ARTISTS, ENGINEERS, PRODUCERS, AND COMPOSERS IN THE NAXOS OF AMERICA DISTRIBUTION FAMILY RECOGNIZED WITH 43 GRAMMY® NOMINATIONS

Franklin, TN, 11.28.17 –Nominations have been announced by the Recording Academy® for the 60^th Annual GRAMMY® Awards and artists, engineers, producers and composers from Naxos, 2L, Alpha, Avie, BIS Records, Capriccio, Chandos, Columbia Records, Delos, Fanfare Cincinnati, Mack Avenue, Mariinsky, Pentatone, Reference Recordings, Sony Masterworks Broadway, and Sony Music Entertainment have garnered 43 nominations. The winners will be announced on January 28, 2018 from Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Naxos of America artists were recognized in 21 categories, including: Best Orchestral Performance, Best Opera Recording, Best Choral Performance, Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Best Classical Compendium, Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Engineered Album – Classical, Best Surround Sound Album, Producer of the Year – Classical, Best Historical Album, Best Song Written for Visual Media, Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, Best Music Theater Album, Best Contemporary Blues Album, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Jazz Vocal Album, and Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

Artists on albums in the Naxos Music Group have been awarded 6 nominations. Those include: Best Opera Recording: Berg: Wozzeck [Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms & Roman Trekel; Hans Graf, producer (Houston Symphony; Chorus of Students And Alumni, Shepherd School Of Music, Rice University & Houston Grand Opera Children’s Chorus)]; Best Orchestral Performance: Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches [Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra)]; Best Classical Compendium: Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer); Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Higdon: Viola Concerto [Jennifer Higdon, composer (Roberto Díaz, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)]; Best Engineered Album – Classical: Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs [Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)]

Many of the nominees in the Producer of the Year – Classical category have a body of work that includes recordings from the Naxos of America label family. Special recognition goes to producers Blanton Alspaugh, David Frost, Morten Lindberg, and Judith Sherman.

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31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo

MAC1122

Dance Of Shiva

Billy Childs, soloist

Track from: Rebirth

Mack Avenue Records

32. Best Jazz Vocal Album

ART7050

Bad Ass And Blind

Raul Midón, artist

Artistry – Mack Avenue

MAC1120

MAC1120LP

Dreams And Daggers

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Mack Avenue Records

33. Best Jazz Instrumental Album

MAC1122

Rebirth

Billy Childs

Mack Avenue Records

MAC1121

MAC1121LP

Project Freedom

Joey DeFrancesco & The People

Mack Avenue Records

34. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

MAC1125

MONK’estra Vol. 2

John Beasley

Mack Avenue Records

MAC1115

MAC1115LP

Bringin’ It

Christian McBride Big Band

Mack Avenue Records

50. Best Contemporary Blues Album

88985369472

88985369471

Got Soul

Robert Randolph & The Family Band

Sony Music Entertainment

58. Best Musical Theater Album

88985405922

Hello, Dolly!

Bette Midler, principal soloist; Steven Epstein, producer (Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist) (New Broadway Cast Recording)

Sony Masterworks Broadway

59. Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

88985449692

88985446641

Baby Driver

(Various Artists)

Columbia Records

88985390592

Hidden Figures: The Album

(Various Artists)

Columbia Records

60. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

88985390592

Hidden Figures

Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer, composers

Columbia Records

61. Best Song Written For Visual Media

88985400442

Never Give Up

Sia Furler & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia)

Track from: Lion

Sony Music Entertainment

68. Best Historical Album

88985480742

The Goldberg Variations – The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955

Robert Russ, compilation producer; Matthias Erb, Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Glenn Gould)

Sony Music Entertainment

88985345312

Leonard Bernstein – The Composer

Robert Russ, compilation producer; Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Leonard Bernstein)

Sony Music Entertainment

72. Best Surround Sound Album

2L-136-SABD

Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra And Choir)

2L-140-SABD

So Is My Love

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96)

PTC5186584

Tyberg: Masses

Jesse Brayman, surround mix engineer; Jesse Brayman, surround mastering engineer; Blanton Alspaugh, surround producer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Pentatone

73. Best Engineered Album, Classical

8559792

Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs

Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Naxos American Classics

2L-136-SABD

Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man

Morten Lindberg, engineer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra)

RR-139SACD

Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies

Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Reference Recordings

FR-724SACD

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio

Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Reference Recordings

PTC5186584

Tyberg: Masses

John Newton, engineer; Jesse Brayman, mastering engineer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Pentatone

75. Best Orchestral Performance

FC-010

Concertos For Orchestra

Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)

Fanfare Cincinnati

8559844

Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches

Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Naxos American Classics

BIS-2226

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra)

BIS

FR-724SACD

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio

Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Reference Recordings

76. Best Opera Recording

8660390-91

Berg: Wozzeck

Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms & Roman Trekel; Hans Graf, producer (Houston Symphony; Chorus Of Students And Alumni, Shepherd School Of Music, Rice University & Houston Grand Opera Children’s Chorus)

Naxos Opera

Mar0596

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

Valery Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Feliauer, Aida Garifullina & Kira Loginova; Ilya Petrov, producer (Mariinsky Orchestra; Mariinsky Chorus)

Mariinsky

77. Best Choral Performance

CHSA 5176(2)

Handel: Messiah

Andrew Davis, conductor; Noel Edison, chorus master (Elizabeth DeShong, John Relyea, Andrew Staples & Erin Wall; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir)

Chandos