Gramophone Award
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The Gramophone Awards are one of the most significant honours bestowed on the classical record industry, often referred to as the Oscars for classical music.[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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[edit] Gramophone Awards of the 2000s
[edit] 2007
Artist of the Year Julia Fischer
Lifetime Achievement Montserrat Caballè
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)
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 Janácek 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)
History archive Wagner Götterdämmerung Bayreuth Festival Opera / Joseph Keilberth (Testament)
Historic reissue Moeran Symphony etc London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia / Sir Adrian Boult (Lyrita)
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)
Editor's Choice Mahler Symphony No. 2 Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics)
[edit] 2006
Artist of the Year Angela Hewitt
Label of the Year Virgin Classics
Lifetime Achievement Sir Charles Mackerras
Classic FM Listeners' Choice Alison Balsom
Editor's Choice Stanford - Orchestral Songs Gerald Finley; BBC NOW/Richard Hickox
Orchestral (Record of the Year) Mahler - Symphony No. 6 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
Chamber Taneyev - Chamber Music Vadim Repin; Ilya Gringolts; Nobuko Imai; Lunn Harrell; Mikhail Pletnev
Solo Vocal Schubert - Abendbilder Christian Gerhaher; Gerold Huber
Contemporary Magnus Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto Kari Kriikku; Finnish RSO/Sakari Oramo
Historic Archive Wagner - Siegfried Bayreuth Festival/Keilberth
Instrumental Szymanowski - Piano Works Piotr Anderszewski
[edit] 2004
Artist of the Year Magdalena Kožená
Lifetime Achievement London Symphony Orchestra
Special Achievement Peter Alward
Label of the Year Telarc
Classic fM Listeners' Choice Bryn Terfel
Opera (Record of the Year) Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Soloists; Ghent Collegium Vocale; Concerto Köln / René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC90 1818/20
Early Music Orlando Gibbons Consorts for viols, Phantasm (Avie)
Concerto Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann Piano Concertos Leif Ove Andsnes - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons (EMI)
Baroque Vocal Antonio Vivaldi Vespri Solenni per la Festa dell'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Soloists, Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve Opus 111)
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)
[edit] 2003
Artist of the Year Marin Alsop
Lifetime Achievement Award Leontyne Price
Début Disc and Editor’s Choice Prokofiev; Scriabin; Stravinsky; Tchaikovksy Piano Works, Simon Trpceski
Classic fM Listener’s Choice Cecilia Bartoli
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
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)
Choral Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Masses, Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (Chandos Records)
Opera Benjamin Britten, The Turn of the Screw, Ian Bostridge, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding (Virgin Classics)
[edit] 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)
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)
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)
Vocal Chaminade, Mots d'amour, Anne Sofie von Otter / Bengt Forsberg / Nils-Erik Sparf / Peter Jablonski (DG)
Recital Gluck, Italian Arias, Cecilia Bartoli / Akadema für Alte Musik, Berlin / Bernhard Forck (Decca)
Editor's Choice R Strauss, Four Last Songs, Soile Isokoski / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Marek Janowski (Ondine)
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)
[edit] 2001
Orchestral (Record of the Year) Vaughan Williams, A London Symphony and Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, London Symphony Orchestra / Hickox (EMI)
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)
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)
Vocal Love Songs, Magdalena Kožená/Graham Johnson (DG)
Recital French Arias, Roberto Alagna/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Betrand de Billy (EMI)
Editor's Choice Handel, Rinaldo, David Daniels Cecilia Bartoli/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca L'Oiseau-Lyre)
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)
Retailer of the Year Bath Compact Discs
Artist of the Year Cecilia Bartoli
Classic fM People's Choice Award Verdi, Verdi: Heroines, Angela Gheorghiu; Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Milan/Chailly (Decca)
Lifetime Achievement Victoria de los Angeles
[edit] 2000
Artist of the Year Antonio Pappano
Classic FM People's Choice Award Verdi, Verdi: Heroines, Angela Gheorghiu; Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Milan/Chailly (Decca)
Special Achievement Wagner, Götterdämmerung, soloists; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival/Knapperstsbusch (Testament)
Lifetime Achievement Carlo Bergonzi
Orchestral (Record of the Year) Mahler, Symphony No 10 in F sharp, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle (EMI)
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)
Retailer of the Year HMV 150 Oxford Street & Bath Compact Discs
Vocal Barbara Bonney, Diamonds in the Snow: Songs by Alfvén, Grieg, Sibelius, Sjöberg and Stenhammar, Antonio Pappano (Decca)
[edit] Gramophone Awards in the 1990s
[edit] 1999
Artist of the Year Martha Argerich
Special Achievement Philip's Great Pianists of the 20th Century
Lifetime Achievement Isaac Stern
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)
20th-Century Vocal Hanns Eisler, Hollywood Songbook, Goerne; Schneider (Decca)
Chamber Robert Schumann, Piano Trios, Florestan Trio (Hyperion)
20th-Century Chamber Elliott Carter, String Quartets, Arditti Quartett (Auvidis)
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)
20th-Century Opera Carl Nielsen, Maskarade, Schirmer (Decca)
Contemporary Toru Takemitsu, Quotation of Dream, Knussen (DG)
Instrumental Arcadi Volodos, Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall (Sony Classical)
20th-Century Instrumental Luciano Berio, Sequenzas, various artists (DG)
Orchestral Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 4, Wand (RCA)
20th-Century Orchestral Edgar Varése, Complete Orchestral Works, Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
Solo Vocal Ludwig van Beethoven, Lieder, Stephen Genz; Vignoles (Hyperion)
Recital Renée Fleming, I Want Magic!, Renée Fleming; Levine (Decca)
[edit] 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)
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 Bartok, 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)
Best-selling disc James Horner, Titanic–Original Soundtrack (Sony Classical)
Best-Fusion of Genres Trans-Siberian Orchestra; Beethoven's Last Night (Sony)
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