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Classical Award Winners

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

Classical Award Winners

Sandrine Piau - Si j'ai aimé cover
SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / BERLIOZ / MASSENET etc
Sandrine Piau - Si j'ai aimé
Sandrine Piau (soprano) / Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Recital
BBC Music Award Finalist 2020

Sandrine Piau's first recital...
$40.00
British Violin Sonatas Vol.3 cover
JOHN IRELAND / YORK BOWEN / WILLIAM ALWYN / ERIC COATES / JAMES FRANCIS BROWN
British Violin Sonatas Vol.3
Tasmin Little (violin) Piers Lane (piano)
BBC Music Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber

Tasmin Little and Piers Lane complete their three album overview...
$35.00
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Award Winners: Orchestral

Sibelius: Tapiola / En Saga / Eight Songs cover
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Tapiola / En Saga / Eight Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (conductor) $35.00
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 / Passacaglia from 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' cover
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 / Passacaglia from 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons $37.00
Music for Strings cover
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HERBERT HOWELLS / FREDERICK DELIUS / SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Music for Strings
John Wilson, Sinfonia Of London $35.00
Respighi: Pines, Fountains & Festivals of Rome cover
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Pines, Fountains & Festivals of Rome
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson $35.00

Award Winners: Solo piano

Bach: Goldberg Variations cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Beatrice Rana (piano) $30.00
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano cover
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano
Paul Wee (piano) $35.00
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) [with piano pieces by Prokofiev] cover
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) [with piano pieces by Prokofiev]
Steven Osborne (piano) $30.00
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

Award Winners: Choral

J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion cover
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion
Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, etc / Bach Collegium Japan chorus & orchestra / Masaaki Suzuki $65.00
Cage: Choral Works cover
JOHN CAGE
Cage: Choral Works
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor) $35.00
Hummel: Mass, Op 111 in D / Mass Op 77 in B flat major cover
HUMMEL
Hummel: Mass, Op 111 in D / Mass Op 77 in B flat major
Susan Gritton (soprano) / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox $35.00
Tintinnabuli [incls 'Magnificat' & 'Triodion'] cover
ARVO PÄRT
Tintinnabuli [incls 'Magnificat' & 'Triodion']
Tallis Scholars $35.00

Award winners - Chamber

Shostakovich: Quartet No. 3 / Piano Quintet cover
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 3 / Piano Quintet
Belcea Quartet, Piotr Anderszewski (piano) $40.00
Faure: Quintets with Piano cover
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Quintets with Piano
Eric Le Sage (piano) / Quatuor Ébène $40.00
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 cover
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2
Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin $30.00
Complete String Quartets cover
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Complete String Quartets
Arditti Quartet $40.00

Award Winners: Early Music

Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello cover
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello
Steven Isserlis (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber $30.00
Western Wind: Music by John Taverner & Court Music for Henry VIII cover
TAVERNER / CORNYSH / ANONYMOUS / HENRY VIII
Western Wind: Music by John Taverner & Court Music for Henry VIII
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott $40.00
Gibbons: Phantasm cover
ORLANDO GIBBONS
Gibbons: Phantasm
Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Asako Morikawa (bass viol) / Phantasm $27.00
Giaches de Wert: Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets cover
GIACHES DE WERT
Giaches de Wert: Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets
Stile Antico $35.00

Award Winners: Vocal

Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works cover
LEOS JANACEK
Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) $30.00
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch cover
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano) $33.00
Lieder (Incls Zueignung, Morgen! & Ruhe, meine Seele) cover
RICHARD STRAUSS
Lieder (Incls Zueignung, Morgen! & Ruhe, meine Seele)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Helmut Deutsch (piano) $35.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Songs cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Songs
Stephan Genz (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) $30.00

Award Winners: Concerto

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
Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Valses nobles et sentimentales (orchestral version) cover
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Valses nobles et sentimentales (orchestral version)
Krystian Zimerman (piano) Cleveland Orchestra / London Symphony / Pierre Boulez $38.00
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 / Africa Fantasie for piano and orchestra cover
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 / Africa Fantasie for piano and orchestra
Stephen Hough (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo $60.00
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

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
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera) cover
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera)
Stuart Skelton; Erin Wall; Roderick Williams; Susan Bickley; Hanna Husáhr / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner $60.00
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
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