53rd Annual Grammy Awards...

Special Merit Awards

MusiCares Person of the Year

• Barbra Streisand

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

• Julie Andrews, Roy Haynes, Juilliard String Quartet, the Kingston Trio, Dolly Parton, Ramones, George Beverly Shea^[10]

General

Record of the Year

"Need You Now" – Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum & Paul Worley, producers; Clarke Schleicher, engineer/mixer

• "Nothin' on You" – B.o.B & Bruno Mars
  • The Smeezingtons, producers; Ari Levine, engineer/mixer
• "Love the Way You Lie" – Eminem & Rihanna
  • Alex Da Kid & Makeba Riddick, producers; Alex Da Kid, Eminem & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers
• "F*** You" – Cee Lo Green
  • The Smeezingtons, producers
• "Empire State of Mind" – Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
  • Angela Hunte, Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Shux, producers; Ken "Duro" Ifill, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton & Ann Mincieli, engineers/mixers

Album of the Year

The Suburbs – Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire & Markus Dravs, producers; Arcade Fire, Mark Lawson & Craig Silvey, engineers/mixers; Mark Lawson, mastering engineer

• Recovery – Eminem
  • featured artists; Kobe, Lil Wayne, Pink & Rihanna, producers; Alex Da Kid, Boi-1da, Nick Brongers, Supa Dups, DJ Khalil, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Havoc, Emile Haynie, Jim Jonsin, Just Blaze, Mr. Porter & Script Shepherd, engineers/mixers; Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, mastering engineer
• Need You Now – Lady Antebellum
  • Lady Antebellum & Paul Worley, producers; Clarke Schleicher, engineer/mixer; Andrew Mendelson, mastering engineer
• The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga
  • Beyoncé, featured artist; Ron Fair, Fernando Garibay, Tal Herzberg, Rodney Jerkins, Lady Gaga, RedOne, Teddy Riley & Space Cowboy, producers; Eelco Bakker, Christian Delano, Mike Donaldson, Paul Foley, Tal Herzberg, Rodney Jenkins, Hisashi Mizoguchi, Robert Orton, Dan Parry, Jack Joseph Puig, RedOne, Teddy Riley, Dave Russel, Johnny Severin, Space Cowboy, Mark Stent, Jonas Wetling & Frank Wolff, engineers/mixers; Gene Grimaldi, mastering engineer
• Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
  • Snoop Dogg, featured artist; Ammo, Benny Blanco, Dr. Luke, Kuk Harrell, Max Martin, Stargate, C. "Tricky" Stewart, Sandy Vee & Greg Wells, producers; Steve Churchyard, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Sam Holland, Jaycen-Joshua, Damien Lewis, Chris O'Ryan, Carlos Oyanedel, Paris, Phil Tan, Brain Thomas, Lewis Tozour, Miles Walker, Emily Wright & Andrew Wuepper, engineers/mixers; Brian Gardner, mastering engineer

Song of the Year

"Need You Now"

Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)

• "Beg, Steal or Borrow"
  • Ray LaMontagne, songwriter (Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs)
• "F*** You"
  • Cee Lo Green, Philip Lawrence & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Cee Lo Green)
• "The House That Built Me"
  • Tom Douglas & Allen Shamblin, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
• "Love the Way You Lie"
  • Alexander Grant, Holly Hafferman & Marshall Mathers, songwriters (Eminem featuring Rihanna)

Best New Artist

Esperanza Spalding

• Justin Bieber
• Drake
• Florence & The Machine
• Mumford & Sons

Pop

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

"Bad Romance" – Lady Gaga

• "King of Anything" – Sara Bareilles
• "Halo" (Live) – Beyoncé
• "Chasing Pirates" – Norah Jones
• "Teenage Dream" – Katy Perry

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

"Just the Way You Are" – Bruno Mars

• "Haven't Met You Yet" – Michael Bublé
• "This Is It" – Michael Jackson
• "Whataya Want from Me" – Adam Lambert
• "Half of My Heart" – John Mayer

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

"Hey, Soul Sister" (Live) – Train

• "Don't Stop Believin'" (Regionals Version) – Glee Cast
• "Misery" – Maroon 5
• "The Only Exception" – Paramore
• "Babyfather" – Sade

Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

"Imagine" – Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono Nº1, Jeff Beck, & Oumou Sangaré

• "Airplanes, Part II" – B.o.B, Eminem, & Hayley Williams
• "If It Wasn't for Bad" – Elton John & Leon Russell
• "Telephone" – Lady Gaga & Beyoncé
• "California Gurls" – Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

"Nessun Dorma" – Jeff Beck

• "Flow" – Laurie Anderson
• "No Mystery" – Stanley Clarke
• "Orchestral Intro" – Gorillaz
• "Sleepwalk" – The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Take Your Pick – Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto

• Pushing the Envelope – Gerald Albright
• Heart and Soul – Kenny G
• Singularity – Robby Krieger
• Everything Is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway – Kirk Whalum

Best Pop Vocal Album

The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga

• My World 2.0 – Justin Bieber
• I Dreamed a Dream – Susan Boyle
• Battle Studies – John Mayer
• Teenage Dream – Katy Perry

Dance

Best Dance Recording

"Only Girl (In the World)" – Rihanna

Crystal Johnson, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm, producers: Stargate, Sandy Vee

• "Rocket" – Goldfrapp
  • Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory, producers; Mark 'Spike' Stent, mixer
• "In for the Kill" – La Roux
  • Elly Jackson & Ben Langmaid, producers; Serban Ghenea & John Hanes, mixers
• "Dance in the Dark" – Lady Gaga
  • Fernando Garibay & Lady Gaga, producers; Robert Orton, mixer
• "Dancing on My Own" – Robyn
  • Patrik Berger & Robyn, producers; Niklas Flyckt, mixer

Best Electronic/Dance Album

La Roux – La Roux

• These Hopeful Machines – BT
• Further – The Chemical Brothers
• Head First – Goldfrapp
• Black Light – Groove Armada

Traditional pop

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Crazy Love – Michael Bublé

• The Greatest Love Songs of All Time – Barry Manilow
• Let It Be Me: Mathis in Nashville – Johnny Mathis
• Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V – Rod Stewart
• Love Is the Answer – Barbra Streisand

Rock

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

"Helter Skelter" – Paul McCartney

• "Run Back to Your Side" – Eric Clapton
• "Crossroads" – John Mayer
• "Silver Rider" – Robert Plant and the Band of Joy
• "Angry World" – Neil Young

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

"Tighten Up" – The Black Keys

• "Ready to Start" – Arcade Fire
• "I Put a Spell on You" – Jeff Beck & Joss Stone
• "Radioactive" – Kings of Leon
• "Resistance" – Muse

Best Hard Rock Performance

"New Fang" – Them Crooked Vultures

• "A Looking in View" – Alice in Chains
• "Let Me Hear You Scream" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Black Rain" – Soundgarden
• "Between the Lines" – Stone Temple Pilots

Best Metal Performance

"El Dorado" – Iron Maiden

• "Let the Guilt Go" – Korn
• "In Your Words" – Lamb of God
• "Sudden Death" – Megadeth
• "World Painted Blood" – Slayer

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

"Hammerhead" – Jeff Beck

• "Black Mud" – The Black Keys
• "Do the Murray" – Los Lobos
• "Kundalini Bonfire" – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
• "The Deathless Horsie" – Dweezil Zappa

