The classical music nominees for the 2019 61st Annual Grammy Awards have been announced – including violinists James Ehnes, Joshua Bell and Laurie Anderson and the Kronos, Danish and Aizuri String Quartets.
The year’s Grammy Awards will be presented today at a special ceremony in Los Angeles’s Microsoft Theatre.
The 2019 classical music nominees are:
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
- Laurie Anderson : Landfall – Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
- Prism 1 Beethoven, Shostakovich & Bach – The Danish String Quartet
- Blueprinting – Aizuri Quartet
- Stravinsky : The Rite of String Concerto for Two Pianos – Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-Andre Hamelin
- Vision and Variations – A Far Cry
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
- Bartok Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang, Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic
- Biber : The Mystery Sonatas – Christina Day Martinson, Martin Pearlman & Boston Baroque
- Bruch : Scottish Fantasy, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor – Joshua Bell & The Academy of St. Martins in the Fields
- Glass : Three Pieces in the Shape of a Square – Craig Morris
- Kernis Violin Concerto – James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
- Bates : The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs – Mason Bates, Mark Campbell, Michael Christie, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu, Sasha Cooke, Edwards Parks, Jessica E. Jones & Santa Fe Opera Orchestra
- Du Yun : Air Glow – Du Yun & International Contemporary Ensemble
- Heggie : Great Scott – Jake Heggie, Terrence McNally, Patrick Summers, Manuel Palazzo, Mark Hancock, Michael Mayes, Rodell Rosel, Kevin Burdette, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nathan Gunn, Frederica von Stade, Ailyn Pérez, Joyce DiDonato & Dallas Opera Chorus & Orchestra
- Kernis Violin Concerto – Aaron Jay Kernis, James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony
- Mazzoli : Vespers for Violin – Missy Mazzoli & Olivia De Prato
Best Orchestral Performance
- Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 – Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony
- Nielsen Symphony No. 3 & 4 – Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony
- Ruggles, Stucky & Harbison Orchestral Works – David Alan Miller & National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic
- Schumann Symphonies No. 1-4 – Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony
- Shostakovich Symphonies No. 4 & 11 – Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony
Best Opera Recording
- Adams: Doctor Atomic – John Adams, Aubrey Allicock, Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley, Brindley Sherratt Friedemann Engelbrecht, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Singers
- Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs – Michael Christie, Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edwards Parks, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu and Elizabeth Ostrow & the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra
- Lully: Alceste – Christophe Rousset, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Judith Van Wanroij, Maximilien Ciup, Les Talens Lyriques & Choeur De Chambre De Namur
- Strauss : Der Reosenkavalier – Sebastian Weigle, Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Günther Groissböck, Erin Morley, David Frost, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Metropolitan Opera Chorus
- Verdi: Rigoletto – Constantine Orbelian, Francesco Demuro, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Nadine Sierra, Vilius Keras, Aleksandra Keriene, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Men Of The Kaunas State Choir
Best Choral Performance
- Chesnokov : Teach Me Thy Statutes – Vladimir Gorbik, Mikhail Davydov, Vladimir Krasov & PaTRAM Institute Male Choir
- Kastalsky : Memory Eternal – Steven Fox & The Clarion Choir
- McLoskey : Zealot Canticles – Donald Nally, Doris Hall-Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Arlen Hlusko, Lorenzo Raval, Mandy Wolman & The Crossing)
- Rachmaninov : The Bells – Mariss Jansons, Peter Dijkstra, Oleg Dolgov, Alexey Markov, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- Seven Words From the Cross – Matthew Guard & Skylark
Best Classical Compendium
- Fuch Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’, Poems of Life, Glacier, Rush – JoAnn Falletta & Tim Handely
- Gold – The King’s Singers & Nigel Short
- The John Adams Edition – Simon Rattle & Christoph Franke
- John Williams at the Movies – Jerry Junkin & Donald J. McKinney
- Vaughan Willians Piano Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Serenade to Music, Flos Campi – Peter Ondjian & Blanton Alspaugh
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
- ARC – Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jonathan Cohen & Les Violons Du Roy
- The Handel Album – Philippe Jaroussky & Artaserse
- Mirages – Sabine Devieilhe, François-Xavier Roth, Alexandre Tharaud, Marianne Crebassa, Jodie Devos & Les Siècles
- Schubert : Winterreise – Randall Scarlata & Gilbert Kalish
- Songs of Orpheus – Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell & Apollo’s Fire
In addition, director and producer Alison Chernick has been nominated for her documentary ‘Itzhak’ – in the ‘Best Music Film’ category.
