Orchestral category - listen to our latest Awards Podcast

It's the turn of the Orchestral category. In our latest Podcast, Gramophone reviewer Richard Whitehouse and editor-in-chief James Jolly explore the shortlisted recordings in the Orchestral category of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2011, presented in association with Steinway & Sons.

The recordings are: Shostakovich Symphony No 10, from the RLPO and Vasily Petrenko (on Naxos), Suk's Asrael Symphony, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Charles Mackerras (Supraphon), and English Spring – music by Bax, Bridge and Delius – from the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder (on the Hallé label).

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