The 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards

The 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards took place at London’s Kings Place. On this page you can find details of all the winners as well as listen to extracts from all of the winning recordings. Download free tracks from eight of our winning recordings on iTunes. Click here to claim your free music.

Plus you can watch the entire event by following the link below. Presented by Radio 4’s James Naughtie and BBC Music Magazine’s editor Oliver Condy, the ceremony features a whole host of guest presenters and artists.

Scroll down to see all winners or click on the categories below:

Instrumental Award & Recording of the Year

Schumann

Humoreske; Studies for the pedal piano; Gesänge der Frühe

Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Virgin 6420220

Also nominated:

Ravel Complete solo piano music

 Steven Osborne (piano)
Hyperion CDA 67731-2

Benjamin Grosvenor Piano music by Chopin, Liszt and Ravel

 Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478 3206

Opera Award

Handel

Agrippina

Sunhae Im, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Jennifer Rivera, Bejun Mehta, Marcos Fink, Neal Davies, Dominique Visse, Daniel Schmutzhard; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/René Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi HMC 952088.90

Also nominated:

Donizetti Linda di Chamounix

 Eglise Gutiérrez et al, etc; Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus/Mark Elder
Opera Rara ORC 43 165:33 mins (3 discs)

Prima Donna Vivaldi: Music from L’Olimpiade etc

 Orfeo 55/Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
DG 476 4390

Orchestral Award

Ravel, Debussy & Massenet

Ravel: Piano Concertos; Debussy: Fantasie; Massenet: Deux Impromptus, Toccata, Deux Pièces pour piano, Valse folle

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chandos CHSA 5084 (hybrid CD/SACD)

Also nominated:

Bartók Rhapsodies Nos 1 & 2; Violin Concerto No. 2

 Barnabás Kelemen (violin); Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Hungaroton HSACD 32509 (hybrid CD/SACD)

Mahler Symphony No. 3

 Mihoko Fujimura (alto); Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Jonathan Nott
Tudor 7170

Choral Award

Victoria

Requiem Mass, 1605; Lobo: Versa est in luctum; Lamentations

Tenebrae/Nigel Short
Signum SIGCD248

Also nominated:

Parry Songs of Farewell etc

 Tenebrae/Nigel Short
Signum SIGCD267

Reich The Desert Music etc

 Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria/Kristjan Järvi
Chandos CHSA 5091 (hybrid CD/SACD)

Chamber Award

Mozart

String Quartets, K157, 458 & 589

Jerusalem Quartet
Harmonia Mundi HMC 902076

Also nominated:

Ben Johnston String Quartets Nos 1, 5 & 10

 Kepler Quartet
New World 80693-2

Purcell Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts

 Retrospect Trio
Linn CKD 374 (hybrid CD/SACD)

Vocal Award

O Solitude

Songs and arias by Purcell

Andreas Scholl (countertenor); Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari
Decca 478 2262

Also nominated:

Loewe Songs & Ballads

 Florian Boesch (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA 67866

Tief in der Nacht  Songs by Berg & KA Hartmann

 Juliane Banse (soprano), Aleksandar Madžar (piano)
ECM 476 3848

DVD Award

Mahler

Symphony No. 9

Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
Accentus Music ACC20214

Also nominated:

Britten Billy Budd

 Jacques Imbrailo et al; LPO; The Glyndebourne Chorus/Mark Elder; dir. Michael Grandage
Opus Arte OA BD 7086D (and Blu-ray)

Strauss Elektra

 Iréne Theorin et al; Vienna Philharmonic; Vienna State Opera Chorus/Daniele Gatti; dir. Nikolaus Lehnhoff
Arthaus 101 559

Newcomer Award

Recital

Handel: Suite in B flat major; Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel; JS Bach: Partita No. 1 in B flat, Fantasy and Fugue in G minor (transcr. Liszt); Liszt: Vallée D’Obermann from Années de Pèlerinage

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Avanti Classics 5414706 10342

Technical Excellence Award

Berlioz

Grande Messe des Morts

Robert Murray (tenor); Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Chetham’s School of Music Brass Ensemble, Paul McCreesh
Winged Lion/Signum SIGCD280

Premiere Recording Award

Harrison Birtwistle

Night’s Black Bird; The Shadow of Night; The Cry of Anubis

Owen Slade (tuba); The Hallé/Ryan Wigglesworth
NMC D156

Best DVD Documentary Award

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Directed by Peter Raymont & Michèle Hozer
Drakes Avenue Pictures DAP7793