…and the Grammy goes to…

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Best Orchestral Performance, 2018 -The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck for Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio. This recording was also judgedthe Best Engineered Album, Classical for Sound Engineer Mark Donahue.

Other nominees
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)

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