CANADIAN CONDUCTOR & PIANIST YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN AND OTHER DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ARTISTS RECEIVE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 65TH GRAMMY AWARDS

 

 

 

15 NOVEMBER 2022 (TORONTO, ON)  – The nominations for the 65th GRAMMY Awards were announced earlier today. Honouring both artistic and technical achievement, the GRAMMY is the recording industry’s most prestigious award. This year, Deutsche Grammophon has secured the remarkable number of ten nominations across no fewer than six different categories.

 

Among the special guests who announced the nominees in an event streamed live from the Grammy Museum in LA were an array of previous GRAMMY nominees and winners.

 

“I want to send my very warmest congratulations to all our GRAMMY nominees,” says Dr Clemens Trautmann, President Deutsche Grammophon. “In the past year our artists have continued to surprise and delight listeners worldwide with recordings of everything from the core classical repertoire to contemporary music that defies narrow categorisation. With the musical and technological expertise for which our label has been renowned since its earliest days, the DG team has both supported our artists and given the global audience unprecedented access to their work. It is hugely rewarding to have all these efforts acknowledged by the Recording Academy.”

 

The 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on 5 February 2023 and will be broadcast live by CBS.

 

 

Best Orchestral Performance:

 

DVOŘÁK: SYMPHONIES NOS. 7-9

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
(Los Angeles Philharmonic)

 

JOHN WILLIAMS — THE BERLIN CONCERT
John Williams, conductor
(Berliner Philharmoniker)

 

 

Best Classical Instrumental Solo:

 

ABELS: ISOLATION VARIATION
Hilary Hahn

 

BACH: THE ART OF LIFE

Daniil Trifonov

 

LETTERS FOR THE FUTURE
Time for Three
Xian Zhang, conductor
(The Philadelphia Orchestra)

 

 

Best Choral Performance:

 

BACH: ST. JOHN PASSION

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
(English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir)

 

 

Best Contemporary Classical Composition:

 

THE WRATH OF GOD
Sofia Gubaidulina, composer

(Andris Nelsons and Gewandhausorchester)

 

CONTACT
Kevin Puts, composer
(Time for Three, Xian Zhang and
The Philadelphia Orchestra)

 

 

Best Classical Compendium:

 

A CONCERT FOR UKRAINE
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
David Frost, producer

 

 

Best Engineered Album, Classical:

 

WILLIAMS: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2
& SELECTED FILM THEMES

Bernhard Güttler, Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Christoph Stickel, mastering engineer
(Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams and Boston Symphony Orchestra)

 

DG exclusive artist Yannick Nézet-Séguin has also been nominated for recordings with the Metropolitan Opera (once for Best Choral Performance, twice for Best Opera Recording) and, as pianist, in the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category, for a recording with Renée Fleming.

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