In 2007, also under Vänskä, it was nominated for a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth. The Minnesota Orchestra, which made its first recording in 1924, has been nominated many times for Grammys, but mostly in lower-profile categories. The other nominees this year are the London Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony.Īnother factor tipping the odds at least partly in Minnesota’s favor, Levang said, is that “often this American award has gone to a big American orchestra, meaning no disrespect to London, Budapest or Oregon.” Oestreich called the disc “a poignant document: a longtime also-ran ensemble makes a persuasive bid to be ranked among the world’s greatest, absolutely luxuriating in its music director’s great specialty, only to have its current season seriously foreshortened, if not entirely wiped out, by labor-management strife.” The nomination is bittersweet for both the Minnesota Orchestra’s musicians and management, as they remain entrenched in a contract battle that has delayed the season for four months. It will be available for sale at /listen. Recorded by Vänskä and the orchestra in June 2012, a year after the nominated disc, it features Symphonies Nos. The BIS label is releasing a second Sibelius CD on Monday. Top national classical critic James Oestreich of the New York Times called the recording “easily one of the best of 2012.” Their last nomination for one of the Beethoven discs got rave reviews all over the classical world, and this one’s been very strong, too.” But Minnesota under Vänskä is right up there with them.
“Tilson Thomas and San Francisco are really on a roll, doing a lot of exciting things. “If I were handicapping the Grammys, I’d say it’s between these two,” Levang said.
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