The category winners of the 2019 Gramophone Classical Music Awards have been revealed.
The 10 winners will now go on to compete for the Recording of the Year Award, which will be announced at a ceremony in London on 16 October. The evening will be broadcast by Medici TV to audiences in more than 180 countries.
Category winners are as follows:
Chamber (sponsored by Kings Place)
Disc: Debussy Les Trois Sonates (The Late Works)
Artists: Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Choral
Disc: Buxtehude’s Abendmusiken
Artists: Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Ensemble Masques and Oliver Fortin
Label: Alpha Classics
Concerto
Disc: Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concertos nos 2 & 5
Artists: Bertrand Chamayou, Orchestre national de France
Label: Erato
Contemporary (sponsored by PPL & PRS for Music)
Disc: Brett Dean’s Hamlet
Artists: Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan, Rod Gilfry, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Chorus
Label: Opus Arte
Early Music
Disc: Manuel Cardoso’s Requiem, Lamentations, Magnificat and Motets
Artists: Cupertinos and Luís Toscano
Label: Hyperion
Instrumental
Disc: The Berlin Recital
Artist: Yuja Wang
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Opera (sponsored by E Gutzwiller et Cie, Private Bankers)
Disc: Halévy’s La Reine de Chype
Artists: Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet with the Chœur de la radio flamande, and soloists Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis, Éric Huchet, Christophoros Stamboglis, Artavazd Sargsyan and Tomislav Lavoie
Label: Bru Zane
Orchestra
Disc: Rued Langgaard’s Symphonies Nos 2 and 6
Artists: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Label: Dacapo
Recital
Disc: Cavalli opera arias, ‘Ombra mai fu’
Artists: Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Artarsere
Disc: Erato
Solo Vocal (sponsored by Mrs Joan Jones)
Disc: Schumann ‘Frage’
Artists: Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber
Label: Sony Classical
Gramophone’s editor in chief, James Jolly, said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled with these winning recordings for their range, their depth, their masterly insight and the way they shine a spotlight on some of the finest musicians of our day.’
Listen to the winning albums and a winner’s playlist on Gramophone‘s curator page at Apple Music.
