The Recording Academy announced their 60th GRAMMY® Award Nominations this morning, and Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony‘s Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio and Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony‘s recording of Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music have both received multiple nominations!

Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio – Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
• Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies – Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Best Orchestral Performance

• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio – Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Picture Studies
  Adam Schoenberg, composer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)
  Track from: Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies

Also, congratulations to David Frost, who produced the Michael Stern and Kansas City recording of Adam Schoenberg’s orchestral music and is a Producer of the Year, Classical nominee!