Best Classical Album
2011 • 53rd Annual Grammy Awards
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2009 and Aug 30, 2010
2011 Winner is Riccardo Muti & Duain Wolfe with "Verdi: Requiem"
Nominees 2011
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Verdi: Requiem
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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
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Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina
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Mackey, Steven: Dreamhouse
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Sacrificium
Winners
| Year | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Duain Wolfe, Riccardo Muti, Chris Alder | Verdi: Requiem |
| 2010 | Michael Tilson Thomas, Andreas Neubronner | Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 |
| 2009 | James Conlon, Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Fred Vogler | Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny |
| 2008 | Leonard Slatkin, Tim Handley | Tower: Made In America |
| 2007 | Michael Tilson Thomas, Andreas Neubronner | Mahler: Symphony No. 7 |
| 2006 | Leonard Slatkin, Tim Handley | Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience |
| 2005 | Lorin Maazel, John Adams, Lawrence L. Rock | Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls |
| 2004 | Michael Tilson Thomas, Michelle DeYoung, Andreas Neubronner | Mahler: Symphony No. 3; Kindertotenlieder |
| 2003 | Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Thomas Moore | Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1) |
| 2002 | Colin Davis, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver, James Mallinson | Berlioz: Les Troyens |
| 2001 | Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer, Da-Hong Seetoo, Max Wilcox | Shostakovich: The String Quartets |
| 2000 | Michael Tilson Thomas, Andreas Neubronner | Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Perséphone |
| 1999 | Robert Shaw, James Mallinson | Barber: Prayers Of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartok: Cantata Profana |
| 1998 | Yo-Yo Ma, David Zinman, Steven Epstein | Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse) |
| 1997 | Leonard Slatkin, Joanna Nickrenz | Corigliano: Of Rage And Remembrance |
| 1996 | Pierre Boulez, Karl-August Naegler | Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux |
| 1995 | Pierre Boulez, Karl-August Naegler | Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra; Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12 |
| 1994 | Pierre Boulez, John Aler, John Tomlinson, Karl-August Naegler | Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana |
| 1993 | Leonard Bernstein, Horst Dittberner | Mahler: Symphony No. 9 |
| 1992 | Leonard Bernstein, June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Ollmann, Hans Weber | Bernstein: Candide |
| 1991 | Leonard Bernstein, Hans Weber | Ives: Sym. No. 2; Gong On The Hook And Ladder; Central Park In The Dark; The Unanswered Question |
| 1990 | Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer, Wolf Erichson | Bartók: 6 String Quartets |
| 1989 | Robert Shaw, Robert Woods | Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses |
| 1988 | Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost | Horowitz In Moscow |
| 1987 | Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost | Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985 |
| 1986 | John Aler, Robert Shaw, Robert Woods | Berlioz: Requiem |
| 1985 | Neville Marriner, John Strauss | Amadeus |
| 1984 | Georg Solti, James Mallinson | Mahler: Symphony No. 9 In D |
| 1983 | Glenn Gould, Samuel H. Carter | Bach: The Goldberg Variations |
| 1982 | Georg Solti, James Mallinson | Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor |
| 1981 | Pierre Boulez, Gunther Breest, Michael Horwath | Berg: Lulu (Complete Version) |
| 1980 | Georg Solti, James Mallinson | Brahms: Symphonies (1-4) |
| 1979 | Carlo Maria Giulini, Itzhak Perlman, Christopher Bishop | Brahms: Concerto For Violin In D |
| 1978 | Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside, Thomas Frost | Concert Of The Century |
| 1977 | Daniel Barenboim, Artur Rubinstein, Max Wilcox | Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos |
| 1976 | Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull | Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete |
| 1975 | Georg Solti, David Harvey | Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique |
| 1974 | Pierre Boulez, Thomas Z. Shepard | Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra |
| 1973 | Georg Solti, David Harvey | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand) |
| 1972 | Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost, Richard Killough | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas) |
| 1971 | Colin Davis, Erik Smith | Berlioz: Les Troyens |
| 1970 | Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind | Switched-On-Bach |
| 1968 | Pierre Boulez, Thomas Z. Shepard | Berg: Wozzeck |
| 1968 | Leonard Bernstein, John McClure | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony Of A Thousand) |
| 1967 | Morton Gould, Howard Scott | Ives: Symphony No. 1 In D Minor |
| 1966 | Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost | Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return |
| 1965 | Leonard Bernstein | Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" |
| 1964 | Benjamin Britten | Britten: War Requiem |
| 1963 | Vladimir Horowitz | Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz |
| 1962 | Igor Stravinsky | Stravinsky Conducts 1960: Le Sacre Du Printemps; Petrouchka |