Alex Kirzhner, art director (Panic! At The Disco) [DeCayDance/Fueled By Ramen]
Icky Thump - Limited Edition USB Flash Drive Robin Bechtel, Taylor Brigode, Bill Mooney & Jack White, art directors (The White Stripes) [Third Man/Warner Bros.]
Venus Doom Matt Taylor & Valo, art directors (Him) [Sire]
What It Is!: Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) Masaki Koike, art director (Various Artists) [Rhino]
Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings From The 1890s Patrick Feaster & David Giovannoni, album notes writers (Various Artists) [Archeophone Records]
Classic Chu Berry Columbia And Victor Sessions Loren Schoenberg, album notes writer (Chu Berry) [Mosaic Records]
John Work, III: Recording Black Culture Bruce Nemerov, album notes writer (Various Artists) [Spring Fed Records]
Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings David Sager, album notes writer (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) [Off The Record]
Ricky Jay Plays Poker Ricky Jay, album notes writer (Various Artists) [Octone/Legacy Recordings]
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Field 26 — Historical
Category 91
Best Historical Album
Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings From The 1890s David Giovannoni, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer (Various Artists) [Archeophone Records]
Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra Records 1963-1973 (Deluxe Edition) Stuart Batsford, Mick Houghton & Phil Smee, compilation producers; Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Rhino]
The Live Wire - Woody Guthrie In Performance 1949 Nora Guthrie & Jorge Arévalo Mateus, compilation producers; Jamie Howarth, Steve Rosenthal, Warren Russell-Smith & Dr. Kevin Short, mastering engineers (Woody Guthrie) [Woody Guthrie Publications]
Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Alec Palao, compilation producer; Dan Hersch, Bill Inglot & Dave Schultz, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Rhino]
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 Christopher King & Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, compilation producers; Christopher King & Robert Vosgien, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Tompkins Square]
II Jason Lehning, engineer (Viktor Krauss) [Back Porch Records]
Category 93
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (A Producer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses.))
Howard Benson • Daughtry (Daughtry) (A) • Devils & Angels (Mêlée) (A) • Direction (The Starting Line) (A) • Five Score And Seven Years Ago (Relient K) (A) • Stay Inside (Sound The Alarm) (A)
Joe Chiccarelli • Mercy (Burden Brothers) (A) • The Narcotic Story (Oxbow) (A) • Nightmoves (Kurt Elling) (A) • Wincing The Night Away (The Shins) (A)
Mike Elizondo • It Won't Be Soon Before Long (Maroon 5) (A) • Under The Blacklight (Rilo Kiley) (A)
Mark Ronson • Back To Black (Amy Winehouse) (T) • Littlest Things (Lily Allen) (T) • Rehab (Amy Winehouse) (T) • Version (Mark Ronson) (A) • You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse) (T)
Timbaland • Come Around (M.I.A. Featuring Timbaland) (T) • Give It To Me (Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake) (T) • Make Me Better (Fabolous Featuring Ne-Yo) (S) • Timbaland Presents: Shock Value (Timbaland) (A) • The Way I Are (Timbaland Featuring Keri Hilson & D.O.E.) (S)
Category 94
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (A Remixer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses for identification.) Singles or Tracks only.)
Angelicus (Andy Moor Full Length Mix) Andy Moor, remixer (Delerium Featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian) Track from: Nuages Du Monde
[Nettwerk Records]
Bring The Noise (Benny Benassi Sfaction Remix) Benny Benassi, remixer (Public Enemy) Track from: Bring The Noise/Give It Up EP
[Ultra Records]
Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix) Carl Craig, remixer (Junior Boys) Track from: The Dead Horse E.P.
[Domino Recording Company Ltd.]
Proper Education (Club Mix - Radio Edit) Eric Prydz, remixer (Eric Prydz Vs. Pink Floyd) [Ultra Records]
Sorry (Dirty South Mix) Dirty South, remixer (Kaskade) [Ultra Records]
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Field 28 — Surround Sound
Category 95
Best Surround Sound Album (For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.)
At War With The Mystics 5.1 The Flaming Lips & Dave Fridmann, surround mix engineers; The Flaming Lips & Dave Fridmann, surround mastering engineers; The Flaming Lips & Dave Fridmann, surround producers (The Flaming Lips) [Warner Bros.]
