The BBC Music Magazine Awards are the only classical music awards in which the main categories are voted for by the public.
The nominations represent the best of more than 1,500 recordings reviewed by BBC Music Magazine each year, and feature an eclectic array of household names as well as newcomers to the field.
All nominations can be viewed below - click on the images for further information or to purchase.
Voting is at www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/awards where specially-produced videos and audio extracts from each of the recordings are available to help voters chose their favourites. Voting will close on 28th February 2010.
All who cast votes will be entered into a prize draw to win one of three award-winning Yamaha MCS-1330 hi-fi systems, with iPod docks and Yamaha Piano high-polish speakers, as well as all 18 nominated discs.
The Awards will be announced at the BBC Music Magazine Awards ceremony, being held on Tuesday 13 April. In addition to the categories voted for by the public, there are five Jury Awards, which as well as Disc of the Year, include Premiere Recording, Technical Excellence, Best Newcomer, and DVD of the Year.
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Orchestral Nominations
Mahler Symphony no.4 Miah Persson; Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer
“One of the most musically satisfying recordings to appear in a long time”
Bartok Orchestral Music Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra; Zoltan Kocsis
“Every so often you come across a recording that restores your faith… in the art of music-making itself.”
Beethoven Violin Concerto Patricia Kopatcinskaja; Orchestre des Champs-Elysees; Philippe Herreweghe “Kopatchinskaja’s warmly recorded account of the Beethoven Violin Concerto must be one of the most stimulating and provocative that has ever been committed to disc”
Choral Nominations
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles etc SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart; SWR Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden und Freiburg; Michael Gielen
“Gielen’s subtle balancing of textures and his impeccable pacing of the contrasting movements, not to mention the responsive playing of the orchestra, brings immense rewards”
Telemann Brockes-Passion RIAS Chamber Choir; Akademis fur Alte Musik Berlin; Rene Jacobs
“The playing and singing are outstanding, in what must be one of the rediscoveries of the year”
Verdi Requiem Orchestra and Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia; Antonio Pappano
“Pappano’s version is firmly founded on the comprehensively excellent contribution of the chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia… the ANSC’s orchestra, too, offers an absolute certainty of definition”
Opera Nominations
Martinu 3 Fragments from Julietta Magdalena Kozena; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Mackerras “The finest imaginable tribute to Martinu in his anniversary year…utterly unforgettable.”
Shostakovich The Nose Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus; Valery Gergiev
“The sheer anarchic daring and certainty of Shostakovich’s score holds us in thrall”
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