Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium (in German about "Grammy Award for the best classical collecting program") is a music prize that has been awarded at the annual Grammy Awards since 2013 . Performances from the field of classical music are awarded .

Background and story

The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been presented since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in the United States of America for artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance regardless of the album - Honor sales or chart position.

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium is one of the three Grammys that were awarded for the first time in 2013. The award is given to collections of classical music that contain a minimum of 51% newly recorded vocal and instrumental material from various soloists and / or ensembles that represent a mixture of classical subgenre. These works should not fall into other price categories for classical music.

The award is given to the performers, producers, and technicians who award more than 51% of the material.

Winner and nominated artist

year	winner	plant	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
2013	Antoni Wit (conductor), Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin (producers)	Fonogrammi; Horn concerto; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaclasis	Partch (Ensemble), John Schneider (Producer) - Bitter Music Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor), Daniel Zalay (producer) - Une Fête Baroque
2014	Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)	Hindemith: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Concert music	Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor), Preben Iwan (producer) - Holmboe: Concerto Maxim Rysanov (conductor), Manfred Eicher (producer) - Tabakova: String Paths
2015 February 8, 2015	John Schneider (producer)	Partch : Plectra & Percussion Dances	Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor), Colin Matthews (producer) - Britten to America Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė , Daniil Grishin , Gideon Kremer & Daniil Trifonow ; Manfred Eicher (producer) - Mieczysław Weinberg (Orchestral & Chamber Works) Mike Marshall & the Turtle Island Quartet , Mike Marshall (Producer) - Mike Marshall & the Turtle Island Quartet Paul Daniel (Conductor), Andrew Walton (Producer) - The Solent - Fifty Years of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
2016 15th February 2016	Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (sound engineer)	Paul: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto	New Budapest Orpheum Society (artist), Jim Ginsburg (producer) - As Dreams Fall Apart - The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music (1925–1955) George Manahan (conductor), Judith Sherman (producer) - Ask Your Mama Paul McCreesh (conductor), Nicholas Parker (producer) - Handel: l'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato, 1740 Nadia Shpachenko (artist), Marina A. Ledin and Victor Ledin (producers) - Woman at the New Piano
2017 February 12, 2017	Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (sound engineer)	Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle	Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor), Manfred Eicher (producer) - Gesualdo Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Andrew Walton (producer) - Vaughan Williams: Discoveries Judith Farmer and Gernot Wolfgang (producers), various artists - Wolfgang: Passing Through Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Frank Filipetti and Gail Zappa (producers) - Zappa: 200 Motels - The Suites
2018 January 28, 2018	Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (sound engineer)	Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto	Alexandre Tharaud (conductor); Cécile Lenoir (producer) - Barbara Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor); Guido Tichelman (producer) - Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble & Choir Jordi Savall (conductor); Benjamin Bletton (producer) - Les Routes de l'Esclavage Lucy Mauro (pianist and producer) - Mademoiselle: Première Audience - Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger
2019 February 10, 2019	JoAnn Falletta (conductor) Tim Handley (producer)	Fuchs: Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'; Poems of life; Glacier; Rush	The King's Singers (performers); Nigel Short (producer) - Gold Simon Rattle (conductor); Christoph Franke (producer) - The John Adams Edition Jerry Junkin (conductor); Donald J. McKinney (producer) - John Williams At The Movies Peter Oundjian (conductor); Blanton Alspaugh (producer) - Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe concerto; Serenade to music; Flos Campi
2020 January 26, 2020	Nadia Shpachenko (soloist) Marina A. Ledin and Victor Ledin (producers)	The Poetry of Places	American Originals 1918 by John Morris Russell (conductor); Elaine Martone (producer) Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 "Heichalos"; Guitar concerto; Starburst by Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer) Meltzer: Songs and Structures by Paul Appleby and Natalia Katyukova; Silas Brown and Harold Meltzer (producers) Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel d'hiver by Hannu Lintu (conductor); Laura Heikinheimo (producer)

supporting documents

1. ↑ "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position" Overview . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 11, 2014.
2. ^ Grammy Awards at a Glance . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved May 29, 2011.
3. ^ The Recording Academy Announces Board Of Trustees Meeting Results . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . June 8, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2012 .: “ for an album collection containing at least 51 percent playing time of newly recorded material of performances (vocal or instrumental) by various soloist (s) and / or ensemble (s) involving a mixture of classical subgenres ”
4. ^ NARAL Final Nomination List 57th Grammy Awards . (PDF) accessed on December 31, 2015.

Web links

• Official homepage of the Grammy Awards
• Past Winners Search . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved July 19, 2011.