Here, from a post sent by Eric Fettmann at [log in to unmask] to the
opera-l list, are the Grammy Award Nominees.
Field 26 - Classical
Category 86 - Best Classical Album
Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the
Artist.
Nominees:
Bartok: Violin Con. No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
Gil Shaham, violin; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Christian Gansch,
producer (Chicago Sym. Orch.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op.
30; "Spring" Sonata, Etc.)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Lambert Orkis, piano; Ulrich Vette,
producer [Deutsche Grammophon]
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Robert Shaw, conductor; Robert Woods, producer (Nathan Berg,
bass-baritone; Christine Goerke, soprano; Stanford Olsen, tenor;
Marietta Simpson, mezzo soprano; Atlanta Sym. Orch. Cho.; Atlanta
Sym. Orch.) [Telarc]
Nielsen: Maskarade
Ulf Schirmer, conductor; Henriette Bonde-Hansen; Aage Haugland;
Gert-Henning Jensen; Kurt Ravn; Susanne Resmark; Bo Skovhus;
Chris Hazell, producer (Various Artists; The Danish National
Radio Cho.; The Danish National Radio Sym. Orch.) [Decca])
Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Persephone
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Andreas Neubronner, producer
(Vance George, choir director; Joyce Keil, choir director; Stuart
Neill, tenor; Sharon J. Paul, choir director; Ragazzi, The
Peninsula Boys Cho.; San Francisco Sym. Cho.; San Francisco Girls
Cho.; Stephanie Cosserat, narrator; San Francisco Sym.) [RCA
Victor Red Seal]
Category 87 - Best Orchestral Performance
Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.
Nominees:
Mahler: Sym. No. 1
Pierre Boulez, conductor (Chicago Sym. Orch.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Mahler: Sym. No. 3
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor (Simon Halsey, choir director; Birgit
Remmert, contralto; City of Birmingham Sym. Youth Cho.; Ladies
of the City of Birmingham Sym. Cho.; City of Birmingham Sym.
Orch.) Track from: Mahler: Sym. No. 3; 8 Lieder From "Des Knaben
Wunderhorn" [EMI Classics]
Mahler: Sym. No. 9
Benjamin Zander, conductor (Philharmonia Orch.) [Telarc]
Revueltas: Sensemaya (Sensemaya; Ocho Por Radio; First Little
Serious Piece, Etc.)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Los Angeles Phil. New Music Group;
Los Angeles Phil.) [Sony Classical]
Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Persephone
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (Joyce Keil, choir director;
Stuart Neill, tenor; Sharon J. Paul, choir director; Ragazzi,
The Peninsula Boys Cho.; San Francisco Sym. Cho.; San Francisco
Girls Cho.; Stephanie Cosserat, narrator; San Francisco Sym.)
[RCA Victor Red Seal]
Category 88 - Best Opera Recording
Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s), and Principal Soloists.
Nominees:
Ades: Powder Her Face
Thomas Ades, conductor; Valdine Anderson; Roger Bryson; Jill Gomez;
Niall Morris; Chris de Souza, producer (Almeida Ens.) [EMI Classics]
Dvorak: Rusalka
Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Renee Fleming; Ben Heppner;
Michael Haas, producer (Various Artists; The Kuhn Mixed Cho.;
Czech Phil. Orch.) [London/Decca]
Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Laura Claycomb; Sibylle Ehlert;
Charlotte Hellekant; Derek Lee Ragin; Jard van Nes; Ulrich
Schneider, producer (Various Artists; London Sinfonietta Voices;
Philharmonia Orch.) [Sony Classical]
Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise
Kent Nagano, conductor; Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Jose van Dam,
baritone; Sid McLauchlan, producer (Arnold Schoenberg Chor.;
Halle Orch.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Nielsen: Maskarade
Ulf Schirmer, conductor; Henriette Bonde-Hansen; Aage Haugland;
Gert-Henning Jensen; Kurt Ravn; Susanne Resmark; Bo Skovhus;
Chris Hazell, producer (Various Artists; The Danish National
Radio Cho.; The Danish National Radio Sym. Orch.) [Decca]
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Ian Bostridge; Bryn Terfel; Anne
Sofie von Otter; Deborah York; Nicholas Parker, producer (Monteverdi
Cho.; London Sym. Orch.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Category 89 - 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.
Nominees:
Britten: War Requiem
Robert Shafer, conductor; Joan McFarland, choir director; Betty
Scott, choir director (Richard Clement, tenor; Christine Goerke,
soprano; Richard Stilwell, baritone; Maryland Boy Cho.; Shenandoah
Conservatory Cho.; The Washington Cho.; The Washington Orch.)
