The Estonian Philharmonic Choir, Marianne Crebassa and the Pavel Haas Quartet are among the artists and ensembles to win their Gramophone Classical Music Award categories.
The winners for each of the 10 annual Gramophone Awards’ categories will go on to compete for the organisations’ coveted Recording of the Year Award, which will be announced at the awards ceremony on September 13th.
Held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden, the ceremony will also see the winners named for the Artist of the Year, Young Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Label of the Year and the new Orchestra of the Year awards.
Orchestra of the Year is the latest award to be added to the ceremony and is the only award that will be decided by a public vote.
For the third year running the ceremony and its performances, from winners past and present, will be broadcast live on medici.tv to audiences in over 180 countries. In 2017 more than 65,000 people tuned in for event.
Winning the Chamber category is the Pavel Haas Quarter with Boris Giltburg abnd Pavel Nikl for their recording of Dvorák quintets. The quartet won Recording of the Year at the Gramophone Awards in 2011 and have claimed a Chamber award for four of their seven recordings.
For the first time in the award’s history a non-European group has won the Early Music award, with American vocal ensemble Blue Heron walking away with the award for their recording of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vo. 5.
Much of the music recorded by the ensemble from these partbooks had actually been lost and was reconstructed by British scholar Nicholas Sandon prior to being recorded.
The Contemporary Award was won by Arditti Quartet and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra for their recording of Pascal Dusapin’s Quatuors VI and VII and was sponsored by PRS for Music and PPL.
James Jolly, Gramophone’s editor-in-chief, said: ‘We’ve had a wonderful few months listening to all the shortlisted recordings and these 10 winners are a terrific endorsement of the enterprise, imagination and flair demonstrated by a vibrant classical record industry.’
The winners of the 10 Disc Awards 2018 categories are:
Chamber: Pavel Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl – Dvorák quintets
Choral: The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir conducted by Kaspars Putninš – Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat and Nunc dimittis and Alfred Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance
Concerto: Christian Tetzlaff with Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Bartók’s violin concertos
Contemporary: Arditti Quartet and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra – Pascal Dusapin’s Quatuors VI and VII
Early Music: Blue Heron – Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5
Instrumental: Arcadi Volodos – Brahms, including Opp. 76, 117 and 118
Opera: John Nelson – Les Troyens
Orchestral: François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles – Daphnis et Chloé
Recital: Delphine Galou – Agitata
Solo Vocal: Marianne Crebassa and Fazil Say – Secrets
The winners for each of the 10 annual Gramophone Awards’ categories will go on to compete for the organisations’ coveted Recording of the Year Award, which will be announced at the awards ceremony on September 13th.
Held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden, the ceremony will also see the winners named for the Artist of the Year, Young Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Label of the Year and the new Orchestra of the Year awards.
Orchestra of the Year is the latest award to be added to the ceremony and is the only award that will be decided by a public vote.
For the third year running the ceremony and its performances, from winners past and present, will be broadcast live on medici.tv to audiences in over 180 countries. In 2017 more than 65,000 people tuned in for event.
Winning the Chamber category is the Pavel Haas Quarter with Boris Giltburg abnd Pavel Nikl for their recording of Dvorák quintets. The quartet won Recording of the Year at the Gramophone Awards in 2011 and have claimed a Chamber award for four of their seven recordings.
For the first time in the award’s history a non-European group has won the Early Music award, with American vocal ensemble Blue Heron walking away with the award for their recording of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vo. 5.
Much of the music recorded by the ensemble from these partbooks had actually been lost and was reconstructed by British scholar Nicholas Sandon prior to being recorded.
The Contemporary Award was won by Arditti Quartet and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra for their recording of Pascal Dusapin’s Quatuors VI and VII and was sponsored by PRS for Music and PPL.
James Jolly, Gramophone’s editor-in-chief, said: ‘We’ve had a wonderful few months listening to all the shortlisted recordings and these 10 winners are a terrific endorsement of the enterprise, imagination and flair demonstrated by a vibrant classical record industry.’
The winners of the 10 Disc Awards 2018 categories are:
Chamber: Pavel Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl – Dvorák quintets
Choral: The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir conducted by Kaspars Putninš – Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat and Nunc dimittis and Alfred Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance
Concerto: Christian Tetzlaff with Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Bartók’s violin concertos
Contemporary: Arditti Quartet and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra – Pascal Dusapin’s Quatuors VI and VII
Early Music: Blue Heron – Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5
Instrumental: Arcadi Volodos – Brahms, including Opp. 76, 117 and 118
Opera: John Nelson – Les Troyens
Orchestral: François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles – Daphnis et Chloé
Recital: Delphine Galou – Agitata
Solo Vocal: Marianne Crebassa and Fazil Say – Secrets
