Recording Category Winners 2023

Choral

Cage Choral works

Latvian Radio Choir / Sigvards Kļava (Ondine)

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Concerto

Elgar ‘Viola Concerto’ Bloch Suite For Viola and Orchestra

Timothy Ridout va BBC Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (Harmonia Mundi)

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Chamber

Mozart String Quintets – No 3, K515; No 4, K516

Ébène Quartet with Antoine Tamestit va (Erato)

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Concept Album

‘Battle Cry: She Speaks’

Helen Charlston mez Toby Carr theorbo (Delphian)

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Contemporary

Wennäkoski Sigla. Flounce. Sedecim

Sivan Magen hp Finnish RSO / Nicholas Collon (Ondine)

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Early Music

Daser Polyphonic Masses

Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

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Instrumental

Bartók. Eötvös. Ligeti. Veress Music for Solo Violin and Viola

Nurit Stark vn, va (BIS)

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Opera

Tippett The Midsummer Marriage

Robert Murray, Rachel Nicholls, Ashley Riches, Jennifer France, Toby Spence, Claire Barnett-Jones, Susan Bickley, Joshua Bloom; English National Opera Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Edward Gardner (LPO)

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Orchestral & Recording of the Year

Nielsen Symphonies Nos 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’ and 5

Danish National Symphony Orchestra / Fabio Luisi (DG)

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Piano

Szymanowski Piano Works

Krystian Zimerman (DG)

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Song

Fauré Complete Songs

Cyrille Dubois ten Tristan Raës pf (Aparté)

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Spatial Audio

Wagner Die Walküre

Soloists; VPO / Sir Georg Solti (Decca)

Voice & Ensemble

‘Rivales’

Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau sops Le Concert de la Loge / Julien Chauvin (Alpha)

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Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement

Dame Felicity Lott

Label of the Year

BIS Records

Young Artist of the Year

Stella Chen

Artist of the Year

Véronique Gens

Orchestra of the Year

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

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