The recording academy has announced its nominees for the Grammy Awards, to be awarded in the main event at The Staples Center, Los Angeles, on February 11, 2019.
The classical music categories are split into “performance” and “engineering” awards. Notable nominations in the performance categories include Manfred Honeck for his fine account of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas’s account of the complete Schumann Symphonies cycle with the San Francisco Symphony (which he recently announced his departure from), both in the “Best Orchestral Performance” award. A big favorite to win in this award is Andris Nelsons, conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra with their much-praised Shostakovich’s Symphonies No. 4 & 11.
In the “Best Opera Recording” award, we can see the old and the new, with Lully’s “Alceste” conducted by Christophe Rousset, Verdi “Rigoletto” with conductor Constantine Orbelian and soloists Francesco Demuro, Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Nadine Sierra, as well as Adam’s “Doctor Atomic” (A favourite to win), with the composer also conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Also in the opera award, we can find Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” with Renée Fleming, Sebastian Weigle conducting.
In the “Best Choral Performance”, Rachmaninov’s “The Bells” under Mariss Jansons and his Bayerischen crew are a front-runner, and in the “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” the two notable nominees are Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-André Hamelin for their two-pianos and four hands Stravinsky album, and The Danish String Quartet for their fine ECM album with pieces by Beethoven, Shostakovich & Bach.
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The “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” award sees some tough competition, with Yuja Wang and Simon Rattle’s performance of Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Joshua Bell’s Bruch album, playing with and conducting The Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields.
For the full list of the classical music nominees, click here.
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