Gramophone Awards, 2008

Stephen Hough (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano) The Aronowitz Ensemble

Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba)

European Brandenburg Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock (director)

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Stephen Hough (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo

Pavel Haas Quartet

James Ehnes (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Artemis Quartet

The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (director)

Renee Flynn and Roy Henderson London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaughan Williams

Cheryl Barker (Katya), Jane Henschel (Kabanicha), Robert Brubaker (Boris Grigoryevich), Peter Hoare (Tichon Kabanov), Peter Wedd (Kudryash), Victoria Simmonds (Varvara), Kathleen Wilkinson (Glasha), Gwynne Howell (Dikoi); Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi

Steven Osborne (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins

Paul Lewis (piano)

Lawrence Power (viola) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov

Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin)

Anna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), Boaz Daniel (Marcello), Stéphane Degout (Schaunard), Vitalij Kowaljow (Colline), Kevin Connors (Parpignol), Tiziano Bracci (Benoit/Alcindoro) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bertrand de Billy

Carolyn Sampson (soprano I), Rachel Nicholls (soprano II), Robin Blaze (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass) Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

Evelyn Glennie (percussion) Male Singers from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Estonian National Male Choir Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

Emanuela Galli (La Musica/Eurydice), Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo), Marina De Liso (Messaggiera), Cristina Calzolari (Proserpina), Matteo Bellotto (Plutone), Josè Lo Monaco (Speranza), Salvo Vitale (Caronte), Vincenzo Di Donato (Apollo), Francesca Cassinari (Ninfa), Giovanni Caccamo (Pastore I), Makoto Sakurada (Pastore II/Spirito I), Claudio Cavina (Pastore III), Tony Corradini (Pastore IV/Spirito II) La Venexiana

Sandrine Piau (Gabriel), Miah Persson (Eve), Ruth Massey (alto), Mark Padmore (Uriel), Neal Davies (Raphael), Peter Harvey (Adam) Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players & Chetham's Chamber Choir, Paul McCreesh

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Maxim Vengerov (violin) Orchestra La Scintilla & International Chamber Soloists, Ádám Fischer

Anu Komsi (soprano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov & Stefan Solyom

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato

Susan Gritton Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton

Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Peter Straka, Jan Vacík, Zdenek Plech, Maria Haan, Roman Janál, Martina Bauerová, Ales Briscein, Jaroslav Brezina & Václav Sibera BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek

The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (organ & direction)

Cinquecento

Natalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp) Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella

Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom (direction)

Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

Belcea Quartet

Kim Borg (bass)

Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio) Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)

Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio) Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)

Janice Watson (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Skelton (tenor) & Detlef Roth (bass) Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra & Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras

James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano), Michael Cox (flute), Gareth Hulse (cor anglais) Fitzwilliam String Quartet

USSR State Symphony & Orchestra Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation Evgeny Svetlanov

Mark Padmore (tenor) & Neal Davies (bass-baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox

Howard Crook, Laura Pudwell, Ellen Hargis & Harry van der Kamp Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs

[b]Das Rheingold[/b] Hans Hotter (Wotan), Erich Witte (Loge), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka), Kurt Böhme (Fasolt), Frederick Dalberg (Fafner), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Freia), Robert Allman (Donner), Edgar Evans (Froh), Peter Klein (Mime), Maria von Ilosvay (Erda), Joan Sutherland (Woglinde), Una Hale (Wellgunde), Marjorie Thomas (Flosshilde) [b] Die Walküre [/b] Ramon Vinay (Siegmund), Sylvia Fisher (Sieglinde), Frederick Dalberg (Hunding), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Amy Shuard (Gerhilde), Una Hale (Ortlinde), Edith Coates (Waltraute), Jean Watson (Schwertleite), June Grant (Helmwige), Noreen Berry (Siegrune), Barbara Howitt (Grimgerde), Marjorie Thomas (Rossweisse) [b] Siegfried [/b] Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Hans Hotter (Der Wanderer), Jeannette Sinclair (Waldvogel) [b] Götterdämmerung [/b] Kurt Böhme (Hagen), Hermann Uhde (Gunther), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Gutrune), Maria von Ilosvay (Waltraute), Maria von Ilosvay (1. Norn), Constance Shacklock (2. Norn), Amy Shuard (3. Norn) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Rudolf Kempe

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Otto Klemperer

Cesare Valletti (tenor) & Leo Taubman (piano)