Best Choral Performance
(Award to the Choral Conductor, and to the Orchestra Conductor if an Orchestra is on the recording, and to the Choral Director or Chorus Master if applicable.)- O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold Of Night
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Company Of Strings; Company Of Voices & Conspirare) [Harmonia Mundi] - Rheinberger: Sacred Choral Works
Charles Bruffy, conductor (Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Bach Choir) [Chandos] - Symphony Of Psalms
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rundfunkchor Berlin), Track from: Stravinsky: Symphonies [EMI Classics] - Szymanowski, Karol: Stabat Mater
Antoni Wit, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, chorus master (Jaroslaw Brek, Iwona Hossa & Ewa Marciniec; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir) [Naxos] - Tippett: A Child Of Our Time
Colin Davis, conductor; Joseph Cullen, chorus master (Steve Davislim, Mihoko Fujimura, Matthew Rose & Indra Thomas; London Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus) [LSO Live]
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)- Bloch/Lees:Violin Concertos
John McLaughlin Williams, conductor; Elmar Oliveira (National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine) [Artek] - Harrison: Pipa Concerto
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Wu Man (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) Track from: Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago [CSO Resound] - Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 & 20
Leif Ove Andsnes (Norwegian Chamber Orchestra) [EMI Classics] - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 2 & 5
Charles Dutoit, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet (L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande) [Decca Records] - Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist.)- In A State Of Jazz
Marc-André Hamelin [Hyperion] - Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski
Gloria Cheng [Telarc] - Red Cliff Capriccio
Wei Li [First Impression Music] - Revolutionary
Cameron Carpenter [Telarc] - Strange Toys
Joan Jeanrenaud [Talking House Records]
Best Chamber Music Performance
(Award to the Artists.)- Brahms: String Quartet Op. 51, No. 2, Piano Quintet Op. 34
Stephen Hough; Takács Quartet [Hyperion] - Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5
Pacifica Quartet [Naxos] - Folk Songs
Trio Mediaeval [ECM New Series] - Right Through The Bone — Julius Röntgen Chamber Music
ARC Ensemble [RCA Red Seal] - String Poetic
Jennifer Koh & Reiko Uchida [Cedille Records]
Best Small Ensemble Performance
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))- Divertimenti
Øyvind Gimse, conductor; TrondheimSolistene [2L (Lindberg Lyd)] - Dun: Pipa Concerto; Hayashi: Viola Concerto; Takemitsu: Nostalgia
Roman Balashov, conductor; Yuri Bashmet; Moscow Soloists (Wu Man) [Onyx Classics] - Im Wunderschoenen Monat Mai
Reinbert De Leeuw, conductor; Barbara Sukowa; Schoenberg Ensemble [Winter & Winter] - Monk: Impermanence
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble [ECM New Series] - Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary
Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale [Chandos]
Best Classical Vocal Performance
(Award to the Vocal Soloist(s).)- Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
Hila Plitmann (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) [Naxos] - Fussell, Charles: Wilde
Sanford Sylvan (Gil Rose; Boston Modern Orchestra Project) [BMOP/sound] - Gomidas Songs
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Eduard Topchjan; Serouj Kradjian; Chamber Players Of The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra) [Nonesuch Records] - Maria
Cecilia Bartoli (Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla) [Decca Records] - Terezín: Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Christian Gerhaher & Daniel Hope; Bengt Forsberg & Gerold Huber) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
(A Composer's Award. (For a contemporary classical composition composed within the last 25 years, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year.) Award to the librettist, if applicable.)- Dalbavie: Concerto Pour Flûte
Marc-André Dalbavie (Peter Eötvös), Track from: Dalbavie/Jarrell/Pintscher: Flute Concertos [EMI Classics] - Gandolfi: The Garden Of Cosmic Speculation
Michael Gandolfi (Robert Spano) [Telarc] - Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta), Track from: Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan [Naxos] - Violin Concerto No. 2
George Tsontakis (Douglas Boyd), Track from: Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 2, Clair De Lune [Koch Int'l Clasiscs] - Walden, Chris: Symphony No. 1, The Four Elements
Chris Walden (Chris Walden) [Origin Classical]
Best Classical Crossover Album
(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)- Baroque
Gabriela Montero [EMI Classics] - Indigo Road
Ronn McFarlane [Dorian Sono Luminus] - Olde School
East Village Opera Company [Decca Records] - The Othello Syndrome
Uri Caine Ensemble [Winter & Winter] - Simple Gifts
The King's Singers [Signum Records]
