{"id":555,"date":"2010-04-14T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2010\/04\/14\/bbc-music-mag-awards-the-winners\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:37:14","slug":"bbc-music-mag-awards-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2010\/04\/14\/bbc-music-mag-awards-the-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Music Mag Awards: The Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was hoping to bring you all the insider gossip, VIP handshakes and general Good Guys of Music World backslapping from the BBC Music Magazine Awards<\/a> at Kings Place yesterday. These awards play the Lib Dems to the Gramophone Awards\u2019 New Labour: smaller, nicer, user-friendly, generally more enthusiastic, and rather often spot-on. <\/p>\n

But I had to do an interview at 3.30pm, so dropped out, wondering why Semyon Bychkov<\/a>\u2018s press attache seemed so disappointed when I told her. Then 3.30pm arrived and it turned out my interviewee\u2019s phone was out of juice. Interview moved to 4.30pm\u2026and I found I could watch the entire ceremony on my computer via direct streaming. Maybe next year they can stream us lunch as well. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a fine line-up indeed, headed by Bychkov\u2019s recording of Wagner\u2019s Lohengrin<\/em> as Disc of the Year<\/strong> as well as winner in the Opera<\/strong> category (Johan Botha, Adrienne Pieczonka, Petra Lang, WDR SO, Cologne, Profil H\u00e4nssler PH 09004). <\/p>\n

The Orchestral<\/strong> category was won by a recording featuring a violinist I hadn\u2019t heard of and can\u2019t spell, but she was there in person and performed an extract from Enescu\u2019s Impressions d\u2019enfance<\/em> most wonderfully. I\u2019d voted for one of the other two shortlisted CDs, both of which were Hungarian \u2013 Ivan Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mahler 4, and Zoltan Kocsis wielding a baton over Bartok. But the winner is: Beethoven, Violin Concerto; Romances Nos 1 & 2; Violin Concerto in C \u2013 fragment; Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin); Orchestre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es\/Philippe Herreweghe, Na\u00efve V 5174. <\/p>\n

The Choral<\/strong> winner is Verdi\u2019s Messa da Requiem, featuring soloists including Anja Harteros and Rolando Villazon, with the Orchestra and Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia\/Antonio Pappano, EMI 698 9362. <\/p>\n

And in Chamber<\/strong> it\u2019s the Jerusalem Quartet sizzling its way through Haydn. Kyril Zlotnykov, the cellist, made a very well-judged acceptance speech and didn\u2019t mention the Wigmore Hall. Haydn, String Quartets: in F minor, Op. 20\/5; in C, Op. 33\/3 in D, Op. 76\/5, The Jerusalem Quartet, Harmonia Mundi HMX 2962030. <\/p>\n

In Vocal<\/strong>, it\u2019s Tchaikovsky Romances, with Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) and Julius Drake (piano), Onyx 4034. I don\u2019t know how Jonas Kaufmann\u2019s Sehnsucht<\/em> CD of German romantic opera didn\u2019t win \u2013 the Tchaikovsky must be something extremely special.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Three wonderful shortlisted discs in Instrumental<\/strong> resulted in a win for Beethoven\u2019s Piano Sonatas, Op. 14 Nos 1 & 2; Op. 26; Op. 28, Murray Perahia (piano), Sony 88697326462. Marvellous, though I wish Stephen Kovacevich\u2019s Diabelli Variations on Onyx could have won too<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Here are the Special Jury Awards: <\/p>\n

Newcomer<\/strong>: Elias Quartet: String Quartets (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0028) <\/p>\n

Premiere<\/strong>: Imogen Holst String Chamber Music (Court Lane Music) <\/p>\n

Technical Excellence<\/strong>: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 \u201cLobgesang\u201d Bergen Philharmonic, Andrew Litton BIS <\/p>\n

DVD (Performance)<\/strong>: Stravinsky and the Ballet Russes: the Firebird and the Rite of Spring, Gerviev, Mariinsky Theatre. Rite of Spring features the original choreography by Nijinsky and the original designs by Nicholas Roerich. [Question: how barking was Nijinsky? Mildly? Or totally?]<\/p>\n

So, lots of wonderful listening ahead there, and I\u2019ll leave you with the list to explore as I\u2019m off tomorrow to one of those strange and marvellous places with troubled histories\u2026 And places do not come much more strange and marvellous, or more troubled, than this one \u2013 in the present as well as the past. Hopefully I\u2019ll get back in one piece before very long. Ciaociao<\/em> for now.<\/p>\n

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