date=October 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025071248/http://www.todaysengineer.org/2005/Jul/history.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> The recording included the two Suites for Military Band by [[Gustav Holst]]. With the Dallas Wind Symphony, Fennell recorded five programs of music by Nelhybel, Albeniz, Grainger, Bernstein and more, for Reference Recordings. Fennell also recorded for Brain, [[Columbia Records]], Delos, King, Kosei, Ludwig, Premier Recordings, and Sine Qua Non Superba not to mention the Library of Congress label. {{citation needed| date=October 2014}}
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