The Gramophone Awards are one of the most significant honours bestowed on the classical record industry[1], often referred to as the Oscars for classical music.[2] [3] [4][citation needed] The winners are selected annually by critics for The Gramophone Magazine and various members of the industry, including retailers, broadcasters, arts administrators, and musicians. Awards are usually presented in September each year in London.
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Gramophone Awards of the 2000s
2009
Artist of the Year – The Sixteen
Lifetime Achievement Award – Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Young Artist of the Year – Yuja Wang
2008
Artist of the Year – Hilary Hahn
Lifetime Achievement – André Previn
Young Artist of the Year – Maxim Rysanov
Special Achievement – Sir Peter Moore
Label of the Year – Hyperion
The Gold Disc – Saint-Saëns - Stephen Hough
Early Music – Dr. Edward Higginbottom
Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation – Tasmin Little
Baroque Instrumental – Brandenburg concertos European Brandenburg Ensemble / Trevor Pinnock (Avie)
Chamber – Brahms and Schumann, Piano quintets, Leif Ove Andsnes, Artemis Quartet (Virgin Classics)
Concerto – Elgar, Violin Concerto, James Ehnes, Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis (Onyx)
DVD – Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro Soloists, The Royal Opera / Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte)
Historic Archive – Vaughan Williams, Symphony No 5 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vaughan Williams (Somm)
Opera – Janáček, The Excursions of Mr Broucek BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jirí Belohlávek (Deutsche Grammophon)
Recital – Maria, Cecilia Bartoli, Orchestra La Scintilla / Adám Fischer (Decca)
Instrumental (Recording of the Year) – Beethoven, Piano Sonatas, Vol 4 Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi)
Baroque Vocal – Monteverdi, L'Orfeo, La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (Glossa)
Choral – Haydn, The Creation, Soloists, Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh (Archiv Produktion)
Contemporary – Jonathan Harvey, Body Mandala, Anu Komsi, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (NMC)
Early Music – Nicholas Ludford, Missa Benedicta, Choir of New College, Oxford / Edward Higginbottom (K617)
Historic Reissue – Sibelius, Songs, Kim Borg, Erik Werba (Deutsche Grammophon)
Orchestral – Myaskovsky, Symphonies, USSR State & Russian Federation Symphony Orchestras / Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner Classics)
Solo vocal – Barber, Songs, Gerald Finley, Julius Drake, (Hyperion)
Editor's Choice – Mr Abel's Fine Airs
2007
Artist of the Year – Julia Fischer
Lifetime Achievement – Montserrat Caballé
Young Artist of the Year – Vasily Petrenko
Special Achievement – Christopher Raeburn
Label of the Year – Deutsche Grammophon
Concerto (Record of the Year) – Brahms Piano Concertos Nelson Freire; Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
Editor's Choice – Mahler Symphony No. 2 Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics)
Baroque instrumental – Handel Concerti Grossi Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)
Baroque vocal – Handel Messiah (Dublin version, 1742); Dunedin Consort & Players / John Butt (Linn Records)
Chamber – Haas and Janáček String Quartets Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon)
Choral – Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Dorothea Röschmann; Thomas Quasthoff; Berlin Radio Choir; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (EMI)
Contemporary – Julian Anderson Alhambra Fantasy BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen (Ondine)
DVD – Julian Bream: My Life in Music(Avie)
Early music – Byrd Laudibus in sanctis The Cardinall's Music (Hyperion)
Historic reissue – Moeran Symphony etc London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia / Sir Adrian Boult (Lyrita)
