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Thomas Z. Shepard
Thomas Z. Shepard is credited on 1,670 releases across 361 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,670
Pressings credited
361
Albums
7
Decades active
76
In collections
Biography
Thomas Z. Shepard (born June 26, 1936) is an American record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim. Shepard is also a composer, conductor, music arranger and pianist. He has won twelve Grammy Awards and produced the original cast recordings of many of the Sondheim musicals, including Sweeney Todd, Company and Sunday in the Park with George, among others. He also produced the original cast recordings of 1776, La Cage aux Folles, Chicago and 42nd Street, among over a hundred others. He has produced hundreds of classical music and popular music recordings.
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Credited work
1,670 releases · 361 albums · active 1962–2020
- Production · 1,707
- Performance · 111
- Other credits · 65
- Engineering · 21
- Mastering · 18
Studios: Columbia 30th Street Studio · Philharmonic Hall, New York · RCA Studio A · Symphony Hall, Boston
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Annie (A New Musical)
1977

Fiddler On The Roof (The Original Broadway Cast Recording)
1964

The Star Wars Trilogy (Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back / Return Of The Jedi)
1990

Pictures At An Exhibition/A Night On Bald Mountain
1981

Company (A Musical Comedy) (Original Cast Recording)
1970

The Sesame Street Book & Record
1970

La Cage Aux Folles (The Broadway Musical)
1983

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Original Cast)
1979

Side By Side By Sondheim
1976

M*A*S*H (Original Soundtrack Recording)
1970

George M!
1968

Cabaret
1967

Turned-On Broadway
1982

Marry Me A Little (Original Cast Recording)
1981

Ravel: Bolero
1980

Rhapsody In Blue (The 1925 Piano Roll)
1976

An Introduction To The World Of SQ Quadraphonic Sound
1973

Horowitz Plays Scarlatti
1965

Gypsy - A Musical Fable (The Original Broadway Cast)
1959

Clara Rockmore's Lost Theremin Album
2006

Duets
2002

Symphony No. 7 (8) "Unfinished · Unvollendete · Inachevée" / Symphony No. 8 (9) "The Great · La Grande"
1993

Crazy For You: The New Gershwin Musical Comedy
1992

The Spielberg / Williams Collaboration - John Williams Conducts His Classic Scores For The Films Of Steven Spielberg
1991
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Boulez
- Leonard Bernstein
- Richard Tucker (2)
- John Williams (4)
- Levine
- Stephen Sondheim
- Original Broadway Cast
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