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  Record of the Year Dvorak: String Quartets Nos. 12 & 13Pavel Haas Quartet"The Pavel Haas Quartet play with plenty of feeling and they also relish the rhythmic cut and thrust of the Molto vivace third movement, capturing to perfection the more relaxed Trio's sunny spirit.The final opens to a gentle smile then keys up for some dancing exuberance...there's an abundance of varied drama." Gramophone Magazine, December 2010
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Artist of the Year - Gustavo Dudamel Internationally acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel continues to share his magnetic enthusiasm for music with audiences of all ages around the world. As he begins his twelfth year as Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra (in autumn 2010), he enters his second season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his fourth season with the Gothenburg Symphony. Armed with unparalleled passion, energy and artistic excellence, Dudamel is dedicated to leading these orchestras, as well as to increasing his commitment to opera. Coming from a background where being involved in music from a young age was a life changing experience, Gustavo Dudamel is devoted to investing in classical music as an engine of social change. The message of his ongoing work in Venezuela through El Sistema, which influences hundreds of thousands of children each year, is being carried now into the United States through Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA). This program for children targets underserved Los Angeles communities and continues to grow and expand under Dudamel’s leadership and that of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also ... |
Lifetime Achievement Award - Dame Janet Baker Dame Janet Baker (born August 21, 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which spanned the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. |
Label of the Year - Wigmore Hall Live Since its launch in October 2005, Wigmore Hall Live has released live recordings to great critical acclaim, bringing the unique Wigmore experience to music-lovers worldwide. Wigmore Hall is the first classical music venue in the world to set up its own CD label. The Hall has invested in state-of-the-art recording equipment, and the comprehensive sound insulation fitted during the 2004 refurbishment has created an exceptional environment for live recording. Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly, says ‘We are delighted to be able to bring Wigmore Hall’s musical programme to a much wider audience through this project. It will help us further to consolidate our profile worldwide and to preserve a record of outstanding performances.’ As well as five-star reviews at home, Wigmore Hall Live CDs receive positive press attention all over Europe, Asia and the United States. The label has received three Gramophone Award nominations for its recordings of Soile Isokoski (with Marita Viitasalo), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (with Roger Vignoles) and Peter Schreier (with András Schiff). |
Young Artist of the Year & Specialist Classical Chart Award - Miloš Karadaglic Born in Montenegro in 1983, Miloš Karadaglić has already established himself as one of today's most gifted guitar virtuosos. He began playing the guitar at the age of eight, and quickly won national recognition for his performances. At sixteen, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music where, after graduating with First Class Honours, he went on to complete a Masters degree in Performance. Miloš said of his recent signing to Deutsche Grammophon: "When I was a child, I remember listening to the great guitarist, Andres Segovia, and dreaming that one day I, too, might have such a career. Now it is becoming a reality and my dreams are being fulfilled more quickly than I could possibly have ... |
Special Achievement Award - Sir John Eliot Gardiner, for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage (SDG) "When we embarked on the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in Weimar on Christmas Day 1999 we had no real sense of how the project would turn out. There were no precedents, no earlier attempts to perform all Bach’s surviving church cantatas on the appointed feast day and all within a single year, for us to draw on or to guide us. Just as in planning to scale a mountain or cross and ocean, you can make meticulous provision, calculate your route and get all the equipment in order, in the end you have to deal with whatever the elements - both human and physical - throw at you at any given ... |
Category Winners |
 Dvorak: String QuartetsNos. 12 (The 'American') and 13Pavel Haas Quartet |
 CPE Bach: The Keyboard ConcertosWq 43, Nos. 1-6Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans |
 Handel: Apollo e DafneItalian Cantatas Volume 7La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni |
 Elgar: The KingdomHallé & Hallé Choir, Sir Mark ElderClaire Rutter, Susan Bickley, John Hudson, Iain Paterson |
 Bavouzet plays French WorksRavel Piano Concertos, Debussy Fantasie and short pieces by MassenetJean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier |
 Birtwistle: Night’s Black BirdThe Shadow of Night, The Cry of AnubisOwen Slade, Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth |
