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Your local newspaper may not carry all the nominees, so here's the list, cribbed without apology from Billboard's generally classical-hateful site (which explains why every issue has something in quotes as though it were a TITLE, fer cryin' out loud):
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE 'Fritz Kreisler,' James Ehnes (Analekta/Select) 'Liszt: Paganini Studies & Schubert March Transcriptions,' Marc-Andre Hamelin (Hyperion/S.R.I.) 'Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music,' Angela Hewitt (Hyperion/S.R.I.) 'Graupner - Partitas for Harpsichord,' Genevieve Soly (Analekta/Select) 'Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbuk,' St. Lawrence String Quartet (EMI)
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT 'The Overcoat: Music By Dmitri Shostakovich,' Angela Cheng/Mario Bernardi/CBC Radio Orchestra (CBC Records/Universal) 'Bruch Concertos: Vol II,' James Ehnes/Mario Bernardi/Orchestre symphonique de Montreal (CBC Records/Universal) 'Schumann Piano Works,' Anton Kuerti/Mario Bernardi/CBC Radio Orchestra (CBC Records/Universal) 'Nocturnal Dances of Don Juan Quixote,' I Musici de Montreal (Chandos/S.R.I.) 'A Baroque Feast,' Tafelmusik (Analekta/Select)
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE 'Ay Que Si!,' Susie LeBlanc (ATMA/S.R.I.) 'Margison Sings Verdi,' Richard Margison (CBC Records/Universal) 'Of Ladies and Love,' Michael Schade (Hyperion/S.R.I.) 'Bach Cantatas,' Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music (ATMA/S.R.I.) 'Mozart Requiem,' Les Violons Du Roy (Dorian/S.R.I.)
CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR 'Test Run,' John Estacio - 'Banff International String Competition' (The Banff Centre) 'Orbiting Garden,' Christos Hatzis - Orbiting Garden (Centrediscs/Fusion III) 'Music for a Thousand Autumns,' Alexina Louie - 'Music for a Thousand Autumns' (Centrediscs/Fusion III) 'Requiem for a Charred Skull,' Bramwell Tovey - 'Voices on High' (Opening Day/S.R.I.) 'Concerto for Cello,' Heather Schmidt - 'Colour Of My Dreams' (CBC Records/Universal)
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Note the prevalence of Canadian labels Analekta and CBC, not surprising since this is after all a Canadian award. Note as well the exclusion of all of the so-called 'major' labels, except for one and only one EMI issue.
And note the good showing by Hyperion. You know, I wasn't that surprised that Billboard's Website ignored the deaths of John Browning or Jerome Hines, since after all they hadn't recorded much lately. I was a bit puzzled that they ignored Lou Harrison, whom one might have considered acceptable to them politically because he was a funky oldster with ties to 'world music.'
But blowing off the death of Ted Perry
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