Here are the 50th Annual Grammy Award Nominations for Classical Music as it appears on the
GRAMMY's website.
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))
- Garden Of Dreams
Keith O. Johnson, engineer (Jerry Junkin & Dallas Wind Symphony)
[Reference Recordings]
- Grechaninov: Passion Week
John Newton, engineer (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale)
[Chandos]
- Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos
Arne Akselberg & Tobias Lehmann, engineers (Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud & Simon
Rattle)[EMI Classics]
- Spirit Of The Season
Bruce Leek, Fred Vogler & Trent Walker, engineers (Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg &
Mormon Tabernacle Choir)[Mormon Tabernacle Choir]
- Strauss: Don Juan, Death And Transfiguration
Lawrence Rock, engineer (Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Producer Of The Year, Classical
(A Producer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))
- Blanton Alspaugh
-Eternal Rest: Mäntyjärvi, Ticheli, Martin, Clausen (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix
Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale)
-Grechaninov: Passion Week (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City
Chorale)
-The Harrington String Quartet: Daniel McCarthy (The Harrington String Quartet)
-Hartke: The Greater Good (Stewart Robertson & Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra)
-Rider On The Plains: Cello Concertos By Virgil Thomson And Charles Fussell
(Emmanuel Feldman)
- John Fraser
-Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Scherzos (Simon Trpceski)
-Great Handel (Ian Bostridge)
-Kate Royal (Kate Royal)
-Krommer/Spohr: Clarinet Concertos (Julian Bliss, Sabine Meyer & Kenneth
Sillito)
-Schubert: Piano Sonata D958, Lieder, Fragments (Leif Ove Andsnes & Ian
Bostridge)
- Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin
-Balakirev And Russian Folksong (Joseph Banowetz)
-Louisiana - A Pianist's Journey (Kenneth Boulton)
-Piano Impromptus (Jungran Kim Khwarg)
-20th Century Piano Sonatas (Allison Brewster Franzetti)
- Judith Sherman
-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)
- Robina G. Young
-As Steals The Morn...Handel Arias & Scenes For Tenor (Mark Padmore, Andrew
Manze & The English Concert)
-Bach, CPE: Symphonies 1-4, Cello Concerto (Andrew Manze & The English Concert)
-Brahms: Variations (Olga Kern)
-Music For Compline (Stile Antico)
-Stockhausen: Stimmung (Paul Hillier & Theatre Of Voices)
Best Classical Album
(Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist.)
- Cherubini: Missa Solemnis In E
Riccardo Muti, conductor; Wilhelm Meister, producer (Ildar Abdrazakov, Herbert
Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen
Rundfunks) [EMI Classics]
- Grechaninov: Passion Week
Charles Bruffy, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Kansas City Chorale &
Phoenix Bach Choir) [Chandos]
- Homage: The Age Of The Diva
Renée Fleming; David Frost, producer (Valery Gergiev; Orchestra Of The Mariinsky
Theatre) [Decca Records]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Dirk Sobotka, producer (James Levine; Boston Symphony
Orchestra) [Nonesuch Records]
- Tower: Made In America
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Tim Handley, producer (Nashville Symphony) [Naxos]
Best Orchestral Performance
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra) [BIS Records]
- Shostakovich: The Golden Age
José Serebrier, conductor (Royal Scottish National Orchestra) [Naxos]
- Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) [Deutsche Grammophon]
- Tower: Made In America
Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Nashville Symphony) [Naxos]
- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, Serenade To Music
Robert Spano, conductor (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) [Telarc]
Best Opera Recording
(Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists.)
- Albéniz: Pepita Jiménez
José De Eusebio, conductor; Enrique Baquerizo, Carlos Chausson, Plácido Domingo,
Jane Henschel & Carol Vaness; Michael Haas, producer (Orquesta Y Coro De La
Comunidad De Madrid) [Deutsche Grammophon]
- Donizetti: Dom Sébastien, Roi De Portugal
Mark Elder, conductor; Carmelo Corrado Caruso, Giuseppe Filianoti, Vesselina
Kasarova, Simon Keenlyside & Alastair Miles; Patric Schmid, producer (The Royal
Opera Chorus; The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) [Opera Rara]
- 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]
- Lully: Thésée
Paul O´Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Howard Crook, Ellen Hargis, Laura
Pudwell & Harry Van Der Kamp; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early
Music Festival Chorus; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra) [CPO]
- Verdi: La Traviata
Zubin Mehta, conductor; Piotr Beczala, Paolo Gavanelli & Anja Harteros; Andreas
Caemmerer & Felix Gargerle, producers (Choir Of The Bavarian State Opera;
Bavarian State Orchestra) [Farao Classics]
