The Midem Classical Awards will be presented at a gala event in Cannes on Tuesday, January 26 (to be broadcast live from the Palais des Féstivals by radio stations in France, Luxembourg and Poland). Below is the list of nominated recordings from which the winners with be drawn. The jury comprises magazines (including Gramophone), radio stations and arts managers, and the results will be revealed in Cannes by the event's co-hosts, the Canadian mezzo Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Gramophone's editor-in-chief James Jolly. The full list of winners will be published on this site on the morning of Wednesday, January 27. EARLY MUSIC “Jérusalem“ Montserrat Figueras; La Capella Reial de Catalunya; Al-Darwish; Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall (Alia Vox) “Carmina Burana - Sacri Sarcasmi” La Reverdie (Arcana) Sweelinck The Secular Vocal Works Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam / Harry van der Kamp (Glossa) BAROQUE MUSIC Rameau “La Pantomime” – Harpsichord Pieces Skip Sempé & Olivier Fortin (Paradizo) Strozzi Virtuosissima Compositrice Cappella Mediterranea / Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (Ambronay) Telemann Brockes-Passion Birgitte Christensen; Lydia Teuscher; Marie-Claude Chappuis; Daniel Behle; Donát Havár; Johannes Weisser; RIAS Kammerchor; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi) VOCAL RECITALS Handel “Between Heaven and Earth” Sandrine Piau; Accademia Bizantina; Stefano Montanari (Naïve) Handel “Furore” – Opera Arias Joyce DiDonato; Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (Virgin Classics) Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Matthias Goerne; Christoph Eschenbach (Harmonia Mundi) CHORAL WORKS Haydn Die Jahreszeiten Genia Kühmeier; Werner Güra; Christian Gerhaher; Arnold Schönberg-Chor; Concentus Musicus / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) Zimmermann Requiem for a Young Poet Claudia Barainsky; David Pittman-Jennings; Lutz Lansemann; Michael Rotschopf; Jan Hage; João Rafael (Live Electronics); Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno; Slovac Philharmonic Choir; EuropaChorAkademie; Eric Vloeimans Quintet; Holland Symfonia / Bernhard Kontarsky (Cybèle) “Rastlose Liebe - Ein Spaziergang durch das romantische Leipzig” Amarcord (Raumklang) OPERA Shostakovich The Nose Vladislav Sulimsky; Alexei Tanovitski; Tatiana Kravtsova; Andrei Popov; Sergei Semishkur; Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus / Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky) R Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Claire Watson; Brigitte Fassbaender; Lucia Popp; Karl Ridderbusch; Benno Kusche; Gerhard Unger; Choir & Orchestra Bayerische Staatsoper / Carlos Kleiber (Orfeo) Martinu Juliette (Three Fragments & Orchestral Suite) Magdalena Kožená; Steve Davislim; Frédéric Goncalves; Nicolas Testé; Michèle Lagrange; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras (Supraphon) SOLO INSTRUMENT Debussy Complete Works for Piano, Volume 4 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (Chandos) Gubaidulina. Medtner. Prokofiev. Rachmaninov Piano works Anna Vinnitskaya (Ambroisie) Paganini 24 Capricci Thomas Zehetmair (ECM New Series) CHAMBER MUSIC Debussy. Fauré. Ravel String Quartets Quatuor Ebène (Virgin Classics) Milhaud. Ravel. Fauré. Debussy “La Belle Époque” Duo Lechner Tiempo (Avanticlassic) Schoeck Notturno Christian Gerhaher; Rosamunde Quartett (ECM New Series) CONCERTOS Beethoven Piano Concertos WoO4 & No 2 Ronald Brautigam; Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Parrott (BIS) Brahms. Korngold Violin Concertos Nikolaj Znaider; VPO / Valery Gergiev (RCA Red Seal) Mozart Piano Concertos K175, 246 & 488 Lausanne CO / Christian Zacharias (MDG) SYMPHONIC WORKS Bartók Suite No 2. Rumanian Dance. Rumanian Folk Dances. Dance Suite Hungarian National PO / Zoltán Kocsis (Hungaroton) Mahler Symphony No 7 BRSO / Mariss Jansons (BR Klassik) Mahler Symphony No 9 Bamberger SO / Jonathan Nott (Tudor) CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Eötvös As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams Elizabeth Laurence; Mike Svoboda; Gérard Buquet; UMZE Chamber Orchestra / Gergely Vajda (BMC) Lindberg Sculpture. Campana in aria. Concerto for Orchestra Esa Tapani; Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (Ondine) Messiaen The Works for Orchestra Roger Muraro; Yvonne Naef; Europa Chor Akademie; SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Sylvain Cambreling (Hänssler Classic) FIRST RECORDING Chin Rocaná. Violin Concerto Viviane Hagner; Montreal SO / Kent Nagano (Analekta) Herbert Songs Ailish Tynan; James Gilchrist; David Owen Norris (Linn Records) Rigel Symphonies Concerto Köln (Berlin Classics) HISTORICAL Friedrich Gulda “The Early Recordings” (Audite) Yehudi Menuhin “The Great EMI Recordings” (EMI Classics) Sergiu Celibidache “Die Orchesterkonzerte” Agnes Giebel; Hans Hotter; Cologne RSO (Orfeo) DVD (CONCERTS) Haydn Harmoniemesse. Symphony No 88. Sinfonia Concertante in D Malin Hartelius; Judith Schmid; Christian Elsner; Franz-Josef Selig; BRSO & Chor / Mariss Jansons, Brian Large (BR Klassik) ”The King's Singers Live at the BBC Proms” (Signum Records) Mozart Mass in C minor Dvořák Symphony No 7 Royal Stockholm PO / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Medici Arts) DVD (OPERA / BALLET) “Walter Felsenstein Edition” (Arthaus Musik) Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Mariusz Kwiecien; Tatiana Monogarova; Margarita Mamsirova; Andrey Dunaev; Anatolij Kotscherga; The Bolshoi Theatre Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra / Dmitri Tcherniakov; Chloé Perlemutter; Alexander Vedernikov (Bel Air Classiques) Messiaen Saint François d'Assise Camilla Tilling; Rodney Gilfry; Hubert Delamboye; Henk Neven; Tom Randle; Donald Kaasch; Armand Arapian; The Hague Philharmonic Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera / Ingo Metzmacher; Pierre Audi; Misjel Vermeiren (Opus Arte) DVD: DOCUMENTARIES “Sergiu Celibidache: You don't do anything - You let it evolve” A film by Jan Schmidt-Garre (Arthaus Musik) “Leonard Bernstein: Reflections” A film by Peter Rosen (Medici Arts) “Wagner's Mastersinger, Hitler's Siegfried (Max Lorenz)” A film by Eric Schulz and Claus Wischmann (Medici Arts)