Fear Of A Blank Planet Steven Wilson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Porcupine Tree, surround producers (Porcupine Tree) [Atlantic Records]
Grechaninov: Passion Week John Newton, surround mix engineer; Jonathan Cooper, surround mastering engineer; Blanton Alspaugh, surround producer (Charles Bruffy, Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Bach Choir) [Chandos Records]
Love Paul Hicks, surround mix engineer; Tim Young, surround mastering engineer; George Martin & Giles Martin, surround producers (The Beatles) [Apple/Capitol Records]
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis; Serenade To Music Michael Bishop, surround mix engineer; Michael Bishop, surround mastering engineer; Elaine Martone, surround producer (Robert Spano & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus) [Telarc]
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Field 29 — Production, Classical
Category 96
Best Engineered Album, Classical (An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))
Garden Of Dreams Keith O. Johnson, engineer (Jerry Junkin & Dallas Wind Symphony) [Reference Recordings]
Grechaninov: Passion Week John Newton, engineer (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale) [Chandos]
Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos Arne Akselberg & Tobias Lehmann, engineers (Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud & Simon Rattle) [EMI Classics]
Spirit Of The Season Bruce Leek, Fred Vogler & Trent Walker, engineers (Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg & Mormon Tabernacle Choir) [Mormon Tabernacle Choir]
Strauss: Don Juan, Death And Transfiguration Lawrence Rock, engineer (Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Category 97
Producer Of The Year, Classical (A Producer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))
Blanton Alspaugh • Eternal Rest: Mäntyjärvi, Ticheli, Martin, Clausen (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale) • Grechaninov: Passion Week (Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale) • The Harrington String Quartet: Daniel McCarthy (The Harrington String Quartet) • Hartke: The Greater Good (Stewart Robertson & Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra) • Rider On The Plains: Cello Concertos By Virgil Thomson And Charles Fussell (Emmanuel Feldman)
John Fraser • Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Scherzos (Simon Trpceski) • Great Handel (Ian Bostridge) • Kate Royal (Kate Royal) • Krommer/Spohr: Clarinet Concertos (Julian Bliss, Sabine Meyer & Kenneth Sillito) • Schubert: Piano Sonata D958, Lieder, Fragments (Leif Ove Andsnes & Ian Bostridge)
Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin • Balakirev And Russian Folksong (Joseph Banowetz) • Louisiana - A Pianist's Journey (Kenneth Boulton) • Piano Impromptus (Jungran Kim Khwarg) • 20th Century Piano Sonatas (Allison Brewster Franzetti)
Judith Sherman • American Virtuosa: Tribute To Maud Powell (Rachel Barton Pine & Matthew Hagle) • From Barrelhouse To Broadway: The Musical Odyssey Of Joe Jordan (Rick Benjamin & The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra) • Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 '...Songs Are Sung' (Kronos Quartet) • Strange Imaginary Animals (Eighth Blackbird) • Tchaikovsky: Three String Quartets, Souvenir De Florence (Ying Quartet)
Robina G. Young • As Steals The Morn...Handel Arias & Scenes For Tenor (Mark Padmore, Andrew Manze & The English Concert) • Bach, CPE: Symphonies 1-4, Cello Concerto (Andrew Manze & The English Concert) • Brahms: Variations (Olga Kern) • Music For Compline (Stile Antico) • Stockhausen: Stimmung (Paul Hillier & Theatre Of Voices)
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Field 30 — Classical
Category 98
Best Classical Album (Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist.)
Cherubini: Missa Solemnis In E Riccardo Muti, conductor; Wilhelm Meister, producer; Klemens Kamp, engineer/mixer (Ildar Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks) [EMI Classics]
Grechaninov: Passion Week Charles Bruffy, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer; John Newton, engineer/mixer; Jonathan Cooper, mastering engineer (Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Bach Choir) [Chandos]
Homage: The Age Of The Diva Renée Fleming; David Frost, producer; Mike Hatch, Wolf-Dieter Karwatky & Richard King, engineers/mixers (Valery Gergiev; Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre) [Decca Records]
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Dirk Sobotka, producer; Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers/mixers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (James Levine; Boston Symphony Orchestra) [Nonesuch Records]
Tower: Made In America Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Tim Handley, producer; Tim Handley, engineer/mixer (Nashville Symphony) [Naxos]
Category 99
Best Orchestral Performance (Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
Shostakovich: The Golden Age José Serebrier, conductor (Royal Scottish National Orchestra) [Naxos]
Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Tower: Made In America Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Nashville Symphony) [Naxos]
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, Serenade To Music Robert Spano, conductor (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) [Telarc]
Category 100
Best Opera Recording (Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists.)
