BBC Music Magazine Awards and Candidates 2010

Orchestral
  • Winner: Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Romances; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe; Naive: V5174; Spotify link
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer; Channel: CCSSA26109; label not @ Spotify
  • Bartók: Orchestral Music; Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis; Hungaroton: HSACD32506; Spotify link not found
Opera
  • Winner and Disc of the Year: Wagner: Lohengrin; WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov; Profil Medien: PH09004; label not @ Spotify
  • Martinu: Music from the opera Juliette; Magdalena Kozená, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras; Supraphon: SU39942; Spotify link
  • Shostakovich: The Nose; Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev; Mariinsky: MAR0501; label not @ Spotify

Choral
  • Winner: Verdi: Requiem; Anja Harteros, Sonia Ganassim Rolando Villazon & Rene Pape, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano; EMI: 6989362; Spotify link
  • Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum, Agon, & Requiem Canticles; SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, SWR SO Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Michael Gielen; Hänssler: HAEN93226; label not @ Spotify
  • Telemann: Brockes-Passion; RIAS Chamber Choir, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs; Harmonia Mundi: HMC902013/14; Spotify link not found

Instrumental
  • Winner: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas; Murray Perahia (piano); Sony: 88697326462; Spotify link
  • Abel: The Drexel Manuscript; Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba); Glossa: GCD920410; label not @ Spotify
  • Beethoven: Diabelli Variations & Bach: Partita; Stephen Kovacevich (piano); Onyx: ONYX4035; Spotify link

Vocal
  • Winner: Tchaikovsky: Romances; Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano); Onyx: ONYX4034; Spotify link not found
  •  Liszt Abroad; Rebecca Evans (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Matthew Rose (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano); Signum: SIGCD155; Spotify link
  • Jonas Kaufmann sings Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner; Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado; Decca: 4781463; Spotify link

Chamber
  • Winner: Haydn: String Quartets; Jerusalem Quartet; Harmonia Mundi: HMX2962030; Spotify link not found
  •  Schubert: Trout Quintet and other Chamber Music; Martin Helmchen (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Aloïs Posch (double bass), Aldo Baerten (flute); Pentatone: PTC5186334; label not @ Spotify
  • Szymanowski: The Complete Music for Violin & Piano; Alina Ibragimova (violin) & Cédric Tiberghien (piano);  Hyperion: CDA67703; label not @ Spotify

Jury Award Winners
  • Award for Technical Excellence: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'; Judith Howarth (soprano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano) & Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Bergen Philharmonic Choir, KorVest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble), The Danish National Vocal Ensemble DR & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton; BIS: BISSACD1704;
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  • Newcomer of the Year: Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2; Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K465, 'Dissonance'; Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz'; Elias String Quartet; Wigmore Hall Live: WHLIVE0028 Spotify link
  • Premiere Recording of the Year: Imogen Holst - String Chamber Music; Performed by Court Lane Music - Daniel Swain (piano), Simon Hewitt Jones (violin), David Worswick (violin), Tom Hankey (viola), Oliver Coates (cello), Thomas Hewitt Jones (cello); Court Lane Music: CLM37601;  label not @ Spotify

NB. Let me know if you can find the missing CDs (i.e., “Spotify link not found”).