The 61st iteration of the US' leading music industry awards saw Nelsons collecting a statuette for Best Orchestral Performance for his recordings of Shostakovich Symphonies 4 and 11 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The recording also won in the category for Best Engineered Classical Album (Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer) from the mind-bogglingly long list of winners and nominees in every imaginable genre and sub-genre.
It is a huge honour for the @BostonSymphony, myself and the whole team behind this project to win two @RecordingAcad Grammy awards for our latest CD of our #Shostakovich cycle with @DGclassics - thank you and congratulations to all #BestOrchestralPerformance #BestEngineeredAlbum pic.twitter.com/c07hNPzUI6
— Andris Nelsons (@andris_nelsons) February 10, 2019
Nelsons collected a Grammy in 2016 in the same category for his recordings of Shostakovich's Symphonies 5, 8 and 9 and his first in 2015 for his recording of Shostakovich 10, making the Nelsons/Shostakovich combination an extremely successful one.
