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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.

Host: Queen Latifah
Date: February 12, 2005
City: Los Angeles

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Notes

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Bluegrass Album

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Martha Argerich, piano & Mikhail Pletnev, piano     Prokofieve (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella - Suite for Two Pianos/Ravel: Ma Mere L'Oye
  • The Hilliard Ensemble Machaut: Motets
  • Maggini Quartet Bridge: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3
  • Leila Josefowicz, violin & John Novacek, piano Adams: Road Movies
  • Leif Ove Andsnes, piano & Christian Tetzlaff, violin Bartok: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, etc.

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Frank Lopardo, tenor; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra     Berlioz: Requiem
  • Choir of King's College, Cambridge Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
  • National Choir of Ukraine Dumka; National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine Silvestrov: Requiem for Larissa
  • Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Baltic Voices 2 (Sisask, Tulev, Schnittke, etc.)
  • Jaroslaw Penderecki: St. Luke Passion
  • Malanowicz, organ & Romuald Tesarowicz, bass; Izabella Klosinska, soprano
  • Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir
  • Krzysztof Kolberger, evangelist & Adam Kruszewski, baritone; Warsaw Boys Choir &

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Brooklyn Youth Chorus & New York Choral Artists; New York Philharmonic     Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls
  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra
  • various artists, Concerto Koln Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
  • various artists; London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra Britten: Peter Grimes
  • Nashville Symphony Orchestra Carter: Symphony No. 1; Piano Concerto; Holiday Overture

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    John Adams     Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls
  • Valentin Silvestrov Silvestrov-Requiem for Larissa
  • Tigran Mansurian Mansurian: ...And Then I Was In Time Again
  • Andre Previn Previn: Violin Concerto Anne-Sophie
  • Jennifer Higdon Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra

Best Classical Crossover Album

  • Winner:
    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet     LAGQ's Guitar Heroes
  • William Stromberg, conductor (Moscow Symphony Orchestra) Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Hugh Wolff, conductor; Peter Erskine, drums, John Patitucci, electric bass & John Scofield, guitar (HR BIg Band; Radio Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt) Turnage-Scofield: Scorched
  • Daniel Hope, violin (Asok Chakraborty, tabla, Sebastian Knauer, piano & lutheal, Gaurav Mazumdar, sitar & Gilda Sebastian, tanpura) East Meets West (Shankar, Ravel, Falla, Bartok, Etc.)
  • Cuba Percussion & Klazz Brothers Classic Meets Cuba (Mambozart: Preludio; Guten Abend, Etc.)

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Susan Graham, mezzo soprano (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano) Track from: Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs     Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc)
  • Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone (Justus Zeyen, piano) A Romantic Songbook (Strauss, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, etc)
  • Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo soprano (Harry Bicket, conductor/harpsichord/chamber organ, Phoebe Carrai, cello, Stephen Stubbs Handel: Arias (Theodora; La Lucrezia-Cantata; Serse)
  • Karita Mattila, soprano (Sakari Oramo, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) Grieg and Sibelius Songs
  • Angela Maria Blasi, soprano & Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano (Steven Sloane; Bochum Symphony Orchestra) Marx: Orchestral Songs (Songs for High & Middle Voice; Verklartes Jahr)
  • lute/baroque guitar & Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba; Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment)

Best Comedy Album

  • Winner:
    Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show     The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents...America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
  • Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Come Poop With Me
  • Al Franken The O'Franken Factor Factor - The Very Best of the O'Franken Factor
  • David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall
  • Ellen Degeneres The Funny Thing Is...

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Folk Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Best Contemporary R&b Album

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Contemporary World Music Album

Best Country Album

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Loretta Lynn, Jack White     Portland Oregon
  • Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Toby Keith Pancho & Lefty
  • Shania Twain with Alison Krauss & Union Station Coat of Many Colors
  • Norah Jones, Dolly Parton Creepin' In
  • Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, George Strait Hey Good Lookin'

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocals

Best Country Song

Best Dance Recording

Best Electronic/dance Album

Best Engineered Album - Classical

  • Winner:
    Robert Spano     Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra
  • Hugh Wolff Turnage-Scofield: Scorched
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet LAGQ's Guitar Heroes (Towner, McLaughlin, Hendrix, Metheny, etc)
  • Jose Serebrier Glazunov: Symphony No. 5; The Seasons, Op. 6 (Complete Ballet)
  • Carlos Kalar Kurka: Symphonic Works (Symphony No. 2, Op. 24; Julius Caesar; Music for Orchestra, etc.)

Best Engineered Album - Non-classical

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Female R&b Vocal Performance

Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album

Best Gospel Performance

  • Winner:
    Ray Charles, Gladys Knight     Heaven Help Us All
  • Shirley Caesar, Ann Nesby The Stone
  • Fred Hammond Celebrate (He Lives)
  • Dr. John, Mavis Staples Lay My Burden Down
  • Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama There Will Be A Light

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Hawaiian Music Album

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement

  • Winner:
    The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra     Past Present & Future
  • Phil Kelly & The NW Prevailing Winds Bella Luce
  • Yo Yo Ma Libertango
  • David Liebman Big Band Sing, Sing, Sing
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band The Long Passage

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Winner: Paquito D'Rivera Merengue
  • Slide Hampton Past Present & Future
  • Maria Schneider Three Romances
  • Maria Schneider Buleria, Solea Y Rumba
  • Gabriel Yared Ada Plays (from Cold Mountain)

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    David Russell, guitar     Aire Latino (Morel, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, etc)
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Shostakovich: Piano Works (Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 61; Five Preludes; Nocturne, etc.)
  • Thomas Zehetmair, violin Ysaye: Sonatas for Violin Solo, Op. 27
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Debussy: Images; Etudes
  • Mikhail Pletnev, piano Pletnev Plays Schumann (Etudes Symponiques, Op. 13; Arabeske, Op. 18, etc.)