[The Washington Chorus]
Handel: Solomon
Paul McCreesh, conductor (Inger Dam-Jenson, soprano; Andreas Scholl,
countertenor; Various Artists; Gabrieli Consort; Gabrieli Players)
[Archiv]
Schmidt: Book Of The Seven Seals
Franz Welser-Most, conductor; Michael Glaser, chorus master (Stig
Andersen, tenor; Rene Pape, bass; Various Artists; Bavarian Radio
Cho.; Bavarian Radio Sym. Orch.) [EMI Classics]
Schubert: Mass In A Flat
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor (Neill Archer, tenor; Michael
George, bass; Sally Bruce Payne, mezzo soprano; Deborah York,
soprano; Monteverdi Cho.; Orch. Revolutionnaire et Romantique)
[Philips]
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, choir director;
Gareth Morrell, choir director (Thomas Hampson, baritone; City of
Birmingham Sym. Cho.; The Cleveland Orch. Cho.; City of Birmingham
Sym. Orch.) Track from: Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; Sym. No. 1
[EMI Classics]
Category 90 - Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.
Nominees:
Bartok: Violin Con. No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
Gil Shaham, violin; Pierre Boulez, conductor (Chicago Sym. Orch.)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Beethoven: Violin Concerto/Bernstein: Serenade
Hilary Hahn, violin; David Zinman, conductor (Baltimore Sym.
Orch.) [Sony Classical]
Britten: Double Concerto In B Min.
Yuri Bashmet, viola; Gidon Kremer, violin; Kent Nagano, conductor
(Halle Orch.) Track from: Britten: Double Concerto; Two Portraits;
Young Apollo; Sinfonietta [Erato]
Prokofiev: Piano Cons. Nos. 1 & 3/Bartok: Piano Con. No. 3
Martha Argerich, piano; Charles Dutoit, conductor (Orch. Sym. de
Montr al) [EMI Classics]
Scriabin: Piano Concerto
Anatol Ugorski, piano; Pierre Boulez, conductor (Chicago Sym.
Orch.) Track from: Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'extase; Piano Concerto;
Promethee [Deutsche Grammophon]
Category 91 - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
Award to the Instrumental Soloist.
Nominees:
Bach: English Suites Nos. 2, 4 & 5
Murray Perahia, piano [Sony Classical]
Chopin: The Four Ballades; Berceuse, Op. 57; Barcarolle, Op. 60;
Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54
Evgeny Kissin, piano [RCA Victor Red Seal]
Confrey: Piano Music (Kitten On The Keys; African Suite; Moods
Of A New Yorker, Etc.)
Eteri Andjaparidze, piano [Naxos]
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated; Down By The
Riverside; Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano [Hyperion]
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano [Decca]
Category 92 - Best Chamber Music Performance
Award to the Artists.
Nominees:
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op.
30; "Spring" Sonata, Etc.)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Lambert Orkis, piano [Deutsche
Grammophon]
Dvorak: Piano Trio "Dumky", Op. 90/Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.
2/Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Eroica Trio [EMI Classics]
Hindemith: Quartet For Clarinet, Violin, Cello And Piano
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet In G Min., Op. 57
Boston Sym. Cham. Players; Gilbert Kalish, piano [Arabesque Recordings]
Schubert: The "Trout" Quintet
Wolf: Italian Serenade
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Joseph Carver, double bass; Andreas Haefliger, piano; Takacs
Quartet [London Records]
Tchaikovsky/Shostakovich: Piano Trios
Martha Argerich, piano; Gidon Kremer, violin; Mischa Maisky,
violoncello [Deutsche Grammophon]
Category 93 - Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor)
Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.)
Nominees:
Brahms: Quintet In B Min. For Viola & Strings Arr. By Bashmet
Shostakovich: Thirteenth String Quartet In B Flat Min. Arr. By
A. Tchaikovsky
Yuri Bashmet, viola; Moscow Soloists [Sony Classical]
Colors Of Love (Works Of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener, Rands, Etc.)
Chanticleer; Joseph Jennings, conductor [Teldec Classics
International]
Corelli: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 7 - 12
Modo Antiquo; Federico Maria Sardelli, conductor [Tactus]
Scarlatti: Il Primo Omicidio
Antonio Abete, bass; Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin;
Richard Croft, tenor; Bernarda Fink, alto; Rene Jacobs,
conductor/countertenor; Graciela Oddone, soprano; Dorothea
Roschmann, soprano [Harmonia Mundi France]
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21; Herzegewachse, Op. 20; Ode
To Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41
Pierre Boulez, conductor; Ens. InterContemporain; David
Pittman-Jennings, baritone; Christine Schafer, soprano [Deutsche
Grammophon]
Category 94 - Best Classical Vocal Performance
Award to the Vocal Soloist(s).
