The ASO has won two more Grammy Awards this year, bringing the total to 15 Grammy statuettes for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, plus 8 additional awards for soloists and engineers on ASO recordings.  Proud of its pioneering role in bringing digitally recorded music before the public, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has produced a discography of more than 60 releases, many in collaboration with the world-famous ASO Choruses. ASO recordings have won admiring critical notices as well as awards from a number of audio and record-review publications in both the USA and Britain, along with a total of 21 Grammy awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). The ASO records for Telarc, with additional releases available on the Argo, New World, Nonesuch, Philips, Pro Arte, Sony Classical, and Vox labels.   In 1979, the Telarc Records LP issue of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and excerpts from Borodin's Prince Igor, with the ASO and Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw, was the first commercial recording in America using the then-new digital process. Within weeks it was a national bestseller, receiving a Grammy nomination and an Audio Excellence Award. Since than, digital techniques have changed the face of the recording industry.  ASO recordings won an impressive five Grammy awards in 1986, four of them in various categories (including the ones for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance) for the Berlioz Requiem recording conducted by Robert Shaw. In the years since, ASO recordings have continued to be regularly honored with Grammy statues.  ASO recordings released in 2004 include a CD pairing the Concerto for Orchestra by Jennifer Higdon with her ASO-commissioned City Scape, and the Berlioz Requiem, both conducted by Robert Spano. The most recent recording, released in August 2005, is a CD of the Mozart Requiem in the edition by Robert Levin, with the ASO and Chamber Chorus conducted by Donald Runnicles. Like all recent ASO Telarc releases, these were issued in both regular CD format and the new Super Audio CD format.