This past Sunday marked one of the biggest nights in music, the 2026 Grammy Awards. Whatever your feeling about awards shows, the Grammys are, if nothing else, always a great way to learn about what is going on now in the musical world we love and celebrate here on Blue Lake Public Radio (and in music in general). In that spirit, host Foley Schuler will, the rest of this week during his afternoon programs, be featuring some of this year's Grammy Award winning classical recordings, including this year's winners for Best Orchestral Performance, Contemporary Classical Composition, Classical Instrumental Solo, Classical Solo Vocal Album, Choral Performance, Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
Wednesday's program featured this year's Grammy winners for Best Solo Instrumental Performance (Cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Cello Concertos by Shostokovich), as well as the Best Chamber Music/Small Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performances (Alarm wil Sound's recording of Land of Winter by Donnacha Dennehy), and we'll be hearing from the BSO once again on Thursday with this year's award winner for Best Orchestral Performance—which went to conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony for their recording of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie. While we're at it, we'll also sample several selections from this year's Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, which features opera arias for soprano by Telemann, from his opera Ino, performed by Amanda Forsythe with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra.
You can hear Foley's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