History archive – Wagner Götterdämmerung Bayreuth Festival Opera / Joseph Keilberth (Testament)
Instrumental – Bach Cello Suites, Steven Isserlis (Hyperion)
Opera – Rossini Matilde di Shabran Conducted by Riccardo Frizza (Decca)
Orchestral – Prokofiev Complete Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (Philips)
Recital – Simon Keenlyside: Tales of Opera Munich Radio Orchestra / Ulf Schirmer (Sony Classical)
Solo vocal – R. Strauss Lieder Jonas Kaufmann; Helmut Deutsch (Harmonia Mundi)
2006
Artist of the Year – Angela Hewitt
Lifetime Achievement – Sir Charles Mackerras
Label of the Year – Virgin Classics
Orchestral (Record of the Year) – Mahler - Symphony No. 6 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
Classic FM Listeners' Choice – Alison Balsom
Editor's Choice – Stanford - Orchestral Songs Gerald Finley; BBC NOW/Richard Hickox
Chamber – Taneyev - Chamber Music Vadim Repin; Ilya Gringolts; Nobuko Imai; Lunn Harrell; Mikhail Pletnev
Contemporary – Magnus Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto Kari Kriikku; Finnish RSO/Sakari Oramo
Historic archive – Wagner - Siegfried Bayreuth Festival/Keilberth
Instrumental – Szymanowski - Piano Works Piotr Anderszewski
Solo Vocal – Schubert - Abendbilder Christian Gerhaher; Gerold Huber
2005
Artist of the year – Michael Tilson Thomas
Lifetime Achievement – Marilyn Horne
Special Achievement – The Lindsays
Label of the year – Naxos
Classic FM Listener's Choice – Plácido Domingo
Editor's Choice – Rachmaninov Piano Concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Stephen Hough, Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton (Hyperion)
Baroque Vocal (Record of the Year) – Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra / John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria)
Choral – Haydn The Seasons Soloists, RIAS-Kammerchor, Freiburger Barockorchester / René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi)
Orchestral – Haydn Paris symphonies Concentus Musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
Chamber – Beethoven, Late String Quartets, Takács Quartet (Decca)
DVD – Berlioz, Les Troyens, Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner (BBC)
Recital – Gounod and Massenet, Arias, Rolando Villazón, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Evelino Pidò (Virgin Classics)
2004
Artist of the year – Magdalena Kožená
Lifetime Achievement – London Symphony Orchestra
Special Achievement – Peter Alward
Label of the Year – Telarc
Opera (Record of the Year) – Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Soloists; Ghent Collegium Vocale; Concerto Köln / René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC90 1818/20
Classic FM Listeners' Choice – Bryn Terfel
Baroque Vocal – Antonio Vivaldi Vespri Solenni per la Festa dell'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Soloists, Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve Opus 111)
Concerto – Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann Piano Concertos Leif Ove Andsnes - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons (EMI)
Early Music – Orlando Gibbons Consorts for viols, Phantasm (Avie)
Historic Reissue – Ernest Chausson, Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Maurice Ravel Mélodies Gérard Souzay (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano), Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire / Edouard Lindenberg (Testament)
Orchestral – Arnold Bax The Symphonies, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley (Chandos)
2003
Artist of the Year – Marin Alsop
Lifetime Achievement Award – Leontyne Price
Special Achievement Award – Vernon Handley
Label of the Year – Harmonia Mundi
Chamber Music (Record of the Year) – Schumann String Quartets Nos 1 & 3 - Zehetmair Quartet
Classic FM Listener's Choice – Cecilia Bartoli
Début Disc and Editor's Choice – Prokofiev; Scriabin; Stravinsky; Tchaikovksy Piano Works, Simon Trpceski
Choral – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Masses, Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (Chandos Records)
