54th Annual GRAMMY Nominations Announced
(December 2011)Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to represent the following composers and works featured in recordings nominated for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards:
Best Orchestral Performance
Bohuslav Martinu: The 6 Symphonies
Jirí Belohlávek, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
[Onyx Classics]
Best Opera Recording
John Adams: Doctor Atomic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul Fink, Gerald Finley, Thomas Glenn & Eric Owens; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
[Sony Classical]
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
Mark Elder, conductor; John Mark Ainsley, Phillip Ens, Jacques Imbrailo, Darren Jeffery, Iain Paterson & Matthew Rose; James Whitbourn, producer (London Philharmonic Orchestra; Glyndebource Chorus)
[Opus Arte]
Best Small Ensemble Performance
Steven Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide
Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; eighth blackbird
[Cedille Records]
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang, piano (Claudio Abbado, conductor; Mahler Chamber Orchestra)
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Piano Concerto No. 4
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano (Antonio Pappano, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra)
[EMI Classics]
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Steven Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide
Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; eighth blackbird
[Cedille Records]
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Steven Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide
Tom Lazarus & Bill Maylone, engineers; Joe Lambert, mastering engineer (Rinde Eckert, Steven Mackey & Eighth Blackbird)
[Cedille Records]
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Piano Concerto No. 4
Arne Akselberg, engineer (Leif Ove Andsnes, Antonio Pappano & London Symphony Orchestra)
[EMI Classics]
Producer of the Year, Classical
Manfred Eicher
• Songs Of Ascension (Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Todd Reynolds Quartet, The M6 & Montclair State University Singers)
David Frost
• Steven Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music From Slide (Rinde Eckert, Steven Mackey & Eighth Blackbird)
Judith Sherman
• John Adams: Son Of Chamber Symphony; String Quartet (John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet & International Contemporary Ensemble)
• Steve Reich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich Musicians & So Percussion)
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