Nominees for 59th Grammy Awards announced

• Bates: Works For Orchestra
  Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)
  Label: SFS Media
• Ibert: Orchestral Works
  Neeme Järvi, conductor (Orchestre De La Suisse Romande)
  Label: Chandos
• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, Op. 100
  Mariss Jansons, conductor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)
  Label: RCO
• Rouse: Odna Zhizn; Symphonies 3 & 4; Prospero’s Rooms
  Alan Gilbert, conductor (New York Philharmonic)
  Label: Dacapo Records
• Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
  Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
  Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Best Opera Recording

• Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles
  James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus)
  Label: Pentatone Music
• Handel: Giulio Cesare
  Giovanni Antonini, conductor; Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl & Anne-Sofie von Otter; Samuel Theis, producer (Il Giardino Armonico)
  Label: Decca
• Higdon: Cold Mountain
  Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Emily Fons, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard & Jay Hunter Morris; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program For Singers)
  Label: Pentatone Music
• Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Thomas Hampson, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni & Sonya Yoncheva; Daniel Zalay, producer (Chamber Orchestra Of Europe; Vocalensemble Rastatt)
  Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• Szymanowski: Król Roger
  Antonio Pappano, conductor; Georgia Jarman, Mariusz Kwiecień & Saimir Pirgu; Jonathan Allen, producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House; Royal Opera Chorus)
  Label: Opus ArteBest Choral Performance
• Himmelrand
  Elisabeth Holte, conductor (Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Ragnfrid Lie & Matilda Sterby; Inger-Lise Ulsrud; Uranienborg Vokalensemble)
  Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
• Janáček: Glagolitic Mass
  Edward Gardner, conductor; Håkon Matti Skrede, chorus master (Susan Bickley, Gábor Bretz, Sara Jakubiak & Stuart Skelton; Thomas Trotter; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Bergen Cathedral Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Choir Of Collegium Musicum & Edvard Grieg Kor)
  Label: Chandos
• Lloyd: Bonhoeffer
  Donald Nally, conductor (Malavika Godbole, John Grecia, Rebecca Harris & Thomas Mesa; The Crossing)
  Label: Albany Records
• Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1
  Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)
  Label: Warner Classics
• Steinberg: Passion Week
  Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)
  Label: NaxosBest Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
• Fitelberg: Chamber Works
  ARC Ensemble
  Label: Chandos
• Reflections
  Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene
  Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
• Serious Business
  Spektral Quartet
  Label: Sono Luminus
• Steve Reich
  Third Coast Percussion
  Label: Cedille Records
• Trios From Our Homelands
  Lincoln Trio
  Label: Cedille Records

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

• Adams, J.: Scheherazade.2
  Leila Josefowicz; David Robertson, conductor (Chester Englander; St. Louis Symphony)
  Label: Nonesuch
• Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway
  Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony)
  Track from: Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle Label: Naxos
• Dvořák: Violin Concerto & Romance; Suk: Fantasy
  Christian Tetzlaff; John Storgårds, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)
  Label: Ondine
• Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9
  Kristian Bezuidenhout
  Label: Harmonia Mundi
• 1930’s Violin Concertos, Vol. 2
  Gil Shaham; Stéphane Denève, conductor (The Knights & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra)
  Label: Canary Classics

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Monteverdi
  Magdalena Kožená; Andrea Marcon, conductor (David Feldman, Michael Feyfar, Jakob Pilgram & Luca Tittoto; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel)
  Label: Archiv Produktion
• Mozart: The Weber Sisters
  Sabine Devieilhe; Raphaël Pichon, conductor (Pygmalion)
  Label: Erato
• Schumann & Berg
  Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist
  Label: Decca
• Shakespeare Songs
  Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker)
  Label: Warner Classics
• Verismo
  Anna Netrebko; Antonio Pappano, conductor (Yusif Eyvazov; Coro Dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia; Orchestra Dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)
  Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Best Classical Compendium

• Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle
  Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
  Label: Naxos
• Gesualdo
  Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer
  Label: ECM New Series
• Vaughan Williams: Discoveries
  Martyn Brabbins, conductor; Andrew Walton, producer
  Label: Albion Records
• Wolfgang: Passing Through
  Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang, producers; (Various Artists)
  Label: Albany Records
• Zappa: 200 Motels – The Suites
  Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa, producers
  Label: Universal Music

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Bates: Anthology Of Fantastic Zoology
  Mason Bates, composer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  Label: CSO Resound
• Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway
  Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)
  Track from: Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle
  Label: Naxos
• Higdon: Cold Mountain
  Jennifer Higdon, composer; Gene Scheer, librettist (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jay Hunter Morris, Emily Fons, Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn & The Santa Fe Opera)
  Label: Pentatone Music
• Theofanidis: Bassoon Concerto
  Christopher Theofanidis, composer (Martin Kuuskmann, Barry Jekowsky & Northwest Sinfonia)
  Track from: Bassoon Concertos – Theofanidis, Hummel, Mozart
  Label: Estonian Record Productions
• Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky
  C. F. Kip Winger, composer (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
  Track from: Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky
  Label: VBI Classic Recordings