Best Classical Album

Berlioz: Les Troyens
Sir Colin Davis; Michelle De Young, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo & Kenneth Tarver; James Mallinson, producer (Various Artists; London Sym. Orch.)
[LSO Live]

Producer Of The Year, Classical

Manfred Eicher 
Haydn: The Seven Words (Rosamunde Quartett) 
Holliger: Schneewittchen (Heinz Holliger, J. Banse, C. Kallisch, S. Davislim, O. Widmer & W. Gröschel) 
Leos Janácek – A Recollection (In The Mist; Piano Sonata, 1. X. 1905; On An Overgrown Path, Etc.) (András Schiff) 
Morimur (Bach: Partita D Min.; Christ Lag In Todesbanden; Jesu Meine Freude, Etc.) (Christoph Poppen & The Hilliard Ens.) 
Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht/Veress: Four Transylvanian Dances/Bartók: Divertimento (Thomas Zehetmair & Camerata Bern) 

Best Orchestral Performance

Boulez Conducts Varèse (Amériques; Arcana; Déserts; Ionisation)
Pierre Boulez (Chicago Sym. Orch.)
[Deutsche Grammophon]

Best Opera Recording

Berlioz: Les Troyens
Sir Colin Davis; Michelle De Young, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo & Kenneth Tarver; James Mallinson, producer (Various Artists; London Sym. Orch.)
[LSO Live]

Best Choral Performance
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Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Norbert Balatsch & Erwin Ortner (Bernarda Fink, contralto, Matthias Goerne, bass, Dietrich Henschel, bass, Christoph Prégardien, tenor, Dorothea Röschmann, soprano, Michael Schade, tenor, Christine Schäfer, soprano, Markus Schäfer, tenor, Elisaeth von Magnus, contralto & Oliver Widmer, bass; Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Wiener Sängerknaben; Concentus Musicus Wien)
[Teldec Classics International]

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
.
Strauss Wind Concertos (Horn Concerto; Oboe Concerto, Etc.)
Daniel Barenboim, piano/conductor; Dale Clevenger, horn; Larry Combs, clarinet; Alex Klein, oboe; David McGill, bassoon (Chicago Sym. Orch.)
[Teldec Classics International]

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
.
Britten Cello Suites (1 - 3)
Truls Mork, cello
[Virgin Classics]

Best Chamber Music Performance

Haydn: The Complete String Quartets
The Angeles String Quartet
[Philips]

Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor)

After Mozart (Raskatov, Silvestrov, Schnittke, Etc.)
Gidon Kremer, violin; Kremerata Baltica
[Nonesuch Records]

Best Classical Vocal Performance

Dreams & Fables – Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo Fra' Dubbi Miei; Di Questa Cetra In Seno, Etc.)
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano (Bernhard Forck; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)
[Decca Records]

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

Rouse: Concert De Gaudí For Guitar And Orch.
Christopher Rouse (Sharon Isbin, guitar; Muhai Tang; Gulbenkian Orch.)
 [Teldec Classics International]

Best Engineered Album, Classical
Bernstein (Arr. Brohn & Corigliano): West Side Story Suite (Lonely Town; Make Our Garden Grow, Etc.)
Richard King, engineer (Joshua Bell)
[Sony Classical]
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Lucky Pierre Boulez Heads
Grammy Classical Nominations

Maybe it was his 75th birthday or maybe it was because of the Molierian farce of the Swiss police hauling him off as a suspected terrorist for a remark he made 40 years ago, but Pierre Boulez heads the list of classical nominees for GRAMMY Awards this year. The 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on Feb. 27, 2002 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and be broadcast on the CBS Television Network at 8 p.m.

Boulez received six nominations, including Best Classical Contemporary
Composition, Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance, Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra and Best Chamber Music Performance.

Born in Montbrison(Loire, France on 26th March 1925, Boulez studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Olivier Messiaen (1944-45) and studied twelve-tone technique with René Leibowitz (1946). Boulez has been a leader of the avant-garde.

Among his compositions are Le Soleil des eaux (1948, for voice and orchestra; Structures (1952, 1961, for two pianos; Le Marteau sans maître (1954), for voice and chamber 
ensemble; Pli selon pli (1957-62, for voice and orchestra: the Piano Sonata No. 3 (1957, unfinished) in which aleatory processes are explored; and Éclat (1965), for 15-piece chamber orchestra. His later work includes Memoriales (1973-75), Dérive I (1984), and Dérive II (1988). Since the early 1960s many of his works have been revisions of earlier compositions.

