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Gramophone announce shortlist for 2023 Awards

7/9/2023

Gramophone have released their shortlist for the 2023 Gramophone Awards, featuring six of our artists.

Timothy Ridout makes a splash with his unique album, Elgar • Bloch. Recorded with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins, the album features two hidden gems in Lionel Tertis’s arrangement of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor for viola and orchestra, and Ernst Bloch’s Suite, for viola and orchestra.

Sakari Oramo looks to add another accolade to his extensive discography as his recording of Rued Laangaard’s First Symphony with Berliner Philharmoniker is shortlisted.

Sean Shibe​’s Lost & Found continues to excite critics with its beguilingly eclectic blend of tracks inspired by a range of sources from Chick Corea and Moondog to Oliver Messiaen and Hildagard von Bingen. Lost & Found​’s selection for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2023 shortlist follows it’s recent win of the OPUS Klassik 2023 Award for Solo Instrument. 

Jean Rondeau​’s latest album Gradus ad Parnassum has been described as ​“Genius” by Gramophone and ​“Quietly Audacious” by the New York Times. Recorded in partnership with the Warner/​Erato label, it pays tribute to the eponymous 1725 composition by Austrian composer Johann Joseph Fux using the image of the mythological mountain home of the Muses and the metaphorical climb the artist makes to reach it. Rondeau’s journey takes a circumspect route, combining works intended for both piano and harpsichord by composers ranging from the 16th to the 20th Centuries including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi and Debussy.

Bertrand Chamayou is nominated for his recording of Messiaen’s Vingt regards. Bertrand Chamayou also won an Opus Klassik 2023 Award the category Instrument Solo with this latest CD release. He will be performing Vingt regards at Muziekgebouw aan ​‘t IJ in Amsterdam on 4 November.

Bertrand also has a new upcoming album, Letter(s) to Erik Sati,e with works by Erik Satie, John Cage and James Tenney releasing this fall on Warner Classics, which is currently at the top of Apple Music Classical The Works playlist.

In the Concerto category, Pekka Kuusisto is nominated for his first album as a conductor together with violinist Vilde Frang and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Released in 2022, this recording presents the Stravinsky and Beethoven Concerti for Warner Classics. In January 2022, he has already garnered a International Classical Music Award in the Concertos category.