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.))
Ayre
Osvaldo Golijov (Dawn Upshaw)
Track from: Golijov: Ayre; Berio: Folk Songs
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
William Bolcom (Leonard Slatkin)
[Naxos]
Boyer: Ellis Island: The Dream Of America
Peter Boyer (Peter Boyer)
[Naxos]
Franzetti: Corpus Evita
Carlos Franzetti (José Luis Moscovich)
[Amapola Records]
Nine Episodes For Four Players
Ned Rorem (Contrasts Quartet)
Track from: Rorem: Nine Episodes For Four Players
[Phoenix USA]
Producer Of The Year, Classical
(A Producer's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.))
Christopher Alder
Bach: Cantatas (Thomas Quasthoff, Rainer Kussmaul, Members Of The
RIAS-Kammerchor, Berlin Baroque Soloists)
Beethoven: Piano Cons. Nos. 2 & 3 (Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado & Mahler
Chamber Orchestra)
Chopin: Scherzi / Impromptus (Yundi Li)
Lamento (Magdalena Kožená, Reinhard Goebel & Musica Antiqua Köln)
Steven Epstein
Brahms: Music For 2 Pianos (Yefim Bronfman & Emanuel Ax)
Music For Organ, Brass And Timpani (Anthony Newman, Graham Ashton, Graham
Ashton Brass Ensemble & Duncan Patton)
Silk Road Journeys: Beyond The Horizon (Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble)
Michael Fine
Fuchs: An American Place (JoAnn Falletta & London Symphony Orchestra)
Ranjbaran: Persian Trilogy (JoAnn Falletta & London Symphony Orchestra)
Soul Of Tango (Gisèle Ben-Dor, Juanjo Mosalini & Santa Barbara Symphony)
Tim Handley
Adams: Shaker Loops (Marin Alsop)
Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience (Leonard Slatkin, Christine
Brewer & Joan Morris)
Brahms: Sym. No. 1 (Marin Alsop & London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Daugherty: Philadelphia Stories (Marin Alsop & Evelyn Glennie)
Glass: Syms. Nos. 2 And 3 (Marin Alsop & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
Thomas C. Moore
Chausson: Le Roi Arthus (Leon Botstein, Apollo Voices, A. Kennedy, D.
McIntyre, G. Sorenson, D. Okulitch, F. Le Roux, S. O'Neill, S. Bullock & A.
Schroeder)
4 + Four (Turtle Island String Quartet With Ying Quartet)
Mozart: Flute Cons., Sym. No. 41 (Martin Pearlman & Boston Baroque)
lBest Classical Album
(Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist.)
Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Jerry Blackstone, William Hammer, Jason Harris,
Christopher Kiver, Carole Ott & Mary Alice Stollak, choir directors; Tim
Handley, producer (Christine Brewer & Joan Morris; University Of Michigan School
Of Music Symphony Orchestra)
[Naxos]
Chávez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 3
Jeff Von Der Schmidt, conductor; Southwest Chamber Music & Tambuco Percussion
Ensemble; Jan Karlin & Matthew Snyder, producers
[Cambria Master Recordings]
Martha Argerich And Friends: Live From The Lugano Festival
Martha Argerich; Ulrich Ruscher, producer
[EMI Classics]
Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
Emerson String Quartet; Da-Hong Seetoo, producer
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Shostakovich: Sym. No. 13
Mariss Jansons, conductor; Sergei Aleksashkin; Wilhelm Meister, producer (Chor
Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
[EMI Classics]
Best Orchestral Performance
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
Antheil: Sym. No. 3 "American"
Hugh Wolff, conductor (Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt)
[CPO]
Bruckner: Sym. No. 7
Yakov Kreizberg, conductor (Wiener Symphoniker)
[PentaTone Classics]
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Pictures At An Exhibition
José Serebrier, conductor (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
[Naxos]
Popov: Sym. No. 1; Shostakovich: Theme & Variations
Leon Botstein, conductor (London Symphony Orchestra)
[Telarc]
Shostakovich: Sym. No. 13
Mariss Jansons, conductor (Sergei Aleksashkin; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks;
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
[EMI Classics]
Best Opera Recording
(Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists.)
Britten: Death In Venice
Richard Hickox, conductor; Michael Chance, Philip Langridge & Alan Opie; Brian
Couzens, producer (BBC Singers; City Of London Sinfonia)
[Chandos Records Ltd]
Conradi: Ariadne
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Barbara Borden, Karina Gauvin, Ellen
Hargis, Jan Kobow, Julian Podger, Marek Rzepka, James Taylor & Matthew White;
Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chorus; Boston
Early Music Festival Orchestra)
[CPO]
Strauss, R.: Daphne
Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Johan Botha, Renée Fleming, Anna Larsson, Michael
Schade & Kwanchul Youn; Michael Haas, producer (West German Radio Symphony
Orchestra (Köln))
[Decca]
Verdi: Falstaff
Sir Colin Davis, conductor; Carlos Alvarez, Bülent Bezdüz, Marina Domashenko,
Jane Henschel, Ana Ibarra, Maria Josè Moreno & Michele Pertusi; James Mallinson,
producer (London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra)
[LSO Live]
Vivaldi: Bajazet
Fabio Biondi, conductor; Patrizia Ciofi, David Daniels, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo,
Elina Garanca, Vivica Genaux & Marijana Mijanovic; Nicolas Bartholomée, producer
(Europa Galante)
[Virgin Classics]
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.)
