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BBC Music Magazine announces voting for 2010 Awards 20 January 2010
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Mitsuko Uchida, Instrumental Award/Disc of the Year Award 2008
Voting for the fifth BBC Music Magazine Awards will open to the public from today (Wednesday 20 January). Endorsed by five of the UK's leading music critics, in tandem with BBC Music Magazine editor (Oliver Condy), consultant editor (Helen Wallace) and reviews editor (Daniel Jaffé), 18 recordings in six categories will be presented for public online voting. 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.
The BBC Music Magazine Awards are the only classical music awards in which the main categories are voted for by the public. Voting is at www.bbcmusicamagazine.com/awards where specially-produced videos and audio extracts from each of the recordings are available to help voters. 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 variety of repertoire across the list of nominated CDs –grouped into Instrumental, Chamber, Orchestral, Choral, Vocal and Opera categories – ranges from classics such as Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Verdi's Requiem, to lesser-known gems, such as Szymanowski’s Violin Sonata, Telemann's Brocke's Passion and Carl Friederich Abel's The Drexel Manuscript for viola da gamba. These are represented by 16 different record labels, from EMI, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi and Decca to the Mariinsky Theatre's newly-formed own label
What links all of this year’s nomineesis the standard of vitality, originality and creative excellence running through each of the performances, with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Iván Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Sir Charles Mackerras and Antonio Pappano conducting performers including Alina Ibragimova, Magdalena Kozená, Murray Perahia and Rolando Villazón.
The Awards will be announced at the BBC Music Magazine Awards ceremony, being held on Tuesday 13 April at Kings Place. As well as Disc of the Year, Jury Awards include Premiere Recording, Technical Excellence, Best Newcomer, and DVD of the Year. The BBC jurors are joined by a panel of regular contributors to BBC Music Magazine including John Allison, chief music critic of the Sunday Telegraph; Malcolm Hayes, critic and author of 20th-Century Music; Michael Tanner, opera critic of The Spectator; Andrew McGregor, presenter of BBC Radio 3’s CD Review; and Barry Witherden, contributor to The Wire, Jazz Review and The Rough Guide to Classical Music.
Nominees for the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010
Orchestral Nominees:
• Iván Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra – Mahler Symphony No. 4 (Channel CCS)
"One of the most musically satisfying recordings to appear in a long time"
• Zoltán Kocsis with the Hungarian National PO – Bartók: Orchestral Music (Hungaraton)
"Every so often you come across a recording that restores your faith… in the art of music-making itself."
• Patricia Kopatcinskaja & Philippe Herreweghe with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Beethoven Violin Concerto (Naïve)
"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 Nominees:
• Michael Gielen with SWR SO & Vocal Ensemble – Stravinsky vocal works (Hänssler)
"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"
• René Jacobs with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Telemann: Brockes-Passion (Harmonia Mundi) "The playing and singing are outstanding, in what must be one of the rediscoveries of the year"
• Antonio Pappano with the National Academy of Santa Cecilia – Verdi: Messa da Requiem (EMI)
"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 Nominees:
• Magdalena Kozená & Charles Mackerras with the Czech PO– Martinu: Fragments & Orchestral Suite from the Opera Juliette (Supraphon)
"The finest imaginable tribute to Martinu in his anniversary year…utterly unforgettable."
• Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra & Chorus – Shostakovich: The Nose (Mariinsky)
"The sheer anarchic daring and certainty of Shostakovich's score holds us in thrall"
• Semyon Bychkov with the WDR SO, Cologne– Wagner: Lohengrin (Hänssler)
"Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance"
Vocal Nominees:
• Christianne Stotijn & Julius Drake – Tchaikovsky: Romances (Onyx)
"Christianne Stotijn is that artist in a thousand whosepersonality shines through everything s does."
• Rebecca Evans, Andrew Kennedy, Matthew Rose & Iain Burnside – Liszt songs (Signum)
"Burnside is a faultless guide along this journey… the singing, too, is exemplary"
• Jonas Kaufmann & Claudio Abbado with Mahler Chamber Orchestra – Arias by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner (Decca)
"Jonas Kaufmann is the German tenor we’ve been waiting for…this is ideal singing."
Chamber Nominees:
• Martin Helmchen with Christian Tetzlaff – Schubert: Piano Quintet in A 'Trout' (PentaTone)
"They deliver a more completely satisfactory account of the Trout Quintet than any I have ever heard before"
• Alina Ibragimova with Cédric Tiberghien – Szymanowski: Violin Sonata (Hyperion)
"Ibragimova's authority is evident throughout"
• Jerusalem Quartet – Haydn: String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
"This has to be the best Haydn quartet recording released in his anniversary year... an absolute triumph."
Instrumental Nominees:
• Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba – Abel: The Drexel Manuscript (Glossa)
"The sound is highly intoxicating. Both Pandolfo’s expressivity and technique are beyond praise"
• Murray Perahia, piano – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (Sony)
"A masterly recital, and one whose undemonstrative performances enable the music to speak for itself"
• Stephen Kovacevich, piano – Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (Onyx)
"Kovacevich brings penetrating insight and a thrilling physical involvement"
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Notes to Editors:
Judges
Helen Wallace (Chair) Consultant editor, BBC Music Magazine
Oliver Condy Editor, BBC Music Magazine
Daniel Jaffé Reviews editor, BBC Music Magazine
John Allison Chief music critic, The Sunday Times
Malcolm Hayes Composer & author of 20th-Century Music (Heinemann)
Andrew McGregor Presenter, CD Review – BBC Radio 3
Michael Tanner Opera critic, The Spectator
Barry Witherden Critic & contributor, Jazz Review & Rough Guide to Classical Music
BBC Music Magazine is the world's best-selling classical music monthly. Covering all aspects of live events, broadcast and recordings, each issue carries a complete BBC work and provides a comprehensive and expert guide to classical music. BBC Music Magazine has a monthly circulation of 45,144 (ABC Jan-Dec 2008) and is published by BBC Magazines Bristol, a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide Ltd. www.bbcmusicmagazine.com
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PHOTOS &
MP3 SAMPLES OF ANY OF THE NOMINATED RECORDINGS:
Ginny Macbeth or Philipp Carl
philipp@macbethmediarelations.co.uk
020 7700 5959
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