Best Rock Song

"Angry World"

Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young)

• "Little Lion Man"
  • Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston, songwriters (Mumford & Sons)
• "Radioactive"
  • Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings of Leon)
• "Resistance"
  • Matthew Bellamy, songwriter (Muse)
• "Tighten Up"
  • Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney, songwriters (The Black Keys)

Best Rock Album

The Resistance – Muse

• Emotion & Commotion – Jeff Beck
• Backspacer – Pearl Jam
• Mojo – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Le Noise – Neil Young

Alternative

Best Alternative Music Album

Brothers – The Black Keys

• The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
• Infinite Arms – Band of Horses
• Broken Bells – Broken Bells
• Contra – Vampire Weekend

R&B

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

"Bittersweet" – Fantasia

• "Everything to Me" – Monica
• "Gone Already" – Faith Evans
• "Tired" – Kelly Price
• "Holding You Down" – Jazmine Sullivan

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

"There Goes My Baby" – Usher

• "Second Chance" – El DeBarge
• "Finding My Way Back" – Jaheim
• "Why Would You Stay" – Kem
• "We're Still Friends" – (Kirk Whalum &) Musiq Soulchild

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

"Soldier of Love" – Sade

• "Love" – Chuck Brown, Jill Scott & Marcus Miller
• "Take My Time" – Chris Brown & Tank
• "You've Got a Friend" – Ronald Isley & Aretha Franklin
• "Shine" – John Legend & The Roots

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

"Hang On in There" – John Legend & The Roots

• "When a Woman Loves" – R. Kelly
• "You're So Amazing" – Calvin Richardson
• "In Between" – Ryan Shaw
• "Go" (Live) – Betty Wright

Best Urban/Alternative Performance

"Fuck You!" – Cee Lo Green

• "Little One" – Bilal
• "Orion" – Carolyn Malachi
• "Tightrope" – Janelle Monáe & Big Boi
• "Still" – Eric Roberson

Best R&B Song

"Shine"

John Stephens, songwriter (John Legend & The Roots)

• "Bittersweet"
  • Charles Harmon & Claude Kelly, songwriters (Fantasia)
• "Finding My Way Back"
  • Ivan "Orthodox" Barias, Curt Chambers, Carvin "Ransum" Haggins, Jaheim Hoagland & Miquel Jontel, songwriters (Jaheim)
• "Second Chance"
  • E. Debarge & Mischke, songwriters (El DeBarge)
• "Why Would You Stay"
  • K. Owens, songwriter (Kem)

Best R&B Album

Wake Up! – John Legend & The Roots

• Still Standing – Monica
• Back to Me – Fantasia
• Another Round – Jaheim
• The Love & War Masterpeace – Raheem DeVaughn

Best Contemporary R&B Album

Raymond vs. Raymond – Usher

• Untitled – R. Kelly
• Graffiti – Chris Brown
• Transition – Ryan Leslie
• The ArchAndroid – Janelle Monáe

Rap

Best Rap Solo Performance

"Not Afraid" – Eminem

• "Over" – Drake
• "How Low" – Ludacris
• "I'm Back" – T.I.
• "Power" – Kanye West

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group

"On to the Next One" – Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz

• "Shutterbugg" – Big Boi & Cutty
• "Fancy" – Drake, T.I. & Swizz Beatz
• "My Chick Bad" – Ludacris & Nicki Minaj
• "Lose My Mind" – Young Jeezy & Plies

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

"Empire State of Mind" – Jay-Z & Alicia Keys

• "Nothin' on You" – B.o.B & Bruno Mars
• "Deuces" – Chris Brown, Tyga & Kevin McCall
• "Love the Way You Lie" – Eminem & Rihanna
• "Wake Up Everybody" – John Legend, The Roots, Melanie Fiona & Common

Best Rap Song

"Empire State of Mind"

Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Burt Keyes, Alicia Keys, Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh, songwriters (Jay-Z & Alicia Keys)

• "Love the Way You Lie"
  • Alex da Kid, Holly Hafferman & Marshall Mathers, songwriters (Eminem & Rihanna)
• "Not Afraid"
  • M. Burnett, J. Evans, Marshall Mathers, L. Resto & M. Samuels, songwriters (Eminem)
• "Nothin' on You"
  • Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars & Bobby Simmons Jr., songwriters (B.o.B & Bruno Mars)
• "On to the Next One"
  • Shawn Carter, J. Chaton & K. Dean, songwriters (G. Auge & X. De Rosnay, songwriters) (Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz)

Best Rap Album

Recovery – Eminem

• The Adventures Of Bobby Ray – B.o.B
• Thank Me Later – Drake
• The Blueprint 3 – Jay-Z
• How I Got Over – The Roots

Country

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

"The House That Built Me" – Miranda Lambert

• "Satisfied" – Jewel
• "Swingin'" – LeAnn Rimes
• "Temporary Home" – Carrie Underwood
• "I'd Love To Be Your Last" – Gretchen Wilson

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

"'Til Summer Comes Around" – Keith Urban

• "Macon" – Jamey Johnson
• "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)" – Toby Keith
• "Turning Home" – David Nail
• "Gettin' You Home" – Chris Young

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

"Need You Now" – Lady Antebellum

• "Free" – Zac Brown Band
• "Elizabeth" – Dailey & Vincent
• "Little White Church" – Little Big Town
• "Where Rainbows Never Die" – The SteelDrivers

Best Country Collaboration with Vocals

"As She's Walking Away" – Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson

• "Bad Angel" – Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert & Jamey Johnson
• "Pride (In the Name of Love)" – Dierks Bentley, Del McCoury & The Punch Brothers
• "Hillbilly Bone" – Blake Shelton & Trace Adkins
• "I Run to You" – Marty Stuart & Connie Smith

Best Country Instrumental Performance

"Hummingbyrd" – Marty Stuart

• "Tattoo of a Smudge" – Cherryholmes
• "Magic #9" – The Infamous Stringdusters
• "New Chance Blues" – Punch Brothers
• "Willow Creek" – Darrell Scott

Best Country Song

"Need You Now"

Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)

• "The Breath You Take"
  • Casey Beathard, Dean Dillon & Jessie Jo Dillon, songwriters (George Strait)
• "Free"
  • Zac Brown, songwriter (Zac Brown Band)
• "The House That Built Me"
  • Tom Douglas & Allen Shamblin, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
• "I'd Love to Be Your Last"
  • Rivers Rutherford, Annie Tate & Sam Tate, songwriters (Gretchen Wilson)
• "If I Die Young"
  • Kimberly Perry, songwriter (The Band Perry)

Best Country Album

Need You Now – Lady Antebellum

• Up On The Ridge – Dierks Bentley
• You Get What You Give – Zac Brown Band
• The Guitar Song – Jamey Johnson
• Revolution – Miranda Lambert

New Age

Best New Age Album

Miho: Journey to the Mountain – Paul Winter Consort

• Ocean – Michael DeMaria
• Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 4 – Kitaro
• Dancing into Silence – R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman
• Instrumental Oasis, Vol. 4 – Zamora

Jazz

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

The Stanley Clarke Band – The Stanley Clarke Band

• Never Can Say Goodbye – Joey DeFrancesco
• Now Is the Time – Jeff Lorber Fusion
• To the One – John McLaughlin
• Backatown – Trombone Shorty

