ANDREA BOCELLI, J.S. ONDARA, AND JACOB COLLIER AMONG THE MANY VERVE LABEL GROUP ARTISTS CELEBRATING GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

 

VERVE LABEL GROUP RECEIVES 19 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

 

 

TANK AND THE BANGAS NOMINATED FOR BEST NEW ARTIST

ANDREA BOCELLI NOMINATED FOR BEST TRADITIONAL POP ALBUM

J.S. ONDARA & MADISON CUNNINGHAM NOMINATED FOR BEST AMERICANA ALBUM

JACOB COLLIER NOMINATED FOR BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS & BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS OR A CAPPELLA

AND MANY MORE

 

 

 

20 November 2019 (Toronto, ON) – Verve Label Group/Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company, is proud to celebrate Verve's 19 GRAMMY nominations including Best New Artist for Tank and the Bangas, who released their Verve Forecast/Universal Music Canada debut Green Balloon earlier this year.

 

Andrea Bocelli was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Si (released via Sugar/Decca/Universal Music Canada), the album that earned the celebrated tenor his first #1 record on the Billboard Charts last year.

 

Verve Forecast artists J.S. Ondara and Madison Cunningham were both nominated for Best Americana Album for their respective albums Tales of America and Who Are You Now.

 

Decca Broadway, which relaunched earlier this year, celebrates the nomination of the revival of Oklahoma! for Best Musical Theater Album. Verve Label Group creative director Josh Cheuse was nominated for his art direction on 1963: NEW DIRECTIONS, the collection of John Coltrane’s 1963 Impulse! recordings, for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package.

 

Women in classical music were represented well this year for Verve Label Group: rising composer Hildur Guðnadóttir received her first-ever GRAMMY nomination for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for her work on the HBO series Chernobyl (Deutsche Grammophon) and Julia Wolfe’s masterpiece Fire In My Mouth (Decca Gold) was nominated for Best Engineered Album, Classical and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Violinist Nicola Benedetti received her first GRAMMY nominations for her collaboration with composer Wynton Marsalis for Violin Concerto in D Major (Decca Classics), which received two nominations for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Rising star conductor Mirga Gražinytė was nominated for the first time for her recording of the Weinberg Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Deutsche Grammophon) for Best Orchestral Performance, and pianist Yuja Wang was nominated for Best Classical Instrumental for her recording The Berlin Recital (Deutsche Grammophon). 

 

Verve Label Group is home to a wide range of global labels, including Decca France who released Angelique Kidjo’s tribute to Celia Cruz, Celia, which earned her a nomination for Best World Music Album, as well as UK-based neoclassical label Mercury KX who released composer/instrumentalist Sebastian Plano’s aptly named record Verve, nominated for Best New Age Album.

 

Legendary classical label Deutsche Grammophon received additional nominations this year including Best Orchestral Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of NORMAN: SUSTAIN. John Williams’ arrangements for legendary violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter from the album Across The Stars were recognized with a nomination for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for “Hedwig’s Theme.” The recording of Wagner’s Lohengrin conducted by Christian Thielemann and starring Piotr Beczała was nominated for Best Opera Recording.

 

Dickon Stainer, President and CEO of Global Classics and Jazz and Verve Label Group says, “We are so honored and proud to be the US home to such a richness and diversity of artistic talent and we are thrilled to congratulate our artists and partners around the world. From New Orleans to Iceland to Kenya to China, these artists all share a fundamental gift of music that the Recording Academy has recognized.”

 

Verve Label Group

Verve Label Group is home to many of the most acclaimed artists in jazz and classical music, while also strongly focused on championing emerging talent across all genres. Verve Label Group is comprised of Decca Records, US (which is the American home to Deutsche Grammophon, Decca Classics and other legacy European imprints) as well as Verve Records, Impulse!, and Verve Forecast. Verve Label Group also houses the catalog of great legacy artists including John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, among others. Find out more at http://www.vervelabelgroup.com/ 

 

 

FULL LIST OF VERVE LABEL GROUP NOMINATIONS:

Best New Artist 

Tank and the Bangas (Verve Forecast) 

 

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Si – Andrea Bocelli (Decca/Sugar)

 

Best New Age Album

VERVE - Sebastian Plano (Mercury KX)

 

Best Americana Album

TALES OF AMERICA
J.S. Ondara (Verve Forecast) 

 

WHO ARE YOU NOW
Madison Cunningham (Verve Forecast) 

 

Best World Music Album

CELIA - Angelique Kidjo (Decca France)  

 

Best Musical Theater Album

OKLAHOMA!
Damon Daunno, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Ali Stroker, Mary Testa & Patrick Vaill, principal soloists; Daniel Kluger & Dean Sharenow, producers (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (2019 Broadway Cast) (Decca Broadway)

 

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

CHERNOBYL - Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

HEDWIG'S THEME
John Williams, arranger (Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams) (Deutsche Grammophon) 

 

MOON RIVER - Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)

 

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

ALL NIGHT LONG - Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier Featuring Jules Buckley, Take 6 & Metropole Orkest)

 

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

1963: NEW DIRECTIONS
Josh Cheuse, art director (John Coltrane) (Impulse!)

 

Best Engineered Album, Classical

WOLFE: FIRE IN MY MOUTH
Bob Hanlon & Lawrence Rock, engineers; Ian Good & Lawrence Rock, mastering engineers (Jaap Van Zweden, Francisco J. Núñez, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Young People's Chorus Of NY City & New York Philharmonic) (Decca Gold)

 

Best Orchestral Performance

NORMAN: SUSTAIN
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) (Deutsche Grammophon) 
 

WEINBERG: SYMPHONIES NOS. 2 & 21
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor (City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Kremerata Baltica) (Deutsche Grammophon) 

 

Best Opera Recording

WAGNER: LOHENGRIN
Christian Thielemann, conductor; Piotr Beczała, Anja Harteros, Tomasz Konieczny, Waltraud Meier & Georg Zeppenfeld; Eckhard Glauche, producer (Festspielorchester Bayreuth; Festspielchor Bayreuth) (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

THE BERLIN RECITAL
Yuja Wang (Deutsche Grammophon) 
 

MARSALIS: VIOLIN CONCERTO; FIDDLE DANCE SUITE
Nicola Benedetti; Cristian Măcelaru, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra) (Decca Classics) 

 

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

MARSALIS: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR
Wynton Marsalis, composer (Nicola Benedetti, Cristian Măcelaru & Philadelphia Orchestra) (Decca Classics) 
 

NORMAN: SUSTAIN
Andrew Norman, composer (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic) (Deutsche Grammophon) 
 

WOLFE: FIRE IN MY MOUTH
Julia Wolfe, composer (Jaap Van Zweden, Francisco J. Núñez, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Young People's Chorus Of NY City & New York Philharmonic) (Decca Gold)

 

 

 

 

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