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Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1992
Recordings of Beethoven's symphonies, Handel's Giulio Cesare, Britten's War Requiem and Tavener's The Protecting Veil were among the winners at the 1992 Gramophone Awards
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1991
Among the winners at the 1991 Gramophone Awards were John Eliot Gardiner, Leonidas Kavakos, Tatiana Nikolayeva and Herbert Blomstedt
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1990
Kent Nagano's recording of Prokofiev's The Love For Three Oranges took the top prize in a year that also saw Awards given to Kyung-Wha Chung, Lydia Mordkovitch, Zoltán Kocsis and Bernard Haitink
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