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee – Dee Dee Bridgewater

• Freddy Cole Sings Mr. B – Freddy Cole
• When Lights Are Low – Denise Donatelli
• Ages – Lorraine Feather
• Water – Gregory Porter

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

"A Change Is Gonna Come" – Herbie Hancock

• "Solar" – Alan Broadbent
• "Body and Soul" – Keith Jarrett
• "Lonely Woman" – Hank Jones
• "Van Gogh" – Wynton Marsalis

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

Moody 4B – James Moody

• Positootly! – John Beasley
• The New Song and Dance – Clayton Brothers
• Historicity – Vijay Iyer Trio
• Providencia – Danilo Pérez

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard – Mingus Big Band

• Infernal Machines – Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
• Autumn: In Moving Pictures Jazz – Chamber Music Vol. 2 – Billy Childs Ensemble featuring the Ying String Quartet
• Pathways – Dave Holland Octet
• 54 – Metropole Orkest, John Scofield & Vince Mendoza

Best Latin Jazz Album

Chucho's Steps – Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers

• Tango Grill – Pablo Aslan
• Second Chance – Hector Martignon
• Psychedelic Blues – Poncho Sanchez
• ¡Bien Bien! – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet

Gospel

Best Gospel Performance

"Grace" – BeBe & CeCe Winans

• "He Wants It All" – Forever Jones
• "You Hold My World" – Israel Houghton
• "Nobody Greater" – VaShawn Mitchell
• "He's Been Just That Good – Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway

Best Gospel Song

"It's What I Do"

Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters (Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway)

• "Beautiful Things"
  • Lisa Gungor & Michael Gungor, songwriters (Gungor)
• "Better than a Hallelujah"
  • Sarah Hart & Chapin Hartford, songwriters (Amy Grant)
• "Our God"
  • Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman, Jesse Reeves & Chris Tomlin, songwriters (Chris Tomlin)
• "Return to Sender"
  • Gordon Kennedy, songwriter (Ricky Skaggs)

Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album

Hello Hurricane – Switchfoot

• Church Music – David Crowder Band
• For Those Who Wait – Fireflight
• Beautiful Things – Gungor
• Rehab – Lecrae

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

Love God. Love People. – Israel Houghton

• Beauty Will Rise – Steven Curtis Chapman
• Pieces of a Real Heart – Sanctus Real
• Mosaic – Ricky Skaggs
• Tonight – TobyMac

Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album

The Reason – Diamond Rio

• Times Like These – Austins Bridge
• Expecting Good Things – Jeff & Sheri Easter
• Journey On – Ty Herndon
• Live at Oak Tree: Karen Peck & New River – Karen Peck & New River

Best Traditional Gospel Album

Downtown Church – Patty Griffin

• The Experience – Vanessa Bell Armstrong
• A City Called Heaven – Shirley Caesar
• Here I Am – Marvin Sapp
• All in One – Karen Clark Sheard

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album

Still – BeBe & CeCe Winans

• Get Ready – Forever Jones
• Love Unstoppable – Fred Hammond
• Triumphant – VaShawn Mitchell
• Aaron Sledge – Aaron Sledge

Latin

Best Latin Pop Album

Paraíso Express – Alejandro Sanz

• Poquita Ropa – Ricardo Arjona
• Alex Cuba – Alex Cuba
• Boleto de Entrada – Kany García
• Otra Cosa – Julieta Venegas

Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album

El Existential – Grupo Fantasma

• Oro – ChocQuibTown
• Amor Vincit Omnia – Draco
• Bulevar 2000 – Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich+Fussible
• 1977 – Ana Tijoux

Best Tropical Latin Album

Viva la Tradición – Spanish Harlem Orchestra

• Sin Salsa No Hay Paraiso – El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
• Asondeguerra – Juan Luis Guerra 4.40
• Irrepetible – Gilberto Santa Rosa
• 100 Sones Cubanos – (Various Artists); Edesio Alejandro, Nelson Estevez & Juan Hidalgo, producers

Best Tejano Album

Recuerdos – Little Joe & la Familia

• Sabes Bien – Juan P. Moreno
• In the Pocket – Joe Posada
• Homenaje a Mi Padre – Sunny Sauceda y Todo Eso
• Cookin – Tortilla Factory

Best Norteño Album

Classic – Intocable

• Indispensable – Angel Fresnillo
• Ni Hoy Ni Mañana – Gerardo Ortiz
• Desde la Cantina Volumen 1 – Pesado
• Intensamente – Principez de la Musica Norteña

Best Banda Album

Enamórate de Mí – El Güero y Su Banda Centenario

• Ando Bien Pedo – Banda Los Recoditos
• Caricias Compradas... – Cuisillos
• Con la Fuerza del Corrido – El Chapo
• Todo Depende de Ti – La Arrolladora Banda El Limon

Americana music

Best Americana Album

You Are Not Alone – Mavis Staples

• The List – Rosanne Cash
• Tin Can Trust – Los Lobos
• Country Music – Willie Nelson
• Band of Joy – Robert Plant

Best Bluegrass Album

Mountain Soul II – Patty Loveless

• Circles Around Me – Sam Bush
• Family Circle – The Del McCoury Band
• Legacy – Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
• Reckless – The SteelDrivers

Best Traditional Blues Album

Joined at the Hip – Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith

• Giant – James Cotton
• Memphis Blues – Cyndi Lauper
• The Well – Charlie Musselwhite
• Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites – Jimmie Vaughan

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Living Proof – Buddy Guy

• Nothing's Impossible – Solomon Burke
• Tribal – Dr. John and the Lower 911
• Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook – Bettye LaVette
• Live! In Chicago – Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band featuring Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bryan Lee, and Buddy Flett

Best Traditional Folk Album

Genuine Negro Jig – Carolina Chocolate Drops

• Onward and Upward – Luther Dickinson & The Sons Of Mudboy
• Memories of John – The John Hartford Stringband
• Maria Muldaur & Her Garden Of Joy – Maria Muldaur
• Ricky Skaggs Solo: Songs My Dad Loved – Ricky Skaggs

Best Contemporary Folk Album

God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise – Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs

• Love Is Strange – En Vivo con Tino – Jackson Browne & David Lindley
• The Age of Miracles – Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Somedays the Song Writes You – Guy Clark
• Dream Attic – Richard Thompson

Best Hawaiian Music Album

Huana Ke Aloha – Tia Carrere

• Amy Hanaiali'i and Slack Key Masters of Hawaii – Amy Hanaiali‘i And Slack Key Masters of Hawaii
• Polani – Daniel Ho
• The Legend – Ledward Kaapana
• Maui on My Mind – Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar – Jeff Peterson

Best Native American Music Album

2010 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance – (Various Artists); Derek Mathews, Dr. Lita Mathews & Melonie Mathews, producers

• XI – Bear Creek
• Temptations: Cree Round Dance Songs – Northern Cree
• Woodnotes Wyld: Historic Flute Sounds from the Dr. Richard W. Payne Collection – Peter Phippen

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album

Zydeco Junkie – Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band

• En Couleurs – Feufollet
• Happy Go Lucky – D.L. Menard
• Back Home – The Pine Leaf Boys
• Creole Moon: Live at the Blue Moon Saloon – Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

