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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards

RECORDINGS BY THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS THAT HAVE BEEN AWARDED GRAMMYS IN INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES

(Year indicates the year the Awards Ceremony was held. Grammys recognized accomplishments of the previous year.)

1985 (28th Grammy Awards)

            Berlioz: Requiem

                        Best Classical Album -- John Aler (Soloist) & Robert Shaw (Conductor), Artists;

                           Robert Woods, Producer

                        Best Choral Performance (other than Opera) – Robert Shaw, Conductor

                        Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance – John Aler

                        Best Engineered Recording, Classical – Jack Renner, Engineer

Faure:  Pelleas et Melisande

Best Classical Recording – Robert Shaw, Conductor; Robert Woods, Producer

1987 (30th Grammy Awards)

            Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

                        Best Choral Performance – Robert Shaw, Conductor

Faure: Requiem/Durufle: Requiem

Best Engineered Album, Classical – Jack Renner, Engineer

1988 (31st Grammy Awards)

             Verdi: Requiem

                        Best Classical Album – Robert Shaw, Artist (Conductor); Robert Woods,

                           Producer

Best Choral Performance – Robert Shaw, Conductor           

                        Best Engineered Album, Classical – Jack Renner, Engineer

Rorem: String Symphony, Sunday Morning, Eagles

Best Orchestral Recording – Louis Lane & Robert Shaw, Conductors; Robert

   Woods, Producer

1989 (32nd Grammy Awards)

            Britten: War Requiem

                        Best Choral Performance – Robert Shaw, Conductor

                        Best Engineered Album, Classical – Jack Renner, Engineer

1990 (33rd Grammy Awards)

            Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast, Bernstein: Chichester Psalms & Missa brevis

                        Best Choral Performance – Robert Shaw, Conductor

1997 (40th Grammy Awards)

            Adams: Harmonium, Rachmaninov: The Bells

Best Choral Performance – Robert Shaw, Conductor

1998 (41st Grammy Awards)

Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaad, Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem, Bartok:Cantata
                Profana

Best Classical Album – Robert Shaw, Artist (Conductor); James Mallinson,

   Producer

Best Choral Performance – Robert Shaw, Conductor

Best Engineered Album, Classical – Jack Renner, Engineer

2002 (45th Grammy Awards)

            Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Best Classical Album – Norman Mackenzie, Artist (Dir. of Choruses); Robert     

                           Spano, Conductor; Michael Bishop Engineer; Thomas Moore, Producer

Best Choral Performance – Norman Mackenzie, Artist (Dir. of Choruses);

   Roberto Spano, Conductor; Michael Bishop, Engineer, Thomas Moore,

   Producer

                        Best Engineered Album, Classical – Michael Bishop

2004 (47th Grammy Awards)

            Berlioz: Requiem

                        Best Choral Performance – Norman Mackenzie, Choral Director; Robert Spano,

                           Conductor; Jack Renner & Michael Bishop, Engineers; Elaine Martone,

                           Producer

            Higdon: City Scape Concerto for Orchestra 

Best Engineered Album, Classical – Jack Renner, Engineer

2006 (49th Grammy Awards)

            Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain of Tears

                        Best Opera Recording – Robert Spano, Conductor; Sid McLauchian & Valarie

               Gross, Producers; Dawn Upshaw, Jessica Rivera & Kelley O’Connor, soloists;

                           Stephan Flock & Wolf-Dieter Karwatky, Engineers

                        Best Classical Contemporary Composition – Osvaldo Golijov, Composer

2009 (52nd Grammy Awards)

            Transmigration

                        Best Surround Sound Album –Michael Bishop -- Engineer, Elaine Martone –

                            Producer

2014 (57th Grammy Awards)

            Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem, Symphony No. 4, The Lark Ascending

Best Engineered Album, Classical -- Michael Bishop, Engineer