Deutsche Grammophon Recordings Recognized With Six Nominations for the 68th GRAMMY Awards®

Deutsche Grammophon - 2026 Grammy Announcement

11/10/2025

Berlin, Saturday 8 November 2025. Yesterday, the 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards nominations were unveiled in a special livestream event. As the record industry’s most prestigious honour, it recognises exceptional artistic and technical achievements. Deutsche Grammophon recordings have secured a phenomenal total of six nominations across four of the main classical categories this year.

Deutsche Grammophon’s landmark Shostakovich project in collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Andris Nelsons, which began in 2015, has reached its peak in 2025 with the release of a towering anthology, featuring the complete symphony cycle alongside other major works. Three recordings as part of this 2025 project have now been nominated for a Grammy Award: The new recordings of the composer’s complete piano and cello concertos with soloists Yuja Wang and Yo-Yo Ma were both nominated in the category for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and the first commercial audio release in nearly 20 years of Shostakovich’s only full-length opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, has been nominated for Best Engineered Album, Classical.

Pianist and 2024 Grammy-Award-Winner Yuja Wang alongside conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra were further nominated in the Best Orchestral Performance category for their acclaimed recording of Messiaen’s sprawling Turangalîla-Symphonie.

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra continue their commitment to recording neglected American repertoire with their album Still & Bonds: Symphonie & Variations, which has also been nominated for Best Orchestral Performance.

The world premiere recording of Jeanine Tesori’s powerful opera, Grounded, has been nominated for Best Opera Recording, honouring the late composer. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo stars in the tour-de-force leading role of Jess. The opera is conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The nominations for Best Album Notes included Deutsche Grammophon distributed label ECM’s After The Last Sky recording featuring Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland and album notes writer Adam Shatz.

“We are immensely proud that the breadth and ambition of the Yellow Label’s commitment to outstanding recording projects have been recognised with these significant GRAMMY nominations,” says Dr. Clemens Trautmann, President, Deutsche Grammophon and New Business Strategy Global Classics. "This success validates our key collaborations: artists and partners with whom we have worked for more than a decade and created landmark productions in the symphonic and operatic repertoire as well as in the solo concerto genre. It is especially rewarding that Yuja Wang and Yannick Nézet-Séguin have each been nominated twice with different projects and Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony Orchestra even earned a total of four nominations including three for their groundbreaking Shostakovich cycle. Congratulations as well to Emily D‘Angelo, Yo-Yo Ma, The Metropolitan Opera and The Philadelphia Orchestra and to our friends at ECM Records. We are particularly proud of the exciting musical discoveries that these partnerships have enabled with both brand-new and timeless repertoire. “

The 2026 GRAMMYs take place Sunday, 1 Feb, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Best Opera Recording

TESORI: GROUNDED

Emily D’Angelo, Ellie Dehn, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller, Greer Grimsley, The Metropolitan Opera

Best Orchestral Performance

MESSIAEN: TURANGALÎLA-SYMPHONIE
Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra

STILL & BONDS: SYMPHONIES & VARIATIONS
Yannick Nézet-Séguin & The Philadelphia Orchestra

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

SHOSTAKOVICH: THE CELLO CONCERTOS

Yo-Yo Ma; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

SHOSTAKOVICH: THE PIANO CONCERTOS & SOLO WORKS

Yuja Wang; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)