Before the Dawn – Buju Banton

• Isaacs Meets Isaac – Gregory Isaacs & King Isaac
• Revelation – Lee "Scratch" Perry
• Made in Jamaica – Bob Sinclar And Sly & Robbie
• One Pop Reggae + – Sly & Robbie and the Family Taxi
• Legacy An Acoustic Tribute to Peter Tosh – Andrew Tosh

World music

Best Traditional World Music Album

Ali and Toumani – Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

• Pure Sounds – Gyuto Monks of Tibet
• I Speak Fula – Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
• Grace – Soweto Gospel Choir
• Tango Universal – Vayo

Best Contemporary World Music Album

Throw Down Your Heart , Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks – Béla Fleck

• All in One – Bebel Gilberto
• ÕŸÖ – Angelique Kidjo
• Bom Tempo – Sérgio Mendes
• Om Namo Narayanaya: Soul Call – Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon

Children's

Best Musical Album for Children

Tomorrow's Children – Pete Seeger with the Rivertown Kids and Friends

• Here Comes Science – They Might Be Giants
• Jungle Gym – Justin Roberts
• Sunny Days – Battersby Duo
• Weird Things Are Everywhere! – Judy Pancoast

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies – Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition – Selma Blair
• The Best Candy in the Whole World – Bill Harley
• Healthy Food For Thought: Good Enough to Eat – (Various Artists); Jim Cravero, Paula Lizzi & Steve Pullara, producers
• Nanny McPhee Returns – Emma Thompson

Spoken Word

Best Spoken Word Album

Earth – Jon Stewart (With Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver & Sigourney Weaver)

• American on Purpose – Craig Ferguson
• The Bedwetter – Sarah Silverman
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future… – Michael J. Fox
• This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection – Carol Burnett
• The Woody Allen Collection: Mere Anarchy, Side Effects, Without Feathers, Getting Even – Woody Allen

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Stark Raving Black – Lewis Black

• Cho Dependent – Margaret Cho
• I Told You I Was Freaky – Flight of the Conchords
• Kathy Griffin Does the Bible Belt – Kathy Griffin
• Weapons of Self Destruction – Robin Williams

Musical show

Best Musical Show Album

American Idiot (featuring Green Day) – Billie Joe Armstrong, producer (Green Day, composers; Billie Joe Armstrong, lyricist)

• Fela! – Robert Sher, producer (Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, composer; Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, lyricist)
• A Little Night Music – Tommy Krasker, producer (Stephen Sondheim, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist)
• Promises, Promises – David Caddick & David Lai, producers (Burt Bacharach, composer; Hal David, lyricist)
• Sondheim on Sondheim – Philip Chaffin & Tommy Krasker, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist)

Film, TV and other visual media

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

Crazy Heart

• Glee: The Music, Volume 1
• Tremé
• True Blood – Volume 2
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

Toy Story 3 – Randy Newman

• Alice in Wonderland – Danny Elfman
• Avatar – James Horner
• Inception – Hans Zimmer
• Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer

Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

"The Weary Kind" (From Crazy Heart)

Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett, songwriters (Ryan Bingham)

• "Down in New Orleans" (From The Princess and the Frog)
  • Randy Newman, songwriter (Dr. John)
• "I See You" (From Avatar)
  • Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell & James Horner, songwriters (Leona Lewis)
• "Kiss Like Your Kiss" (From True Blood)
  • Lucinda Williams, songwriter (Lucinda Williams & Elvis Costello)
• "This City" (From Tremé)
  • Steve Earle, songwriter (Steve Earle)

Composing and arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

"The Path Among the Trees" – Billy Childs

• "Aurora" – Patrick Williams
• "Battle Circle" – Gerald Clayton
• "Box of Cannoli" – Tim Hagans
• "Fourth Stream...La Banda" – Bill Cunliffe

Best Instrumental Arrangement

"Carlos" – Vince Mendoza

• "Fanfare for a New Day" – Patrick Williams
• "Itsbynne Reel" – Gil Goldstein
• "Monet" – Ted Nash
• "Skip to My Lou" – Frank Macchia

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

"Baba Yetu" – Christopher Tin, arranger (Christopher Tin, Soweto Gospel Choir & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

• "Baby" – Roger Treece, arranger (Bobby McFerrin)
• "Based on a Thousand True Stories" – Vince Mendoza, arranger (Silje Nergaard & Metropole Orchestra Strings)
• "Don't Explain" – Geoffrey Keezer, arranger (Denise Donatelli)
• "Imagine" – Herbie Hancock & Larry Klein, arrangers (Herbie Hancock, Pink, Seal, Jeff Beck, India.Arie, Konono No 1 & Oumou Sangare)

Package

Best Recording Package

Brothers – Michael Carney, art director (The Black Keys)

• Eggs – Malene Mathiasson, Malthe Fischer, Kristoffer Rom, Nis Svoldgård & Aske Zidore, art directors (Oh No Ono)
• Hadestown – Brian Grunert, art director (Anaïs Mitchell)
• What Will We Be – Devendra Banhart & Jon Beasley, art directors (Devendra Banhart)
• Yonkers NY – Andrew Taray, art director (Chip Taylor)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Under Great White Northern Lights (Limited Edition Box Set) – Rob Jones & Jack White III, art directors (The White Stripes)

• Light: On the South Side – Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, art directors (Various Artists)
• Minotaur (Deluxe Edition) – Jeff Anderson & Vaughan Oliver, art directors (The Pixies)
• A Sideman's Journey (Limited Collector's Super Deluxe Box Set) – Daniel Reiss & Klaus Voormann, art directors (Voormann & Friends)
• Story Island – Qing-Yang Xiao, art director (Various Artists)

Album notes

Best Album Notes

Keep an Eye on the Sky – Robert Gordon, album notes writer (Big Star)

• Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936–1937 – Gage Averill, album notes writer (Various Artists)
• Side Steps – Ashley Kahn, album notes writer (John Coltrane)
• There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916 – Doug Seroff, album notes writer (Fisk University Jubilee Quartet)
• True Love Cast Out All Evil – Will Sheff, album notes writer (Roky Erickson With Okkervil River)

Historical

Best Historical Album

The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)

Jeff Jones, compilation producer; Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Sam Okell & Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (The Beatles)

• Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936–1937
  • Jeffrey A. Greenberg, David Katznelson & Anna Lomax Wood, compilation producers; Steve Rosenthal & Warren Russell-Smith, mastering engineers (Various Artists)
• The Complete Mother's Best Recordings...Plus!
  • Colin Escott, Mike Jason & Jett Williams, compilation producers; Joseph M. Palmaccio, mastering engineer (Hank Williams)
• Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More
  • Andy McKaie, compilation producer; Erick Labson, mastering engineer (Buddy Holly)
• Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965–1968
  • Alec Palao, Cheryl Pawelski & Andrew Sandoval, compilation producers; Dan Hersch & Andrew Sandoval, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Production, non-classical

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

An Engineer's Award.

