51st Grammy Nominations - Classical

Wednesday, January 28th 2009

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Category 98 Best Classical Album


Cecilia Bartoli; Christopher Raeburn, producer; Wolf-Dieter Karwatky & Philip Siney, engineers/ mixers (Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla)	Craig Hella Johnson, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer; John Newton, engineer/ mixer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Company Of Strings; Company Of Voices & Conspirare)	Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn; Sid McLauchlan & Arend Prohmann, producers; Stephan Flock, engineer/ mixer (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)	Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale; Blanton Alspaugh, producer; John Newton, engineer/ mixer; Jonathan Cooper, mastering engineer	James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle; Los Angeles Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra)

Maria	O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold Of Night	Schoenberg/ Sibelius: Violin Concertos	Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary	Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny

Category 99 Best Orchestral Performance


Rumon Gamba, conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra)	José Serebrier, conductor (Royal Scottish National Orchestra)	Alan Gilbert, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)	Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)	Chris Walden, conductor (Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra)

		Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Op. 20
D'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1	Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, La Mer, Introduction And Dance From Salome	track from Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4	Walden, Chris: Symphony No. 1, The Four Elements

Category 100 Best Opera Recording


Tan Dun, conductor; Michelle DeYoung, Plácido Domingo, Elizabeth Futral, Paul Groves, Wu Hsing-Kuo & Hao Jiang Tian; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)	Paul O´Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Colin Balzer, Karina Gauvin, Carolyn Sampson & Aaron Sheehan; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Boston Early Music Festival Chorus)	Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor; Sara Mingardo, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli & Furio Zanasi; Jean-Pierre Loisil, producer (Concerto Italiano)	Valery Gergiev, conductor; Renée Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Ramón Vargas; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)	James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra; Los Angeles Opera Chorus)

Tan Dun: The First Emperor	Lully: Psyché	Monteverdi: L'Orfeo	Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin	Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny

Category 101 Best Choral Performance


Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Company Of Strings; Company Of Voices & Conspirare)	Charles Bruffy, conductor (Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Bach Choir)	Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rundfunkchor Berlin)	Antoni Wit, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, chorus master (Jaroslaw Brek, Iwona Hossa & Ewa Marciniec; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)	Colin Davis, conductor; Joseph Cullen, chorus master (Steve Davislim, Mihoko Fujimura, Matthew Rose & Indra Thomas; London Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus)

O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold Of Night		Symphony Of Psalms
track from O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold Of Night	Rheinberger: Sacred Choral Works	track from Stravinsky: Symphonies	Szymanowski, Karol: Stabat Mater	Tippett: A Child Of Our Time

Category 102 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)


John McLaughlin Williams, conductor; Elmar Oliveira (National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine)	Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Wu Man (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)	Leif Ove Andsnes (Norwegian Chamber Orchestra)	Charles Dutoit, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet (L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande)	Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

	Harrison: Pipa Concerto
Bloch/Lees:Violin Concertos	track from Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago	Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 & 20	Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 2 & 5	Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos

Category 103 Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)


Marc-Andre Hamelin	Gloria Cheng	Wei Li	Cameron Carpenter	Joan Jeanrenaud

In A State Of Jazz	Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski	Red Cliff Capriccio	Revolutionary	Strange Toys

Category 104 Best Chamber Music Performance


Stephen Hough; Takács Quartet	Pacifica Quartet	Trio Mediaeval	ARC Ensemble	Jennifer Koh & Reiko Uchida

Brahms: String Quartet Op. 51, No. 2, Piano Quintet Op. 34	Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5	Folk Songs	Right Through The Bone — Julius Rontgen Chamber Music	String Poetic

Category 105 Best Small Ensemble Performance


Øyvind Gimse, conductor; TrondheimSolistene	Roman Balashov, conductor; Yuri Bashmet; Moscow Soloists (Wu Man)	Reinbert De Leeuw, conductor; Barbara Sukowa; Schoenberg Ensemble	Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble	Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale

Divertimenti	Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto; Hayashi: Viola Concerto; Takemitsu: Nostalgia	Im Wunderschoenen Monat Mai	Monk: Impermanence	Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary

Category 106 Best Classical Vocal Performance


Hila Plitmann (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)	Sanford Sylvan (Gil Rose; Boston Modern Orchestra Project)	Isabel Bayrakdarian (Eduard Topchjan; Serouj Kradjian; Chamber Players Of The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra)	Cecilia Bartoli (Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla)	Anne Sofie Von Otter (Christian Gerhaher & Daniel Hope; Bengt Forsberg & Gerold Huber)

Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan	Fussell, Charles: Wilde	Gomidas Songs	Maria	Terezin: Theresienstadt

Category 107 Best Classical Contemporary Composition


Marc-Andre Dalbavie (Peter Eotvos)	Michael Gandolfi (Robert Spano)	John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta)	George Tsontakis (Douglas Boyd)	Chris Walden (Chris Walden)

Dalbavie: Concerto Pour Flute		Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan	Violin Concerto No. 2
track from Dalbavie/Jarrell/ Pintscher: Flute Concertos	Gandolfi: The Garden Of Cosmic Speculation	track from Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan	track from Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 2, Clair De Lune	Walden, Chris: Symphony No. 1, The Four Elements

Category 108 Best Classical Crossover Album


Gabriela Montero	Ronn McFarlane	East Village Opera Company	Uri Caine Ensemble	The King's Singers

Baroque	Indigo Road	Olde School	The Othello Syndrome	Simple Gifts

Category 96 Best Engineered Album, Classical


Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic	Øyvind Gimse & TrondheimSolistene	Robert Spano & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus	JoAnn Falletta & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra	Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma & Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique	Divertimenti	Puccini: La Boheme	Respighi: Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Rossiniana	Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago