Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium
The Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality compendium albums in the classical music genre. 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 by various soloist and/or ensemble 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, album producer and engineer of over 51% of playing time of the album, if other than the artist.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Title | Performers | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2013 | Antoni Wit Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin | Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaklasis | Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki; Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Artist: Urszula Janik, Jennifer Montone, Elzbieta Stefanska | ||
| 2014 | Christoph Eschenbach | Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik | Composer: Hindemith; Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Artist: Midori | ||
| 2015 | Partch John Schneider | Partch: Plectra & Percussion Dances | Composer: Partch; Artist: PARTCH ENSEMBLE | ||
| 2016 | Giancarlo Guerrero Tim Handley Gary Call | Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto | Composer: Stephen Paulus; Orchestra: Nashville Symphony; Artist: Nathan J. Laube | ||
| 2017 | Giancarlo Guerrero Tim Handley Gary Call | Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle | Composer: Michael Daugherty, Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Artist: Zuill Bailey, Paul Jacobs | ||
| 2018 | Giancarlo Guerrero ; Tim Handley Gary Call | Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto | Composer: Jennifer Higdon, Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Artist: Roberto Díaz, James Button | ||
| 2019 | JoAnn Falletta ; Tim Handley | Fuchs: Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush | Composer: Kenneth Fuchs, Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra; Artist: Jeffrey Biegel, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Timothy McAllister, D. J. Sparr | ||
| 2020 | Nadia Shpachenko ; Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin | The Poetry of Places |