Universal Classics Group Earns a Total of 23 Grammy Nominations.Business & Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2002 Conductor and Composer Pierre Boulez Nominated for Six Awards Including Best Classical Album and Best Classical Contemporary Composition Universal Classics Group Universal Classics Group is a division of Universal Music Group, and distributes classical music under the labels it owns (Decca Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and ECM Records). Dominates Best Classical Vocal Performance Category With Nominations Going to Artists Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is an opera singer and concert recitalist. She is particularly known for her trouser roles. Biography Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was the diplomat Göran von Otter and she grew up in Bonn, London and Stockholm. , Barbara Bonney and Thomas Quasthoff Universal Classics Group earned a total of 23 nominations for the 44th Annual Grammy Awards, as announced today. The group's labels include Deutsche Grammophon (including the Archiv imprint), Decca, Decca Broadway, Philips and ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. . Conductor Pierre Boulez is nominated for six awards including two nominations in the category of Best Classical Album, both for 20th century works (Varese: Americques / Arcana ar·ca·na n. A plural of arcanum. / Deserts / Ionisation Noun 1. ionisation - the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas" ionization and Schoenberg: Piano Concerto / Berg: Sonata, Op.1 / Webern: Variations, Op.27). As a composer, conductor and teacher, Boulez has made a significant contribution to the development of music in the 20th century. He was the principal figure of the post-war international music avant-garde, and he continues to play a pivotal role in exploring and promoting modern music today. Born in France in 1925, Boulez began his conducting career in 1958 in Baden-Baden, Germany with the Sudwestfunk Orchestra. He has since been principal guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra (1967 - 1972), and principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain. History The orchestra was founded as a full time organisation in 1930, with Adrian Boult as its first chief conductor. (1971-1975) and the New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and has long been considered one of the best orchestras in the world. (1971-1977). He went on to direct the "Institut de Recherche re·cher·ché adj. 1. Uncommon; rare. 2. Exquisite; choice. 3. Overrefined; forced. 4. Pretentious; overblown. et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique" from 1977-1992, and was named principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1891 by Theodore Thomas, who conducted it until his death in 1905. Orchestra Hall was built for it in 1904 with funds raised by public subscription; the hall is now part of Symphony Center, which was completed in 1997. in 1995. He is the founder and president of the Ensemble InterContemporain and co-founder of the newly created music center "Cite de la musique" in Paris. Pierre Boulez's many awards include the German Record Critics Award for his contribution to 20th-century music, Gramophone magazine's "Artist of the Year," and the prestigious Berlin Arts Prize. His relationship with Deutsche Grammophon dates back to the 1970's. In addition to the nomination for Best Classical Album, Varese: Americques / Arcana / Deserts / Ionisation with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon is also nominated for Best Orchestral Performance, and Schoenberg: Piano Concerto / Berg: Sonata, Op.1 / Webern: Variations, Op.27 with pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the Cleveland Orchestra on Philips is nominated for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra. Boulez' Sur Incises / Messagesquisse / Anthemes 2 with his Ensemble InterContemporain is nominated for Best Classical Contemporary Composition as well as for Best Chamber Music Performance. Universal Classics Group claimed four out of a possible five nominations in the category of Best Classical Vocal Performance. Mezzo mez·zo n. pl. mez·zos A mezzo-soprano. mezzo Adverb Music moderately; quite: mezzo-forte Noun pl -zos Soprano Cecilia Bartoli (who won in the same category in 2001) is nominated for her Decca recording Dreams and Fables: Gluck Italian Arias. Also nominated on the Decca label is soprano Barbara Bonney's Fairest Isle, a collection of songs by Dowland, Campion campion: see pink. campion Any of the ornamental rock-garden or border plants that make up the genus Silene, of the pink family, consisting of about 500 species of herbaceous plants found throughout the world. , and Marley. From Deutsche Grammophon, Mezzo Soprano Anne Sophie von Otter gets the nod for her recording of songs and chamber music by Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spohr (Archiv) as does Bass-Baritone Thomas Quasthoff for his critically-acclaimed recording of two song cycles, Schubert: Schwanengesang/Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesange. ECM scores with a nomination for the label's founder and president Manfred Eicher for Classical Producer of the Year, and another nomination for Dave Holland Quintet's Not For Nothin' as Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Decca Broadway picks up two nominations in the category of Best Music Show Album for Mamma Mia! The Musical and Seussical the Musical. The Angeles String Quartet's Haydn: The Complete String Quartets on Philips is nominated for Best Chamber Music Performance and Best Engineered Album (Marc Aubort, Engineer). The 21-CD set's producer Joanna Nickrenz is also nominated as Classical Producer of the Year. Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos) is an opera by Richard Strauss with German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Hoftheater, Stuttgart, on October 25, 1912. with an all-star cast including Ben Heppner and Anne Sophie von Otter and conducted by the late Giuseppe Sinopoli on Deutsche Grammophon is nominated for Best Opera Recording. Best Choral Performance nominations go to Deutsche Grammophon's live performance of Dvorak: Stabat Mater, also conducted by the late Giuseppe Sinopoli. A nomination also goes to Bach: Christmas Cantatas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting on Archiv. Pianist Maurizio Pollini, currently celebrating his 60th birthday and his 30th anniversary as a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist, is nominated in the category of Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra) for Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6 / Concert Sans Orchestra. Joining Boulez in the category Best Chamber Music Performance is Messiaen: Quartet for the End Of Time with Myung-Whun Chung, piano; Paul Meyer, clarinet; Gil Shaham, violin; and Jian Wang, violoncello violoncello: see violin. . A nomination for Best Orchestral Performance goes to Beethoven: Die Symphonien with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic. Both are on Deutsche Grammophon. |
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