Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Classical Grammy Award Winners, 2011

The winners of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards were announced earlier today, if you hadn't noticed.

While some classical categories were combined because, apparently, the folks of Grammydom couldn't figure out why there's a category for small ensemble and one for chamber music or one for instrumental soloist with orchestra and one without, the pop world has a "Record of the Year," an "Album of the Year" and a "Song of the Year." Adele's Rolling in the Deep from her album "21" wins the first and third and the entire album wins the second. But hey...

In case you didn't get a chance to see the TV show, here are the Grammy Winners in the Classical Division:
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70. Best Orchestral Performance

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
[Deutsche Grammaphon]




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71. Best Opera Recording


Adams: Doctor Atomic 

Alan Gilbert, conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul Fink, Gerald Finley, Thomas Glenn & Eric Owens; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

[Sony Classical]

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72. Best Choral Performance

Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
[Decca]

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73. Best Small Ensemble Performance (also includes Chamber Music, if there are any nominations)

Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music From Slide

Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird
[Cedille Records]

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74. Best Classical Instrumental Solo (combines previous categories "with" and "without orchestra")

Schwantner: Concerto For Percussion & Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Christopher Lamb (Nashville Symphony)
Track from: Schwantner: Chasing Light…
[Naxos]
WOW -- winning over two recordings of Rachmaninoff piano concertos!!
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75. Best Classical Vocal Solo

Diva Divo

Joyce DiDonato (Kazushi Ono; Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon; Choeur De L'Opéra National De Lyon)
[Virgin Classics]

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76. Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry

Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein
[Naxos]

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68. Best Engineered Album, Classical

Aldridge: Elmer Gantry

Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)
[Naxos]

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69. Producer Of The Year, Classical

Judith Sherman

• Adams: Son Of Chamber Symphony; String Quartet (John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet & International Contemporary Ensemble)
• Capricho Latino (Rachel Barton Pine)
• 85th Birthday Celebration (Claude Frank)
• Insects & Paper Airplanes - Chamber Music Of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet & Benjamin Hochman)
• Midnight Frolic - The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
Notable Women - Trios By Today's Female Composers (Lincoln Trio)
• The Soviet Experience, Vol. 1 - String Quartets By Dmitri Shostakovich & His Contemporaries (Pacifica Quartet)
• Speak! (Anthony De Mare)
• State Of The Art - The American Brass Quintet At 50 (The American Brass Quintet)
• Steve Reich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich Musicians & So Percussion)
• Winging It - Piano Music Of John Corigliano (Ursula Oppens)
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And there you are...

-- Dick Strawser

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