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Denis BOCHAROV, Music Editor
KULTURA - Novoslobodskaya street, h.73, building 1
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SPECIAL AWARDS

- LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Charles Dutoit
- ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
Andreas Staier
- YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
Adrien Boisseau, viola
- LABEL OF THE YEAR:
Glossa
- CLASSICAL WEBSITE AWARD:
Metropolitan Opera Archives
- SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg
- SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Ludwig van Beethoven Association, Kraków (Poland)

CD & DVD CATEGORIES

EARLY MUSIC

Erasmus van Rotterdam: In Praise of Folly
Louise Moaty, Marc Mauillon, René Zosso
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall
Alia Vox AVSA 9895

BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL

The Scarlatti Restored Manuscript
Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Soler: Sonatas
Andrea Bacchetti, piano
RCA Red Seal 88765417242
In these rediscovered scores of brilliant keyboard music Andrea Bacchetti combines his usual exquisite musicianship and colorful musical phrasing, full of life and fantasy, with commendable stylistic rigor. This CD confirms that Bacchetti is definitely one of the most interesting pianists in the Baroque repertoire.

BAROQUE VOCAL

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater,
Laudate Pueri, Confitebor tibi Domine
Philippe Jaroussky, Julia Lezhneva
Coro della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana,
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Erato 5099931914727

VOCAL RECITAL

Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
Matthias Goerne, baritone &
Andreas Haefliger, piano
Harmonia Mundi HMC 902141

CHORAL WORKS

Berlioz: Grande messe des morts, Op. 5
Barry Banks, London Symphony Chorus,
London Philharmonic Choir,
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
LSO Live LSO0729

OPERA

Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager,
Christopher Purves, Susan Gritton,
Peter Coleman-Wright, Claire Booth,
Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Erato 5099960267221

SOLO INSTRUMENT

Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
George Enescu: Sonata op. 24/1
Claude Debussy: 4 Préludes
Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
eaSonus EAS 29237

SOLO INSTRUMENT

Scarlatti Illuminated
(Scarlatti - Scarlatti/Tausig - Scarlatti/Friedman)
Joseph Moog, piano
Onyx 4106

CHAMBER MUSIC

Béla Bartok: String Quartet No. 3
Alban Berg: String Quartet op. 3
Alfred Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3
Signum Quartett
Capriccio C5163

CONCERTOS

Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112
Peter Eötvös: Seven
György Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ensemble Modern, Peter Eötvös
Naďve V5285

SYMPHONIC MUSIC

Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4,
Tragische Ouvertüre, Haydn-Variationen,
Liebeslieder-Walzer etc.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
Decca 4785344

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

Krzysztof Penderecki: The Complete Symphonies
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra,
Krzysztof Penderecki
Dux 947

BEST COLLECTION

Paul Hindemith: Violin Concerto - Violin Sonatas
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin,
Enrico Pace, piano, Paavo Järvi,
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Paavo Järvi
BIS 2024

HISTORICAL RECORDING

Celibidache - The Berlin Recordings, 1945-1957
Hans Bottermund, Helmut Heller, Lilia d'Albore,
Erna Berger, Margarete Klose, Gustav Scheck,
Gerhard Puchelt, Tibor de Machula, Raoul Koczalski,
Hans Peter Schmitz, Helmut Schlövogt, Karl Rucht,
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Berlin, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,
Sergiu Celibidache
- Audite 21.423

DVD PERFORMANCE

Sergey Prokofiev: The Gambler
Sergei Aleksashkin, Tatiana Pavlovskaya,
Vladimir Galuzin, Larissa Dyadkova,
Nikolai Gassiev, Alexander Gergalov,
Nadezhda Serdyuk, Andrei Popov,
Oleg Sychev, Andrei Spekhov
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev;
Laurent Gentot, film director
Mariinsky MAR0536

DVD DOCUMENTARIES

Refuge in Music - Terezin
A Film by Dorothee Binding and Benedict Mirow,
with Anne-Sofie von Otter, Daniel Hope,
Christian Gerhaher, Bengt Forsberg,
Bebe Risenfors, Alice Herz-Sommer,
Coco Schumann
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6546 2
Alia Vox AVSA 9895