Concerto – Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concertos, Op 4, La Stravaganza, Arte dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger Channel Classics CCS19598)
Instrumental – Chopin, Etudes, Opp 10 & 12, Murray Perahia (Sony Classical SK61885)
Opera – Benjamin Britten, The Turn of the Screw, Ian Bostridge, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding (Virgin Classics)
2002
Artist of the Year – Maxim Vengerov
Lifetime Achievement – Mirella Freni
Orchestral (Record of the Year) – Saint-Saëns, Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra, Stephen Hough/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion)
Editor's Choice – R Strauss, Four Last Songs, Soile Isokoski / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Marek Janowski (Ondine)
Baroque Instrumental – Biber, Violin Sonatas Nos 2, 3, 5 & 7. Nisi Dominus. Passacaglia, Sonnerie/Thomas Guthrie (ASV Gaudeamus)
Baroque Vocal – Monteverdi, Selva morale e spirituale, Cantus Cölln / Concerto Palatino / Konrad Junghänel (Harmonia Mundi)
Chamber – Beethoven, Three String Quartets, Rasumovsky, Op 59. String Quartet in E flat, 'Harp', Op 74, Takács Quartet (Decca)
Choral – Schoenberg, Gurrelieder, Schoenberg Gurrelieder Karita Mattila / Anne Sofie von Otter / Thomas Moser / Philip Langridge / Thomas Quasthoff / Berlin Radio Chorus / MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig / Ernst Senff Choir / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (EMI)
Concerto – Saint-Saëns, Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra, Stephen Hough / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (Hyperion)
Contemporary – Birtwistle, Pulse Shadows, Claron McFadden / Arditti Quartet / Nash Ensemble / Reimbert de Leeuw (Teldec)
Debut Recording – Jonathan Lemalu sings songs by Brahms, Fauré, Finzi etc, Jonathan Lemalu / Roger Vignoles (EMI Debut)
DVD – John Adams, El Niño, Dawn Upshaw / Lorraine Hunt Lieberson / Willard White / Maîtrise de Paris Children's Choir / London Voices / Theatre of Voices / Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Berlin / Kent Nagano / Peter Sellars (Stage director) / Peter Maniura (Video director) (ArtHaus Musik)
Early Music – Marenzio, Madrigals, Marenzio Madrigals Il Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Opus 111)
Instrumental – Grieg, Lyric Pieces—excerpts, Leif Ove Andsnes (EMI)
Opera – Berlioz, Les Troyens, Ben Heppner / Michelle DeYoung / Petra Lang / Sara Mingardo / Peter Mattei / Stephen Milling / Kenneth Tarver / Toby Spence / Orlin Annastassov / Tigran Martirossian / Isabelle Cals / Alan Ewing / Guang Yang / Andrew Greenan / Roderick Earle / Bülent Bezd (LSO Live)
Recital – Gluck, Italian Arias, Cecilia Bartoli / Akadema für Alte Musik, Berlin / Bernhard Forck (Decca)
Vocal – Chaminade, Mots d'amour, Anne Sofie von Otter / Bengt Forsberg / Nils-Erik Sparf / Peter Jablonski (DG)
2001
Artist of the Year – Cecilia Bartoli
Lifetime Achievement – Victoria de los Ángeles
Retailer of the Year – Bath Compact Discs
Orchestral (Record of the Year) – Vaughan Williams, A London Symphony and Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, London Symphony Orchestra / Hickox (Chandos Records)
Classic FM People's Choice Award – Verdi, Verdi: Heroines, Angela Gheorghiu; Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Milan/Chailly (Decca)
Editor's Choice – Handel, Rinaldo, David Daniels Cecilia Bartoli/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca L'Oiseau-Lyre)
Baroque Instrumental – Bach, Partitas, BWV 825-30, Trevor Pinnock (Hannsler Classic)
Baroque Vocal – Bach, St. Matthew Passion, Christoph Prégardien tenor Evangelist; Matthias Goerne baritone Christus; Christine Schäfer, Dorothea Röschmann sopranos; Bernarda Fink, Elisabeth von Magnus contraltos; Michael Schade, Markus Schäfer tenors; Dietrich Henschel, Oliver Widmer basses; Vienna Boys’ Choir; Arnold (Teldec)
