Stuart Skelton’s Janáček, David Robertson’s Adams and Opera Australia’s King Roger are all in the running for 2017.

Three recordings with Australian connections have been announced among the nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards.

A Chandos CD of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, featuring Australian Helden-tenor Stuart Skelton and conducted by Edward Gardner has been nominated in the Best Choral Performance category of the 2017 awards. The recording – released in February this year – received four stars from Limelight’s Tony Way, who wrote that a “major contribution is made by Australian Heldentenor Stuart Skelton who delivers the challenging tenor solos with unflinching confidence and surety.”

Australian audiences will also be pleased to learn that Sydney Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director and Chief Conductor David Robertson has received a nod. His recording of John Adams’ Violin Concerto Scheherazade.2, with Leila Josefowicz and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, has been nominated in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. The recording was given four and a half stars in the December issue of Limelight and it was Robertson who conducted the Australian premiere of the work with Josefowicz and the SSO in March this year.

For opera lovers, Kasper Holten’s Royal Opera House production of Szymanowski’s King Roger has been nominated for Best Opera Recording. A co-production with Opera Australia, King Roger will come to Sydney in January.

The full list of classical nominations

Best Engineered Album, Classical:

Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles – Mark Donahue & Fred Vogler, engineers (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, LA Opera Chorus & Orchestra)

Dutilleux: Sur La Mêe Accord; Les Citations; Mystère De L’Instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement – Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

Reflections – Morten Lindberg, engineer (Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene)

Shadow of Sirius – Silas Brown & David Frost, engineers; Silas Brown,

Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9 – Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Producer of the Year, Classical:

Blanton Alspaugh

David Frost

Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin

Judith Sherman

Robina G. Young

Best Orchestral Performance:

Bates: Works For Orchestra – Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Ibert: Orchestral Works – Neeme Järvi, conductor (Orchestre De La Suisse Romande)

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, Op. 100 – Mariss Jansons, conductor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Rouse: Odna Zhizn; Symphonies 3 & 4; Prospero’s Rooms – Alan Gilbert, conductor (New York Philharmonic)

Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9 – Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording:

Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles – James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus)

Handel: Giulio Cesare – Giovanni Antonini, conductor; Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl & Anne-Sofie von Otter; Samuel Theis, producer (Il Giardino Armonico)

Higdon: Cold Mountain – Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Emily Fons, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard & Jay Hunter Morris; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program For Singers)

Mozart: Le Nozze De Figaro – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Thomas Hampson, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni & Sonya Yoncheva; Daniel Zalay, producer (Chamber Orchestra Of Europe; Vocalensemble Rastatt)

Szymanowski: Król Roger – Antonio Pappano, conductor; Georgia Jarman, Mariusz Kwiecień & Saimir Pirgu; Jonathan Allen, producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House; Royal Opera Chorus)

Best Choral Performance:

Himmerland – Elisabeth Holte, conductor (Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Ragnfrid Lie & Matilda Sterby; Inger-Lise Ulsrud; Uranienborg Vokalensemble)

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass – Edward Gardner, conductor; Håkon Matti Skrede, chorus master (Susan Bickley, Gábor Bretz, Sara Jakubiak & Stuart Skelton; Thomas Trotter; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Bergen Cathedral Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Choir Of Collegium Musicum & Edvard Grieg Kor)

Lloyd: Bonhoeffer – Donald Nally, conductor (Malavika Godbole, John Grecia, Rebecca Harris & Thomas Mesa; The Crossing)

Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1 – Krzystof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)

Steinberg: Passion Week – Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:

Fitelberg: Chamber Works – ARC Ensemble

Reflections – Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene

Serious Business – Spektral Quartet

Steve Reich – Third Coast Percussion

Trios From Our Homelands – Lincoln Trio

Best Classical Instrumental Solo:

Adams, J.: Scheherazade.2 – Leila Josefowicz; David Robertson, conductor (Chester Englander; St. Louis Symphony)

Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway – Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony)

Dvorák: Violin Concerto & Romance; Suk: Fantasy  –Christian Tetzlaff; John Storgårds, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)

Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9 – Kristian Bezuidenhout

1930’s Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 – Gil Shaham; Stéphane Denève, conductor (The Knights & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album:

Monteverdi – Magdalena Kožená; Andrea Marcon, conductor (David Feldman, Michael Feyfar, Jakob Pilgram & Luca Tittoto; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel)

Mozart: The Weber Sisters – Sabine Devieilhe; Raphaël Pichon, conductor (Pygmalion)

Schumann & Berg – Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist

Shakespeare Songs – Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker)

Verismo – Anna Netrebko; Antonio Pappano, conductor (Yusif Eyvazov; Coro Dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia; Orchestra Dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)

Best Classical Compendium:

Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle – Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

Gesualdo – Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer

Vaughan Williams: Discoveries – Martyn Brabbins, conductor; Andrew Walton, producer

Wolfgang: Passing Through – Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang, producers

Zappa: 200 Motels – The Suites – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa, producers

Best Contemporary Classical Composition:

Bates: Anthology Of Fantastic Zoology – Mason Bates, composer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway – Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Higdon: Cold Mountain – Jennifer Higdon, composer; Gene Scheer, librettist

Theofanidis: Bassoon Concerto – Christopher Theofanidis, composer (Martin Kuuskmann, Barry Jekowsky & Northwest Sinfonia)

Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky – C. F. Kip Winger, composer (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)