Last Wednesday I was lucky enough to attend the Diapason d’Or de l’Année Awards in Paris (courtesy of our friends at Naïve Classique); over the past decade, the ‘palmarès’ have come to be regarded as France’s most prestigious accolades for recorded classical music. The ceremony took place at the Maison de la Radio and was broadcast live on France Musique, with live performances by award-winners including Bartók from Renaud Capuçon and Rachmaninov from Arcadi Volodos.
Full details of the winning recordings listed below!
Musique Ancienne
Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Phantasm
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique Baroque
Giovanni Antonini (recorder/director), Il Giardino Armonico
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Alice Foccroulle (soprano), InAlto, Lambert Colson
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Violon
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Piano
Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Florian Noack (piano)
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Musique de Chambre
Die Freitags Akademie
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
Trio Wanderer
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Adam Laloum (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique Symphonique
Ceri-Lyn Cissone, Alexander Knox & Frankie Wakefield (narrators); London Symphony Orchestra & The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique Sacrée
Eri Nakamura (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (contralto), Michael Spyres (tenor), Jongmin Park (bass); Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jiří Bělohlávek
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique Chorale
The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia, Harry Christophers
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique Contemporaine
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun Chung
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
Opéra
Albina Shagimuratova (Lyudmila), Mikhail Petrenko (Ruslan), Yuri Minenko (Ratmir); Bolshoi Theatre, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov
Available format: 2 DVD Videos
Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman; The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman, Robert Wilson (director), Lucinda Childs (choreographer)
Available format: 2 DVD Videos
Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman; The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman, Robert Wilson (director), Lucinda Childs (choreographer)
Available format: 2 Blu-rays
