FanFaire's CD Rack: Grammy 2000

THE GRAMMY 2000 WINNERS: CLASSICAL MUSIC

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	Best Classical Engineered Album Best Classical Album Best Orchestral Performance Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Perséphone Markus Heiland, engineer (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor) [RCA Victor Red Seal]
	Best 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 Orchestra. 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
	Best 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]
	Best 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]
	Best Instrumental Soloist w/Orch Prokofiev: Piano Concertos. Nos. 1 & 3/Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 Martha Argerich, piano; Charles Dutoit, conductor (Orchestre Symphonie de Montréal) [EMI Classics]
	Best Instrumental Soloist w/o Orch Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87 Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano [Decca]
	Best 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]
	Best Small Ensemble Performance Colors Of Love (Works Of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener, Rands, Etc.) Chanticleer; Joseph Jennings, conductor [Teldec Classics International]
	Best Classical Vocal Performance Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Thomas Quasthoff, baritone; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano (Claudio Abbado, conductor; Berliner Phil.) [Deutsche Grammophon]
	Best Classical Contemporary Composition Boulez: Répons Pierre Boulez, composer (Vincent Bauer, vibraphone; Florent Boffard, piano; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Frédérique Cambreling, harp; Michel Cerutti, cimbalom; Daniel Ciampolini, xylophone & glockenspiel; Ens. InterContemporain; Andrew Gerzso, electro-acoustic realization; Dimitri Vassilakis, piano) Track from: Boulez: Répons (R épons; 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]