Drumroll, please: the category-winners of this year's Gramophone Awards have just been announced this afternoon. It's a mixture of familiar faces (Riccardo Chailly's Brahms symphony cycle deservedly scooping the Orchestral category, for example) and relative newcomers (such as Mahan Esfahani, whose CPE Bach keyboard sonatas won him the Baroque Instrumental crown) - you can browse through all the winning discs below.
Here at Presto we've got a little something of our own to mark the occasion: we've put together a free digital sampler containing tracks from each CD (full details below!).
Free Download Sampler
Baroque Instrumental
Mahan Esfahani
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
Baroque Vocal
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Chamber
Pavel Haas Quartet
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Choral
Contemporary
Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta, Christopher Purves, Royal Opera House, George Benjamin
Available format: DVD Video
Concerto
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Early Music
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
Instrumental
Arcadi Volodos
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Opera
Orchestral
Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Recital
Solo vocal
Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
