- Gramophone Award
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.Fact|date=July 2007 The winners are selected annually bycritic s for "The Gramophone " Magazine and various members of the industry, includingretailer s, broadcasters, arts administrators, andmusician s. Awards are usually presented in September each year inLondon .Gramophone Awards of the 2000s
2008
Artist of the Year –
Hilary Hahn Young Artist of the Year –
Maxim Rysanov The Gold Disc – Saint-Saëns -
Stephen Hough Lifetime Achievement –
André Previn Early Music – Dr. Edward Higginbottom
Special Achievement – Sir Peter Moore
Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation –
Tasmin Little Label of the Year –
Hyperion 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)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 SymphoniesLondon 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)2006
Artist of the Year
Angela Hewitt Label of the Year Virgin Classics
Lifetime Achievement
Sir Charles MackerrasClassic 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. 6Berlin 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 HuberContemporary
Magnus Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto Kari Kriikku; Finnish RSO/Sakari OramoHistoric Archive
Wagner - Siegfried Bayreuth Festival/KeilberthInstrumental
Szymanowski - Piano Works Piotr Anderszewski2004
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 1818/20Early Music
Orlando Gibbons "Consorts for viols", Phantasm (Avie)Concerto
Edvard Grieg andRobert Schumann Piano ConcertosLeif 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 )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 QuartetConcerto
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)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 IlConcerto 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 RecordingJonathan 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)2001
Orchestral (Record of the Year)
Vaughan Williams, "A London Symphony" andButterworth , "The Banks of Green Willow",London Symphony Orchestra / Hickox (Chandos Records )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 )VocalLove Songs,
Magdalena Kožená /Graham Johnson (DG)RecitalFrench Arias,
Roberto Alagna /Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Betrand de Billy (EMI )Editor's Choice
Handel, Rinaldo, David DanielsCecilia 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 YearBath 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 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 BergonziOrchestral (Record of the Year)
Mahler, Symphony No 10 in F sharp,Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra /Sir Simon Rattle (EMI )Baroque InstrumentalPandolfi, 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)ChoralL 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 YearHMV 150 Oxford Street & Bath Compact Discs
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 Special AchievementPhilip's Great Pianists of the 20th Century
Lifetime Achievement
Isaac Stern Opera (Record of the Year)
Antonín Dvořák , "Rusalka", Mackerras (Decca)Editor's ChoiceNaxos's British music series
Baroque InstrumentalJacquet de la Guerre, Premiére livre, Carole Cerasi (Metronome)
Baroque Vocal
A Scarlatti, "Il primo omicidio", René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi)20th-Century VocalHanns Eisler, Hollywood Songbook, Goerne; Schneider (Decca)
Chamber
Robert Schumann , Piano Trios, Florestan Trio (Hyperion)20th-Century ChamberElliott 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)ContemporaryToru 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 OrchestralEdgar 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)1998
Artist of the Year
Riccardo Chailly Lifetime AchievementMenahem 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-VocalLes Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset, Rameau—Overtures (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
Baroque Vocal
Monteverdi,Concerto Italiano , Rinaldo Alessandrini Chamber Bartok, String quartets, Takacs Quartet (Decca)ConcertoJoshua Bell, Barber, Bloch, Walton, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman (Decca)
ContemporaryAndrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins, Birtwistle, soloists; BBC Singers;
BBC Symphony Orchestra /Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins (NMC)Early MusicCanciones 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 MusicKenneth Alwyn, The Ladykillers, Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (Silva Screen)
InstrumentalStephen Hough, Mompou (Hyperion)
Music TheatreKander & 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)1997
Record of the year & Opera
Puccini : La rondine, London Voices; London SO / Pappano,EMI Baroque non-vocal
Purcell : Fantazias, Joanna Levine; Susanna Pell; Phantasm, SimaxBaroque vocal
Caldara : Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Rene Jacobs,Harmonia Mundi Chamber
Ravel : Violin Sonatas etc, Juillet; Mork; Rogé, DeccaChoral
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, ASVEarly opera
Rameau : Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Arts Florissants / Christie, EratoEngineering
Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Hickox, ChandosFilm music
Hermann: Vertigo, Royal Scottish National Orchestra / McNeely, Varese SarabandeInstrumental
Handel Scarlatti: Keyboard Suites and Sonatas, Murray Perahia,Sony Classical Music theatreLerner & 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, HyperionVideo
Berg: Lulu, Soloists; London PO / Davis, NVC ArtsYoung Artist of the Year
Bartók: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1. Solo Vi, Isabelle Faust; Ewa Kupiec,Harmonia Mundi Britannia Music Members' awardSomething Wonderful: Bryn Terfel sings Rodgers, Terfel; Chorus of Opera North; English Northern Philharmonia / Daniel,
Deutsche Grammophon Best-selling discAgnus Dei, New College Choir, Oxford / Higginbottom, Erato
Artist of the Year
Yo-Yo Ma Lifetime achievement
Mstislav Rostropovich External links
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