Disc Awards 2009
Here are the top 15 discs as voted for by the Classic FM Gramophone Awards specialist voting committee...
Recording of the Year and Chamber
Debussy. Fauré. Ravel String Quartets
Quatuor Ebène
Virgin 519045-2
Baroque instrumental
Purcell - The Complete Fantazias
Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi F HMU90 7502
Solo vocal
Schumann - Dichterliebe and other Heine Settings
Gerald Finley (bar), Julius Drake (pf)
Hyperion CDA67676
Baroque Vocal
Handel - Coronation Anthems, etc
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers
Coro F COR16066
Choral
Elgar -The Dream of Gerontius
Soloists incl Paul Groves (ten), Bryn Terfel (bass-bar); Choirs; Hallé Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder
Hallé CDHLD7520
Concerto
Britten - Piano Concerto
Steven Osborne (pf);
BBC Scottish SO / Ilan Volkov
Hyperion CDA67625
Contemporary
The NMC Songbook
Various artists
NMC NMCD150
Early Music
‘Song of Songs’
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi HMU80 7489
Historic reissue
‘Composers in Person’
Various artists
EMI (22 discs) 217575-2
Instrumental
Debussy
Complete Works for Piano, Vol 4
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Chandos CHAN10497
Opera (Sponsored by Independent Classical specialists)
Puccini Madama Butterfly
Soloists incl Angela Gheorghiu (sop); Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano
EMI 264187-2
Orchestral
Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko
Naxos 8 570568
Recital
Martinu - Julietta Fragments
Magdalena Kozená (mez); Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras
Supraphon SU3994-2
DVD
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
Royal Danish Opera / Michael Schønwandt
Decca 074 3264DH7
