BBC Music Magazine Award Candidates 2010

Orchestral

• 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
• Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Romances; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe; Naive: V5174; Spotify link

Opera

• 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

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

Instrumental

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

Vocal

• 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
• Tchaikovsky: Romances; Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano); Onyx: ONYX4034; Spotify link not found

Chamber

• 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
• Haydn: String Quartets; Jerusalem Quartet; Harmonia Mundi: HMX2962030; Spotify link not found

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