Bartoli’s Sacrificium and Muti’s Verdi Requiem recordings win Grammy Awards

Right down there at the bot­tom of the bar­rel are the clas­sical nom­in­a­tions — after rap, blues, latin, heavy metal, R&B, coun­try, jazz, pop and every other form of pop­u­lar music ima­gin­able there are a few cat­egor­ies for clas­sical music at the Grammys. Just two awards come after and those are for videos, not audio record­ings. Here are the win­ners for 2011.

Best Clas­sical Album

WINNER
Verdi: Requiem

Ric­cardo Muti, con­ductor; Duain Wolfe, chorus mas­ter; Chris­topher Alder,
pro­du­cer; David Frost, Tom Laz­arus & Chris­topher Wil­lis, engineers/mixers; Silas Brown, mas­ter­ing engin­eer (Ildar Abdraza­kov, Olga Borod­ina, Bar­bara Frit­toli & Mario Zef­firi; Chicago Sym­phony Orches­tra; Chicago Sym­phony Chorus)
[CSO Resound]

Best Orches­tral Performance

WINNER
Daugh­erty: Met­ro­polis Sym­phony; Deus Ex Machina

Gian­carlo Guer­rero, con­ductor (Ter­rence Wilson; Nashville Sym­phony)
[Naxos]

Best Opera Recording

WINNER
Saari­aho: L’Amour De Loin

Kent Nagano, con­ductor; Daniel Belcher, Eka­ter­ina Lekh­ina & Marie-Ange
Todorovitch; Mar­tin Sauer, pro­du­cer (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Ber­lin; Rund­funk­chor Ber­lin)
[Har­mo­nia Mundi]

Best Choral Performance

WINNER
Verdi: Requiem

Ric­cardo Muti, con­ductor; Duain Wolfe, chorus mas­ter (Ildar Abdraza­kov, Olga
Borod­ina, Bar­bara Frit­toli & Mario Zef­firi; Chicago Sym­phony Orches­tra; Chicago Sym­phony Chorus)
[CSO Resound]

Best Instru­mental Soloist(s) Per­form­ance (with Orchestra)

WINNER
Moz­art: Piano Con­cer­tos Nos. 23 & 24

Mit­suko Uchida (The Clev­e­land Orches­tra)
[Decca]

Best Instru­mental Soloist Per­form­ance (without Orchestra)

WINNER
Mes­si­aen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement

Paul Jac­obs
[Naxos]

Best Cham­ber Music Performance

WINNER
Ligeti: String Quar­tets Nos. 1 & 2

Parker Quar­tet
[Naxos]

Best Small Ensemble Performance

WINNER
Dinastia Borja

Jordi Savall, con­ductor; Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial De Catalunya (Pas­cal
Bertin, Daniele Carnovich, Lior Elma­lich, Mont­ser­rat Figueras, Driss El Maloumi, Marc Mauil­lon, Lluís Vil­amajó & Furio Zanasi; Pas­cal Bertin, Daniele Carnovich, Josep Piera & Fran­cisco Rojas)
[Alia Vox]

Best Clas­sical Vocal Performance

WINNER
Sac­ri­fi­cium

Cecilia Bar­toli (Gio­vanni Ant­onini; Il Giardino Armonico)
[Decca]

Best Clas­sical Con­tem­por­ary Composition

WINNER
Daugh­erty, Michael: Deus Ex Machina

Michael Daugh­erty (Gian­carlo Guer­rero)
Track from: Daugh­erty: Met­ro­polis Sym­phony
[Naxos]

Best Clas­sical Cros­sover Album

WINNER
Tin, Chris­topher: Call­ing All Dawns

Lucas Rich­man, con­ductor (Sus­san Dey­him, Lia, Kaori Omura, Dulce Pontes, Jia
Ruhan, Aoi Tada & Fre­der­ica von Stade; Anonym­ous 4 & Soweto Gos­pel Choir; Royal Phil­har­monic Orches­tra)
[Tin Works Publishing]

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