BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010

WINNERS NOW ANNOUNCED! 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. On 13th April 2010, the winners were announced at a ceremony at King's Place in London and we are very pleased to provide details below. You can view the awards ceremony by clicking here. All winners and nominations can be viewed below - click on the images for further information or to purchase. Categories (click to go straight to a category) Opera Orchestral Choral Vocal Chamber Instrumental Newcomer Premiere Technical Excellence DVD click on the images to view more details or to purchase 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.? WINNER! Wagner Lohengrin WDR Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Colonge; Semyon Bychkov ?Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance? Shostakovich The Nose Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus; Valery Gergiev ?The sheer anarchic daring and certainty of Shostakovich?s score holds us in thrall? 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? WINNER! 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? 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.? 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? WINNER! 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? 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? Vocal Nominations Liszt Songs Rebecca Evans; Andrew Kennedy; Matthew Rose; Iain Burnside ?Burnside is a faultless guide along this journey? the singing, too, is exemplary? WINNER! Tchaikovsky Romances Christianne Stotijn; Julius Drake ?Christianne Stotijn is that artist in a thousand whose personality shines through everything she does.? Jonas Kaufmann Opera Arias by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Claudio Abbado ?Jonas Kaufmann is the German tenor we?ve been waiting for?this is ideal singing.? Chamber Nominations Schubert 'Trout' Quintet Martin Helmchen; Christian Tetzlaff; etc ?They deliver a more completely satisfactory account of the Trout Quintet than any I have ever heard before? WINNER! Haydn String Quartets opp.20/5, 33/3, 76/5 Jerusalem Quartet ?This has to be the best Haydn quartet recording released in his anniversary year ?an absolute triumph.? Szymanowski Violin Sonata Alina Ibragimova; Cedric Tiberghien ?Ibragimova?s authority is evident throughout? Instrumental Nominations Abel The Drexel Manuscript Paolo Pandolfo ?The sound is highly intoxicating. Both Pandolfo?s expressivity and technique are beyond praise? WINNER! Beethoven Piano Sonatas opp.14, 26 & 28 Murray Perahia ?A masterly recital, and one whose undemonstrative performances enable the music to speak for itself? Beethoven Diabelli Variations Stephen Kovacevich ?Kovacevich brings penetrating insight and a thrilling physical involvement? Other Award Winners Newcomer Award Mendelssohn / Mozart / Schubert String Quartets Elias Quartet Premiere Recording Imogen Holst String Chamber Music Court Lane Music Technical Excellence Mendelssohn Symphony no.2 'Lobgesang' Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Litton DVD (performance) Stravinsky The Rite of Spring The Firebird Mariinsky Ballet; Valery Gergiev