Dame Felicity Lott receives the Lifetime Achievement award

This year's Gramophone Awards ceremony saw a night of music, speeches and celebration, looking back on a year of incredible recordings.

Performances from viola player Timothy Ridout, pianists Yevgeny and Bella Sudbin, violinist Stella Chen, flautist Sharon Bezaly, soprano Véronique Gens and tenor Cyrille Dubois came alongside presentations and speeches from composer Lotta Wennäkoski, the daughter of the maestro Gabrielle Solti, founder of BIS Records Robert von Bahr and soprano Dame Felicity Lott among many others.

Editor-in-Chief James Jolly hosted the proceedings with the London Mozart Players providing sublime performances and accompaniments over the evening.

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Editor-in-Chief James Jolly presents the 2023 Gramophone Awards

Dace Bula and Sigvards Kļava accept the Choral Award

Winner of the Concerto Award, Timothy Ridout performs Bridge's 'Pensiero' with Frank Dupree

Composer Lotta Wennäkoski accepts the Contemporary Award

BIS founder, Robert von Bahr accepts the Label of the Year Award

Yevgeny Sudbin and his daughter Bella perform Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers in his own 4-hand arrangement

Violinist Nurit Stark accepts the Instrument Award for her album of modern Hungarian solo violin works

General manager of the Huelgas Ensemble Silke Jacobsen accepts the Choral Award

Krystian Zimerman accepts the Piano Award – his seventh Gramophone Award

Winner of the Young Artist of the Year Award Stella Chen performs Mozart's Rondo in C

Flautist Sharon Bezaly performs the Finale of CPE Bach's Flute Concerto in D Minor with the London Mozart Players

Winner of the Artist of the Year Award Véronique Gens performs Hahn's 'La dernière valse' 

Theorbist Toby Carr and mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston accept the Concept Album Award for 'Battle Cry: She Speaks'

Winners of the Song Award, Tristan Räes accompanies Cyrille Dubois in a performance of Fauré's Les Berceaux

Managing Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Albert Schmitt accepts the Orchestra of the Year Award, which was voted for by the public

Daughter of Sir Georg Solti, Gabrielle Solti accepts the Spatial Audio Award for the Decca remaster of Wagner's Die Walküre

Concert Master Soo-Jin Hong and principal clarinettist Johnny Teyssier accept the Recording of the Year Award for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra's recording of Nielsen's Symphonies Nos 4 & 5, conducted by Fabio Luisi

The London Mozart Players receive well-deserved applause after bringing the ceremony to a close with a performance of the Finale of Haydn's Symphony No 44

Photography by Colin D Miller

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