- Best Opera Recording
"Monteverdi: L'Orfeo"
Emmanuelle Haim, conductor/harpsichord/organ; Ian Bostridge, Patrizia Ciofi & Natalie Dessay; Daniel Zalay, producer (Various Artists; European Voices; Le Concert D'Astree)
"Montsalvatge: El Gato Con Botas"
Antoni Ros Marba, conductor; Antonio Comas, Enric Martinez-Castignani, Marisa Martins, Isabel Monar & Stefano Palatchi; Antoni Parera Fons, producer (Orquestra Simfonica Del Gran Teatre Del Liceu)
"Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro"
Rene Jacobs, conductor; Patrizia Ciofi, Veronique Gens, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager & Lorenzo Regazzo; Martin Sauer, producer (Various Artists; Concerto Koln)
"Purcell: Dido And Aeneas"
Emmanuelle Haim, harpsichord/conductor; Ian Bostridge & Susan Graham; Daniel Zalay, producer (Various Artists; European Voices; Le Concert D'Astree)
"Scarlatti, A.: Griselda"
Rene Jacobs, conductor; Dorothea Roschmann & Lawrence Zazzo; Martin Sauer, producer (Various Artists; Akademie Fur Alte Musik, Berlin)
- Best Choral Performance
"Baltic Voices 2 (Sisask, Tulev, Schnittke, Etc.)"
Paul Hillier, conductor (Estonian Philhamonic Chamber Choir)
"Berlioz: Requiem"
Robert Spano, conductor; Norman Mackenzie, choir director (Frank Lopardo, tenor; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
"Penderecki: St. Luke Passion"
Antoni Wit, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, organ, chorus master (Jaroslaw Malanowicz, organ & Romuald Tesarowicz, bass; Izabella Klosinska, soprano, Krzysztof Kolberger, evangelist & Adam Kruszewski, baritone; Warsaw Boys Choir & Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra)
"Rachmaninov: Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom"
Stephen Cleobury, conductor (Choir Of King's College, Cambridge)
"Silvestrov: Requiem For Larissa"
Volodymyr Sirenko, conductor; Yevhen Savchuk, chorus master (National Choir Of Ukraine "Dumka"; National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine)
- Best Classical Vocal Performance
"Grieg And Sibelius Songs"
Karita Mattila, soprano (Sakari Oramo; City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
"Handel: Arias (Theodora; La Lucrezia-Cantata; Serse)"
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo soprano (Harry Bicket, conductor/harpsichord/chamber organ, Phoebe Carrai, cello, Stephen Stubbs, lute/baroque guitar & Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba; Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment)
"Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic At Stockbridge, Etc.)"
Susan Graham, mezzo soprano (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano)
"Marx: Orchestral Songs (Songs For High & Middle Voice; Verklartes Jahr)"
Angela Maria Blasi, soprano & Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano (Steven Sloane; Bochum Symphony Orchestra)
"A Romantic Songbook (Strauss, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Etc.)"
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone (Justus Zeyen, piano)
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