( Over-the-Rhine ) - The Recording Academy has taken notice of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the CSO, under the direction of Louis Langree, has been nominated for a Grammy Award.
The nominees for "Best Orchestral Performance:"
• Concertos For Orchestra Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)
• Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
• Debussy: Images; Jeux & La Plus Que Lente Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Also, composer Zhou Tian is nominated for "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" for that CSO performance of Concertos for Orchestra.
"All those pieces were created and commissioned for Cincinnati. That's also something very special," says Chris Pinelo, Vice President of Communications for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
You can learn more about Concertos for Orchestra and Zhou Tian by clicking here.
The Grammy Awards are January 28.