Chamber – Vaughan Williams, String Quartets Nos 1 & 2. Phantasy Quintet, Maggini Quartet with Garfield Jackson (Naxos Records)
Choral – Britten, AMDG. Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’. Chorale after an Old French Carol. A Hymn to the Virgin. Sacred and Profane, Op 91, Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion)
Concerto – Schoenberg, Piano Concerto, Mitsuko Uchida/Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez (Philips)
Contemporary – Boulez, Anthèmes 2. Messagesquisse. Sur incises, Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez (DG)
Debut Recording – Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel, String Quartets, Belcea Quartet (EMI)
DVD – Berlioz, La damnation de Faust, Vesselina Kasarova/Willard White/Staatskapelle Dresden/Sylvian Cambreling (ArtHaus Musik)
Early Music – Gesualdo, Il quarto libro di madrigali, La Venexiana/Claudio Cavina (Glossa)
Instrumental – Bach, Goldberg Variations, Murray Perahia (Sony Classical)
Opera – Massenet, Manon, Angela Gheorghiu/Roberto Alagna/Chorus and SO of La Monnaie/Antonio Pappano (EMI)
Recital – French Arias, Roberto Alagna/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Betrand de Billy (EMI)
Vocal – Love Songs, Magdalena Kožená/Graham Johnson (DG)
2000
Artist of the Year – Antonio Pappano
Lifetime Achievement – Carlo Bergonzi
Special Achievement – Wagner, Götterdämmerung, soloists; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival/Knapperstsbusch (Testament)
Retailer of the Year – HMV 150 Oxford Street & Bath Compact Discs
Orchestral (Record of the Year) – Mahler, Symphony No 10 in F sharp, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle (EMI)
Classic FM People's Choice Award – Verdi, Verdi: Heroines, Angela Gheorghiu; Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Milan/Chailly (Decca)
Baroque Instrumental – Pandolfi, Violin Sonatas Op 3 Nos 1-6; Op 4 Nos 1-6, Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)
Baroque Vocal – Handel, Acis and Galatea, Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Erato)
Chamber – Shostakovich, Complete String Quartets (Nos 1-15), Emerson Quartet (DG)
Choral – L Boulanger, Faust et Hélène: Psaume 24. D’un soir triste. D’un matin de printemps. Psaume 130, ‘Du fond de l’abîme,’ Dawson, Murray, Bottone, Mackenzie, Howard; CBSO Chorus; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Tortelier (Chandos)
Concerto – Haydn, Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra/Andsnes (EMI)
Contemporary – Elliott Carter, Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei. Clarinet Concerto, Elliott Carter (DG)
Early Music – William Byrd, Complete Keyboard Works, Davitt Moroney (Hyperion) Instrumental Godowsky, The Complete Studies on Chopin's Etudes, Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion)
Opera – Karol Szymanowski, King Roger. Symphony No 4 ‘Symphonia concertante,' Op 60, soloists; CBS Youth Chorus; CBS Chorus; Andsnes; CBSO/Rattle (EMI)
Recital – Verdi, Verdi: Heroines, Angela Gheorghiu; Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Milan/Chailly (Decca)
Vocal – Barbara Bonney, Diamonds in the Snow: Songs by Alfvén, Grieg, Sibelius, Sjöberg and Stenhammar, Antonio Pappano (Decca)
Gramophone Awards in the 1990s
1999
Artist of the Year – Martha Argerich
Lifetime Achievement – Isaac Stern
Special Achievement – Philip's Great Pianists of the 20th Century
Opera (Record of the Year) – Antonín Dvořák, Rusalka, Mackerras (Decca)
Editor's Choice – Naxos's British music series
Baroque Instrumental – Jacquet de la Guerre, Premiére livre, Carole Cerasi (Metronome)
Baroque Vocal – A Scarlatti, Il primo omicidio, René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi)
Chamber – Robert Schumann, Piano Trios, Florestan Trio (Hyperion)
Concerto – Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concertos, Martha Argerich/Dutoit (EMI)
20th-Century Concerto – Maurice Ravel, Piano Concertos, Krystian Zimerman; Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon|DG)
Early Music – Guillaume Dufay, Missa, Jacobi Binchois Consort/Kirkman (Hyperion)
