Watch video from the 2012 Gramophone Awards!

The 2012 Gramophone Awards were announced on September 27 at a sparkling ceremony held at London’s Dorchester Hotel, co-hosted by editor-in-chief James Jolly, composer Eric Whitacre and soprano Danielle De Niese. We announced the winners on the day - including Recording of the Year for Vox Luminis in Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, Artist of the Year for Joseph Calleja and a new Piano Award for Murray Perahia. You can find all the details here.

The Awards ceremony was filmed and we can now bring you video highlights, musical performances and acceptance speeches from the day.

Among the performers was soprano and ceremony co-host Danielle De Niese. Watch her performance of Lehár’s ‘Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss’ from Giuditta below:

Founder of Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, was on hand to accept Recording of the Year for Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien on Ricercar. Watch his acceptance speech below:

Also in attendance to accept two awards - for best Instrumental recording for his disc of Chopin, Liszt and Ravel on Decca, and for Young Artist of the Year – was pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Watch his acceptance speech below:

Watch highlights from the 2012 Gramophone Awards ceremony below:

For information and video on all of the Award winners, visit our Awards page.