Nominations for The Classical BRIT Awards 2010
Monday, 12 April 2010 18:38
The May Fair Hotel played host to the nominations for the eleventh annual Classical BRIT Awards with NS&I;, in what has been a phenomenal year of commercial successes from classical music artists.
Core classical performers, crossover talent and up-coming new stars were all represented in the seven awards categories, but leading the nominations this year, with two apiece, are Classic FM Presenter and Composer Howard Goodall, teenage singer Faryl Smith and conductor Antonio Pappano.
Following his Classical BRIT win for Composer of the Year in 2009, Howard Goodall receives two nominations for his Enchanted Voices album. One of the ten biggest selling albums of the past year, he is nominated for the NS&I Album of the Year , and returns in the Composer Of The Year category. Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi ’s Nightbook and British composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès ’ The Tempest join him in the Composer of the Year category.
Faryl Smith , the youngest artist to receive two Classical BRIT nominations in the same year, aged just 14, she receives nominations for NS&I Album of the Year with her debut ‘Faryl’, as well as Young British Classical Performer or Group alongside British violinist Jack Liebeck and early music British vocal ensemble Stile Antico.
British conductor and pianist Antonio Pappano receives two nominations for his work as conductor of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Chorus on two different albums: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. As Male Artist of The Year nominee, he joins four time Classical BRIT winner Bryn Terfel and ‘honorary Scouser’ and conductor Vasily Petrenko.
The 2010 Female Artist of the Year Award will be one of the most hotly contested categories on the night, featuring three previous winners; Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu (winner 2001), Russian soprano Anna Netrebko (winner 2007 and 2008) and American conductor and violinist Marin Alsop (winner 2005).
Three big blockbuster movies will battle it out for Soundtrack of the Year. Star Trek by Michael Giacchino , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Alexandre Desplat and Thomas Newman’s Revolutionary Road complete the nominations.
As previously announced, the NS&I Album of the Year compiled from the 10 biggest selling classical albums of 2009, is the awards' only public voted category, voted for by listeners of Classic FM and readers of Classic FM Magazine.
The Classical BRIT Awards 2010 Nominations
Female Artist of the Year
Angela Gheorghiu
Puccini/Madama Butterfly
EMI Classics
Anna Netrebko
Bellini/I Capuletic el Montecchi
Deutsche Grammophon
Marin Alsop
Bernstein/Mass
Naxos
Male Artist of the Year
Antonio Pappano
Puccini/Madama Butterfly
EMI Classics
Bryn Terfel
Bad Boys
Deutsche Grammophon
Vasily Petrenko
Shostakovich/Symphonies No. 11 and 5 & 9
EMI Classics
Composer of the Year
Howard Goodall
Enchanted Voices
Classic FM
Ludovico Einaudi
Nightbook
Decca
Thomas Adès
The Tempest
EMI Classics
Young British Classical Performer or Group
Faryl Smith
Decca
Jack Liebeck
Sony Classics
Stile Antico
Harmonica Mundi
Soundtrack of the Year
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Alexandre Desplat
Star Trek
Michael Giacchino
Revolutionary Road
Thomas Newman
Critics' Choice
Beethoven Sonatas
Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melinkov
Harmonia Mundi
Rachmaninoff Preludes
Steven Osborne
Hyperion
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Roman Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, Rolando Villazon, Anja Harteros, Sonja Ganassi & Rene Pape
EMI Classics
NS&I Album of the Year
Music From The Vatican - Alma Mater ft the voice of Pope Benedict XVI
Together – Blake
Camilla Kerslake – Camilla Kerslake
Heroes – Coldstream Guards Band
Faryl – Faryl Smith
Voices of the Valley, Memory Lane - Fron Male Voice Choir
Enchanted Voices – Howard Goodall’s Enchanted Voices
Band of Brothers – Only Men Aloud
O Fortuna – Rhydian
Harmony – The Priests
Lifetime Achievement in Music
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
The Classical BRIT Awards 2010 with NS&I, hosted for the third year running by Myleene Klass, takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 May and will be broadcast on ITV1 on Tuesday 18 May at 10:35pm.
