Gramophone Award Winners 2010

The Gramophone Awards 2010 The winners of this year's Gramophone awards have now been announced! From a shortlist of 48 titles, one disc from each of 16 categories has been chosen -these are all listed below. You can click on the images for more information or to buy and we have provided a link to the Gramophone review for your information. The coveted Disc of the Year award has been given to Hyperion's final instalment of sacred music by William Byrd (from the Early Music category). See below for more information and to read the glowing review from Gramophone's Fabrice Fitch.

Baroque Instrumental Vivaldi The French Connection La Serenissima more info.. read review...	Baroque Vocal Lotti / Bach / Zelenka Choral Works Thomas Hengelbrock more info... read review...	Chamber Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas Isabelle Faust Alexander Melnikov more info... read review...	Choral Verdi Requiem Antonio Pappano more info... read review...
Concerto Elgar Violin Concerto Thomas Zehetmair Mark Elder more info... read review...	Contemporary Ades The Tempest Thomas Ades more info... read review...	DVD Documentary Leonard Bernstein Reflections more info... read review...	DVD Performance Purcell The Fairy Queen William Christie more info... read review...
Early Music DISC OF THE YEAR! Byrd Infelix ego The Cardinall's Musick more info... read review...	Historic Archive Beethoven The 32 Piano Sonatas Friedrich Gulda more info... read review...	Historic Re-issue Vladimir Horowitz The Complete Jacket Collection more info... read review...	Instrumental Volodos Live in Vienna Arcardi Volodos more info... read review...
Opera Wagner Gotterdammerung Mark Elder more info... read review...	Orchestral Dvorak Symphonic Poems Charles Mackerras more info... read review...	Recital Rossini Colbran, The Muse Joyce DiDonato more info... read review...	Solo Vocal Schubert Die Winterreise Mark Padmore Paul Lewis more info... read review...

Other awards for 2010: Lifetime Acheivement: Alfred Brendel Label of the Year: Linn Records see here Artist of the Year: Joyce DiDonato Young Artist of the Year: Sol Gabetta Editor's Choice Award: Bernstein Mass (Marin Alsop) see here Special Achievement: Brian Couzens (Chandos Records)