Universal Classics Group Garners 19 Grammy Nominations, Dominating Several Categories Including Best Classical Album.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2003 Renee Fleming, 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. , Arvo Part and Takacs Quartet Receive Multiple Nods 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). -- the world's leading classical music company including Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label. The company has long been known for its high standards of audio fidelity. The Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (and 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. -- received 19 Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow. nominations today, dominating several categories including Best Classical Album, Best Classical Vocal Performance and Best Chamber Music Performance. Acclaimed artists achieving multiple nominations include Renee Fleming, Anne Sofie von Otter, Arvo Part and the Takacs Quartet. Universal Classics Group also received nominations in many other diverse categories including Best World Music Album (Salif Keita For the Malian footballer, see . Salif Keita (born August 25, 1949) is an internationally recognized afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the Golden Voice of Africa , Moffou), Best Score Soundtrack Album (A Beautiful Mind) and Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album (Dave Holland This article is about Dave Holland, the jazz bassist and composer. For other people with this name, see Dave Holland (disambiguation). Dave Holland Big Band, What Goes Around).
All 19 nominations are as follows:
Best Classical Album
Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, etc.), Decca
Renee Fleming; Patrick Summers, Conductor
Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp"
Op. 74), Decca
Takacs Quartet; Andrew Keener, producer
Arvo Part: Orient & Occident, ECM New Series
Tonu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer
Best Classical Vocal Performance
Bel Canto, Decca
Renee Fleming, soprano (Patrick Summers, Coro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; Orchestra of St. Luke's)
Boulez: Pli Selon Pli, Deutsche Grammophon
Christine Schafer, soprano (Pierre Boulez; Ens.
InterContemporain)
Chaminade: Melodies - Mots D'Amour, Deutsche Grammophon
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (Bengt Forsberg, piano I,
Peter Jablonski, piano II & Nils-Erik Sparf, violin)
Best Chamber Music Performance
Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp"
Op. 74) Decca
Takacs Quartet
Live in Japan (Chopin, Franck, Debussy), Deutsche Grammophon
Martha Argerich, piano & Mischa Maisky, violoncello
Silvestrov: leggiero, pesante (Son. For Violoncello & Piano,
String Quartet, etc.), ECM New Series
Silke Avenhaus, piano; Maacha Deubner, soprano; Rosamunde
Quartett & Valentin Silvestrov, piano
Best Opera Recording
Gluck: Alceste, Philips
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Paul Groves & Anne Sophie
von Otter;
Martha de Francisco, producer
Handel: Hercules, Archiv Produktion
Marc Minkowski, conductor; Richard Croft, David Daniels, Lynne
Dawson, Gidon Saks & Anne Sofie von Otter; Michel Gache & Arend
Prohmann, producers
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
What Goes Around, ECM
Dave Holland Big Band
Best World Music Album
Moffou, Decca US (Classics)
Salif Keita
Best Score Soundtrack Album For a Motion Picture, Television or
Other Visual Media
A Beautiful Mind, Decca
James Horner, composer
Producer of the Year, Classical
Manfred Eicher
Berio: Voci - Kim Kashkashian, Robyn Schulkowsky, Dennis
Russell Davies, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna
Der Bote - a piano recital by Alexei Luboimov
Eleni Karaindrou: The Trojan Women
Arvo Part: Orient & Occident
Valentin Silvestrov: leggiero, pesante
Andrew Cornall
Camilo: Con. For Piano And Orch.: Caribe, Etc. (Michel
Camilo)
Mahler: Sym. No. 2 "Resurrection"; Totenfeier (Riccardo
Chailly)
Moussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night On Bare
Mountain, Etc. (Valery Gergiev)
Rossini Arias (Semiramide, Otello, Zelmira, Etc.) (Juan
Diego Florez)
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
Kancheli: Styx/Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto, Deutsche Grammophon
Valery Gergiev, conductor; Yuri Bashmet, viola (Nikolay Kornev;
St. Petersburg Chamber Choir; Orchestra of the Marinksy Theatre)
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Part: Orient & Occident, ECM New Series
Arvo Part (Tonu Kaljuste; Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. Strings)
Best Classical Crossover Album
Previn Conducts Korngold (Sea Hawk; Captain Blood, etc),
Deutsche Grammophon
Andre Previn, conductor (London Symphony Orchestra)
Soprano Renee Fleming's dual nominations for BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE and BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM for her CD Bel Canto, features arias and scenes from some of the most passionate and virtuosic operatic repertoire of all time. Fleming has recently been hailed by The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times as "America's Soprano of Choice" and by USA Today as "that rare classical artist who approaches the celebrity of a pop star." Called "gorgeous" (The Wall Street Journal) and "an astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. achievement (Philadelphia Inquirer), the CD features the Orchestra of St. Luke's The Orchestra of St. Luke's is an American chamber orchestra based in New York City. It was founded in the summer of 1978 or 1979 at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, New York. The orchestra has an average of 55 musicians. , conducted by Patrick Summers. She is a previous Grammy Award winner for her 1998 recording The Beautiful Voice. Mezzo mez·zo n. pl. mez·zos A mezzo-soprano. mezzo Adverb Music moderately; quite: mezzo-forte Noun pl -zos Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter earned nominations for three recordings this year, including BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE (Chaminade: Melodies - Mots d'Amour) and for her roles in opera recordings, Handel's Hercules (with conductor Marc Minkowski) and Gluck's Alceste (with conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner), both of which are nominated for BEST OPERA RECORDING. The Stockholm-born vocalist is widely heralded for the superb quality and breadth of her recordings, including last year's collaboration with Elvis Costello, For The Stars. She is also a previous Grammy winner for Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn Des Knaben Wunderhorn (German, lit. The Youth's Magic Horn, referring to a magical device like the cornucopia) is a collection of German folk poems collected (and heavily redacted) by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and published in Heidelberg, Germany with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado (2000). Also nominated for BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM as well as BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE is the Takacs Quartet's Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" op.59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74). The Colorado-based quartet is recognized as one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles. Orient & Occident, the album comprising three works by Estonian composer Arvo Part, performed by Tonu Kalijuste and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Swedish: Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester) is a well-known symphony orchestra in Stockholm, Sweden. Principal conductors
v. 1. To remove an organ or another body part completely, as by surgery, disease, or radiation. 2. To blot out, especially through filling of a natural space by fibrosis or inflammation. the rigidities of space and time." Following his win for this category last year, Manfred Eicher is nominated for CLASSICAL PRODUCER OF THE YEAR for the fourth time in five years. Eicher founded the ECM label in 1969 and has produced most of the more than 800 classical, jazz and world music recordings for the label. Decca's Andrew Cornall also receives a nomination for CLASSICAL PRODUCER OF THE YEAR for numerous recordings including among others, Moussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition with the legendary Valery Gergiev conducting, and Rossini Arias, the debut album from rising star and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez. Another highlight includes the nomination of multi-Grammy Award winner Andre Previn in the category of BEST CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUM for Previn Conducts Korngold. This collection contains several celebrated Korngold film scores including The Seahawk, Captain Blood, The Prince and the Pauper An impoverished person who is supported at public expense; an indigent litigant who is permitted to sue or defend without paying costs; an impoverished criminal defendant who has a right to receive legal services without charge. PAUPER. and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, and also features The London Symphony Orchestra The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre. History . The Grammy winners will be announced on Sunday, February 23rd at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and will be broadcast on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. beginning 8:00pm eastern/pacific time. |
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