# Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium is an honor presented to recording artists for the best compendium album in the classical music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and which was originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
This category was created categories for the 55th Grammy Awards. According to the category description guide it is intended "for an album collection containing at least 51 percent playing time of newly recorded material of performances (vocal or instrumental) by various soloist(s) and/or ensemble(s) involving a mixture of classical subgenres" It also states that these albums may not be entered in other classical album categories and classical crossover albums might be eligible.
The Grammy is awarded to the artist(s), album producer(s), engineer(s) and mixer(s) if they are responsible for over 51% of playing time of the album, if other than the artist(s).

## Recipients

| Year | Recipient(s) | Work | Nominees (Performer(s) in parentheses) |
| 2013 | Antoni Wit (conductor); Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin (producers, engineers/mixers) | Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaklasis | John Schneider (producer) – Bitter Music (Partch) Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor), Daniel Zalay (producer) – Une Fête Baroque (Emmanuelle Haïm) |
| 2014 | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik | Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor), Preben Iwan (producer) – Holmboe: Concerto (Dima Slobodeniouk) Maxim Rysanov (conductor), Manfred Eicher (producer) – Tabakova: String Paths (Maxim Rysanov) |
| 2015 | John Schneider (producer); John Baffa (engineer/mixer) | Partch: Plectra & Percussion Dances | Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor), Colin Matthews (producer) – Britten to America (Jeffrey Skidmore) Manfred Eicher (producer) – Mieczyslaw Weinberg (Giedré Dirvanausakité, Daniil Grishin, Gidon Kremer & Daniil Trifonov) Mike Marshall (producer) – Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet (Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet) Paul Daniel (conductor), Andrew Walton (producer) – The Solent – Fifty Years of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Paul Daniel) |
| 2016 | Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer); Gary Call (engineer) | Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto | Jim Ginsburg (producer) – As Dreams Fall Apart – The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music (1925–1955) (New Budapest Orpheum Society) George Manahan (conductor), Judith Sherman (producer) – Ask Your Mama (George Manahan & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra) Paul McCreesh (conductor), Nicholas Parker (producer) – Händel: l'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato, 1740 (Paul McCreesh) Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin (producers) – Woman at the New Piano (Nadia Shpachenko) |
| 2017 | Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer); Gary Call (engineer) | Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle | Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor), Manfred Eicher (producer) – Gesualdo (Tõnu Kaljuste) Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Andrew Walton (producer) – Vaughan Williams: Discoveries (Martyn Brabbins) Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang (producers) – Wolfgang: Passing Through (Various Artists) Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa (producers) – Zappa: 200 Motels – The Suites (Esa-Pekka Salonen) |
| 2018 | Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer) Gary Call (engineer) | Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto | Alexandre Tharaud (conductor); Cécile Lenoir (producer) – Barbara (Alexandre Tharaud & Various Artists) Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor); Guido Tichelman (producer) – Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble & Choir (Reinbert de Leeuw) Jordi Savall (conductor); Benjamin Bletton (producer) – Les Routes de l'Esclavage (Jordi Savall) Lucy Mauro (pianist and producer) – Mademoiselle: Première Audience – Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger |
| 2019 | JoAnn Falletta (conductor); Tim Handley (producer); Jonathan Allen (engineer) | Fuchs: Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush | Nigel Short (producer) – Gold (The King's Singers) Simon Rattle (conductor); Christoph Franke (producer) – The John Adams Edition Jerry Junkin (conductor); Donald J. McKinney (producer) – John Williams At The Movies Peter Oundjian (conductor); Blanton Alspaugh (producer) – Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade to Music; Flos Campi |
| 2020 | Nadia Shpachenko (pianist); Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin (producers) | The Poetry of Places | John Morris Russell (conductor); Elaine Martone (producer) – American Originals 1918 Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor); Tim Handley (producer) – Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 Heichalos, Guitar Concerto, Starburst Paul Appleby (tenor) & Natalia Katyukova (pianist); Silas Brown & Harold Meltzer (producers) – Meltzer: Songs and Structures Hannu Lintu (conductor); Laura Heikinheimo (producer) – Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel d'Hiver |
| 2021 | Isabel Leonard (vocalist); Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor); Jack Vad (producer) | From The Diary Of Anne Frank & Meditations On Rilke | Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn (performers); Thomas Adès (conductor); Nick Squire (producer) – Adès Conducts Adès Clément Mao-Takacs (conductor); Hans Kipfer (producer) – Saariaho: Graal Théatre; Circle Map; Neiges; Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin José Serebrier (conductor); Jens Braun (producer) – Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments and Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto Matt Haimovitz; Julian Wachner (conductor); Blanton Alspaugh (producer) – Woolf: Fire and Flood |
| 2022 | Amy Andersson (conductor/producer); Mark Mattson & Lolita Ritmanis (producers) | Women Warriors: The Voices of Change | AGAVE & Reginald L. Mobley (artists); Geoffrey Silver (producer) – American Originals - A New World, A New Canon Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor); Jack Vad (producer) – Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs & Three Pieces for Orchestra Timo Andres & Ian Rosenbaum (artists); Mike Tierney (producer) – Cerrone: The Arching Path Chick Corea (artist/producer); Birnie Kirsh (producer) – Plays |
| 2023 | Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakely (artists); Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakely (producers) | An Adoption Story | J.P. Jofre & Seunghee Lee (artists); Enrico Fagone (conductor); Jonathan Allen (producer) for Aspire Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor); David Frost (producer) for A Concert for Ukraine Voces8 (artists); Barnaby Smith & Christopher Tin (conductors); Sean Patrick Flahaven & Christopher Tin (producers) for The Lost Birds |
| 2024 | Alex Brown, The Harlem Quartet, Imani Winds, Edward Perez, Neal Smith & A.B. Spellman (artists); Silas Brown & Mark Dover (producers) | Passion for Bach and Coltrane | Anne Akiko Meyers (artist); Gustaveo Dudamel (conductor); Dmitry Lepay (producer) for Fandango Christopher Rountree (conductor); Lewis Pecasov (producer) for Julius Eastman, Vol. 3: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You So Rich? Peter Herresthal (artist); Tim Weiss (conductor); Hans Kipfer (producer) for Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright Chick Corea (artist); Chick Corea & Bernie Kirsh (producers) for Sardinia Andy Akiho (artist); Andy Akiho & Sean Dixon (producers) for Sculptures The Aaron Diehl Trio & The Knights (artists); Eric Jacobsen (conductor); Aaron Diehl & Eric Jacobson (producers) for Zodiac Suite |
| 2025 | Gustavo Didamel (conductor); Dmitriy Lipay (producer) | Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina | Andy Akiho & Imani Winds (artists); Andy Akiho, Sean Dixon & Mark Dover (producers) - BeLonging Curtis Stewart (artist); James Blachley (conductor), Blanton Alspaugh (producer) - American Counterpoints JoAnn Falletta (conductor); Bernd Gottinger (producer) - Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces; Ode Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse (artists); Michael Shapiro (conductor); Jeff Atmajian, Emilio D. Miler, Hai Nguyen, Robert Thies, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse & Kitt Wakeley (producers) - Mythologies II |