Battle Studies

Michael H. Brauer, Joe Ferla, Chad Franscoviak & Manny Marroquin, engineers (John Mayer)

• Dirty Side Down
  • John Keane, engineer (Widespread Panic)
• Emotion & Commotion
  • Steve Lipson, engineer (Jeff Beck)
• God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
  • Ryan Freeland, engineer (Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs)
• Pink Elephant
  • Seth Presant & Leon F. Sylvers III, engineers (N'dambi)

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

Danger Mouse

Broken Bells – Broken Bells (A)

Dark Night of the Soul – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (A)

Tighten Up – The Black Keys (T)

• Rob Cavallo
  • Brand New Eyes – Paramore (A)
  • Hang Cool Teddy Bear – Meat Loaf (A)
  • Happy Hour – Uncle Kracker (A)
  • Music Again – Adam Lambert (T)
  • Soaked – Adam Lambert (T)
  • Sure Fire Winners – Adam Lambert (T)
  • Time for Miracles – Adam Lambert (T)
  • When It's Time – Green Day (T)

• Dr. Luke
  • California Gurls – Katy Perry Featuring Snoop Dogg (T)
  • For Your Entertainment – Adam Lambert (T)
  • Hungover – Ke$ha (T)
  • Kiss n Tell – Ke$ha (T)
  • Magic – B.o.B Featuring Rivers Cuomo (T)
  • Take It Off – Ke$ha (T)
  • Teenage Dream – Katy Perry (T)
  • Your Love Is My Drug – Ke$ha (T)

• RedOne
  • Alejandro – Lady Gaga (S)
  • Bad Romance – Lady Gaga (S)
  • The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga (A)
  • I Like It – Enrique Iglesias Featuring Pitbull (S)
  • More – Usher (T)
  • We Are the World 25 for Haiti – Various Artists (S)
  • Whole Lotta Love – Mary J. Blige (S)

• The Smeezingtons (Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine)
  • Billionaire – Travie McCoy Featuring Bruno Mars (T)
  • Bow Chicka Wow Wow – Mike Posner (T)
  • Fuck You – Cee Lo Green (S)
  • Island Queen – Sean Kingston (T)
  • Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars (S)
  • Nothin' on You – B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars (T)

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix)

David Guetta, remixer (Madonna)

• Fantasy (Morgan Page Remix)
  • Morgan Page, remixer (Nadia Ali)
• Funk Nasty (Wolfgang Gartner Remix Edit)
  • Wolfgang Gartner, remixer (Andy Caldwell Featuring Gram'ma Funk)
• Orpheus (Quiet Carnival) (Funk Generation Mix)
  • Mike Rizzo, remixer (Sérgio Mendes)
• Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix)
  • Axel Hedfors & Dragan Roganovic, remixers (The Temper Trap)

Production, surround sound

Best Surround Sound Album

• Britten's Orchestra
  • Keith O. Johnson, surround mix engineer; Keith O. Johnson, surround mastering engineer; David Frost, surround producer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)
• The Incident
  • Steven Wilson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Steven Wilson, surround producer (Porcupine Tree)
• Parallax Eden
  • David Miles Huber, surround mix engineer; David Miles Huber, surround mastering engineer; David Miles Huber, surround producer (David Miles Huber)
• Songs And Stories (Monster Music Version)
  • Don Murray, surround mix engineer; Sangwook Nam & Doug Sax, surround mastering engineers; John Burk, Noel Lee & Marcus Miller, surround producers (George Benson)
• Trondheimsolistene – In Folk Style
  • Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (TrondheimSolistene)

Production, classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.)

• Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina
  • Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka, engineers (Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
• Have You Ever Been...?
  • Robert Friedrich, engineer (Turtle Island Quartet, Stefon Harris & Mike Marshall)
• Mackey, Steven: Dreamhouse
  • David Frost, Tom Lazarus, Steven Mackey & Dirk Sobotka, engineers (Gil Rose, Rinde Eckert, Catch Electric Guitar Quartet, Synergy Vocals & Boston Modern Orchestra Project)
• Porter, Quincy: Complete Viola Works
  • Leslie Ann Jones, Kory Kruckenberg & David Sabee, engineers (Eliesha Nelson & John McLaughlin Williams)
• Vocabularies
  • Steve Miller, Allen Sides & Roger Treece, engineers (Bobby McFerrin)

Producer Of The Year, Classical

A Producer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.)

• Blanton Alspaugh
  • Corigliano: Violin Concerto 'The Red Violin' (Michael Ludwig, JoAnn Falletta & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina (Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)
  • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • Tower Of The Eight Winds – Music For Violin & Piano By Judith Shatin (Borup-Ernst Duo)
  • Tyberg: Symphony No. 3; Piano Trio (JoAnn Falletta & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Wind Serenades (Gregory Wolynec & Gateway Chamber Ensemble)

• David Frost
  • Britten's Orchestra (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)
  • Chambers, Evan: The Old Burying Ground (Kenneth Kiesler & The University Of Michigan Symphony Orchestra)
  • Dorman, Avner: Concertos For Mandolin, Piccolo, Piano And Concerto Grosso (Andrew Cyr, Eliran Avni, Mindy Kaufman, Avi Avital & Metropolis Ensemble)
  • The 5 Browns In Hollywood (5 Browns)
  • Mackey, Steven: Dreamhouse (Gil Rose, Rinde Eckert, Catch Electric Guitar Quartet, Synergy Vocals & Boston Modern Orchestra Project)
  • Meeting Of The Spirits (Matt Haimovitz)
  • Two Roads To Exile (ARC Ensemble)

• Tim Handley
  • Adams: Nixon In China (Marin Alsop, Tracy Dahl, Marc Heller, Thomas Hammons, Maria Kanyova, Robert Orth, Chen-Ye Yan, Opera Colorado Chorus & Colorado Symphony Orchestra)
  • Debussy: Le Martyre De Saint Sébastien (Jun Märkl & Orchestre National De Lyon)
  • Dohnányi: Variations On A Nursery Song (JoAnn Falletta, Eldar Nebolsin & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Harris: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (Marin Alsop & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Hubay: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 And 2 (Chloë Hanslip, Andrew Mogrelia & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Messiaen: Poèmes Pour Mi (Anne Schwanewilms, Jun Märkl & Orchestre National De Lyon)
  • Piazzolla: Sinfonía Buenos Aires (Daniel Binelli, Tianwa Yang, Giancarlo Guerro & Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
  • Ries: Works For Flute And Piano (Uwe Grodd & Matteo Napoli)
  • Roussel: Symphony No. 1 (Stéphane Denève & Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
  • Shchedrin: Concertos For Orchestra Nos. 4 & 5 (Kirill Karabits & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Stamitz: Flute Concertos (Robert Aitken, Donatas Katkus & St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra)
  • Strauss, R: Josephs-Legende; Rosenkavalier; Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Orchestral Suites) (JoAnn Falletta & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)

• Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin
  • Brubeck: Songs Of Praise (Lynne Morrow, Richard Grant, Quartet San Francisco & The Pacific Mozart Ensemble)
  • Cascade Of Roses (Janice Weber)
  • Gnattali: Solo & Chamber Works For Guitar (Marc Regnier)
  • If I Were A Bird (Michael Lewin)
  • Kletzki: Piano Concerto (Joseph Banowetz, Thomas Sanderling & Russian Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Porter, Quincy: Complete Viola Works (Eliesha Nelson & John McLaughlin Williams)
  • Rubinstein: Piano Music (1852–1894) (Joseph Banowetz)
  • Rubinstein: Piano Music (1871–1890) (Joseph Banowetz)
  • 20th Century Harp Sonatas (Sarah Schuster Ericsson)

