Daniel Norman features on Grammy nomination
Osmo Vänskä, Orchestra nominated in Best Orchestral Performance category; Grammy Award winners to be announced February 10 during televised ceremony. The CD is third in a five-disc Beethoven Symphonies cycle produced by Swedish label BIS.
Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra today received a Grammy Award nomination for their acclaimed recording of Beethoven’s Ninth (Choral) Symphony, the third release in a five-disc cycle of the Beethoven Symphonies recorded on the BIS label. The nomination, the Orchestra’s first during Vänskä’s four-year tenure as music director, comes in the Best Orchestral Performance category. A full listing of nominees is available at the Grammy Awards website, grammy.com.
The Beethoven Ninth CD, recorded at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall in January 2006, features the Orchestra under Vänskä’s direction along with soprano Helena Juntunen, mezzo Katarina Karnéus, tenor Daniel Norman, bass-baritone Neal Davies and the Minnesota Chorale, the Orchestra’s principal chorus. Following its release in October 2006, the album was hailed as “a Beethoven Ninth for our times” (BBC Music Magazine) and “some of the most vivid Beethoven playing on the market” (The New Yorker).
