ARTISTS, ENGINEERS, PRODUCERS, AND COMPOSERS IN THE NAXOS OF AMERICA DISTRIBUTION FAMILY RECOGNIZED WITH 44 GRAMMY® NOMINATIONS
Franklin, TN, 12.10.18 – Nominations have been announced by the Recording Academy® for the 61st Annual GRAMMY® Awards. Artists, engineers, producers and composers from Naxos, 2L, Avie Records, Berliner Philharmoniker, BR Klassik, Bridge Records, Cedille Records, Chandos, Innova, Linn Records, Mack Avenue Records, Naïve Pop, New Amsterdam Records, New Focus Recordings, Pentatone, Reference Recordings, Seattle Symphony Media, Signum Classics, Sono Luminus, Sony Music Entertainment, and Tundra have garnered 44 nominations. The winners will be announced on February 10th, 2019 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Naxos of America artists were recognized in 18 categories, including: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best Jazz Vocal Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, Best Song Written for Visual Media, Best Arrangement – Instruments & Vocals, Best Immersive Audio Album, Best Engineered Album – Classical, 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, and Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Artists on albums in the Naxos Music Group have been awarded 3 nominations. Those include: Best Orchestral Performance: Ruggles, Stucky, & Harbison: Orchestral Works [David Alan Miller, conductor (National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic)]; Best Choral Performance: Kastalsky: Memory Eternal [Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)]; Best Classical Compendium: Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush (JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer).
All of the nominees in the Producer of the Year – Classical category have a body of work that includes recordings from the Naxos of America distributed-label family. Special recognition goes to producers Blanton Alspaugh, David Frost, Elizabeth Ostrow, Judith Sherman, and Dirk Sobotka.
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11. BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
20. BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
32. BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
33. BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
34. BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM
59. BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
61. BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Mystery of Love
Track From: Call Me By Your Name
Sufjan Stevens, songwriter; Various Artists
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
64. BEST ARRANGEMENT – INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS
Niña
Track From: Dreamers
Gonzalo Grau, arranger; Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
72. BEST IMMERSIVE AUDIO ALBUM
Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer; Anne Karin Sundal-Ask, conductor; Det Norske Jentekor
Label: 2L
Daniel Shores, surround mix engineer; Daniel Shores, surround mastering engineer; Dan Merceruio, surround producer; Matthew Guard, conductor; Skylark
Label: Sono Luminus
Sommerro: Ujamaa & The Iceberg
Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer; Ingar Heine Bergby, conductor; Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Choir
Label: 2L
73. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM – CLASSICAL
Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Mark Donahue & Dirk Sobotka, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer; Michael Christie, conductor; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Garrett Sorenson; Wei Wu; Sasha Cooke; Edward Parks; Jessica E. Jones
Label: Pentatone
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1
Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer; Manfred Honeck, conductor; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Label: Reference Recordings
Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers; Keith O. Johnson, mastering engineer; Jerry Junkin, conductor; Dallas Winds
Label: Reference Recordings
Liquid Melancholy – Clarinet Music of James M. Stephenson
Bill Maylone & Mary Mazurek, engineers; Bill Maylone, mastering engineer; John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor; Lake Forest Symphony
Label: Cedille Records
75. BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Label: Reference Recordings
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 & Symphony No. 4
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor; Seattle Symphony
Label: Seattle Symphony Media
Ruggles, Stucky & Harbison: Orchestral Works
David Alan Miller, conductor; National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic
Label: Naxos American Classics
76. BEST OPERA RECORDING
Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Michael Christie, conductor; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Sasha Cooke; Jessica E. Jones; Edward Parks; Garrett Sorenson; Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer
Label: Pentatone
Constantine Orbelian, conductor; Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra; Men of the Kaunas State Choir; Francesco Demuro, Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Nadine Sierra; Vilius Keras & Aleksandra Keriene, producers
Label: Delos
77. BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes
Vladimir Gorbik, conductor; PaTRAM Institute Male Choir
Label: Reference Recordings
Donald Nally, conductor; The Crossing; Rebecca Harris; Arlen Hlusko; Lorenzo Raval; Mandy Wolman
Label: Innova
Mariss Jansons, conductor; Peter Dijkstra, chorus master; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Oleg Dolgov; Alexey Markov; Tatiana Pavlovskaya
Label: BR Klassik
78. BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
79. BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Yuja Wang; Simon Rattle, conductor; Berlin Philharmoniker
Track From: The Asia Tour
Label: Berliner Philharmoniker
Christina Day Martinson; Martin Pearlman, conductor; Boston Baroque
Label: Linn Records
80. BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
Songs of Orpheus – Monteverdi, Caccini, D’India, Landi
Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo’s Fire
Label: Avie Records
81. BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems Of Life; Glacier; Rush
JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
Label: Naxos American Classics
Simon Rattle, conductor; Christoph Franke, producer
Label: Berliner Philharmoniker
Jerry Junkin, conductor; Christoph Franke, producer
Label: Reference Recordings
Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade To Music; Flos Campi
Peter Oundjian, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer
Label: Chandos
82. BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Mason Bates, composer; Mark Campbell, librettist; Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke; Jessica E. Jones; Edward Parks; Garrett Sorenson; Wei Wu; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra
Label: Pentatone
Du Yun: Air Glow
Track From: Dinosaur Scar
Du Yun, composer; International Contemporary Ensemble
Label: Tundra
Mazzoli: Vespers for Violin
Track From: Streya
Missy Mazzoli, composer; Olivia de Prato
Label: New Focus Recordings