• James Mallinson
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Bernard Haitink, Duain Wolfe, Miah Persson, Christianne Stotijn, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  • Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet (Valery Gergiev & London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Shchedrin: The Enchanted Wanderer (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Akimov, Sergei Aleksashkin, Kristina Kapustinskaya, Mariinsky Chorus & Mariinsky Orchestra)
  • Strauss, R: Ein Heldenleben; Webern: Im Sommerwind (Bernard Haitink & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  • Strauss, R: Eine Alpensinfonie (Bernard Haitink & London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations; Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante (Gautier Capuçon, Valery Gergiev & Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre)
  • Wagner: Parsifal (Valery Gergiev, Gary Lehman, Violeta Urmana, René Pape, Evgeny Nikitin, Alexei Tanovitski, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Chorus & Mariinsky Orchestra)

Classical

Best Classical Album

• Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 – Mariss Jansons, conductor; Everett Porter, producer; Everett Porter, mastering engineer (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)
• Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina – Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer; Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka, engineers/mixers (Terrence Wilson; Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
• Mackey, Steven: Dreamhouse – Gil Rose, conductor; Rinde Eckert; Catch Electric Guitar Quartet; David Frost, producer; David Frost, Tom Lazarus, Steven Mackey & Dirk Sobotka, engineers/mixers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Synergy Vocals)
• Sacrificium – Giovanni Antonini, conductor; Cecilia Bartoli; Arend Prohmann, producer; Philip Siney, engineer/mixer (Il Giardino Armonico)
• Verdi: Requiem – Riccardo Muti, conductor; Duain Wolfe, chorus master; Christopher Alder, producer; David Frost, Tom Lazarus & Christopher Willis, engineers/mixers (Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Barbara Frittoli & Mario Zeffiri; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus)

Best Orchestral Performance

• Bruckner: "Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4" – Mariss Jansons, conductor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)
• Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; "Deus Ex Machina" – Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Terrence Wilson; Nashville Symphony)
• Mackey, Steven: "Dreamhouse" – Gil Rose, conductor; Rinde Eckert (Catch Electric Guitar Quartet; Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Synergy Vocals)
• Salieri: "Overtures & Stage Music" – Thomas Fey, conductor (Mannheimer Mozartorchester)
• Stravinsky: Pulcinella; Symphony in Three Movements; "Four Études" – Pierre Boulez, conductor (Roxana Constantinescu, Kyle Ketelsen & Nicholas Phan; Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

• Berg: "Lulu"
  • Antonio Pappano, conductor; Agneta Eichenholz, Jennifer Larmore, Klaus Florian Vogt & Michael Volle; David Groves, producer (Orchestra of The Royal Opera House)
• Hasse: "Marc' Antonio E Cleopatra"
  • Matthew Dirst, conductor; Jamie Barton & Ava Pine; Keith Weber, producer (Ars Lyrica Houston)
• Saariaho: "L'Amour de Loin"
  • Kent Nagano, conductor; Daniel Belcher, Ekaterina Lekhina & Marie-Ange Todorovitch; Martin Sauer, producer (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Rundfunkchor Berlin)
• Shchedrin: "The Enchanted Wanderer"
  • Valery Gergiev, conductor; Evgeny Akimov, Sergei Aleksashkin & Kristina Kapustinskaya; James Mallinson, producer (Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre; Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre)
• Sullivan: "Ivanhoe"
  • David Lloyd-Jones, conductor; Neal Davies, Geraldine McGreevy, James Rutherford, Toby Spence & Janice Watson; Brian Pidgeon, producer (BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Adrian Partington Singers)

Best Choral Performance

• Bach: "Cantatas" – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor; Erwin Ortner, chorus master (Bernarda Fink, Gerald Finley, Christian Gerhaher, Werner Güra, Julia Kleiter, Christine Schäfer, Anton Scharinger & Kurt Streit; Concentus Musicau Wien; Arnold Schoenberg Chor)
• "Baltic Runes" – Paul Hillier, conductor (Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir)
• Haydn: "The Creation" – René Jacobs, conductor; Hans-Christoph Rademann, choir director (Julia Kleiter, Maximilian Schmitt & Johannes Weisser; Freiburger Barockorchester; RIAS Kammerchor)
• Martin: "Golgotha" – Daniel Reuss, conductor (Judith Gauthier, Marianne Beate Kielland, Adrian Thompson, Mattijs Van De Woerd & Konstantin Wolff; Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Cappella Amsterdam & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir)
• Verdi: "Requiem" – Riccardo Muti, conductor; Duain Wolfe, chorus master (Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Barbara Frittoli & Mario Zeffiri; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus)

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)

• Daugherty: "Deus Ex Machina" – Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Terrence Wilson (Nashville Symphony)
• Dorman, Avner: "Mandolin Concerto" – Andrew Cyr, conductor; Avi Avital (Metropolis Ensemble)
• Kletzki: "Piano Concerto in D Minor, Op. 22" – Thomas Sanderling, conductor; Joseph Banowetz (Russian Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Mozart: "Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24" – Mitsuko Uchida (The Cleveland Orchestra)
• Porter, Quincy: "Concerto for Viola & Orchestra" – John McLaughlin Williams, conductor; Eliesha Nelson (Northwest Sinfonia)

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)

• Chopin: "The Nocturnes" – Nelson Freire
• Hamelin: "Études" – Marc-André Hamelin
• Messiaen: "Livre du Saint-Sacrement" – Paul Jacobs
• Paganini: "24 Caprices" – Julia Fischer
• "20th Century Harp Sonatas" – Sarah Schuster Ericsson

Best Chamber Music Performance

• Beethoven: "Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano" – Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov
• Gnattali: "Solo & Chamber Works for Guitar – Marc Regnier" (Tacy Edwards, Natalia Khoma & Marco Sartor)
• Ligeti: "String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2" – Parker Quartet
• Porter, Quincy: "Complete Viola Works" – Eliesha Nelson & John McLaughlin Williams (Douglas Rioth; Northwest Sinfonia)
• Schoenberg: "String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4" – Fred Sherry String Quartet (Christopher Oldfather & Rolf Schulte)

Best Small Ensemble Performance

• "Ceremony and Devotion – Music for the Tudors" – Harry Christophers, conductor; The Sixteen
• "Dinastia Borja" – Jordi Savall, conductor; Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial De Catalunya (Pascal Bertin, Daniele Carnovich, Lior Elmalich, Montserrat Figueras, Driss El Maloumi, Marc Mauillon, Lluís Vilamajó & Furio Zanasi; Pascal Bertin, Daniele Carnovich, Josep Piera & Francisco Rojas)
• "Trondheimsolistene – In Folk Style" – Øyvind Gimse & Geir Inge Lotsberg, conductors (Emilia Amper & Gjermund Larsen; TrondheimSolistene)
• "Victoria: Lamentations Of Jeremiah" – Peter Phillips, conductor; The Tallis Scholars
• Whitacre, Eric: "Choral Music" – Noel Edison, conductor; Elora Festival Singers (Carol Bauman & Leslie De'Ath)

