Awards,
Recordings of the Year 2024 - Special Category Nominees
The winners will be revealed alongside the Top 10 next Thursday evening, and in the meantime you can browse through the Top 100 finalists - until 22nd January 2025 we're offering discounts of up to 25% on almost all of the featured titles (excluding downloads).
Debut Solo Album
Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen, Ben Glassberg
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Erin Morley (soprano), Gerald Martin Moore (piano), Ransom Wilson (flute)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Trio Bohémo
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Yunchan Lim (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
World Premiere - New Work
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), James Girling (guitar)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Peter Moore (trombone), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Seal
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Gianandrea Noseda
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Lawrence Power (viola), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
World Premiere Recording - Rediscovery
BBC Concert Orchestra, Rebecca Miller
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Solomon's Knot
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, Alice Farnham
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Karine Deshayes (Fausto), Karina Gauvin (Margarita), Ante Jerkunica (Mefistofele), Nico Darmanin (Valentino), Marie Gautrot (Catarina)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Available Formats: 2 CDs + Book, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
Diana Damrau (Rosalinde), Georg Nigl (Eisenstein), Katharina Konradi (Adele), Andrew Watts (Orlofsky), Sean Panikkar (Alfred), Markus Brück (Dr Falke)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky
Available Format: Blu-ray
Krzysztof Bączyk (Figaro), Sabine Devieilhe (Susanna), Andrè Schuen (Count), Adriana González (Countess), Lea Desandre (Cherubino)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Raphaël Pichon, Martin Kušej
Available Format: Blu-ray
Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Elīna Garanča (Kundry), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Derek Welton (Amfortas), Jordan Shanahan (Klingsor), Tobias Kehrer (Titurel)
Bayreuther Festspielorchester & Festspielchor, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available Format: 2 Blu-rays
Gábor Bretz (Priest Grigoris), Sebastian Kohlhepp (Manolios), Sara Jakubiak (Katerina), Charles Workman (Yannakos), Christina Gansch (Lenio), Łukasz Goliński (Fotis)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Simon Stone, Maxime Pascal
Available Format: Blu-ray
Archive Project of the Year
Prague National Theatre Orchestra and Chorus; Zdeněk Košler, Jan Hus Tichý, Zdenek Chalabala, Jaroslav Krombholc, František Jíleki
Available Format: 17 CDs
EP of the Year
Clare Hammond (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Takács Quartet
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K648 'A Very Little Night Music'
(Original Version for Two Violins & Bass)
Leonhard Baumgartner (violin), Margarita Pochebut (violin), Svenja Dose (double bass), Oscar Jockel (harpsichord)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
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