He was director of music for Jean-Louis Barrault's theater in Paris, and there he founded the Concerts Marigny and the Domaine Musical to present avant-garde works. He has conducted throughout the world and has published several works in French. He was music director and 
conductor (1971-77) of the New YorkPhilharmonic. He founded the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM, part of the Pompidou Center in Paris, serving as its director from its opening in 1977 until 1992.

In recent years he has devoted much time to the development of sophisticated electronic equipment for the production, generation, and modification of musical sound. This work is exemplified by his ongoing composition Répons, for orchestra, ensembles, and electronic devices.

1. Boulez: Sur Incises
Pierre Boulez (Solistes de l'Ensemble InterContemporain;
Pierre Boulez)
Track from: Boulez: Sur Incises; Messagesquisse; Anthème 2
[Deutsche Grammophon]

2. Rouse: Concert De Gaudí For Guitar And Orch.
Christopher Rouse (Sharon Isbin, guitar; Muhai Tang;
Gulbenkian Orch.)
Track from: Rouse: Concert De Gaudí/Tan Dun: Con. For
Guitar And Orch. (Yi2)
[Teldec Classics International]

3. Ruders: Handmaid's Tale
Poul Ruders (Anne Margrethe Dahl, Poul Elming, Hanne
Fischer, Aage Haugland, Susanne Resmark & Marianne
Rorholm; Michael Schonwandt; Royal Danish Orch.)
[da capo]

4. Saariaho: Lonh
Kaija Saariaho (Dawn Upshaw, soprano)
Trk from: Saariaho: Private Gardens (Lonh; Près; NoaNoa Etc.)
[Naïve Montaigne]

5. Tavener: Total Eclipse
John Tavener (John Harle, saxophone & Max Jones, treble
solo; Edward Higginbottom; The Cho. of New College,
Oxford; Paul Goodwin; The Academy of Ancient Music)
Track from: Tavener: Total Eclipse; Agraphon
[Harmonia Mundi]
 

Best Classical Album
Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist.

1. Berlioz: Les Troyens
Sir Colin Davis; Michelle De Young, Ben Heppner, Petra
Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo &
Kenneth Tarver; James Mallinson, producer (Various Artists;
London Sym. Orch.)
[LSO Live]

2. Boulez Conducts Varèse (Amériques; Arcana;
Déserts; Ionisation)
Pierre Boulez; Helmut Burk & Karl-August Naegler, producers
(Chicago Sym. Orch.)
[Deutsche Grammophon]

3. Janácek: Sárka
Sir Charles Mackerras; Jaroslav Brezina, Ivan Kusnjer, Peter
Straka & Eva Urbanová; Petr Vít, producer (Czech Phil. Orch.)
[Supraphon - A. S.]

4. Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Etc./Berg: Sonata,
Op. 1/Webern: Variations, Op. 27
Pierre Boulez; Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Wilhelm Hellweg,
producer (The Cleveland Orch.)
[Philips]

5. Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Sym.
No. 2, Org. 1913 Version), Etc.
Richard Hickox; Brian Couzens, producer (London Sym Orch.)
[Chandos Records]
 

Best Orchestral Performance
Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra 

1. Beethoven: Die Symphonien
Claudio Abbado (Karita Mattila, soprano, Thomas Moser,
tenor, Thomas Quasthoff, bass & Violeta Urmana, mezzo
soprano; Tönu Kaljuste; Eric Ericson Cham. Cho. & Swedish
Radio Cho.; Berliner Phil.)
[Deutsche Grammophon]

2. Boulez Conducts Varèse (Amériques; Arcana;
Déserts; Ionisation)
Pierre Boulez (Chicago Sym. Orch.)
[Deutsche Grammophon]

3. Bruckner: Sym. No. 3 In D Min.
Osmo Vänskä (BBC Scottish Sym. Orch.)
[Hyperion]

4. Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie (1990 Version)
Kent Nagano (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano & Dominique
Kim, ondes martenot; Berliner Phil.)
[Teldec Classics International]

5. Schuman: Violin Con.; New England
Triptych/Ives: Variations On "America"
José Serebrier (Philip Quint, violin; Bournemouth Sym. Orch.)
 

Best Opera Recording
Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s), and Principal Soloists.

