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The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2011 were announced last Thursday at a ceremony at The Dorchester hotel in London. A host of musicians joined Gramophone and the record industry to celebrate the recordings selected as winners from this year's vintage.
The Awards were hosted by soprano Susan Bullock and Gramophone's James Inverne and James Jolly and included appearances by Dame Janet Baker, Sir Peter Hall, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir David Attenborough, singers Simon Keenlyside, Carmen Gianatassio, Jonas Kaufmann, pianists Murray Perahia and Julius Drake, conductors Fabio Bonizzoni and Robert Hollingworth and many others.
You can watch films of every Award presentation, featuring comments from the critics and excerpts from the recipients' speeches, on the Gramophone website.
Only to mention a few of the winners:
- * The Pavel Haas Quartet won the Chamber category with their recording of Dvorak String Quartets
- * The best DVD performance was awarded to Verdi’s Don Carlo from the Royal Opera House
- * I Fagiolini’s recording of Striggio’s Mass in 40 parts won the Early Music category
- * Murray Perahia’s Brahms disc the instrumental award
- * Shostakovich’s 10th symphony as interpreted by Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra won in the orchestral section
- * As did Jonas Kaufmann for his Verismo arias disc in the recital category
- * The Editor’s choice was Rossini’s Stabat Mater as recorded by the Santa Cecilia Orchestra & Choir under Antonio Pappano
- * And two awards, the Young Artist of the Year and Specialist Classical Chart, went to Miloš Karadaglić for his Guitar CD