Best Immersive Vocal Album (for 63 Grammy Awards)
“American Soldier Soundtrack” Leslie Ann Jones, immersive mixed engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastery engineer; Dan Mercario, immersive producer (Jim R. Kaine and US Army Field Division)
Best Engineering Album, Classic
“Chanticleer Sings Christmas,” Leslie Ann Jones, engineer (@Chanticleer)
Product of the Year, Classic
Judith Sherman
Best orchestral performance
“Price: Symphony No. 1 and 3,” Yannick Nezette Seguin, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
Best opera recording
“Glass: Akhenaten” Karen Kamensik, conductor; J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James, and Dísella Lárusdóttir; David Frost, Producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Choir)
Best choral performance
Mahler: Symphony No. 8, Symphony of the Thousand, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, Robert Stad, Fernando Malvar Ruiz and Luke McDarver, masters of the choir (Lea Crusito, Mihoko Fujimura, Ryan McKinney, Erin Morley, Tamara Mumford, Simon O’Neill, Maurice Robinson and Tamara Wilson; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Children’s Choir, Los Angeles Master Choir, Children’s National Chorus and Pacific Choir)
Best Chamber Music / Small Band Performance
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – Hope in Tears, Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax