CSO wins pair of Grammys

Recordings on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's CSO Resound label won two Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences at last weekend's 51st annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles, bringing its total to 60 Grammys and extending its own record for an American orchestra.

The recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, conducted by principal conductor Bernard Haitink and drawn from concerts in May 2008, won for Best Orchestral Performance; and Christopher Willis, David Frost and Tom Lazarus won the Best Engineered Album (Classical) category for "Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago," released in February 2008.

These are the first Grammys for CSO Resound since the CSO launched its in-house record label in May 2007. "Traditions and Transformations" also received nominations for Serge Prokofiev's "Scythian" Suite under the baton of Alan Gilbert (Best Orchestral Performance), and for Wu Man (Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra) in Lou Harrison's Pipa Concerto under conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. The recording, a collaboration between the CSO and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, creator of the Silk Road Ensemble, was recorded during concerts in April and May 2007 given as part of the yearlong Silk Road Chicago project.