James Mallinson (1943 – 24 August 2018) was a British record producer. He was the first winner of the

Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical is an honor presented to record producers for quality classical music productions at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors ...

category, and won a total of 16

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s in his career. He won his first three Grammy awards in 1980 for the recording of Brahms's four symphonies with

Sir Georg Solti Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-servin ...

leading the

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(

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and Best Classical Orchestral Recording), along with the first Classical Producer of the Year award. He won another four Grammy awards in 1982. He spent twelve years with the Decca Record Company and became a freelance classical producer in 1984. He worked with all the major record labels and with most leading classical artists. In 2000 he was closely involved in the creation of ''LSO Live'', the

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's in house record label and has produced all their releases to date — currently 65 CDs. By 2001, he was noted to have "won more Grammys than any other classical record producer except for Thomas Z. Shepard", with whom he was tied. His last recent venture was a record label for the

Mariinsky Theatre The Mariinsky Theatre ( rus, Мариинский театр, Mariinskiy teatr, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music th ...

and their music director

Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...

in St Petersburg. The first projects on the Mariinsky label were released in 2009 and were nominated for the 2010 Grammys. Mallinson also was instrumental in the launch of

CSO Resound In April 2007, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association launched CSO Resound, its in-house record label. All recordings have been made live in concert in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, and a complete list of releases, chronological by recordi ...

, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's label in 2007. For the label, he produced several recordings conducted by

Bernard Haitink Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (; 4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to Lond ...

, including a Grammy Award-winning release of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. He died suddenly on 24 August 2018, following a brief illness.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mallinson, James 1943 births 2018 deaths English record producers Grammy Award winners Classical music producers