Best Classical Vocal Performance

• "Ombre de Mon Amant – French Baroque Arias" – Anne Sofie Von Otter (William Christie; Les Arts Florissants)
• "Sacrificium" – Cecilia Bartoli (Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico)
• Turina: "Canto A Sevilla" – Lucia Duchonová (Celso Antunes; NDR Radiophilharmonie)
• Vivaldi: "Opera Arias – Pyrotechnics" – Vivica Genaux (Fabio Biondi; Europa Galante)
• Wagner: "Wesendonck-Lieder" – Measha Brueggergosman (Franz Welser-Möst; The Cleveland Orchestra)

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

• "Deus Ex Machina" – Michael Daugherty (Giancarlo Serrano)
• "Appassionatamente Plus" – Hans Werner Henze (Stefan Soltesz)
• "Graffiti" – Magnus Lindberg (Sakari Oramo)
• "Symphony No. 4" – Arvo Pärt (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
• "The Enchanted Wanderer" – Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (Valery Gergiev)

Best Classical Crossover Album

• Meeting of the Spirits – Matt Haimovitz (Amaryllis Jarczyk, Jan Jarczyk, John McLaughlin, Dominic Painchaud, Leanna Rutt & Matt Wilson)
• Off the Map – The Silk Road Ensemble
• Roots – My Life, My Song – Jessye Norman (Ira Coleman, Steve Johns, Mike Lovatt, Mark Markham & Martin Williams)
• Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns – Lucas Richman, conductor (Sussan Deyhim, Lia, Kaori Omura, Dulce Pontes, Jia Ruhan, Aoi Tada & Frederica von Stade; Anonymous 4 & Soweto Gospel Choir; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Vocabularies – Bobby McFerrin

Music video

Best Short Form Music Video

"Bad Romance" – Lady Gaga

Francis Lawrence, video director; Heather Heller, video producer

• "Ain't No Grave" – (Johnny Cash)
  • Chris Milk, video director; Jennifer Heath, Aaron Koblin & Rick Rubin, video producers
• "Love the Way You Lie" – Eminem & Rihanna
  • Joseph Kahn, video director; Maryann Tanedo, video producer
• "Stylo" – Gorillaz, Mos Def & Bobby Womack
  • Pete Candeland & Jamie Hewlett, video directors; Cara Speller, video producer
• "Fuck You!" – Cee Lo Green
  • Matt Stawski, video director; Paul Bock, video producer

Best Long Form Music Video

When You're Strange – The Doors

Tom Dicillo, video director; John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski & Dick Wolf, video producers

• No Distance Left to Run – Blur
  • Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern & Giorgio Testi, video directors; Thomas Benski, Laura Collins & Lucas Ochoa, video producers
• The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story – Arif Mardin
  • Doug Biro & Joe Mardin, video directors; Doug Biro & Joe Mardin, video producers
• Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage – Rush
  • Sam Dunn & Scot McFadyen, video directors; Sam Dunn & Scot McFadyen, video producers
• Under Great White Northern Lights – The White Stripes
  • Emmett Malloy, video director; Ian Montone & Mike Sarkissian, video producers

Green Bay 31, Pittsburgh 25

Champions: Green Bay Packers bring Lombardi Trophy back to Titletown

BY TONY WALTER • TWALTER@GREENBAYPRESSGAZETTE.COM • FEBRUARY 6, 2011

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ARLINGTON, Texas — The Green Bay Packers are world champions again.

.Champions! Champions! Champions! Champions! Champions!

The word won’t grow weary to the ears of thePackers and their fans, just as the sight of today’s Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers here and the countless replays won’t disturb the eyes.

The Packers rule the country’s biggest sports stage.

Champions! 

That’s 13 now, the most of any franchise in the history of professional football.

The evidence, laid before the nation at Cowboys Stadium, cannot be refuted.

The victory brought to a joyful conclusion an adventurous 2010 Packers season that moved between the valley and the mountaintop and finally, with resolve, was not denied the ultimate prize.

The Lombardi Trophy’s 14-year sabbatical from Wisconsin has ended, and Packers fans around the world are rejoicing.

Champions!

Packers fans passionately follow the team, but watching their favorite players win a title is a dream.

That dream seemed fantasy less than two months ago when the Packers stumbled against the Detroit Lions, lost valiantly to the New England Patriots and were left with only one option.

Win the rest of the games. All of them.

The Giants, the Bears, the Eagles, the Falcons, the Bears, and the Steelers.

It is an accomplishment that will find its deserving place in the team’s proud history, alongside Curly Lambeau’s direction of triple titles of 1929-31, the three-peat of Vince Lombardi’s 1965-67 teams, and the Mike Holmgren-led victory in Super Bowl XXXI at the end of the 1996 season. 

This has been a story more than a year in the making since the football bounced away from Aaron Rodgers and gave the Arizona Cardinals that overtime playoff victory 13 months ago.

But Super Bowl was on the tongues of Packers fans even before the players put their pads on at training camp. The ebb and flow of the season challenged the optimism that was so vibrant in the summer, but the surge that began in December became an unstoppable force through Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and Arlington.

The Packers and their fans won’t get tired of celebrating this one, and they won’t get tired of saying it.

Champions!


Tony Walter is a columnist for the Press-Gazette. He can be reached at (920) 431-8360 or attwalter@greenbaypressgazette.com

World Nutella Day 2011

 

The deviantART Fella, the official mascot for the site, is an apparent aficionado of the spread you all know as Nutella. So, in a little act of sneakiness, he steals the jar from the girls of the Sakuragaoka High School Light Music Club.

A skit.

Fella: Oh yeah. Mine...
Yui: Ehhhh? Who stole the Nutella jar?
Azusa: Yui-sempai, there he is!
Yui: Should we go get him and ask him to bring it back?
Ritsu: Nah, we'll just go ahead and let him have his share?
Yui: Ricchan, are you serious?! He might eat the whole jar!
Ritsu: No, he won't.
Tsumugi: Um, I can always buy you guys a pack or two of jars.
Mio: Mugi's right, you know.
Ritsu: We figured you were on it.
Mio: But why are we stalking dA Fella anyway?
Yui: We want our Nutella back!
Fella: Correction...was your Nutella. Now it's mine's. At least until I get my fill.
Yui: Mou! Hmph!
Fella: Heheh.
Everyone: Happy World Nutella Day, everybody!

Now we return to your regularly scheduled blogging, already in progress.
K-ON! is (C) Kakifly/Kyoto Animation, dA Fella is (C) deviantART, Inc.

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Soccer: Lee savors winning strike against Socceroos

DOHA (Kyodo) -- Another game, another hero for Alberto Zaccheroni's side. This time, it was Tadanari Lee.

Eleven minutes after he had come on, Lee ended a protracted stalemate of 109 minutes with a stunning left-footed volley for the lone goal of Saturday's Asian Cup final against Australia. It was the first strike of Lee's brief, two-match international career and it secured for Japan a record fourth continental championship.

"I don't think I'll ever score a more beautiful goal in my career," said Lee, who only made his Japan debut in the first-round draw with Jordan. "That I did it on this stage, in the final, makes it all the more special."

The 25-year-old Sanfrecce Hiroshima striker was completely unmarked when he hit a left-wing cross from Yuto Nagatomo past Mark Schwarzer. The shot was so well struck that even Schwarzer, widely regarded as Asia's best goalkeeper, couldn't react.

Socceroos coach Holger Osieck said his defense made a mistake, plain and simple.

"There was fatigue," said the former Urawa Reds manager, who conquered Asia at club level in 2007, when he won the Asian Champions League with the Saitama Club.

"It was the only positional mistake in the match and it was costly. It was not our regular positioning in the match."

Regardless of the defense lapse, Lee's finish was arguably the best of the competition, which will be hosted Down Under in 2015. Lee cannot remember what Zaccheroni told him when he took the pitch for Ryoichi Maeda.

"I made my move for the near post and they took the bait," Lee said. "It was a great ball from Yuto. I thought about trapping it at first, but my gut instincts told me to just go for it."

"I don't remember what he said to me," he said of the Italian coach, who remains unbeaten as Japan manager through eight games. "All I knew is that I wasn't going to mess around when I got in, and I think that mindset led to the goal.

"If I missed, I knew you would be all over me. That served as extra incentive."

The supporting actors delivered for Japan at this Asian Cup, starting with central defender Maya Yoshida in their first match against Jordan. Yoshida, who equalized in the dying minutes of that game with his maiden international goal, had all of one cap before coming to Qatar.

Yoshida was followed by Masahiko Inoha in the quarterfinals, a replacement for suspended right-back Atsuto Uchida who sent the team into the last four with his first strike for Japan in the 90th minute against the hosts.

In the semifinals, it was Hajime Hosogai and Yasuyuki Konno's turn. Neither had previously scored for the national team, but Hosogai scored Japan's second during extra time in a 2-2 draw with South Korea before Konno converted the winning penalty in the shootout.

On Saturday, opportunity knocked for Lee, and he made sure not to miss.

"I wanted to prove that this team isn't just about the first-XI players," said Lee, a South Korean descendant who was naturalized in 2007. "I haven't started yet for Japan and it's my goal from here on to become a starter for this team.

"There are a lot of people involved with this team who aren't in the spotlight and they helped me stay motivated. I had an opportunity to play with a great group of players, and we produced a great result in the end.

"(Zaccheroni) told me I was playing well and asked me to be ready at all times. I always believed I would get another chance before the tournament finished."

It was Lee's dream to play against Korea for Japan, but he saw the chance fly by him, remaining on the bench in the semis. Yet if Lee continues to perform the way he did in the final, he should have plenty of opportunities to face Korea in the not too distant future.

"Japan-Korea is a special game for me, but the final is pretty special, too," Lee said. "I was born in Japan and raised in Japan. The Korean culture is a part of me, too, but I grew up like everyone else in Japan.

"To win the Asian Cup with the Japan national team, there is no greater joy."

(Mainichi Japan) January 30, 2011

Socceroos show ruthless streak

By Gerard Whateley in Doha

Updated January 26, 2011 11:54:00

Rout: Sasa Ognenovski puts Australia two goals to the good in a six-goal humbling of Uzbekistan. (Getty Images: Robert Cianflone)

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For those who've had their nerves thoroughly tested and, at times, shot by the Socceroos through the decades this was the pay-off.

As recently as its last match the Australian football team put its followers and themselves through the wringer.

Why score the winner in the third minute when you can wait until the 117th? You'd miss all the agony and anxiety if it were so simple.

Not today. In its first semi-final appearance at an Asian Cup the Socceroos made a mockery of the past and turned in a rout the likes of which hasn't been seen since the days of Samoa and Fiji.

It was ruthless and unmerciful. It was joyful. And by the end measured by half a dozen goals past the best team in Central Asia.

Some will say it was embarrassing or gruesome. The narks can please themselves.

Holger Osieck's Australia plays football to score. And it is formidable.

Now Australia has a Saturday night date with Japan for the title of the Kings of Asia.

The magnitude of what was achieved was measurable in the assessment of Harry Kewell.

"For me it's a highlight. It's fantastic," he said.

"I've been in big games before where certain things have happened to me and you feel not part of the team success even though you are. This is the highlight.

"It's fantastic to be part of something that you've worked incredibly hard for."

Lucas Neill spoke of getting Australia Day off on the right note.

"Those that stayed up and watched it are going to celebrate in style and those that wake up to it will be in good moods. We certainly are," Neill said.

"I think it's just reward for a lot of good work so far in the tournament and now we're one win away."

The signs were immediately good. After the anthems Uzbekistan had the ball for two minutes but once the Australians got a look in they were on.

In the third minute Tim Cahill found Brett Holman unmarked at the far post and he was denied a goal only by a fine save from the Uzbeki 'keeper Temur Juraev.

But within 90 seconds the lead was Australia's and it was the combination that had finished the job against Iraq.

Matt McKay played a lovely ball through to Harry Kewell on the left and the striker didn't waste it. He cracked the shot across the keeper and into the net.

Holger Osieck reaped immediate dividends from his gamble to leave McKay on the park and start Brett Emerton on the bench in his return from suspension.

In the 34th minute the lead doubled. McKay won a free kick in a promising position and David Carney placed it threateningly inside the penalty area.

Cahill got his head to the ball and it fell for Sasa Ognenovski.

While the defender might have been denied his first international goal from an audacious bicycle kick in the quarter final, he was in this time off the left boot.

While Uzbekistan had the majority of possession that was a lie if you watched the game. Australia was boss and picked up after the break.

Kewell was given the luxury of an early shower after 53 minutes and his replacement Melbourne Victory striker Robbie Kruse was immediately into the action.

He started a sublime passing move through the middle of the pitch that set up Carney and the match was over as a contest.

Sensing this the Uzbek players lost their minds. They hacked at their opponents and soon enough Ulugbek Bakaev saw a second yellow card and was marched.

Flood gates: open.

Kruse layed off unselfishly to Emerton who scored. McKay, who was instrumental again, did the same for Carl Valeri to open his goal scoring account in his 35th cap.

And Kruse got one for himself, from his least promising build up. The keeper fumbled the shot.

By this time the hit out was of little worth other than making everyone feel good. What a marvellous novelty that is in international sport.

What a contrast it was to the events earlier in the evening at Al Gharafa Stadium where three-time champion Japan survived one of the greatest Asian Cup matches ever.

South Korea opened the scoring in the 23rd minute when Park Ji Sung was awarded a touch-and-go penalty that Ki Sung Yong duly converted.

That was cancelled out in the 36th minute when Ryoichi Maeda got on the end of some fine attacking play from Yuto Nagatomo to slot home the equaliser.

And enthralling second half didn't add to the score but in the seventh minute of extra time Japan was awarded a penalty for a clear foul. However it happened half a step short of the box.

Keisuke Honda stepped to the spot but had his kick saved by Korean keeper Sung-Ryong Jung. Hajime Hosogai pounced on the ricochet and slammed his country into the lead.

It was an advantage the Japanese protected into the very last seconds when South Korea took a free kick, a goal-mouth melee ensued and somehow Hwang Jae Won was able to take a full swing with the boot and hit it home.

But that joy turned sour in the immediate penalty shoot-out.

Japan nailed three of its first four kicks while South Korea missed the lot. Keeper Eiji Kawashima made to brilliant saves leaving Yasuyuko Konno to finish the shoot-out.

So onto the final and the next chapter in an unfolding sporting rivalry as the Socceroos duel with the Blue Samurai for supremacy and the Asian Cup.

First posted January 26, 2011 11:34:00