FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!Gramophone Awards 2009
 The Classic FM Gramophone Awards 2009The Gramophone Awards represent the very best of classical music. One of the world?s most distinctive arts awards, and of incomparable influence, they continue to be the pinnacle for every classical performer. The awards were established in 1978 by Gramophone magazine and aim to reward the outstanding classical recordings of the year. The Gramophone Awards judges are a selection of the world?s finest critics who maintain the excellence of the prizes year after year. The winners of the awards are guaranteed a worldwide audience and a dramatic increase in sales of their recordings. This years nominees are listed below, split into 15 categories. The winner of each category will be announced on the 2nd October. Click on the disc image for more information or to buy. Click on the links below to jump straight to the following categories: |
| Baroque Instrumental Baroque Vocal Chamber Choral Concerto | Contemporary DVD Early Music Historic Archive Historic Re-Issue | Instrumental Opera Orchestral Recital Solo Vocal |
| Baroque Instrumental Category |
 Purcell 10 Sonatas in 4 Parts Retrospect Trio ?10.50 (SACD) | WINNER! Purcell Complete Fantazias Fretwork ?8.75 |  The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 3 La Serenissima ?10.25 |
| Baroque Vocal Category |
 Handel Acis & Galatea Dunedin Consort ?10.50 (2 SACD) | WINNER! Handel Coronation Anthems The Sixteen ?9.75 |  Lully Psychee Boston Early Music Festival ?35.25 (3 CD) |
| Chamber Category |
 Brahms String Quartets Takacs Quartet ?9.50 | WINNER and RECORD OF THE YEAR!  Debussy / Ravel / Faure String Quartets Quatuor Ebene ?9.75 |  Schumann Violin Sonatas Widmann / Varjon ?10.25 |
| Choral Category |
 A New Heaven British Choral Works The Sixteen ?11.75 | WINNER! Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Mark Elder ?15.75 (2CD) |  Faure Requiem, Cantique de J Racine Accentus / Equilbey ?10.25 |
| Concerto Category |
 Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Richard Goode ?20.95 | WINNER! Britten Works for Piano and Orchestra Steven Osborne ?9.50 |  Mozart Complete Violin Concertos Guiliano Carmignola ?18.50 (2CD) |
| Contemporary Category |
 David Matthews The Music of Dawn etc Rumon Gamba ?11.75 | WINNER! The NMC Songbook 20th Anniversary Celebration Various ?21.95 |  Magnus Lindberg Sculpture, Campana etc Sakari Oramo ?11.75 |
| DVD Category |
 Birtwistle The Minotaur Antonio Pappano ?23.50 | WINNER! Wagner The Copenhagen Ring Michael Schonwandt ?53.95 (7 DVD) |  Britten Billy Budd Sir Charles Mackerras ?13.50 |
| Early Music Category |
 Byrd Hodie Simon Petrus The Cardinall's Musick ?9.50 | WINNER! Stile Antico Song of Songs Stile Antico ?8.75 (SACD) |  Morales Magnificat, Motets etc Brabant Ensemble ?9.50 |
| Historic Archive Category |
 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Carlos Kleiber ?28.50 (3 SACD) | WINNER! Berlioz The Trojans Rafael Kubelik ?37.95 (4 CD) |  Wagner The Mastersingers Reginald Goodall ?26.25 (4 CD) |
| Historic Re-Issue Category |
 Fritz Kreisler The Charming Maverick Fritz Kreisler ?16.95 (10 CD) | WINNER! Composers in Person Rare recordings Various ?33.50 (22 CD) |  The Record of Singing The Best of Volumes 1-4 Various ?21.50 (10 CD) |
| Instrumental Category |
 Debussy Piano Works Nelson Friere ?11.75 | WINNER! Debussy Piano Works vol.4 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet ?9.50 |  Rachmaninov Preludes Steven Osborne ?9.50 |
| Opera Category |
 Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi Netrebko / Garanca ?18.50 (2 CD) | WINNER! Puccini Madama Butterfly Gheorghiu / Kaufmann ?13.95 (2 CD) |  Britten Owen Wingrave Richard Hickox ?23.50 (2 CD) |
| Orchestral Category |
 Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 7 Osmo Vanska ?11.75 | WINNER! Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony Vasily Petrenko ?4.50 |  Mahler Symphony no.4 Ivan Fischer ?10.50 |
| Recital Category |
 Cielo e Mar Opera Arias Rolando Villazon ?7.75 | WINNER! Martinu Fragments from Julietta Magdelena Kozena ?9.50 |  Haydn Italian Arias Thomas Quasthoff ?11.75 |
| Solo Vocal Category |
 Brahms / Schumann Lieder Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson ?6.75 | WINNER! Schumann Dichterliebe Gerald Finley ?9.50 |  Songs My Mother Taught Me Magdalena Kozena ?11.75 |