Contemporary – Toru Takemitsu, Quotation of Dream, Knussen (DG)
Instrumental – Arcadi Volodos, Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall (Sony Classical)
Orchestral – Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 4, Wand (RCA)
Recital – Renée Fleming, I Want Magic!, Renée Fleming; Levine (Decca)
Solo Vocal – Ludwig van Beethoven, Lieder, Stephen Genz; Vignoles (Hyperion)
20th-Century Chamber – Elliott Carter, String Quartets, Arditti Quartett (Auvidis)
20th-Century Instrumental – Luciano Berio, Sequenzas, various artists (DG)
20th-Century Opera – Carl Nielsen, Maskarade, Schirmer (Decca)
20th-Century Orchestral – Edgar Varése, Complete Orchestral Works, Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
20th-Century Vocal – Hanns Eisler, Hollywood Songbook, Goerne; Schneider (Decca)
1998
Artist of the Year – Riccardo Chailly
Lifetime Achievement – Menahem Pressler
Choral (Record of the Year) – Martin, Pizzetti, Die Schöpfung, Westminster Cathedral Choir/James O'Donnell (Hyperion)
Best-selling disc – James Horner, Titanic–Original Soundtrack (Sony Classical)
Editor's Choice – Thomas Adès, Adès: Arcadiana Op. 12. The origin of the harp, soloists; Endellion Quartet; London Sinfonietta; King's college choir, Cambridge/Adès, Stenz, Cleobury (EMI Debut)
Baroque Non-Vocal – Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset, Rameau—Overtures (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
Baroque Vocal – Monteverdi, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini; Chamber Bartók, String quartets, Takacs Quartet (Decca)
Concerto – Joshua Bell, Barber, Bloch, Walton, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman (Decca)
Contemporary – Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins, Birtwistle, soloists; BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins (NMC)
Early Music – Canciones and Ensaladas, Harmonia, Ensemble Clément Janequin/Dominique Visse (Mundi)
Early Opera – Rameau, Les fêtes d'Hébé, Soloists; Les Arts Florissants Chorus and Orchestra/William Christie (Erato)
Film Music – Kenneth Alwyn, The Ladykillers, Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (Silva Screen)
Instrumental – Stephen Hough, Mompou (Hyperion)
Music Theatre – Kander & Ebb, Chicago, Broadway Cast/Rob Fisher (RCA Victor)
Opera – Rossini, Il Turko in Italia, soloists; Milan La Scala Chorus and Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
Orchestral – Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin, Hungarian Radio Chorus; Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer (Philips)
Solo Vocal – Schumann, Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake (EMI)
1997
Artist of the Year – Yo-Yo Ma
Lifetime achievement – Mstislav Rostropovich
Young Artist of the Year – Bartók: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1. Solo Vi, Isabelle Faust; Ewa Kupiec, Harmonia Mundi
Record of the year & Opera – Puccini: La rondine, London Voices; London SO / Pappano, EMI
Best-selling disc – Agnus Dei, New College Choir, Oxford / Higginbottom, Erato
Britannia Music Members' award – Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel sings Rodgers, Terfel; Chorus of Opera North; English Northern Philharmonia / Daniel, Deutsche Grammophon
Baroque non-vocal – Purcell: Fantazias, Joanna Levine; Susanna Pell; Phantasm, Simax
Baroque vocal – Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Rene Jacobs, Harmonia Mundi
Chamber – Ravel: Violin Sonatas etc, Juillet; Mork; Rogé, Decca
Choral – Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists / Gardiner, Archiv Produktion
Concerto – Szymanowski: Violin Concertos etc, Zehetmair; Avenhaus; CBSO / Rattle, EMI
Contemporary – Ligeti: Etudes, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Sony Classical
Early music – Ockeghem: Requiem etc, The Clerks' Group / Edward Wickham, ASV
Early opera – Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Arts Florissants / Christie, Erato
