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THE GRAMMY 2003 WINNERS!!!
FRONT PAGE GRAMMY '00
'01 '02 		SOUNDTRACKS: Classical Music goes to the Movies A NEW BREED OF CROSSOVERS
 HIGH AND LOW VOICES A LITTLE WORLD MUSIC CDs FROM THE RECENT PAST

The GRAMMY 2000 AWARD WINNERS in the CLASSICAL MUSIC CATEGORY
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Classical Engineered Album
Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Pers�phone
Markus Heiland, engineer (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor)
[RCA Victor Red Seal]

Classical Producer Of The Year
Adam Abeshouse

  • Chopin: Etudes - The Complete Piano Works, Vol. Ten (Op. 10, 42; Op. Posth.) (Garrick Ohlsson, piano)
  • Handel/Schoenberg/Spohr/Elgar: Works For String Quartet And Orch. (The Lark Quartet; Jean-Louis LeRoux, conductor)
  • Handel: With Valour Abounding (Selections From Solomon; Joseph And His Brethren; Joshua, Etc.) (John Elwes, tenor)
  • Hindemith: Quartet For Clarinet, Violin, Cello And Piano/Shostakovich: Piano Quintet In G Min., Op. 57 (Gilbert Kalish, piano; Boston Symphony Chamber Player

    Classical Album
    Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Pers�phone
    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Andreas Neubronner, producer (Vance George, choir director; Joyce Keil, choir director; Stuart Neill, tenor; Sharon J. Paul, choir director; Ragazzi, The Peninsula Boys Chorus; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; San Francisco Girls Chorus; Stephanie Cosserat, narrator; San Francisco Symphony.)
    [RCA Victor Red Seal]

    Orchestral Performance
    Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Pers�phone
    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (Joyce Keil, choir director; Stuart Neill, tenor; Sharon J. Paul, choir director; Ragazzi, The Peninsula Boys Chorus; San Francisco Symphony. Chorus; San Francisco Girls Chorus; Stephanie Cosserat, narrator; San Francisco Symphony.)
    [RCA Victor Red Seal]

    Opera Recording
    Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Ian Bostridge; Bryn Terfel; Anne Sofie von Otter; Deborah York; Nicholas Parker, producer (Monteverdi Chorus; London Symphony. Orchestra.)
    [Deutsche Grammophon]

    Choral Performance
    Britten: War Requiem
    Robert Shafer, conductor; Joan McFarland, choir director; Betty Scott, choir director (Richard Clement, tenor; Christine Goerke, soprano; Richard Stilwell, baritone; Maryland Boy Chorus; Shenandoah Conservatory Chorus; The Washington Chorus; The Washington Orchestra.)
    [The Washington Chorus]

    Instrumental Soloist w/Orch
    Prokofiev: Piano Concertos. Nos. 1 & 3/Bart�k: Piano Concerto No. 3
    Martha Argerich, piano; Charles Dutoit, conductor (Orchestre Symphonie de Montr�al)
    [EMI Classics]

    Instrumental Soloist w/o Orch
    Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
    Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
    [Decca]

    Chamber Music Performance
    Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op. 30; Spring Sonata, Etc.)
    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Lambert Orkis, piano
    [Deutsche Grammophon]

    Small Ensemble Performance
    Colors Of Love (Works Of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener, Rands, Etc.)
    Chanticleer; Joseph Jennings, conductor
    [Teldec Classics International]

    Classical Vocal Performance
    Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
    Thomas Quasthoff, baritone; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano (Claudio Abbado, conductor; Berliner Phil.)
    [Deutsche Grammophon]

    Classical Contemporary Composition
     Boulez: R�pons
    Pierre Boulez, composer (Vincent Bauer, vibraphone; Florent Boffard, piano; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Fr�d�rique Cambreling, harp; Michel Cerutti, cimbalom; Daniel Ciampolini, xylophone & glockenspiel; Ens. InterContemporain; Andrew Gerzso, electro-acoustic realization; Dimitri Vassilakis, piano)
    Track from: Boulez: R�pons (R�pons; Dialogue de l'ombre double)
    [Deutsche Grammophon]

    Classical Crossover
    Schickele: Hornsmoke (Piano Concerto No. 2 In F Major. Ole; Brass Calendar; Hornsmoke - A Horse Opera)
    The Chestnut Brass Co.; Peter Schickele, piano & narrator (Cynthia Carr, horn)
    [Newport Classic]

     

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    FRONT PAGE GRAMMY '00
    '01     '02     		SOUNDTRACKS: Classical Music goes to the Movies A NEW BREED OF CROSSOVERS
    		 HIGH AND LOW VOICES A LITTLE WORLD MUSIC CDs FROM THE RECENT PAST

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