2008 Classical Grammy Award Nominees - lots of vocal treats

BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM:

Maria.
Cecilia Bartoli; Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla [Decca Records]




O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold Of Night.
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor; Company Of Strings; Company Of Voices & Conspirare [Harmonia Mundi]




Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [Deutsche Grammophon]





Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary
Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale; [Chandos]



Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny.
James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle; Los Angeles Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra [EuroArts]


BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE:
D'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
Rumon Gamba, conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra) [Chandos]

Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, La Mer, Introduction And Dance From Salome
José Serebrier, conductor (Royal Scottish National Orchestra) [Warner Classics & Jazz]

Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Op. 20
Alan Gilbert, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) [CSO Resound]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) [CSO Resound]

Walden, Chris: Symphony No. 1, The Four Elements
Chris Walden, conductor (Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra) [Origin Classical]


BEST OPERA RECORDING:
Dun: The First Emperor
Tan Dun, conductor; Michelle DeYoung, Plácido Domingo, Elizabeth Futral, Paul Groves, Wu Hsing-Kuo & Hao Jiang Tian; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) [EMI Classics]

Lully: Psyché
Paul O´Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Colin Balzer, Karina Gauvin, Carolyn Sampson & Aaron Sheehan; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Boston Early Music Festival Chorus) [CPO]

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor; Sara Mingardo, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli & Furio Zanasi; Jean-Pierre Loisil, producer (Concerto Italiano) [Naive Classique]

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Valery Gergiev, conductor; Renée Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Ramón Vargas; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) [Decca]

Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny
James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra; Los Angeles Opera Chorus) [EuroArts]


BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE:
O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold Of Night
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Company Of Strings; Company Of Voices & Conspirare) [Harmonia Mundi]

Rheinberger: Sacred Choral Works
Charles Bruffy, conductor (Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Bach Choir) [Chandos]

Symphony Of Psalms
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rundfunkchor Berlin) [EMI Classics]

Szymanowski, Karol: Stabat Mater
Antoni Wit, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, chorus master (Jaroslaw Brek, Iwona Hossa & Ewa Marciniec; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir) [Naxos]

Tippett: A Child Of Our Time
Colin Davis, conductor; Joseph Cullen, chorus master (Steve Davislim, Mihoko Fujimura, Matthew Rose & Indra Thomas; London Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus) [LSO Live]


BEST INSTRMENTAL SOLOIST(S) WITH ORCHESTRA
Bloch/Lees:Violin Concertos
John McLaughlin Williams, conductor; Elmar Oliveira (National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine) [Artek]

Harrison: Pipa Concerto
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Wu Man (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) [CSO Resound]

Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 & 20
Leif Ove Andsnes (Norwegian Chamber Orchestra) [EMI Classics]

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 2 & 5
Charles Dutoit, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet (L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande) [Decca Records]

Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra) [Deutsche Grammophon]


BEST INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST PERFORMANCE WITHOUT ORCHESTRA
In A State Of Jazz
Marc-André Hamelin [Hyperion]

Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski
Gloria Cheng [Telarc]

Red Cliff Capriccio
Wei Li [First Impression Music]

Revolutionary
Cameron Carpenter [Telarc]

Strange Toys
Joan Jeanrenaud [Talking House Records]


BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Brahms: String Quartet Op. 51, No. 2, Piano Quintet Op. 34
Stephen Hough; Takács Quartet [Hyperion]

Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5
Pacifica Quartet [Naxos]

Folk Songs
Trio Mediaeval [ECM New Series]

Right Through The Bone - Julius Röntgen Chamber Music
ARC Ensemble [RCA Red Seal]

String Poetic
Jennifer Koh & Reiko Uchida [Cedille Records]


BEST SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Divertimenti
Øyvind Gimse, conductor; TrondheimSolistene [2L (Lindberg Lyd)]

Dun: Pipa Concerto; Hayashi: Viola Concerto; Takemitsu: Nostalgia
Roman Balashov, conductor; Yuri Bashmet; Moscow Soloists (Wu Man) [Onyx Classics]

Im Wunderschoenen Monat Mai
Reinbert De Leeuw, conductor; Barbara Sukowa; Schoenberg Ensemble [Winter & Winter]

Monk: Impermanence
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble [ECM New Series]

Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary
Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale [Chandos]


BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
Hila Plitmann (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) [Naxos]

Fussell, Charles: Wilde
Sanford Sylvan (Gil Rose; Boston Modern Orchestra Project) [BMOP/sound]

Gomidas Songs
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Eduard Topchjan; Serouj Kradjian; Chamber Players Of The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra) [Nonesuch Records]

Maria
Cecilia Bartoli (Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla) [Decca Records]

Terezín: Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Christian Gerhaher & Daniel Hope; Bengt Forsberg & Gerold Huber) [Deutsche Grammophon]


BEST CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
Dalbavie: Concerto Pour Flûte
Marc-André Dalbavie (Peter Eötvös) [EMI Classics]

Gandolfi: The Garden Of Cosmic Speculation
Michael Gandolfi (Robert Spano) [Telarc]

Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta)

Violin Concerto No. 2
George Tsontakis (Douglas Boyd) [Koch Int'l Clasiscs]

Walden, Chris: Symphony No. 1, The Four Elements
Chris Walden (Chris Walden) [Origin Classical]


BEST CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUM
Baroque
Gabriela Montero [EMI Classics]

Indigo Road
Ronn McFarlane [Dorian Sono Luminus]

Olde School
East Village Opera Company [Decca Records]

The Othello Syndrome
Uri Caine Ensemble [Winter & Winter]

Simple Gifts
The King's Singers [Signum Records]