CDA 2018 Classical Music GRAMMY Predictions Question Title * 1. BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE (award goes to orchestra + conductor) Concertos For Orchestra. Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches. Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) Debussy: Images; Jeux & La Plus Que Lente. Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony) Mahler: Symphony No. 5. Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio. Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) OK Question Title * 2. BEST OPERA RECORDING (award goes to conductor, album producers and principal soloists) Berg: Lulu. Lothar Koenigs, conductor; Daniel Brenna, Marlis Petersen & Johan Reuter; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Berg: Wozzeck. Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms & Roman Trekel; Hans Graf, producer (Houston Symphony; Chorus Of Students And Alumni, Shepherd School Of Music, Rice University & Houston Grand Opera Children's Chorus) Bizet: Les Pêcheurs De Perles. Gianandrea Noseda, conductor; Diana Damrau, Mariusz Kwiecień, Matthew Polenzani & Nicolas Testé; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) Handel: Ottone. George Petrou, conductor; Max Emanuel Cencic & Lauren Snouffer; Jacob Händel, producer (Il Pomo D'Oro) Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel. Valery Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Feliauer, Aida Garifullina & Kira Loginova; Ilya Petrov, producer (Mariinsky Orchestra; Mariinsky Chorus) OK Question Title * 3. BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE Bryars: The Fifth Century. Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet; The Crossing) Handel: Messiah. Andrew Davis, conductor; Noel Edison, chorus master (Elizabeth DeShong, John Relyea, Andrew Staples & Erin Wall; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir) Mansurian: Requiem. Alexander Liebreich, conductor; Florian Helgath, chorus master (Anja Petersen & Andrew Redmond; Münchener Kammerorchester; RIAS Kammerchor) Music Of The Spheres. Nigel Short, conductor (Tenebrae) Tyberg: Masses. Brian A. Schmidt, conductor (Christopher Jacobson; South Dakota Chorale) OK Question Title * 4. BEST CHAMBER MUSIC / SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1. Arcangelo Death & The Maiden. Patricia Kopatchinskaja & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets. By Giaches De Wert, Stile Antico Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann. Joyce Yang & Augustin Hadelich Martha Argerich & Friends - Live From Lugano 2016. Martha Argerich & Various Artists OK Question Title * 5. BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO Bach: The French Suites. Murray Perahia Haydn: Cello Concertos. Steven Isserlis; Florian Donderer, conductor (The Deutsch Kammerphilharmonie Bremen) Levina: The Piano Concertos. Maria Lettberg; Ariane Matiakh, conductor (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2. Frank Peter Zimmermann; Alan Gilbert, conductor (NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester) Transcendental. Daniil Trifonov OK Question Title * 6. BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas. Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia; Freiburger Barockorchester) Crazy Girl Crazy - Music By Gershwin, Berg & Berio. Barbara Hannigan (Orchestra Ludwig) Gods & Monsters. Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist In War & Peace - Harmony Through Music. Joyce DiDonato; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo D’Oro) Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift. Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra & Style Of Five Ensemble) OK Question Title * 7. BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM Barbara. Alexandre Tharaud; Cécile Lenoir, producer Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto. Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer Kurtág: Complete Works For Ensemble & Choir. Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor; Guido Tichelman, producer Les Routes De L'Esclavage. Jordi Savall, conductor; Benjamin Bleton, producer Mademoiselle: Première Audience - Unknown Music Of Nadia Boulanger. Lucy Mauro; Lucy Mauro, producer OK Question Title * 8. BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION Concerto For Orchestra. Zhou Tian, composer (Louis Langrée & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra). Track from: Concertos For Orchestra Picture Studies. Adam Schoenberg, composer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony). Track from: Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies Requiem. Tigran Mansurian, composer (Alexander Liebreich, Florian Helgath, RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester) Songs Of Solitude. Richard Danielpour, composer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony). Track from: Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs Viola Concerto. Jennifer Higdon, composer (Roberto Díaz, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony). Track from: Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto OK DONE