Nominees:
Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook (Eisler: Der Sohn; In den Weiden;
Fruhling, Etc.)
Matthias Goerne, baritone (Eric Schneider, piano) [London/Decca]
German Romantic Opera (Arias From Tristan und Isolde, Rienzi,
Siegfried, Etc.)
Ben Heppner, tenor (Donald Runnicles, conductor; NDR Sinfonieorch.)
[RCA Victor Red Seal]
Handel: Operatic Arias (Arias From Ariodante, Giulio Cesare,
Rinaldo, Etc.)
David Daniels, countertenor (Sir Roger Norrington, conductor;
Orch. of the Age of Enlightenment) [Virgin Classics]
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano
(Claudio Abbado, conductor; Berliner Phil.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Schubert: Winterreise
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone (Charles Spencer, piano)
[RCA Victor Red Seal]
Category 95 - 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.)
Nominees:
Ades: Asyla
Thomas Ad s, composer (Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; City of
Birmingham Sym. Orch.) Track from: Ades: Asyla (Concerto Conciso;
These Premises Are Alarmed; Chamber Sym., Etc.) [EMI Classics]
Boulez: Repons
Pierre Boulez, composer (Vincent Bauer, vibraphone; Florent
Boffard, piano; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Frederique Cambreling,
harp; Michel Cerutti, cimbalom; Daniel Ciampolini, xylophone &
glockenspiel; Ens. InterContemporain; Andrew Gerzso,
electro-acoustic realization; Dimitri Vassilakis, piano) Track
from: Boulez: Repons (Repons; Dialogue de l'ombre double) [Deutsche
Grammophon]
Imbrie: Requiem
Andrew Imbrie, composer (Harold Rosenbaum, choir director; George
Rothman, conductor; Lisa Saffer, soprano; New York Virtuoso
Singers; Riverside Sym.) Track from: Imbrie: Requiem; Piano Con.
No. 3 [Bridge Records]
Kernis: Air For Violin
Aaron Jay Kernis, composer (Joshua Bell, violin; David Zinman,
conductor; Minnesota Orch.) Track from: Kernis: Air For Violin;
Double Concerto For Violin & Guitar; Lament And Prayer) [Argo
Records]
Tavener: Eternity's Sunrise
John Tavener, composer (Paul Goodwin, choir director; Patricia
Rozario, soprano; The Orch. of The Academy of Ancient Music)
Track from: Tavener: Eternity's Sunrise (Song Of The Angel; Petra:
A Ritual Dream; Funeral Canticle, Etc.) [Harmonia Mundi USA]
Category 96 - Best Classical Crossover Album
Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.
Nominees:
Beautiful Star - A Celebration Of Christmas (O Holy Night; Wexford
Carol; This Little Babe, Etc.)
Buryl Red, conductor (Various Artists; Joseph Joubert, keyboard;
Charlie McCoy, harmonica; The Century Men) [Resmiranda Records]
Christmas By The Bay (The First Nowell; Rejoice, O Virgin; Ave
Maria, Etc.) Vance George, conductor (John Fenstermaker, organ;
Marc Shapiro, piano; San Francisco Sym. Cho.) [Delos Records]
If Ever I Would Leave You - The Songs Of Alan Jay Lerner
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone (Paul Daniel, conductor; Cho. of Opera
North; English Northern Phil.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Meyer: Short Trip Home (In The Nick Of Time; BP; Concert Duo,
The Prequel, Etc.)
Joshua Bell, violin; Sam Bush, mandolin, violin; Mike Marshall,
guitar, mandola, violin; Edgar Meyer, double bass [Sony Classical]
Schickele: Hornsmoke (Piano Con. No. 2 In F Maj. "Ole"; Brass
Calendar; Hornsmoke - A Horse Opera)
The Chestnut Brass Co.; Peter Schickele, piano & narrator (Cynthia
Carr, horn) [Newport Classic]
Take The "A" Train - Canadian Brass Play The Music Of Duke
Ellington (It Don't Mean A Thing; Echoes Of Harlem; Solitude, Etc.)
The Canadian Brass [RCA Victor]
Ron Chaplin
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