Chicago Symphony Tops Classical List

The Grammys’ classical field was dominated by John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, as recorded by Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony. It rang up nominations for album, orchestral performance, contemporary composition, engineering, and classical producer of the year.

Multiple nominations also went to the Leonard Slatkin, John Browning and the Saint Louis Symphony Barber disc (album, instrumental performance with orchestra, engineering and producer), Michael Tilson Thomas’ Ives recording with the Chicago Symphony (album, orchestral performance and producer), and the late Leonard Bernstein’s final thoughts on “Candide” (album, engineering and producer).

The instrumental soloist without orchestra list was swept by pianists (Murray Perahia, Alan Feinberg, Alicia de Larrocha, Rudolf Firkusny and Evgeny Kissin) and American singers (Sanford Sylvan, Samuel Ramey, Jan de Gaetani, Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Hampson and Cheryl Studer) garnered all the vocal performance nominations.