1. Berlioz: Les Troyens
Sir Colin Davis; Michelle De Young, Ben Heppner, Petra
Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo &
Kenneth Tarver; James Mallinson, producer (Various Artists;
London Sym. Orch.)
[LSO Live]

2. Janácek: Sárka
Sir Charles Mackerras; Jaroslav Brezina, Ivan Kusnjer, Peter
Straka & Eva Urbanová; Petr Vít, producer (Czech Phil. Orch.)
[Supraphon - A. S.]

3. Massenet: Manon
Antonio Pappano; Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu; David
Groves, producer (Earle Patriarco & José van Dam; Orch. Sym.
de la Monnaie)
[EMI Classics]

4. Ruders: Handmaid's Tale
Michael Schonwandt; Anne Margrethe Dahl, Poul Elming,
Hanne Fischer, Aage Haugland, Susanne Resmark & Marianne
Rorholm; Henrik Sleiborg, producer (Royal Danish Orch.)
[da capo]

5. Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Giuseppe Sinopoli; Natalie Dessay, Albert Dohmen, Ben
Heppner, Anne Sofie von
Otter & Deborah Voigt; Sid McLauchlan, producer
(Staatskapelle Dresden)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
 

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.

1. Bach: Christmas Cantatas
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (The English Baroque Soloists,
Katharine Fuge, soprano, Stephan Loges, bass, Sara Mingardo,
contralto, Ann Monoyios, soprano, Rufus Müller, tenor, Julian
Podger, tenor, Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor & Gotthold
Schwarz, bass; The Monteverdi Cho.)
[Archiv Produktion]

2. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Norbert Balatsch & Erwin Ortner
(Bernarda Fink, contralto, Matthias Goerne, bass, Dietrich
Henschel, bass, Christoph Prégardien, tenor, Dorothea
Röschmann, soprano, Michael Schade, tenor, Christine
Schäfer, soprano, Markus Schäfer, tenor, Elisaeth von
Magnus, contralto & Oliver Widmer, bass; Arnold Schoenberg
Chor & Wiener Sängerknaben; Concentus Musicus Wien)
[Teldec Classics International]

3. Dvorák: Stabat Mater
Giuseppe Sinopoli; Matthias Brauer (Johan Botha, tenor,
Ruxandra Donose, mezzo soprano, Roberto Scandiuzzi, bass &
Mariana Zvetkova, soprano; Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper
Dresden; Staatskapelle Dresden)
[Deutsche Grammophon]

4. Golijov: La Pasión Según San Marcos
Maria Guinand (Reynaldo González Fernández, dancer,
Cantoría Alberto Grau & Luciana Souza, vocals; Schola
Cantorum de Carácas; Orquesta La Pasión)
[Hänssler Classic]

5. Rihm: Deus Passus - Passions-Stücke Nach Lukas
Helmuth Rilling (Juliane Banse, soprano, Cornelia Kallisch,
alto, Christoph Prégardien, tenor, Andreas Schmidt, baritone &
Iris Vermillion, mezzo soprano; Gächinger Kantorei;
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart)
[Hänssler Classic]

Best Instrumental Soloist(s)
Performance (with Orchestra)
Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.

1. Ligeti: Piano Concerto
Reinbert de Leeuw; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano (Asko
Ensemble)
Track from: The Ligeti Project I (Melodien; Chamber
Concerto, Etc.)
[Teldec Classics International]

2. Rouse: Concert De Gaudí/Tan Dun: Con. For
Guitar And Orch. (Yi2)
Muhai Tang; Sharon Isbin, guitar (Gulbenkian Orch.)
[Teldec Classics International]

3. Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Etc./Berg: Sonata,
Op. 1/Webern: Variations, Op. 27
Pierre Boulez; Mitsuko Uchida, piano (The Cleveland Orch.)
[Philips]

4. Schuman: Violin Concerto
José Serebrier; Philip Quint, violin (Bournemouth Sym. Orch.)
Track from: Schuman: Violin Con.; New England
Triptych/Ives: Variations On "America"
[Naxos Of America]

5. Strauss Wind Concertos (Horn Concerto; Oboe
Concerto, Etc.)
Daniel Barenboim, piano/conductor; Dale Clevenger, horn;
Larry Combs, clarinet; Alex Klein, oboe; David McGill,
bassoon (Chicago Sym. Orch.)
[Teldec Classics International]
 

Best Instrumental Soloist
Performance (without Orchestra)
Award to the Instrumental Soloist.