Engineering – Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Hickox, Chandos
Film music – Hermann: Vertigo, Royal Scottish National Orchestra / McNeely, Varese Sarabande
Instrumental – Handel Scarlatti: Keyboard Suites and Sonatas, Murray Perahia, Sony Classical
Music theatre – Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady, National Symphony Orchestra / J. Owen Edwards, TER
Orchestral – Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4, London SO / Davis, RCA
Solo vocal – Schumann: Complete Lieder Vol. 1, Christine Schafer; Graham Johnson, Hyperion
Video – Berg: Lulu, Soloists; London PO / Davis, NVC Arts
1996
Artist of the Year – Anne Sofie von Otter
Lifetime achievement – Yehudi Menuhin
Young Artist of the Year – David Pyatt
Record of the year & Concerto – Sauer, Scharwenka: Piano Concertos; Hough; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Lawerence Foster, Hyperion
Best-selling disc – Lesley Garrett - Soprano in Red; Lesley Garrett (sop); Crouch End Festival Chorus; Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Holmes Silva Classics
Baroque non-vocal – Vivaldi: Il Proteo - Double, Triple Concertos; Coin (vc); Il Giardino Armonico / Antonini, Teldec
Baroque vocal – Vivaldi: Stabat mater. Cessate, omai ces; Scholl (alto); Ensemble 415 / Banchini, Harmonia Mundi
Chamber – Haydn: String Quartets Op. 33 Nos 2, 3 and 5; Quatuor Mosaiques; Auvidis Astree
Choral – Grainger: Songs and Dancing Ballads; Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner Orchestra / Gardiner, Philips
Concerto – Sauer, Scharwenka: Piano Concertos; Hough; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Lawerence Foster, Hyperion
Contemporary – Birtwistle: Gawain; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Howarth, Collins Classics
Early music – Dunstable: Sacred Choral Works; Orlando Consort, Metronome
Early opera – Handel: Ariodante; Wilhelmshaven Vocal Ensemble; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / McGegan, Harmonia Mundi
Engineering – Sibelius: Symphony No 5. En Saga; Lahti SO / Vänskä, BIS
Historic non-vocal – Debussy: Complete Piano Works; Walter Gieseking (pf), EMI
Historic vocal – Lucrezia Bori: Opera and Operetta Arias; Bori (sop) with various artists, Romophone
Instrumental – Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas; Mikhail Pletnev (pf), Virgin Classics
Music theatre – Gershwin: Oh Kay! Orchestra of St Luke's / Stern, Nonesuch
Opera – Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel; Kirov Opera / Gergiev, Philips
Orchestral – Schmidt: Symphony No 4. Variations on a Hussar; London PO / Welser-Möst EMI
Solo vocal – Schubert: Lieder, Volume 25. Die schone Mulleri; Bostridge (ten); Fischer-Dieskau (narr); Johnson (pf), Hyperion
Video – Yehudi Menuhin – The Violin of the Century, EMI
1995
Artist of the Year – Pierre Boulez
Lifetime achievement – Sir Michael Tippett
Special achievement – Entartete Musik – Korngold: Das Wunder des Heliane; Berlin Radio Chorus; Deutsches SO / Mauceri,Decca
Record of the year & Concerto – Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1. Shostakovich: Vio; Maxim Vengerov; London Symphony Orcheestra / Rostropovich, Teldec
Best-selling disc – The Three Tenors in Concert, 1994; José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti; Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta, Teldec
Baroque non-vocal – Biber: Violin Sonatas; Romanesca, Harmonia Mundi
Baroque vocal – Rameau: Grand Motets; Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, Erato
Chamber – Fauré: Piano Quintets; Domus, Hyperion
Choral & engineering – Szymanowski: Stabat mater. Symphony No. 3. City of Birmingham Sympony Orchestra and Chorus / Rattle, EMI
Concerto – Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1. Shostakovich: Vio; Maxim Vengerov; London Symphony Orcheestra / Rostropovich, Teldec
Contemporary – Ligeti: Concertos - Piano; Violin; Cello; Gawriloff; Queyras; Aimard; Ensemble InterContemporain / Boulez DG
Early music – Fayrfax: Missa O quam Glorifica, etc. The Cardinall's Musick / Carwood, ASV Gaudeamus
