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    Gramophone Award winners 2013: a buyer's guide to the winning albums

    Find out more about the winners of the coveted Gramophone Awards 2013, with information about this year's recordings and links to download your favourites.

    1. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      1. Baroque Instrumental Winner: ...pour passer la mélancolie - Andreas Staier

      What the judges said: “Staier brings a combination of skill, knowledge, empathy and sheer force of personality that compel you to listen. Whether you know him as pianist, fortepianist or harpsichordist, as soloist, accompanist or chamber musician, in Schubert, Mozart, Bach or Byrd - or even not at all - this disc will surely be a revelation.”

    2. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      2. Baroque Vocal Winner: Bach Motets - Monteverdi Choir/Sir John Eliot Gardiner

      What the judges said: “Occasionally a recording appears which you know represents a special landmark in a long-term collaboration. Amongst a strong field in the vocal category, the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner find a new gear in their 40-year journey with the Motets. A questing energy, drawn from the heart of the text, explodes this ‘holy grail’ of vocal polyphony towards startlingly fresh and illuminated readings.”

    3. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      3. Chamber Winner: Barnabás Kelemen, Zoltán Kocsis

      What the judges said: “Barnabás Kelemen is one of the finest violinists treading the current circuit, a fearless virtuoso whose grasp of the music he performs, and of Bartók’s music in particular, squares with the best of his Hungarian contemporaries…”

    4. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      4. Choral Winner: Elgar, The Apostles - The Hallé / Sir Mark Elder

      What the judges said: “Fine soloists, stunning choruses both spectacular and intimate, and the immediacy of live performances combine to create an award-winner that is head and shoulders above the rest of this year’s short list. Further, it recognises the expertise of a distinguished British conductor in British music with a great British orchestra. Three reasons for celebration with an abundantly deserved award.”

    5. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      5. Contemporary Winner: Dutilleux - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Esa-Pekka Salonen

      What the judges said: “There is no better introduction to the composer’s world. And how appropriate that this year’s Contemporary Award-winner, a 97th birthday present turned memorial to a man who stuck to his own meticulously crafted path, should confirm also the rise to prominence of a singer of like mind, the sensational Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan.”

    6. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      6. Concerto Winner: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, HR-SO & Ensemble Modern / Peter Eötvös

      What the judges said:“Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs these three concertos by composers born in Hungary with her trademark panache and the recorded balance gives her all due prominence. The importance of the orchestral contribution can’t be denied, however, and there’s an impressive sense of common purpose and collaborative zeal throughout.”

    7. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      7. Early Winner: A New Venetian Coronation - Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh

      What the judges said: “While the music of Giovanni Gabrieli and his uncle Andrea is always welcome in the catalogue, there are very few recordings that put it in its full liturgical context in this way – not just with works of Hassler, Bendinelli and Gussago, not just the chants, but the whole atmosphere, with crowd noise, church bells, drums and fanfares.”

    8. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      8. Instrumental Winner: Mussorgsky - Steven Osborne

      What the judges said: “Steven Osborne has been a consistent presence in the shortlists for a number of years with an array of discs that is as striking for its eclecticism as for the sheer quality of his pianism. And this year he has beaten off a particularly strong line-up with a disc built around a famously unpianistic work – making his achievement still more impressive.”

    9. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      9. Orchestral Winner: Suk, Prague; A Summer's Tale - BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jiří Bělohlávek

      What the judges said: “Jiří Bělohlávek’s innate affinity with a whole spectrum of Czech music shines through with a special glow in this. A Summer’s Tale’s emotional arc and its profound aura of contemplation are beautifully encapsulated in the colours and character of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s playing.”

    10. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      10. Opera Winner: Puccini, Il Trittico - Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano

      What the judges said: “It has everything a prize-winning DVD of Puccini's Il trittico could need - an interesting and emotionally involving production; excellent playing and (mostly) singing; and filming of the highest quality that today's technology affords. For a work that has long hovered on the fringes of the opera repertoire, this was potentially a world-beating combination of virtues.”

    11. Gramophone Awards 2013 winners

      11. Vocal Winner: Wagner arias - Jonas Kaufmann, Orch of the Deutsche Oper / Donald Runnicles

      What the judges said: “Together with Runnicles and his Berlin opera orchestra –more evident partners in the music-making than simple accompanists – Kaufmann promotes the long-term staple of the star singer’s arias collection into a concert event in its own right.”

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