 Carlos Kleiber: Traces to NowhereA Film by Eric SchulzPlácido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Veronika Kleiber, Michael Gielen & Manfred Honeck |
 Verdi: Don CarloRoyal Opera House; Antonio Pappano, dir. Nicholas HytnerRolando Villazon, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Sonia Ganassi, Eric Halfvarson, Robert Lloyd |
 Striggio: Mass in 40 PartsMissa Ecco si Beato Giorno and motetsI Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth |
 Mahler: Symphony No. 10Deryck Cooke's performing version, with illustrated talkDeryck Cooke, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berthold Goldschmidt |
 Brahms: Handel Variationsplus Rhapsodies and Klavierstücke Opp. 118 & 119Murray Perahia (piano) |
 Rossini: ErmioneLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David ParryCarmen Giannattasio, Patricia Bardon, Colin Lee, Paul Nilon, Bülent Bezdüz, Graeme Broadbent, Rebecca Bottone |
 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko |
 Verismo AriasJonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano |
 Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William BlakeGerald Finley, Julius Drake |
Editor's Choice Rossini: Stabat MaterAnna Netrebko (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio PappanoAntonio Pappano and Italy’s leading symphony orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, continue their highly successful collaboration with EMI Classics with a studio recording of Rossini’s work for chorus, orchestra and soloists, Stabat Mater. They are joined by four international star soloists: Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Ildebrando D’Archangelo. |
Other Finalists | |
 Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk (director) |  Telemann: Musique de tableTafelmusik Part I-III (complete)Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans & Gottfried von der Goltz |
.jpg) Handel: FlavioEarly Opera Company, Christian CurnynTim Mead, Rosemary Joshua, Iestyn Davies, Renata Pokupić, Hilary Summers |  Lully: BellérophonLes Talens Lyriques, Christophe RoussetCyril Auvity, Céline Scheen, Ingrid Perruche, Jennifer Borghi |
 Violin SonatasBartok, Strauss & GriegVilde Frang & Michail Lifits |  Beethoven: Violin SonatasVol. 3: Nos. 3, 6 & 9 ('Kreutzer')Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien |
 Delius: Choral WorksAppalachia & The Song of the High HillsBBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis |  Macmillan: Choral WorksVisitatio Sepulchri & Sun-DogsNetherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, James MacMillan, Celso Antunes |
 Bartok: The Piano ConcertosJean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda |  The Romantic Piano Concerto 53Reger Piano Concerto & Strauss BurleskeMarc-André Hamelin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ilan Volkov |
 David Matthews: Winter PassionsTerrible Beauty, String Trios, Clarinet QuartetNash Ensemble, Lionel Friend |  The Music of Poul Ruders, Volume 6Piano Concerto No. 2, Bel Canto, Serenade on the Shores of the Cosmic OceanVassily Primakov, Thomas Søndergård, Norwegian Radio Orchestra |
 André Previn: A Bridge Between Two WorldsA documentary by Lilian Birnbaum & Peter Stephan JungkAndré Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, Mia Farrow & Lukas Previn |  Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the WorldA film by Georg Wübboltfeatures Ileana Cotrubas, Michael Gielen, Riccardo Muti, Otto Schenk, Ioan Holender, Sir Peter Jonas |
 Britten: Death in VeniceLa Fenice, June 2008Marlin Miller, Scott Hendricks, R.-François Bitar; Bruno Bartoletti, Pierluigi Pizzi |  Mahler: Symphony No. 9Lucerne Festival 2010Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado |
 Agricola: Missa In myne Zynand works by Binchois, Frye and OckeghemCapilla Flamenca, Dirk Snellings |  Byrd: Complete Consort MusicPhantasm, Laurence Dreyfus |
 Beethoven: String TriosRecorded in the the Rudolfinum, Prague, on 2nd June 1960Leonid Kogan, Rudolf Barshai & Mstislav Rostropovich | .jpg) Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di PoppeaSung in English; 1971Dame Janet Baker, Robert Ferguson, Anne Collins, Katherine Pring; Sadler’s Wells, Raymond Leppard |
 Liszt: Harmonies du SoirNelson Freire (piano) |  Ravel: The complete solo piano musicSteven Osborne |
 Mozart: Die ZauberflöteAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René JacobsDaniel Behle, Marlis Petersen, Daniel Schmutzhard, Sunhae Im, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Marcos Fink |  Verdi: OtelloLondon Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin DavisSimon O’Neill, Gerald Finley, Anne Schwanewilms, Allan Clayton, Ben Johnson |
 Suk: Asrael SymphonyRecorded live at the Rudolfinum, Prague, on 5th-6th April 2007Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras |  English SpringWorks by Bax, Bridge and DeliusHallé, Sir Mark Elder |
 Ne me refuse pasFrench Opera AriasMarie-Nicole Lemieux, Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel |  Diva, DivoJoyce DiDonato, Orchestre et Choeur de L'Opéra National de Lyon, Kazuko Ono |
 Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before SleepSophie Daneman, Susan Bickley, Benjamin Hulett, Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside |  Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (complete)Christoph Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Hilko Dumno |
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