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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.

Date: February 7, 2006
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:
    Emerson String Quartet     Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
  • Martha Argerich Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival
  • Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet 60th Anniversary
  • Vermeer Quartet Bartok: The Six String Quartets
  • The Borealis Wind Quintet A La Carte -- Short Works for Winds

Best Choral Performance

  • Jonathan Nott; Accentus, Ensemble Intercontemporain Schoenberg: Accentus
  • Izabela Klosinska, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Piotr Nowacki & Jadwiga Rappe; Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra Penderecki: A Polish Requiem
  • Polyphony; Britten Sinfonia Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
  • Julian Frischling & Jerry Hadley, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Staats-Und Domchor Berlin & Soloists of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Bernstein: Mass

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Christine Brewer & Joan Morris, University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra     Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
  • Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Shostakovich: Sym. No. 13
  • Emerson String Quartet Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
  • Martha Argerich Martha Argerich and Friends: Live From the Lugano Festival
  • Southwest Chamber Music & Tambuco Percussion Chavez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 3

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Leonard Slatkin     Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
  • Contrasts Quartet Nine Episodes for Four Players
  • Jose Luis Moscovich Franzetti: Corpus Evita
  • Peter Boyer Boyer: Ellis Island: The Dream of America
  • Dawn Upshaw Ayre

Best Classical Crossover Album

  • Winner:
    Turtle Island String Quartet & Ying Quartet     Four
  • William Stromberg, conductor (Moscow Symphony Orchestra) Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • Roberto Minczuk, conductor (Orquestra Sinfonica de Estado de Sao Paulo) Jobim: Symphonic Jobim
  • Paquito D'Rivera & The Jazz Chamber Trio The Jazz Chamber Trio
  • Imani Winds The Classical Underground

Best Classical Vocal Performance

Best Comedy Album

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:
    Faith Hill & Tim McGraw     Like We Never Loved At All
  • Willie Nelson & Norah Jones Dreams Come True
  • Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris Shelter From the Storm
  • Gretchen Wilson & Merle Haggard Politically Uncorrect
  • Brooks & Dunn, Sheryl Crow & Vince Gill Building Bridges

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Country Song

Best Dance Recording

Best Electronic/dance Album

Best Engineered Album - Non-classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

  • Winner:
    Emerson String Quartet     Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
  • Yakov Kreizberg & Wiener Symphoniker Bruckner: Sym. No. 7
  • Gordan Nikolic & Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Britten, Bartok & Hartmann
  • Carole Farley & William Bolcom Bolcom: Songs
  • Anthony Aibel & Area 31 Chesky: Area 31

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Female R&b Vocal Performance

Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album

  • Winner:
    Saints Unified Voices     One Voice
  • The Love Fellowship Choir 20/85 The Experience
  • The Choir of Life (Japan), The Choir of Life (USA) & The Kurt Carr Singers One Church
  • VIP Mass Choir Live at the Fellowship
  • Donald Lawrence & Co. I Speak Life

Best Gospel Performance

Best Gospel Song

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Hawaiian Music Album

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance - Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Evgeny Kissin     Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky
  • Maxim Vengerov (Ian Brown) Vengerov: Kreisler, Sarasate, Paganini, Wieniawski
  • Piotr Anderszewski Szymanowski: Piano Son. No. 3, Mtopes, Masques
  • Nelson Freire Etudes, Op. 10, Barcarolle, Op. 60, Son. No. 2
  • Sarah Schuster Ericsson Night Breeze -- Harp Music of Carlos Salzedo

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Beethoven: Piano Cons. Nos. 2 & 3     Claudio Abbado
  • Marin Alsop, conductor, Evelyn Glennie (Colorado Symphony Orchestra) UFO
  • Paavo Jarvi, conductor, Truls Mork (Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France) Schumann: Cello Concerto; Bloch; Schelomo
  • JoAnn Falletta, conductor, Thomas Stacy (London Symphony Orchestra) Eventide
  • Robert Craft, conductor, Fred Sherry String Quartet (Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble) Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual Or Group

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

  • Winner:
    Dave Holland Big Band     Overtime
  • The Chris Walden Big Band Home of My Heart
  • Bill Holman Live
  • Mingus Big Band, Orchestra & Dynasty I Am Three
  • John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble A Blessing

Best Latin Jazz Album

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Latin Rock/alternative Album

Best Long Form Music Video

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:
    Monty Python's Spamalot
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  • The Light in the Piazza
  • Hair
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Best Native American Music Album

Best New Age Album

Best New Artist

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra     Verdi: Falstaff
  • Europa Galante Vivaldi: Bajazet
  • West German Radio Symphony Orchestra (Koln) Strauss, R.: Daphne
  • Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra Conradi: Ariadne
  • BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia Britten: Death in Venice

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Sergei Aleksashkin, Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks     Shostakovich: Sym. No. 13
  • London Symphony Orchestra Popov: Sym. No. 1; Shostakovich: Theme & Variations
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Pictures At An Exhibition
  • Wiener Symphoniker Bruckner: Sym. No. 7
  • Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt Antheil: Sym. No. 3 'American'

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra     Shake, Rattle and Polka!
  • Kevin Solecki Solecktions
  • Del Sinchak Band Polka Pizzazz
  • Walter Ostanek and Ron Sluga Time Out for Polkas and Waltzes
  • Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones Under the Influence

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Pop Vocal Album

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Producer Of The Year, Classical

  • Winner:
    Tim Handley
  • Thomas C. Moore
  • Michael Fine
  • Steven Epstein
  • Christopher Alder

Best Producer Of The Year, Non-classical

Best R&b Album

Best R&b Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best R&b Song

Best Rap Album

Best Rap Performance By A 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 By A 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:
    Pierre Boulez, conductor, Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain     Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maitre, Derive 1 & 2
  • Nicholas White, conductor, The Tiffany Consort O Magnum Mysterium
  • David Hoose, conductor; Janice Felty & Margaret Lattimore, Collage New Music Harbison: Mottetti Di Montale
  • Jeff Von Der Schmidt, conductor, Southwest Chamber Music & Tambuco Percussion Chavez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 3
  • David Colson, conductor Ancient Voices of Children

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

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

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:
    Bebo ValdDes     Bebo De Cuba
  • Tropicana All Stars with Israel Kantor Tradicion
  • Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal Buena Vista Social Club Presents
  • Conjunto Progreso Masters of Cuban Son
  • Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill Una Noche Inolvidable

Best Traditional World Music Album

  • Winner:
    Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate     In the Heart of the Moon
  • Lama Tashi Tibetan Master Chants
  • Masters of Persian Music Faryad
  • Los Pleneros de la 21 Para Todos Ustedes
  • Mamadou Diabate Behmanka

Best Urban/alternative Performance

Record Of The Year

Song Of The Year

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