Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for quality compendium albums in the classical music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium
Awarded for	quality classical compendium music albums
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded	2013
Last awarded	2019
Website	grammy.com

This category was created categories for the 55th Grammy Awards. According to the category description guide it is intended "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" It also states that these albums may not be entered in other classical album categories and classical crossover albums might be eligible.[3]

The Grammy is awarded to the artist(s), album producer(s), engineer(s) and mixer(s) if they are responsible for over 51% of playing time of the album, if other than the artist(s).

Winners

Year	Winner(s)	Title	Performers	Nominees	Ref.
2013	Antoni Wit (conductor) Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin (producers)	Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaklasis	Composer(s): Krzysztof Penderecki; Orchestra(s): Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Artist(s): Urszula Janik, Jennifer Montone, Elzbieta Stefanska	Partch (ensemble), John Schneider (producer) – Bitter Music Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor), Daniel Zalay (producer) – Une Fête Baroque	[4]
2014	Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)	Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik	Composer(s): Hindemith; Orchestra(s): North German Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Artist(s): Midori (Violin)	Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor), Preben Iwan (producer) – Holmboe: Concerto Maxim Rysanov (conductor), Manfred Eicher (producer) – Tabakova: String Paths	[5]
2015	Partch (artists) John Schneider (producer)	Partch: Plectra & Percussion Dances	Composer(s): Partch; Artist(s): PARTCH ENSEMBLE	Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor), Colin Matthews (producer) – Britten to America Giedré Dirvanausakité, Daniil Grishin, Gidon Kremer & Daniil Trifonov (soloists), Manfred Eicher (producer) – Mieczyslaw Weinberg Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet (artists), 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	[6]
2016	Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (engineer)	Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto	Composer(s): Stephen Paulus; Orchestra(s): Nashville Symphony; Artist(s): Nathan J. Laube (organ)	New Budapest Orpheum Society (artists), 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) – Händel: l'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato, 1740 Nadia Shpachenko (artist), Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin (producers) – Woman at the New Piano	[7]
2017	Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (engineer)	Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle	Composer(s): Michael Daugherty, Orchestra(s): Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Artist(s): Zuill Bailey (Cello), Paul Jacobs (Organ)	Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor), Manfred Eicher (producer) – Gesualdo Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Andrew Walton (producer) – Vaughan Williams: Discoveries Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang (producers) (various performers) – Wolfgang: Passing Through Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa (producers) – Zappa: 200 Motels – The Suites	[8]
2018	Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (engineer)	Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto	Composer(s): Jennifer Higdon, Orchestra(s): Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Artist(s): Roberto Díaz (Viola), James Button (Oboe)	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	[9]
2019	JoAnn Falletta (conductor); Tim Handley (producer)	Fuchs: Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush	Composer(s): Kenneth Fuchs, Orchestra(s): London Symphony Orchestra; Artist(s): Jeffrey Biegel (Piano), Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Countertenor), Timothy McAllister (Saxophone), D. J. Sparr (Electric guitar)	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	[10]
2020	Nadia Shpachenko (pianist); Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin (producers)	The Poetry of Places		John Morris Russell (conductor); Elaine Martone (producer) - American Originals 1918 Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer) - Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 Heichalos, Guitar Concerto, Starburst Paul Appleby (tenor) & Natalia Katyukova (pianist); Silas Brown & Harold Meltzer (producers) - Meltzer: Songs and Structures Hannu Lintu (conductor); Laura Heikinheimo (producer) - Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel d'Hiver
2021	Winner TBA on 31 January 2021			Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn (performers); Thomas Adès (conductor); Nick Squire (producer) - Adès Conducts Adès Clément Mao-Takacs (conductor); Hans Kipfer (producer) - Saariaho: Graal Théatre; Circle Map; Neiges; Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin José Serebrier (conductor); Jens Braun (producer) - Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments and Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto Isabel Leonard; Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor); Jack Vad (producer) - Thomas: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke Matt Haimovitz; Julian Wachner (conductor); Blanton Alspaugh (producer) - Woolf: Fire and Flood	[11]

See also

• Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo
• Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo
• Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition

References

1. "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
2. "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved May 14, 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.
4. "Grammys 2013: Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
5. "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
6. "Grammys 2015: And the Winners Are ..." Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
7. "Grammy Awards 2016: See the Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
8. "59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
9. Grammy.com, 28 November 2017
10. Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
11. 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list

External links

• Official site of the Grammy Awards