Three more GRAMMY-nominations this year! Norwegian label 2L have garnered no less than 17 American GRAMMY nominations since 2006. We celebrate current and past nominees with a special campaign in our new web shop. At check out apply the voucher code "GRAMMY2L" to your shopping cart activating a 20% discount on any and every Pure Audio Blu-ray, SACD, vinyl and HiRes audio files. This campaign is valid until December 15th 2013: www.2L.no/shop

	74. BEST OPERA RECORDING Ståle Kleiberg: David & Bathsheba Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor; Anna Einarsson & Johannes Weisser; Morten Lindberg, producer (Trondheim Symphony Orchestra / Trondheim Symfoniorkester); Trondheim Symphony Orchestra Vocal Ensemble) Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
	71. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL Hymn To The Virgin Morten Lindberg, engineer (Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl &Schola Cantorum) Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
	71. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL La Voie Triomphale Morten Lindberg, engineer (Ole Kristian Ruud & Staff Band Of The Norwegian Armed Forces / Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps) Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

The music captured by 2L features Norwegian composers and performers and an international repertoire reflected in the Nordic atmosphere. The surround sound recordings of Lindberg Lyd not only transform the entire listening experience, but also - more radically - these innovative recordings overturn some very basic concepts regarding how music is played and even composed. 2L emphasize surround sound with Pure Audio Blu-ray and HiRes file distribution, and have garnered no less than 17 American GRAMMY nominations since 2006. Eleven of these in categories "Best Engineered Album" and "Best Surround Sound Album".

2L record in spacious acoustic venues: large concert halls, churches and cathedrals. This is actually where we can make the most intimate recordings. The qualities we seek in large rooms are not necessarily a big reverb, but openness due to the absence of close reflecting walls. Making an ambient and beautiful recording is the way of least resistance. Searching the fine edge between direct contact and openness - that’s the real challenge! A really good recording should be able to bodily move the listener. This core quality of audio production is made by choosing the right venue for the repertoire, and by balancing the image in the placement of microphones and musicians relative to each other in that venue.

There is no method available today to reproduce the exact perception of attending a live performance. That leaves us with the art of illusion when it comes to recording music. As recording engineers and producers we need to do exactly the same as any good musician: interpret the music and the composer’s intentions and adapt to the media where we perform. Surround sound is a completely new conception of the musical experience. Recorded music is no longer a matter of a fixed two-dimensional setting, but rather a three-dimensional enveloping situation. Stereo can be described as a flat canvas, while surround sound is a sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions.