Grammy Awards

Classical winners at the 58th annual Grammy awards, announced on 15 February 2016, include Ask Your Mama on Avie Records, winning Best Engineered Classical Album, and conductor Andris Nelsons for Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No 10 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon, winning Best Orchestral Performance.

Judith Sherman won Classical Producer of the Year for a whole series of recordings, including Gloria Cheng's Montage - Great Film Composers and The Piano on harmonia mundi usa (read Howard Smith's review), Turina: Chamber Music For Strings and Piano (Cedille Records) (read Gerald Fenech's review) and Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (also on Cedille).

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album was won by Joyce DiDonato and accompanist Antonio Pappano for Joyce & Tony - Live from Wigmore Hall on Erato.

Decca's recording of Ravel's L'Enfant et Les Sortilèges and Shéhérazade, with Seiji Ozawa, Isabel Leonard, the Saito Kinen Orchestra, the SKF Matsumoto Chorus and the SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus, produced by Dmominic Fyfe, won Best Opera Recording.

Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil on Chandos, with Charles Bruffy, Paul Davidson, Frank Fleschner, Toby Vaughan Kidd, Bryan Pinkall, Julia Scozzafava, Bryan Talyor, Joseph Warner, the Kansas City Chorale and the Phoenix Chorale, won Best Choral Performance.

Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance went to Eighth Blackbird's Filament on Cedille Records.

Violinist Augustin Hadelich and conductor Ludovic Morlot won Best Classical Instrumental Solo for Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L'Arbre Des Songes, a track from Dutilleux: Métaboles; L'Arbre Des Songes; Symphony No 2, 'Le Double' on Seattle Symphony Media.

Best Classical Compendium went to conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and producer Tim Handley for Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears and Grand Concerto on Naxos. Music by American composer Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) - his Prayers & Remembrances, a track from Paulus: Far In The Heavens on Reference Recordings - also won Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

Information: www.grammy.com

Posted: 17 February 2016

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