At Monday’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the Boston Symphony Orchestra won in the Best Orchestra Performance category for Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow—Symphony No. 10, led by Andris Nelsons. Other winners included the Seattle Symphony’s Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L’Arbre des Songes, with violinist Augustin Hadelich (best classical instrumental solo); the ensemble eighth blackbird for Filament (best chamber music/small ensemble performance); the Nashville Symphony and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero for Paulus: Three Places of Enlightenment; Veil of Tears & Grand Concerto (best classical compendium); Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances, Stephen Paulus, composer; Eric Holtan, True Concord Voices and Orchestra (best contemporary classical composition); Joyce & Tony—Live From Wigmore Hall, Joyce DiDonato, vocalist, and Antonio Pappano, accompanist (classical solo vocal album); Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Kansas City Chorale and Phoenix Chorale (best choral performance); and Ravel: L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade, Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Saito Kinen Orchestra, SKF Matsumoto Chorus and SKF Matsumoto Children’s Chorus (best opera recording). For a complete list of winners and nominees, click here.
Posted February 16, 2016
