Best Orchestral Performance

Bates: Works For Orchestra

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Label: SFS Media

Ibert: Orchestral Works

Neeme Jrvi, conductor (Orchestre De La Suisse Romande)

Label: Chandos

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, Op. 100

Mariss Jansons, conductor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Label: RCO

Rouse: Odna Zhizn; Symphonies 3 & 4; Prospero's Rooms

Alan Gilbert, conductor (New York Philharmonic)

Label: Dacapo Records

Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Best Opera Recording

Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles

James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette,
Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus)

Label: Pentatone Music

Handel: Giulio Cesare

Giovanni Antonini, conductor; Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl & Anne-Sofie von Otter;
Samuel Theis, producer (Il Giardino Armonico)

Label: Decca

Higdon: Cold Mountain

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Emily Fons, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard & Jay Hunter Morris;
Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program For
Singers)

Label: Pentatone Music

Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro

Yannick Nzet-Sguin, conductor; Thomas Hampson, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni & Sonya Yoncheva;
Daniel Zalay, producer (Chamber Orchestra Of Europe; Vocalensemble Rastatt)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Szymanowski: Krl Roger

Antonio Pappano, conductor; Georgia Jarman, Mariusz Kwiecie & Saimir Pirgu; Jonathan Allen,
producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House; Royal Opera Chorus)

Label: Opus Arte

Best Choral Performance

Himmelrand

Elisabeth Holte, conductor (Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Ragnfrid Lie & Matilda Sterby; Inger-Lise
Ulsrud; Uranienborg Vokalensemble)

Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

Janek: Glagolitic Mass

Edward Gardner, conductor; Hkon Matti Skrede, chorus master (Susan Bickley, Gbor Bretz, Sara
Jakubiak & Stuart Skelton; Thomas Trotter; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Bergen Cathedral Choir,
Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Choir Of Collegium Musicum & Edvard Grieg Kor)

Label: Chandos

Lloyd: Bonhoeffer

Donald Nally, conductor (Malavika Godbole, John Grecia, Rebecca Harris & Thomas Mesa; The Crossing)

Label: Albany Records

Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1

Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis
& Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)

Label: Warner Classics

Steinberg: Passion Week

Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

Label: Naxos
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Fitelberg: Chamber Works

ARC Ensemble

Label: Chandos

Reflections

yvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene

Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

Serious Business

Spektral Quartet

Label: Sono Luminus

Steve Reich

Third Coast Percussion

Label: Cedille Records

Trios From Our Homelands

Lincoln Trio

Label: Cedille Records

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Fitelberg: Chamber Works

ARC Ensemble

Label: Chandos

Reflections

yvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene

Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

Serious Business

Spektral Quartet

Label: Sono Luminus

Steve Reich

Third Coast Percussion

Label: Cedille Records

Trios From Our Homelands

Lincoln Trio

Label: Cedille Records

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Monteverdi

Magdalena Koen; Andrea Marcon, conductor (David Feldman, Michael Feyfar, Jakob Pilgram & Luca
Tittoto; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel)

Label: Archiv Produktion

Mozart: The Weber Sisters

Sabine Devieilhe; Raphal Pichon, conductor (Pygmalion)

Label: Erato

Schumann & Berg

Dorothea Rschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist

Label: Decca

Shakespeare Songs

Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power &
Adam Walker)

Label: Warner Classics

Verismo

Anna Netrebko; Antonio Pappano, conductor (Yusif Eyvazov; Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa
Cecilia; Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Best Classical Compendium

Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once

Upon A Castle

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

Label: Naxos

Gesualdo

Tnu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer

Label: ECM New Series

Vaughan Williams: Discoveries

Martyn Brabbins, conductor; Andrew Walton, producer

Label: Albion Records

Wolfgang: Passing Through

Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang, producers; (Various Artists)

Label: Albany Records

Zappa: 200 Motels - The Suites

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa, producers

Label: Universal Music

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Bates: Anthology Of Fantastic Zoology

Mason Bates, composer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Label: CSO Resound

Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway

Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Track from: Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle

Label: Naxos

Higdon: Cold Mountain

Jennifer Higdon, composer; Gene Scheer, librettist (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jay Hunter Morris, Emily Fons,
Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn & The Santa Fe Opera)

Label: Pentatone Music

Theofanidis: Bassoon Concerto

Christopher Theofanidis, composer (Martin Kuuskmann, Barry Jekowsky & Northwest Sinfonia)

Track from: Bassoon Concertos - Theofanidis, Hummel, Mozart

Label: Estonian Record Productions

Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky

C. F. Kip Winger, composer (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)

Track from: Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky

Label: VBI Classic Recordings