Over the course of the past decade or so, the French magazine Diapason's ‘Palmarès’ (or 'Golden Tuning-Forks of the Year') have come to be regarded as France’s most prestigious accolades for recorded classical music; this year's winners included French organist Olivier Latry's Liszt recital on the Rieger organ of the Philharmonie de Paris (La Dolce Volta), the tenth instalment of Giovanni Antonini's mammoth Haydn series on Alpha (subtitled 'Les heures du jour' and featuring Symphonies Nos. 6-8), Leif Ove Andsnes's Mozart Momentum: 1785 project with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on Sony, and Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee's dazzling Rossini album Amici e Rivali (which featured in our Top 10 Recordings of 2020 almost exactly this time last year).
Full details of all the winning recordings listed below!
Musique Renaissance
Cinquecento
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Clavecin
Monsieur Couperin.
Louis, Charles, François I
Brice Sailly (harpsichord)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Baroque vocal
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), I Gemelli
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Baroque instrumental
Leila Schayegh (violin)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique de chambre
Trio Wanderer, Christophe Gaugue (viola), Catherine Montier (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, François Meyer, Gilbert Audin, Benoît de Barsony, Joaquín Riquelme García, Claudio Bohórquez, Olivier Thiery, Aurélien Pascal
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
Symphonie
Haydn 2032, Vol. 10
Les heures du jour
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Concerto
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Piano
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique vocale
Erinnerung
Mahler Lieder
Christiane Karg (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Gustav Mahler (piano roll)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Récital lyrique
Michael Spyres (tenor), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Musique chorale
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Available format: SACD
Orgue
Olivier Latry (organ)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Opéra
Cyrille Dubois (Fortunio), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Jacqueline), Franck Leguerinel (Maitre Andre), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Clavaroche)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Louis Langrée
Available format: DVD Video
Cyrille Dubois (Fortunio), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Jacqueline), Franck Leguerinel (Maitre Andre), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Clavaroche)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Louis Langrée
Available format: Blu-ray