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Boston Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra     Previn: Violin Concerto Anne-Sophie/Bernstein: Serenade
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra Berg/Britten: Violin Concertos
  • Nashville Symphony Orchestra Carter: Piano Concerto
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra Bliss: Piano Concerto
  • Munich Chamber Orchestra Mansurian: ...And Then I Was In Time Again

Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual Or Group

  • Winner:
    McCoy Tyner with Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride & Lewis Nash     Illuminations
  • Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth
  • Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette Trio The Out-of-Towners
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet Eternal
  • Bill Charlap Trio Somewhere

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

  • Winner:
    Maria Schneider Orchestra     Concert in the Garden
  • The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra The Way: Music of Slide Hampton
  • John La Barbera Big Band One the Wild Side
  • David Sanchez Coral
  • Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra Get Well Soon

Best Latin Jazz Album

  • Winner: Charlie Haden Land of the Sun
  • Raphael Cruz Bebop Timba
  • Jerry Gonzalez y Los Piratas Del Falmenco Jerry Gonzalez y Los Pirateas Del Flamenco
  • Diego Urcola Soundances
  • Conrad Herwig Nonet Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Latin Rock/alternative Album

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

Best Male R&b Vocal Performance

Best Metal Performance

Best Mexican/mexican-american Album

Best Musical Album For Children

Best Musical Show Album

  • Winner: Stephen Schwartz Wicked
  • Tommy Krasker; Stephen Sondheim Assassins
  • Jay David Saks; Jeff Whitty; Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx Avenue Q - The Musical
  • Hugh Fordin; Leonard Bernstein; Betty Comden, Adolph Green Wonderful Town
  • Phil Ramone; Peter Allen & Others The Boy from Oz

Best Native American Music Album

Best New Age Album

Best New Artist

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    various artists; Concerto Koln     Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
  • various artists; Akademie Fur Alte Musik, Berlin Scarlatti, A: Griselda
  • various artists; European Voices; Le Concert D'Astree Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
  • Various artists, European Voices, Le Concert D'Astree Purcell: Dido And Aeneas
  • Orquestra Simfonica Del Gran Teatre Del Liceu Montsalvatge: El Gato Con Botas

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Brooklyn Youth Chorus & New York Choral Artists; New York Philharmonic     Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls
  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra Glazunov: Symphony No. 5; The Seasons, Op. 67 (Complete Ballet)
  • Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Martinu: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra Bax: Symphony No. 7; Tintagel (Tone Poem)

Best Polka Album

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Ray Charles, Norah Jones     Here We Go Again
  • Stevie Wonder, Take 6 Moon River
  • Ray Charles, Elton John Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
  • Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton Something
  • Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer Redemption Song

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Pop Vocal Album

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best R&b Album

Best R&b Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocals

Best R&b Song

Best Rap Album

Best Rap Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rap Solo Performance

Best Rap Song

Best Rap/sung Collaboration

Best Recording Package

Best Reggae Album

Best Remixed Recording - Non-classical

Best Rock Album

Best Rock Gospel Album

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Rock Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Rock Song

Best Salsa/merengue Album

Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Best Short Form Music Video

Best Small Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Southwest Chamber Music     Carlos Chavez - Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 2
  • Musica Antiqua Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa
  • Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Rameu: Dardanus; Le Temple De La Gloire
  • Musica Antiqua Wyner: The Mirror; Passover Offering, Etc.
  • Wincenc, flute (Yehudi Weyner, speaker)
  • Fretwork The Cho. of Magdalen College, Oxford Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (This Is the Record of John; Almighty and Everlasting God, etc)

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

  • Winner:
    Annie Lennox, Howard Shore, Fran Walsh     Into the West - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Benoit Charest, Sylvain Chomet Belleville Rendez-Vous - The Triplets of Belleville
  • David Bryson, Adam Duritz, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley, Dan Vickrey Accidentally in Love - Shrek 2
  • Sting You Will Be My Ain True Love - Cold Mountain
  • Henry Burnett, Elvis Costello The Scarlet Tide - Cold Mountain

Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Best Spoken Word Album

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

Best Surround Sound Album

Best Tejano Album

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Best Traditional R&b Vocal Performance

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album

  • Winner:
    Israel Lopez Cachao     Ahora Si!
  • Tropicana All Stars Recuerda A Benny More
  • Omara Portuondo Flor De Amor
  • Angel Melendez & The 911 Mambo Orchestra Angel Melendez & The 911 Mambo Orchestra
  • Candido & Graciela Inolvidable

Best Traditional World Music Album

Best Urban/alternative Performance

Hall Of Fame

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Producer Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    David Frost
  • Manfred Eicher
  • James Mallinson
  • Robina G. Young
  • Daniel Zalay

Producer Of The Year - Non-classical

  • Winner:
    John Shanks
  • Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis
  • T Bone Burnett
  • Rob Cavallo
  • Tommy LiPuma

Record Of The Year

Song Of The Year

Trustees Awards

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