Gramophone Records of the Year

[Chris Newman]

Just Announced:

Record of the Year & Chamber Category Winner
DVORAK String Quartets G major, Op. 106 & F major, Op. 96 American String Quartets G major, Op. 106 & F major, Op. 96 American. Pavel Haas Quartet. Supraphon

Baroque Instrumental
BACH, C P E The Keyboard Concertos Wq 43, 1-6 Andreas Staier, Freiburger Barockorchester / Petra Mullejans. Harmonia Mundi 2cds

Baroque Vocal
HANDEL Apollo e Dafne Roberta Invernizzi, Thomas E. Bauer, Furio Zanasi, La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni. Glossa

Choral
ELGAR The Kingdom Claire Rutter, Susan Bickley, John Hudson, Iain Paterson, Halle Choir, The Halle / Sir Mark Elder. Halle 2cds

Concerto
RAVEL Piano Concerto DEBUSSY Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra MASSENET Valse Folle, Papillons blancs Papillons noirs, Eau courante, Eau dormante, Toccata Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos SACD


Contemporary
BIRTWISTLE Night’s Black Bird, The Shadow of Night, The Cry of Anubis Owen Slade, The Halle Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth. NMC Recordings

DVD Documentary
KLEIBER, CARLOS Traces to Nowhere. A Film by Eric Schulz With Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Veronika Kleiber, Michael Gielen, Manfred Honeck. Arthaus Musik DVD

DVD Performance
VERDI Don Carlo Rolando Villazon, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Orchestra & Chorus of The Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner. EMI Classics 2DVDs

Early Music
STRIGGIO Mass in 40 Parts. Missa Ecco si Beato Giorno I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth. Decca CD

Historic
MAHLER Symphony No. 10 Deryck Cooke Performing Version. 1960 lecture performance, 1964 Proms premiere Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra / Berthold Goldschmidt. Testament 3cds

Instrumental
BRAHMS Handel Variations Op. 24, Two Rhapsodies Op. 79, Piano Pieces Opp. 118 and 119 Murray Perahia. Sony Classical


Opera
ROSSINI Ermione Carmen Giannattasio, Patricia Bardon, Colin Lee, Bulent Bezduz, Graeme Broadbent, Rebecca Bottone, Victoria Simmonds, Loic Felix, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra / David Parry. Opera Rara 2cds

Orchestral
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko. Naxos

Recital
KAUFMANN, JONAS Verismo Arias Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano. Deutsche Grammophon

Solo Vocal
BRITTEN Songs & Proverbs of William Blake Op. 74, Tit for Tat Gerald Finley, Julius Drake. Hyperion


Editors Choice
ROSSINI Stabat Mater Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee, Ildebrando D`Arcangelo, Orchestra e Coro dell`Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano. EMI

Artist of the Year
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

Young Artist of the Year & Specialist Classical Chart Award
MILOS KARADAGLIC
The Guitar - Milos Karadaglic, English Chamber Orchestra / Paul Watkins. Deutsche Grammophon

Lifetime Achievement Award
DAME JANNET BAKER

Special Acheivement Award
SIR JOHN ELLIOT GARDINER for the SDG Bach Canatas series.

Label of the Year
WIGMORE HALL LIVE

So far, I only have the ORCHESTRAL and THE EDITOR'S CHOICE categories.

[Alison]

I can't get too excited about these awards.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I can't get too excited about these awards.

It's never good to get too excited about anything

[Suffolkcoastal]

I have hardly any of the award winning CD's of the past 15 years and certainly none of this years, nor am I likely to purchase any of this years with the possible exception of the Elgar.

[Petrushka]

I only have the CONTEMPORARY Birtwistle disc and while 'awards' normally bring me out in a rash, I do have say this disc is a corker and deserves its win.

[DracoM]

I often ask myself about the relevance of these awards. Can someone genuinely explain?

[Petrushka]

I often ask myself about the relevance of these awards. Can someone genuinely explain?

It's basically a Mutual Appreciation Society having a big back-slapping fest with the aim of - ahem! - making money,