The winner of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards’ coveted Recording of the Year Award was named last week at a ceremony that saw winners of all categories receive their awards.
Held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden, Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troynes took home the Recording of the Year Award for a new recording under conductor John Nelson.
The piece was placed in the running for Recording of the Year after winning Gramophone’s Opera Award.
Classical composer Pascal Dusapin, soprano singer Lise Davidsen and vocal ensemble Blue Heron are among the names to have received awards at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards after it was revealed they had won their categories in August.
A recording of Dusapin's String Quartets No 6 and 7, as performed by Arditti Quartet, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France was awarded the Contemporary Award, which was sponsored by PPL and PRS for Music.
Winners of each of the ten categories at the awards were nominated for Gramophone’s Recording of the Year Award, which seeks to recognise some of the highest achievements in classical music every year.
Thursday’s award ceremony was hosted by Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly and saw performances from the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, as conducted by Kristjan Järvi.
Winning the Chamber category was the Pavel Haas Quarter with Boris Giltburg and 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 events 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 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
Held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden, Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troynes took home the Recording of the Year Award for a new recording under conductor John Nelson.
The piece was placed in the running for Recording of the Year after winning Gramophone’s Opera Award.
Classical composer Pascal Dusapin, soprano singer Lise Davidsen and vocal ensemble Blue Heron are among the names to have received awards at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards after it was revealed they had won their categories in August.
A recording of Dusapin's String Quartets No 6 and 7, as performed by Arditti Quartet, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France was awarded the Contemporary Award, which was sponsored by PPL and PRS for Music.
Winners of each of the ten categories at the awards were nominated for Gramophone’s Recording of the Year Award, which seeks to recognise some of the highest achievements in classical music every year.
Thursday’s award ceremony was hosted by Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly and saw performances from the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, as conducted by Kristjan Järvi.
Winning the Chamber category was the Pavel Haas Quarter with Boris Giltburg and 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 events 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 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