Early opera – Purcell: King Arthur; Soloists; Les Arts Florissants / Christie, Erato
Engineering – Szymanowski: Stabat mater. Symphony No. 3. City of Birmingham Sympony Orchestra and Chorus / Rattle, EMI
Historic non-vocal – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9; Soloists; Lucerne Festival Chorus; Philharmonia / Furtwängler, Tahra mono
Historic vocal – Ravel: L'enfant et les sortileges; French Radio National Chorus and Orchestra / Bour, Testament
Instrumental – Chopin: Four Ballades. Mazurkas. Etudes. Nocturne; Murray Perahia (pf), Sony Classical
Music theatre – I wish it so - The Songs of Vernon Duke; Dawn Upshaw (sop); orchestra / Eric Stern (pf), Elektra Nonesuch
Opera – William Walton: Troilus and Cressida; Chorus & Orchestra of Opera North / Hickox, Chandos
Orchestral – Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1. Erwartung; Phyllis Bryn-Julson (sop); Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Rattle, EMI
Solo vocal – Schubert: Lieder; Bryn Terfel (bar); Malcolm Martineau (pf), DG
Video – The Art of Conducting - Great Conductors of the Past, Teldec
1994
Instrumental & Record of the Year – Debussy: Preludes; Krystian Zimmerman (pf), DG
Chamber – Tchaikovsky: String Quartets No. 1 - No.3 / Souvenier de Florence; Yuri Yurov (va), Mikhail Milman (vc), Borodin Quartet; Teldec
Opera – Britten: Gloriana; Josephine Barstow, Phillip Langridge, Welsh National Opera / Charles Mackerras, Argo
Historic Vocal – Britten: Peter Grimes / The Rape of Lucretia / Folksong Arrangements; Peter Pears (t), Joan Cross (s), BBC Theatre Chorus, Orchestra of The Royal Opera House / Nancy Evans (ca), Pears, Cross, English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra / Sophie Whyss (s), Pears, Britten (pf); EMI
Historic Non-Vocal – Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht / Schubert: String Quintet in C major; Alvin Dinkin(va), Kurt Reher(vc), Hollywood String Quartet; Testament
Engineering – Dutilleux: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier, Chandos
Orchestral – Koechlin: The Jungle Book, Symphonic Poems; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / David Zinman, RCA
Choral – Delius: Sea Drift, Songs of Farewell, Songs of Sunset; Bryn Terfel (b), Sally Burgess (ms), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Hickox, Chandos
Concerto – Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2, Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2; Kyung-Wha Chung, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Rattle, EMI
Contemporary – Robin Holloway: Second Concerto for Orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen, NMC
Solo Vocal – Samuel Barber: Complete Songs; Cheryl Studer, Thomas Hampson, John Browning, DG
Music Theatre – Bernstein: On The Town; LSO / Michael Tilson Thomas, DG
Baroque Vocal – Fourth Book of the Montev; Concerto Italiano, Opus 111
Baroque Non-vocal – Bach: Goldberg Variations; Pierre Hantai, Opus 111
Young Artist of the Year – Maxim Vengerov
Lifetime Achievement – Klaus Tennstedt
Special Achievement – Richter: The Authorized Edition; Sviatoslav Richter (pf), Phillips
Best Selling Record – Canto Gregoriano; Coro de monjes del Monasterio Bendictino de Santa Domingo de Silos / Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta, EMI
Early Music – Cipriano de Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem; The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips, Gimell
Video – Bernstein: On The Town; LSO/ Michael Tilson Thomas, Barbican Centre, June 1992, DG
Artist of the Year – John Eliot Gardiner
References
- ^ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2260637.ece
- ^ http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/gramophone.php
- ^ http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/music-news-and-features/classic-fm-gramophone-awards/
- ^ http://www.dallassymphony.com/Press_Releases.aspx?aID=7/
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