Editing Minnesota Orchestra (section)

==Recordings==
The orchestra first began recording (by the acoustical process) under [[Henri Verbrugghen]] in 1924 for [[Brunswick Records|Brunswick]], and in the following years produced some landmark records. Among these was the first electrical recording of [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler's]] [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|''Resurrection'' Symphony]] with [[Eugene Ormandy]], who recorded extensively with the orchestra for [[RCA Victor]] in the 1930s. In the 1940s, the Minneapolis Symphony was contracted to [[Columbia Records]] and made a series of records with Ormandy's successor, [[Dimitri Mitropoulos]]. These included the premiere recording of Mahler's [[Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)|First Symphony]]. Beginning in 1954 and continuing on through 1955, the group made the first complete recordings of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s three [[ballets]]: ''[[Swan Lake]]'', ''[[Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|Sleeping Beauty]]'', and ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' under the baton of [[Antal Doráti]]. In 1954, they also made the first recording of Tchaikovsky's ''[[1812 Overture]]'' to include actual [[cannon]] fire, again under Doráti's direction. These recordings were made for [[Mercury Records]] as part of the ''Living Presence'' series.

In the 1970s, the renamed Minnesota Orchestra made a series of recordings for [[Vox Records]] under the direction of [[Stanisław Skrowaczewski]]. In the 1990s and 2000s, the orchestra recorded for the Reference Recordings label under the direction of music director [[Eiji Oue]], winning a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2003 with ''[[Casa Guidi (album)|Casa Guidi]]''. More recently, Osmo Vänskä conducted a cycle of the [[Beethoven]] symphonies and a cycle of the [[Sibelius]] symphonies, both for the Swedish label [[BIS Records|BIS]]. Their recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the Minnesota Chorale, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance in 2007,<ref>{{cite news | last=Crann |first=Tom | title=Minnesota's Beethoven: what makes it so good? | url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/02/08/mnorchgrammy | work=Minnesota Public Radio| date=8 February 2008 | access-date=2013-07-17}}</ref> as was their recording of Sibelius's Second and Fifth Symphonies in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=55th Annual Grammy Awards Winners: Best Orchestral Performance|date = 30 April 2017|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=5}}</ref> On January 26, 2014, the Minnesota Orchestra and Vänskä won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance for their recording of Sibelius's 1st and 4th symphonies.<ref>{{cite news | last=Bream |first=Jon| title= Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä Score a Grammy | url=http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/242121401.html | work=Minneapolis Star Tribune | date=27 January 2014 |access-date=2013-01-27}}</ref> In August 2017, the orchestra released a recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, starting a cycle of the Mahler symphonies. In November 2017, that recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2017/11/28/minnesota-orchestra-spco-earn-grammy-nominations|title=Minnesota Orchestra, SPCO earn Grammy nominations|last1=Kerr|first1=Euan|date=November 28, 2017|website=Minnesota Public Radio News|access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref>