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Classical Award Winners

Explore a hand-picked selection of award winners from Gramophone and BBC Music.

Classical Award Winners

Michael Spyres - BariTenor cover
MOZART / MEHUL / OFFENBACH / LEONCAVALLO / LEHAR / WAGNER / RAVEL / etc
Michael Spyres - BariTenor
Michael Spyres (baritone/tenor) / Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja, Choeur d'hommes de l'Opéra national du Rhine
"Spyres really is a tenor - and a baritone, it seems - who has the operatic world at his feet." Gramophone...
$30.00
'round Midnight cover
HENRI DUTILLEUX / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / RAPHAEL MERLIN
'round Midnight
Quatuor Ébène, with Antoine Tamestit (viola) and Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
"With sound of unsparing immediacy and Merlin's typically provocative notes, this release testifies...
$30.00
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Award Winners: Orchestral

Langgaard:Symphonies Nos 2 & 6 cover
RUED LANGGAARD
Langgaard:Symphonies Nos 2 & 6
Anu Komsi (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo $32.00
Orchestral works: Praga, Symphonic Poem / A Summer's Tale cover
JOSEF SUK
Orchestral works: Praga, Symphonic Poem / A Summer's Tale
BBC Symphony Orchestra. Jirí Belohlávek $35.00
Project Haydn 2032 - Vol. 4 'Il distratto' cover
JOSEF HAYDN
Project Haydn 2032 - Vol. 4 'Il distratto'
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini $40.00
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet) cover
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet)
Marion Ralincourt (flute) / Les Siècles & Ensemble Aedes, François-Xavier Roth $35.00

Award Winners: Instrumental

Bach: Goldberg Variations (with works by Beethoven & Rzewski) cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations (with works by Beethoven & Rzewski)
Igor Levit (piano) $40.00
Bach: English Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5 cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: English Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5
Piotr Anderszewski (piano) $35.00
Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital cover
RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / LIGETI / PROKOFIEV
Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital
Yuja Wang (piano) $35.00
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 cover
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8
Steven Osborne (piano) $30.00

Award Winners: Choral

Schnittke / Pärt: Choral Works cover
ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARVO PART
Schnittke / Pärt: Choral Works
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš $35.00
Handel: Messiah (complete 1742 Dublin version) cover
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete 1742 Dublin version)
Susan Hamilton (Soprano) Annie Gill (contralto) Clare Wilkinson (contralto) Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) / Dunedin Consort / John Butt (Director) $55.00
Haydn: The Seasons cover
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Seasons
Marlis Petersen, Werner Güra & Dietrich Henschel / RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs $40.00
Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott: Luther & the Music of the Reformation cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott: Luther & the Music of the Reformation
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Bart Jacobs $55.00

Award winners - piano

On DSCH [Preludes & Fugues for piano] cover
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
On DSCH [Preludes & Fugues for piano]
Igor Levit (piano) $55.00
Chopin: Les États D'ame [24 Preludes / Sonata No 2] cover
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Les États D'ame [24 Preludes / Sonata No 2]
Julien Brocal (piano) $35.00
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2 cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2
Andras Schiff (piano) $80.00
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Mitsuko Uchida (piano) $35.00

Award Winners: Early Music

Tallis: Gaude gloriosa cover
THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Gaude gloriosa
The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood (director) $30.00
Giaches de Wert: Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets cover
GIACHES DE WERT
Giaches de Wert: Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets
Stile Antico $35.00
Gibbons: Phantasm cover
ORLANDO GIBBONS
Gibbons: Phantasm
Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Asako Morikawa (bass viol) / Phantasm $27.00
Buxtehude: Abendmusiken cover
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Abendmusiken
Vox Luminis & Ensemble Masques, Lionel Meunier $40.00

Award Winners: Vocal

Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch cover
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano) $33.00
Schumann - Myrthen cover
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann - Myrthen
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano) $27.00
Secrets: French Songs cover
DEBUSSY / DUPARC / FAURE / RAVEL
Secrets: French Songs
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo), Fazil Say (piano) $35.00
Beethoven: Songs cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Songs
Stephan Genz (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) $30.00

Award Winners: Concerto

MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 / Two Lieder, Op.91 cover
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 / Two Lieder, Op.91
Stephen Kovacevich (piano) with Ann Murray (soprano) & Nobuko Imai (viola) / London Philharmonic. Wolfgang Sawallisch $25.00
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano cover
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano
Paul Wee (piano) $35.00
Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto / Gran Duo / Chorale cover
MAGNUS LINDBERG
Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto / Gran Duo / Chorale
Kari Kriikku (clarinet) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (conductor) $35.00
Britten / Korngold: Violin Concertos cover
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / ERICH KORNGOLD
Britten / Korngold: Violin Concertos
Vilde Frang (violin) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony, James Gaffigan $30.00

Award Winners: Opera

Handel: Agrippina (complete opera) cover
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera)
Joyce DiDonato, Elsa Benoit, Biagio Pizzuti, Franco Fagioli, Andrea Mastroni, Jakub Józef Orliński / l Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev $55.00
Halevy: La Reine de Chypre [The Queen of Cyprus] cover
FROMENTAL HALEVY
Halevy: La Reine de Chypre [The Queen of Cyprus]
Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis / Flemish Radio Choir & Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet $70.00
Arnold: The Dancing Master, Op. 34 cover
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: The Dancing Master, Op. 34
Eleanor Dennis (sop) Catherine Carby (mezzo) Fiona Kimm (contr) Ed Lyon (ten) Mark Wilde (ten), Graeme Broadbent (bass-bar), BBC Concert Orchestra $35.00
Ombra mai fu: Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias cover
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Ombra mai fu: Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) / Ensemble Artaserse, with Emöke Baráth (soprano) $35.00