Albéniz: Pepita Jiménez José De Eusebio, conductor; Enrique Baquerizo, Carlos Chausson, Plácido Domingo, Jane Henschel & Carol Vaness; Michael Haas, producer (Orquesta Y Coro De La Comunidad De Madrid) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Donizetti: Dom Sébastien, Roi De Portugal Mark Elder, conductor; Carmelo Corrado Caruso, Giuseppe Filianoti, Vesselina Kasarova, Simon Keenlyside & Alastair Miles; Patric Schmid, producer (The Royal Opera Chorus; The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) [Opera Rara]
Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Rebecca Evans, Jane Henschel & Jennifer Larmore; Brian Couzens, producer (Sarah Coppen, Diana Montague & Sarah Tynan; New London Children's Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra) [Chandos Opera In English]
Lully: Thésée Paul O´Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Howard Crook, Ellen Hargis, Laura Pudwell & Harry Van Der Kamp; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chorus; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra) [CPO]
Verdi: La Traviata Zubin Mehta, conductor; Piotr Beczala, Paolo Gavanelli & Anja Harteros; Andreas Caemmerer & Felix Gargerle, producers (Choir Of The Bavarian State Opera; Bavarian State Orchestra) [Farao Classics]
Category 101
Best Choral Performance (Award to the Choral Conductor, and to the Orchestra Conductor if an Orchestra is on the recording, and to the Choral Director or Chorus Master if applicable.)
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master (Thomas Quasthoff & Dorothea Röschmann; Rundfunkchor Berlin; Berliner Philharmoniker) [EMI Classics]
Cherubini: Missa Solemnis In E Riccardo Muti, conductor; Peter Dijkstra, chorus master (Ildar Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks) [EMI Classics]
Grechaninov: Passion Week Charles Bruffy, conductor (Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Bach Choir) [Chandos]
Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates Of Jerusalem' Antoni Wit, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, chorus master (Boris Carmeli, Ewa Marciniec, Aga Mikolaj, Wieslaw Ochman, Olga Pasichnyk & Romuald Tesarowicz; Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra) [Naxos]
Schönberg: Gurrelieder Michael Gielen, conductor; Howard Arman & Michael Gläser, choir directors (Melanie Diener, Ralf Lukas, Yvonne Naef, Andreas Schmidt, Gerhard Siegel & Robert Dean Smith; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks & MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig; SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Und Freiburg) [Haenssler Classic]
Category 102
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) (Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)
Best Classical Contemporary Composition (A Composer's Award. (For a contemporary classical composition composed within the last 25 years, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year.))
Amargós: Northern Concerto Joan Albert Amargós (Lan Shui, conductor; Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR) Track from: Movements - Michala Petri Plays Amargós/Börtz/Stucky
[OUR Recordings]
Chesky: Concerto For Bassoon And Orchestra David Chesky (Rossen Gergov, conductor; Symphony Orchestra Of Norrlands Opera) Track from: Urban Concertos
[Chesky Records]
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs Peter Lieberson (James Levine, conductor; Boston Symphony Orchestra) [Nonesuch]
Made In America Joan Tower (Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Nashville Symphony Orchestra) Track from: Tower: Made In America
[Naxos]
Category 108
Best Classical Crossover Album (Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
The Jazz Album - Watch What Happens Thomas Quasthoff [Deutsche Grammophon]
A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane Turtle Island Quartet [Telarc]
Spirit Of The Season Craig Jessop & Mack Wilberg, conductors (Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Orchestra At Temple Square) [Mormon Tabernacle Choir]
Whirled Chamber Music Quartet San Francisco [Violinjazz Recordings]
Wolfgang's Big Night Out Brian Setzer (The Brian Setzer Orchestra) [Surfdog Records]
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Field 31 — Music Video
Category 109
Best Short Form Music Video (For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer.)
God's Gonna Cut You Down Johnny Cash Tony Kaye, video director; Rachel Curl, video producer [American Records/Lost Highway Records]
1234 Feist Patrick Daughters, video director; Geoff McLean, video producer [Cherrytree/Interscope]
Gone Daddy Gone Gnarls Barkley Chris Milk, video director; Barbara Benson, video producer [Downtown/Atlantic]
D.A.N.C.E. Justice Jonas & Francois & So-Me, video directors; Jonas & Francois & So-Me, video producers [Downtown/Vice/Ed Banger/Because]
Typical Mute Math Israel Anthem, video director; Brandon Arolfo, video producer [Teleprompt/Warner Bros.]
Category 110
Best Long Form Music Video (For video album packages consisting of more than one song or track. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer of at least 51% of the total playing time.)
Live & Loud At The Fillmore Dierks Bentley Russell Thomas, video director; James Whetherly, video producer [Capitol Records Nashville]
Trapped In The Closet Chapters 13-22 R. Kelly R. Kelly, Victor Mignatti & Jim Swaffield, video directors; Ann Carli, video producer [Jive/Zomba]
The Confessions Tour Madonna Jonas Akerlund, video director; Sara Martin & David May, video producers [Warner Bros.]
10 Days Out - Blues From The Backroads Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Various Artists Noble Jones, video director; Phillipa Davis, Kelly Norris Sarno & Kenny Wayne Shepherd, video producers [Reprise]
Liberacion - The Songs Of The New Cuban Underground Various Artists Reuben Fields, video director; Dean Bates & CM Murphy, video producers [Petrol/EMI]