Bernstein: Mass
Kent Nagano, conductor; Simon Halsey & Kai-Uwe Jirka, choir directors; Richard
Grant & Lynne Morrow, chorus masters (Julian Frischling & Jerry Hadley;
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Staats-Und Domchor Berlin & Soloists Of The Pacific Mozart
Ensemble; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin)
[Harmonia Mundi]
Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Jerry Blackstone, William Hammer, Jason Harris,
Christopher Kiver, Carole Ott & Mary Alice Stollak, choir directors (Christine
Brewer, Measha Brueggergosman, Ilana Davidson, Nmon Ford, Linda Hohenfeld, Joan
Morris, Carmen Pelton, Marietta Simpson & Thomas Young; Michigan State
University Children's Choir, University Of Michigan Chamber Choir, University Of
Michigan Orpheus Singers, University Of Michigan University Choir & University
Musical Society Choral Union; University Of Michigan School Of Music Symphony
Orchestra)
[Naxos]
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Stephen Layton, conductor (Polyphony; Britten Sinfonia)
[Hyperion]
& Penderecki: A Polish Requiem
Antoni Wit, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, chorus master (Izabela Klosinska,
Ryszard Minkiewicz, Piotr Nowacki & Jadwiga Rappé; Warsaw National Philharmonic
Choir; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra)
[Naxos]
Schoenberg: Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, choir director (Jonathan Nott; Accentus; Ensemble
Intercontemporain)
[Naive]
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)
Beethoven: Piano Cons. Nos. 2 & 3
Claudio Abbado, conductor; Martha Argerich (Mahler Chamber Orchestra)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra
Robert Craft, conductor; Fred Sherry String Quartet (Twentieth Century Classics
Ensemble)
Track from: Schoenberg: Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra
[Naxos]
Eventide
JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Thomas Stacy (London Symphony Orchestra)
Track from: Fuchs: An American Place
[Naxos]
Schumann: Cello Concerto; Bloch: Schelomo
Paavo Järvi, conductor; Truls Mørk (Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)
[Virgin Classics]
UFO
Marin Alsop, conductor; Evelyn Glennie (Colorado Symphony Orchestra)
Track from: Daugherty: Philadelphia Stories
[Naxos]
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist.)
Chopin: Études, Op. 10, Barcarolle, Op. 60, Son. No.2
Nelson Freire
[Decca]
Night Breeze - Harp Music Of Carlos Salzedo
Sarah Schuster Ericsson
[Cambria Master Recordings]
Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky
Evgeny Kissin
[BMG Classics RCA Red Seal]
Szymanowski: Piano Son. No. 3, Métopes, Masques
Piotr Anderszewski
[Virgin Classics]
Vengerov: Kreisler, Sarasate, Paganini, Wieniawski
Maxim Vengerov (Ian Brown)
[EMI Classics]
Best Chamber Music Performance
(Award to the Artists.)
A La Carte - Short Works For Winds
The Borealis Wind Quintet
[MSR Classics]
Bartók: The Six String Quartets
Vermeer Quartet
[Naxos]
Borodin Quartet 60th Anniversary
Borodin Quartet
[Onyx]
Martha Argerich And Friends: Live From The Lugano Festival
Martha Argerich
[EMI Classics]
Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
Emerson String Quartet
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
Ancient Voices Of Children
David Colson, conductor; Tony Arnold, Courtney Hershey Bress, Kathryn Dupuy
Cooper, Mark Foster, Susan Grace, William Hill, John Kinzie, Justin Murray,
David Starobin & Dale Stuckenbruck
Track from: Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Nine
[Bridge Records, Inc.]
Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître, Dérive 1 & 2
Pierre Boulez, conductor; Hilary Summers; Ensemble Intercontemporain
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Chávez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 3
Jeff Von Der Schmidt, conductor; Southwest Chamber Music & Tambuco Percussion
Ensemble
[Cambria Master Recordings]
Harbison: Mottetti Di Montale
David Hoose, conductor; Janice Felty & Margaret Lattimore; Collage New Music
[Koch International Classics]
O Magnum Mysterium
Nicholas White, conductor; The Tiffany Consort
[MSR Classics]
Best Classical Vocal Performance
(Award to the Vocal Soloist(s).)
Bach: Cantatas
Thomas Quasthoff (Rainer Kussmaul; Members Of The RIAS Chamber Choir; Berlin
Baroque Soloists)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Bolcom: Songs
Carole Farley (William Bolcom)
[Naxos]
Gounod - Massenet: Arias
Rolando Villazón (Evelino Pido; Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)
[Virgin Classics]
Opera Proibita
Cecilia Bartoli (Marc Minkowski; Les Musiciens Du Louvre)
[Decca]
Strauss: Amor
Natalie Dessay (Antonio Pappano; Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden)
[Virgin Classics]
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