Gramophone Awards 2009 - the winners
Ravel, Debussy, Faure - String Quartets
$30.95 – Compact disc / Virgin Classics
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Record of the Year and Best Chamber
When the Quatuor Ebène was signed to Virgin Classics in early 2008. Alain Lanceron, the label’s President, said: “The Quatuor Ebène is the embodiment of the mo... Buy or find out more →
Purcell: Complete Fantazias
$33.95 – Compact disc / Harmonia Mundi
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Baroque Instrumental
The Fantazia for consort of viols is one of the glories of English music, and this unique repertoire, spreading over nearly two centuries, represents the loftiest and mo... Buy or find out more →
Handel: Coronation Anthems
$26.95 – Compact disc / Coro
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Baroque Vocal
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen add a brand new recording of Handel’s Coronation Anthems to their stunning catalogue of Handel discs.
In one of his last undertakings befor... Buy or find out more →
Elgar: Dream Of Gerontius, 2 CD Set
$49.95 – Compact disc / Halle Records
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Choral
Elgar’s late masterpiece is an extraordinary work full of drama and passion alongside exquisite music of sublime delicacy. It is a moving expression of the composer’s personally unort... Buy or find out more →
Britten: Complete Works For Piano And Orchestra
$19.95 – Compact disc / Hyperion Records
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Concerto
The three compositions which comprise Britten’s music for solo piano and orchestra constitute a unique, yet still little explored, part of his output. Here they are brought together... Buy or find out more →
The NMC Songbook, 4 CD Set
$0.00 – Compact disc / Nmc
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Contemporary
To mark its 20th Anniversary in 2009, NMC Recordings has commissioned the NMC Songbook. Nearly 100 composers, ranging from the country’s most highly regarded figures to the youn... Buy or find out more →
Wagner: The Ring Cycle, 7 DVD Set
$89.95 – Digital video disc / Decca
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best DVD
Seven-DVD set of Wagner’s gargantuan Ring Cycle – the celebrated, critically-acclaimed production at the Royal Danish Opera, come to be known as the Copenhagen Ring. Striking, memorable ... Buy or find out more →
Song Of Songs, Works By Palestrina Gombert Lassus Victoria
$33.95 – Compact disc / Harmonia Mundi
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Early Music
The most ‘profane’ book of the Old Testament was among the favourite biblical texts of the Middle Ages. The composers of the Renaissance made particular use of it as a metaphor o... Buy or find out more →
Debussy: Works For Piano Volume 4
$35.95 – Compact disc / Chandos Records
Gramaphone Awards 2009 - Best Instrumental
“Bavouzet commands all the shading, nuance and timbral sensitivity one expects in Debussy, together with virtuoso flair and characterful spontaneity.’ (Gramophone), “…there is a... Buy or find out more →
Schumann: Dichterliebe And Other Heine Settings
$33.95 – Compact disc / Hyperion Records
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Solo Vocal
Schumann:
Tragödie Op. 64 No. 3
Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49 No. 1
Abends am Strand, Op. 45 No. 3
Die feindlichen Brüder, Op. 49 No. 2
Der arme Peter, Op. 53 No. 3
Belsazar, Op... Buy or find out more →
Martinu: Juliette Opera Fragments Orchestral Suite
$34.95 – Compact disc / Supraphon
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Recital
On 11 December 2008 the sold-out Rudolfinum in Prague heard for the first time Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette, a work which ranks among Martinu’s most significant and which ... Buy or find out more →
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, The Voyevoda
$12.95 – Compact disc / Naxos
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Orchestral
Written between the fourth and fifth symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s programmatic Manfred Symphony, inspired by Byron’s dramatic poem of the same name, contains some of the composer’s m... Buy or find out more →
Puccini: Madama Butterfly, 2 CD Set
$39.95$32.95 – Compact disc / Emi
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Opera
2CD Limited Edition deluxe clamshell, 152pp booklet, libretto, synopsis, liner notes, photos.
Madama Butterfly appears on EMI Classics for the first time in many years in a new studio ... Buy or find out more →
Composers In Person Collectors Edition, 22 CD Set
$76.95$64.95 – Compact disc / Emi Classics
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Historic Reissue
Bartók: No. 2: Allegro giocoso from 14 Bagatelles Op.6/Sz38/BB50
Bartók: Evening in Transylvania, Ten Easy Pieces for piano No. 5 (Este a székelyeknél), Sz. 39/5, BB 51/5... Buy or find out more →
Berlioz: Les Troyens, 4 CD Set
$124.95 – Compact disc / Testament
Gramophone Awards 2009 - Best Historic Archive
Berlioz: Les Troyens Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20 June 1957
Jon Vickers in conversation with Jon Tolansky - Recorded at the Barbican Cinema, 25 ... Buy or find out more →
Beethoven: 33 Variations On A Waltz By Anton Diabelli, Bach JS: Partita 4 in D major
$29.95 – Compact disc / Onyx Classics
Gramophone Awards 2009 - editors choice
Very special release indeed, the return after more than 40 years to the piece that first brought him worldwide fame – Stephen Kovacevich in Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.
In ... Buy or find out more →