The best classical recordings according to the 2016 Grammy Awards, held Monday night, February 15th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, are:
Engineered Album, Classical
Ask Your Mama, Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum and Justin Merrill, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (George Manahan and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
Producer of the Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
Orchestral Performance
Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow — Symphony No. 10, Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Opera Recording
Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade, Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Isabel Leonard; Dominic Fyfe, producer (Saito Kinen Orchestra; SKF Matsumoto Chorus and SKF Matsumoto Children’s Chorus)
Choral Performance
Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Charles Bruffy, conductor (Paul Davidson, Frank Fleschner, Toby Vaughn Kidd, Bryan Pinkall, Julia Scozzafava, Bryan Taylor; Joseph Warner; Kansas City Chorale ; Phoenix Chorale)
Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Filament, Eighth Blackbird
Classical Instrumental Solo
Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L’Arbre des Songes, Augustin Hadelich; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
Classical Solo Vocal Album
Joyce & Tony — Live From Wigmore Hall, Joyce DiDonato; Antonio Pappano, accompanist
Classical Compendium
Paulus: Three Places of Enlightenment; Veil of Tears; Grand Concerto, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
Contemporary Classical Composition
Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances, Stephen Paulus, composer (Eric Holtan, True Concord Voices & Orchestra)