Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: La Conquista Del Espacio - Fito Paez
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): Un Canto Por Mexico, Vol.1 - Natalia Lafourcade
Best Tropical Latin Album: 40 - Grupo Niche
Best Orchestral Performance: "Ives: Complete Symphonies" - Gustavo Dudamel (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Best Opera Recording: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - David Robertson, Angel Blue & Eric Owens, David Frost (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Best Choral Performance: Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua - JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass & Adam Luebke (James K. Bass, J’Nai Bridges, Timothy Fallon, Kenneth Overton, Hila Plitmann & Matthew Worth; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & UCLA Chamber Singers)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Contemporary Voices - Pacifica Quartet
Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Theofanidis: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra - Richard O’Neill
Best Classical Compendium: Thomas, M.T.: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke - Isabel Leonard, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jack Vad