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This year's nominees for the Classic FM Gramophone Awards have been unveiled.
The winners of each category - which you can find below - will be announced at an awards bash at the Dorchester Hotel, London on the 3rd of October:
Baroque instrumental
Arne Overtures Collegium Musicum 90 / Simon Standage Chandos CHAN0722
Bach Sonatas and Partitas John Holloway ECM New Series 476 3152
Handel Concerti grossi, Op 3 AAM / Richard Egarr Harmonia Mundi HMU90 7415
Baroque vocal
Bach Cantatas Vol 15 Monteverdi Ch; EBS / Sir John Eliot Gardiner SDG SDG127
Handel Messiah (1742 version) Dunedin Consort & Players / John Butt Linn CKD285
Monteverdi Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini Naïve OP30435
Chamber
Bartók. Hindemith String Quartets Zehetmair Quartet ECM New Series 476 5779
Brahms Piano Quartets Leopold Trio; Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion CDA67471/2
Haas. Janáek String Quartets Pavel Haas Quartet Supraphon SU3877-2
Choral
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Sols; Berlin Radio Choir; BPO / Sir Simon Rattle EMI 365393-2
Elgar The Spirit of England Sols; BBC SO and Chorus / David Lloyd-Jones Dutton CDLX7172
Wesley Anthems Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Christopher Robinson Naxos 8 570318
Concerto
Brahms Piano Concertos Nelson Freire; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly Decca 475 7637
Medtner. Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Yevgeny Sudbin; São Paulo SO / John Neschling BIS BIS-SACD1588
Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos Jean-Jacques Kantorow et al; Tapiola Sinfonietta / Kees Bakels BIS BIS-CD1470
Contemporary
Anderson Alhambra Fantasy BBC SO / Oliver Knussen Ondine ODE10122
Anderson The Book of Hours CBSO, BCMG / Brabbins, Oramo NMC NMCD121
Lieberson Neruda Songs Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Boston SO / James Levine Nonesuch 7559 79954-2
DVD
Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 & 8 LPO / Klaus Tennstedt EMI 367743-9
Mozart Così fan tutte Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Iván Fischer Opus Arte OA0970
‘My Life in Music’ Julian Bream Avie AV2109
Early Music
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis The Cardinall’s Musick Hyperion CDA67568
Crecquillon Missa mort m’a privé Brabant Ensemble Hyperion CDA67596
Jenkins Five-part Consorts Phantasm Avie AV2120
Historic archive
R Strauss Four Last Songs Wagner Scenes Flagstad; Philh / Furtwängler Testament SBT1410
Verdi Don Carlo Royal Opera / Carlo Maria Giulini Royal Opera House Heritage Series ROHS003
Wagner Götterdämmerung Bayreuth Festival Opera / Joseph Keilberth Testament SBT4 1393
Historic reissue
‘Ernest Ansermet: The Decca Recordings’ Ernest Ansermet Decca 475 8140DC6
Moeran Symphony etc LPO, New Philharmonia / Sir Adrian Boult Lyrita SRCD247
‘Sir Clifford Curzon Volume 4’ Sir Clifford Curzon Decca 475 8202DC7
Instrumental
Bach Cello Suites Steven Isserlis Hyperion CDA67541/2
Haydn Piano Sonatas Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion CDA67554
Medtner The Complete Skazki Hamish Milne Hyperion CDA67491/2
Opera
Donizetti Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal Mark Elder Opera Rara ORC33
Janácek The Makropulos Case Sir Charles Mackerras Chandos CHAN3138
Rossini Matilde di Shabran Riccardo Frizza Decca 475 7688DHO3
Orchestral
Bartók Kossuth. Wooden Prince Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra / Zoltán Kocsis Hungaroton HSACD32502
Nielsen Orchestral Works Danish National SO / Thomas Dausgaard Dacapo 6 220518
Prokofiev Complete Symphonies LSO / Valery Gergiev Philips 475 7655
Recital
R Strauss Four Last Songs. Opera Scenes Stemme; ROH Orchestra / Pappano EMI 378797-2
‘The Russian Album’ Anna Netrebko; Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra / Valery Gergiev DG 477 6384GH
‘Tales of Opera’ Keenlyside; Munich Radio Orchestra / Schirmer Sony 82876 88482-2
Solo vocal
Brahms Lieder Bernarda Fink; Roger Vignoles Harmonia Mundi HMC90 1926
Handel. Mahler. Lieberson Songs Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Roger Vignoles Wigmore Hall WHLIVE0013
R Strauss Lieder Jonas Kaufmann; Helmut Deutsch Harmonia Mundi HMC90 1879
Last year's winners included Claudio Abbado, whose recording of Mahler's 6th Symphony, with the Berlin Philharmonic on DG, won the prestigious Record of the Year award.
