Best Engineered Album, Classical
- Grechaninov: Passion Week
John Newton, engineer (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale) [Chandos]
Producer of the Year, Classical
- Judith Sherman, for:
- American Virtuosa: Tribute To Maud Powell (Rachel Barton Pine & Matthew Hagle)
- From Barrelhouse To Broadway: The Musical Odyssey Of Joe Jordan (Rick Benjamin & The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
- Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 '...Songs Are Sung' (Kronos Quartet)
- Strange Imaginary Animals (Eighth Blackbird)
- Tchaikovsky: Three String Quartets, Souvenir De Florence (Ying Quartet)
Best Classical Album
- Tower: Made In America
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Tim Handley, producer; Tim Handley, engineer/mixer (Nashville Symphony) [Naxos]
Best Orchestral Performance
- Tower: Made In America
Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Nashville Symphony) [Naxos]
Best Opera Recording
- Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel
Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Rebecca Evans, Jane Henschel & Jennifer Larmore; Brian Couzens, producer (Sarah Coppen, Diana Montague & Sarah Tynan; New London Children's Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra) [Chandos Opera In English]
Best Choral Performance
- Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master (Thomas Quasthoff & Dorothea Röschmann; Rundfunkchor Berlin; Berliner Philharmoniker) [EMI Classics]
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
- Barber/Korngold/Walton: Violin Concertos
Bramwell Tovey, conductor; James Ehnes (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra) [CBC Records]
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
- Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3
Garrick Ohlsson [Bridge Records, Inc.]
Best Chamber Music Performance
- Strange Imaginary Animals
Eighth Blackbird [Cedille Records]
Best Small Ensemble Performance
- Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto In D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives
Yuri Bashmet, conductor; Moscow Soloists [Onyx Classics]
Best Classical Vocal Performance
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (James Levine; Boston Symphony Orchestra) [Nonesuch Records]
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
- Made In America
Joan Tower (Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Nashville Symphony Orchestra) Track from: Tower: Made In America [Naxos]
Best Classical Crossover Album
- A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane
Turtle Island Quartet [Telarc]
