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.

Contents 1 Gramophone Awards of the 2000s 1.1 2009 1.2 2008 1.3 2007 1.4 2006 1.5 2005 1.6 2004 1.7 2003 1.8 2002 1.9 2001 1.10 2000 2 Gramophone Awards in the 1990s 2.1 1999 2.2 1998 2.3 1997 2.4 1996 2.5 1995 2.6 1994 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Gramophone Awards of the 2000s

[edit] 2009

Artist of the Year – The Sixteen

Lifetime Achievement Award – Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Young Artist of the Year – Yuja Wang

Special Achievement – Bernard Coutaz, founder of Harmonia Mundi

Label of the Year – ECM

Early Music – Stile Antico

Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation – Royal Opera House and The Sun

Baroque Instrumental – Henry Purchell's Complete Fantazias / Fretwork

Chamber – Debussy, Fauré and Ravel, String quartets, Quatuor Ebène

Concerto – Britten, Piano Concerto, Steven Osborne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (Hyperion)

Contemporary – The NMC Songbook, various artists (NMC)

DVD – Wagner, The Copenhagen Ring, The Royal Danish Opera / Michael Schønwandt

Historic Archive – Berlioz, Les Troyens, Covent Garden Opera / Rafael Kubelík

Opera – Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano, Angela Gheorghiu (sop)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[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)

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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Gramophone Awards in the 1990s

[edit] 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)

[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)

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)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] References

1. ^ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2260637.ece
2. ^ http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/gramophone.php
3. ^ http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/music-news-and-features/classic-fm-gramophone-awards/
4. ^ http://www.dallassymphony.com/Press_Releases.aspx?aID=7/

[edit] External links

• current Gramophone Awards winners