1. Alkan: Sym. For Solo Piano; Souvenirs: Trois
Morceaux Dans Le Genre Pathétique
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
[Hyperion]

2. Britten Cello Suites (1 - 3)
Truls Mork, cello
[Virgin Classics]

3. Glazunov: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Duane Hulbert, piano
[Bridge Records]

4. Liszt: Sonata, Ballades And Polonaises
Stephen Hough, piano
[Hyperion]

5. Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6; Concert
Sans Orch.
Maurizio Pollini, piano
[Deutsche Grammophon]

Best Chamber Music Performance
Award to the Artists.

1. Boulez: Sur Incises; Messagesquisse; Anthèmes 2
Pierre Boulez & Ensemble InterContemporain
[Deutsche Grammophon]

2. Haydn: The Complete String Quartets
The Angeles String Quartet
[Philips]

3. Messiaen: Quartet For The End Of Time
Myung-Whun Chung, piano, Paul Meyer, clarinet, Gil Shaham,
violin & Jian Wang, violoncello
[Deutsche Grammophon]

4. Villa-Lobos: String Quartets, Vol. 6, Nos. 4, 9, 11
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
[Dorian Recordings]

5. Walton: The String Quartets
The Emperor Quartet
[Black Box Music]
 

Best Small Ensemble Performance
(with or without Conductor)
Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.)

1. Absolution (Mahoney: Dance Machine/Schnyder:
Zoom Out/Sumera: Play For 10, Etc.)
Kristjan Järvi; Absolute Ensemble (Denman Maroney,
prepared piano & Dave Taylor, bass trombone)
[Enja/Nova]

2. After Mozart (Raskatov, Silvestrov, Schnittke,
Etc.)
Gidon Kremer, violin; Kremerata Baltica
[Nonesuch Records]

3. Alfons V El Magnànim - El Cancionero De
Montecassino
Jordi Savall; La Capella Reial de Catalunya
[Alia Vox]

4. Boismortier: Sérénades Françaises (Daphnis Et
Chloé: Chaconne; Fragments Mélodiques; Concerto
Pour Basson, etc.)
Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel (Laurent Le Chenadec,
bassoon)
[Naxos Of America]

5. Morales: Missa Si Bona Suscepimus
Peter Phillips; The Tallis Scholars
[Gimell]
 

Best Classical Vocal Performance
Award to the Vocal Soloist(s).

1. Beethoven/Meyerbeer/Spohr: Lieder - Mélodies
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano (Melvyn Tan, piano)
[Archiv Produktion]

2. Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo
Fra' Dubbi Miei; Di Questa Cetra In Seno, Etc.)
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano (Bernhard Forck; Akademie für
Alte Musik Berlin)
[Decca Records]

3. Fairest Isle (Dowland, Campion, Morley, Etc.)
Barbara Bonney, soprano (Jacob Heringman, lute & Phantasm;
Christopher Hogwood; The Academy of Ancient Music)
[Decca Records]

4. Henze: Six Songs From The Arabian; Three
Auden Songs
Ian Bostridge, tenor (Julius Drake, piano)
[EMI Classics]

5. Schubert: Schwanengesang/Brahms: Vier Ernste
Gesänge
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone (Justus Zeyen, piano)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
 

Best Classical Crossover Album
Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.

1. Bernstein (Arr. Brohn & Corigliano): West Side
Story Suite (Lonely Town; Make Our Garden Grow,
Etc.)
David Zinman, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin (Phil. Orch.)
[Sony Classical]

2. Celluloid Copland (From Sorcery To Science; The
City-Suite; The North Star-Suite, Etc.)
Jonathan Sheffer, conductor (Eos Orch.)
[Telarc International]

3. The Clarinetist Volume One (Franzetti, Piazzolla,
Tico, Etc.)
Bernd Ruf, conductor; Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet & Pablo
Zinger, piano/conductor (Various Artists; European Art Orch.)
[Peregrina Music]

4. La Música De Ernesto Lecuona (Siboney;
Recordar; María La O, Etc.)
Tim Devine, Alfredo Munar & José Ramón Urbay, conductors;
Enrique Chía, piano & Bruce Wethey, violin (Serenade Ens.)
[Begui Records]

5. Perpetual Motion (Scarlatti, Bach, Debussy,
Chopin, Etc.)
Béla Fleck, banjo (Joshua Bell, violin; Evelyn Glennie,
marimba; Gary Hoffman, cello; Edgar Meyer, bass & piano;
Chris Thile, mandolin; John Williams, guitar)
[Sony Classical]