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2016 Classical Grammy award winners!

2016 Classical Grammy winners.

The 58th Annual Grammy Awards were last night. Here are the winners in the Classical Music category:

Best Orchestral Performance

“Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow - Symphony No. 10,” Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

“Ravel: L’Enfant Et Les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade,” Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Isabel Leonard; Dominic Fyfe, producer (SaitoKinen Orchestra; SKF Matsumoto Chorus & SKF Matsumoto Children’s Chorus)

Best Choral Performance

“Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil,” Charles Bruffy, conductor (Paul Davidson, Frank Fleschner, Toby Vaughn Kidd, Bryan Pinkall, Julia Scozzafava, Bryan Taylor & Joseph Warner; Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Chorale)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

“Filament,” Eighth Blackbird

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

“Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L’Arbre Des Songes,” Augustin Hadelich; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)

Best Classical Vocal Album

Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall, Joyce DiDonato; Antonio Pappano, accompanist

Best Engineered Album

Ask Your Mama," Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum and Justin Merrill, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (George Manahan and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra) 

Producer of the Year

Judith Sherman

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

"Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances," Stephen Paulus, composer (Eric Holtan, True Concord Voices and Orchestra) 

For a list of winners in every category, visit: https://www.grammy.com/nominees.

Kate Botello was a host and producer at Classical IPR until 2024.