Virgin Classics Virgin Classics Celebrates Gramophone Label of the Year Award

Virgin Classics Virgin Classics has won the prestigious "Label of the Year" award at this year's Gramophone Awards ceremony which was held in London.

Alain Lanceron
Alain Lanceron
Gramophone commented in its awards issue: "[Virgin Classics] has achieved that rare ability to feel like a large independent within the fold of a major company.

[The label] has, in Alain Lanceron found and A&R director of exquisite taste, sound judgement and real flair, and under his leadership has issued some truly magnificent recordings.

Virgin Classics' artist roster is small but finely focused, embracing established talent like Fabio Biondi, Véronique Gens, Natalie Dessay, Truls Mork and David Daniels, rising stars like Piotr Anderszewski, Emmanuelle Haim, and Daniel Harding, and hugely impressive newcomers like Philippe Jaroussky and the Artemis Quartet. […]

Under Alain Lanceron, Virgin Classics not only continues to reveal some of classical music's hidden treasures - remember last year's Bajazet? - but is confident enough to revisit the cornerstones of the repertoire: Mozart's Mass in C minor, or his piano concertos…even the Beethoven string quartets.

2005-06 has been a strong year for the label - indeed, as with Bordeaux output of the same period, it could well prove to be a vintage one. […] we offer the warmest congratulations to Virgin Classics for another great French export!"


Anderszewski Szymanowski
Szymanowski:
Piano Sonata No.3
Métopes, Masques
Piotr Anderszewski
CD Album/s : 5457302
Virgin Classics also celebrated a second award at the ceremony which went to pianist Piotr Anderszewski, who was awarded the Instrumental category for his Karol Szymanowski disc. Collecting the award Piotr said this was "a very special project of great importance to him". He was honoured and happy to contribute to putting Szymanowski on the map in classical music.



Virgin Classics
MOZART: Piano Concertos No 17 & 20 MOZART
Piano Concertos No 17 & 20

Piotr Anderszewski
Scottish Chamber Orchestra

CD: 3446962
Digital: 344696 5
BRAHMS: Ballades, Valses, Paganini Variations BRAHMS
Ballades, Valses, Paganini Variations

Nicholas Angelich

CD: 3728822
Digital: 3728825
 
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY: Beata Vergine Beata Vergine
Philippe Jaroussky

Ensemble Artaserse

CD: 3447112
Digital: 3447105
VIVALDI: Heroes - Vivaldi Arias VIVALDI
Heroes - Vivaldi Arias

Philippe Jaroussky
Ensemble Matheus / Jean-Christophe Spinosi

CD: 3634142
Digital: 3634145
 
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 13 Op. 106 / JANAČEK: String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 13 Op. 106
JANAČEK: String Quartet No.2 "Intimate Letters"
Artemis Quartet

CD: 3533992
Digital: 3533995
STRAUSS / SCHÖNBERG / BERG: String Sextets 'Verklärte Nacht' STRAUSS / SCHÖNBERG / BERG
String Sextets "Verklärte Nacht"

Artemis Quartet
CD: 3351302
Digital: 3351305
 
Qigang CHEN: Extase Qigang CHEN
Extase

Slatkin / Prin / Tsung Yeh
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

CD: 3446932
GRIEG: Norwegian Dances, Symphonic Dances, 2 Elegiac Melodies, Holberg Suite GRIEG
Norwegian Dances, Symphonic Dances, 2 Elegiac Melodies, Holberg Suite

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Järvi

CD: 3447222
Digital: 3447225
 
VARIOUS: Le Jardin des Voix Le Jardin des Voix
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie

CD: 3381542
Digital: 3381545
CHARPENTIER: Judicium Salomonis H422 / Motet pour une longue offrande CHARPENTIER
Judicium Salomonis H422
Motet pour une longue offrande

Paul Agnew, Neal Davies, Nathan Berg, Marie Claude Chapuis - Marc Mauillon
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie

CD: 3592942
Digital: 3592935
 
Véroniquie GENS: Tragédiennes / Great Scenes from French Operatic Tragedies Tragédiennes
Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset
Véronique Gens

CD: 3467622
Digital: 3467625
HANDEL / HASSE: Cantatas & Opera arias HANDEL / HASSE
Cantatas & Opera arias

Vivica Genaux
Les Violons du Roy / Bernard Labadie

CD: 5457372
Digital: 5457375
 
MOZART: Mass in C minor MOZART
Mass in C minor

Natalie Dessay, Véronique Gens, Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni
Chœur & Orchestre du Concert d'Astrée / Louis Langrée

CD: 3446932
Deluxe (CD+DVD): 3593052
Digital: 3593055
Renaud et Gautier CAPUCON: Inventions Inventions
Duos for violin & cello, vol. 2
Renaud Capucon
Gautier Capucon

CD: 3326262
Digital: 3326265
 
MONTEVERDI: Combattimento MONTEVERDI
Combattimento
Il combattimento di Tancredi i Clorinda & Madrigals

Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi, Topi Lehtipuu
Le Concert d'Astrée
Emmanuelle Haïm

CD: 3633502
Deluxe (CD+DVD): 3634022
Digital: 3633505
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Natalie Dessay


2 CDs: 3633322
French deluxe CD version: 3779612
Digital: 3633325
 
MOZART: Violin Concertos 1, 2 & 3 MOZART
Violin Concertos 1, 2 & 3
Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi

CD: 344706 2 9
Digital: 344706 5 0
PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater, Salve Regina

David Daniels, Dorothea Röschmann
Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi

CD: 3633402
Digital: 3633405
 
ROLANDO VILLAZÓN: Opera  Récital Opera Recital
Rolando Villazón
Münchner Rundfunkorchester

CD: 3447012
CD deluxe version: 3447332
Digital: 3447052
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DVD

MASSENET: Werther (Baritone Version) MASSENET
Werther (Baritone Version)

Thomas Hampson, Susan Graham, Stéphane Degout, Sandrine Piau
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse / Michel Plasson
(Concert performance - Théâtre du Châtelet)

2 DVDs: 3592579 (NTSC)
MOZART: Così fan tutte MOZART
Così fan tutte

Erin Wall, Elīna Garanča, Stéphane Degout, Shawn Mathey, Barbara Bonney, Ruggero Raimondi
Arnold Schönberg Choir
Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Daniel Harding
Stage Director: Patrice Chéreau
2005 Aix-en-Provence production

2 DVDs: 3447169 (NTSC)
 
VARIOUS: A Natural Born Fiddler / Un Violon dans l'âme VARIOUS
A Natural Born Fiddler / Un Violon dans l'âme

Valeriy Sokolov
A film by Bruno Monsaingeon

DVD: 3592849 (NTSC)
NATALIE DESSAY: The Miracle of the Voice NATALIE DESSAY
The Miracle of the Voice
Le miracle d'une voix
Greatest moments on stage
Ses plus grands rôles sur scène


DVD: 3633399 (NTSC)
 
DONIZETTI:  L'Elisir d'amore DONIZETTI
L'Elisir d'amore

Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, Leo Nucci, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Alfred Eschwé

DVD: 3706399 (NTSC)
JS BACH: St John's Passion JS BACH
In Notre Dame de Paris
Mass in B minor

Ruth Ziesak, Joyce DiDonato, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew, Dietrich Henschel
Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris / Nicole Corti
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris / John Nelson

DVD: 3706399 (NTSC)


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