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Lisa Batiashvili; Isabelle Faust; Renaud Capuçon Short-Listed for Gramophone Awards 2017
Violinists Lisa Batiashvili, Isabelle Faust and Renaud Capuçon are among those short-listed for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017, announced today by London-based Gramophone Magazine. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the awards.
Isabelle Faust, Lisa Batiashvili and Renaud Capuçon.
Both Lisa Batiashvili and Isabelle Faust were nominated in the Concerto category; Batiashvili for her recording of Sibelius and Tchaikovsky and Faust for her recording of the complete Mozart Violin Concertos. Renaud Capuçon was nominated in the Contemporary category for his recording of works by Wolfgang Rihm; Pascal Dusapin and Bruno Mantovani Congratulations to all nominees!
Winners in each of 12 categories will be announced Sept. 1, and among those, one will go on to win Recording of the Year, to be announced at a special ceremony Sept. 13. Other awards, including Young Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Achievement and Label of the Year will also be announced at the ceremony, which will live-streamed via Medici.tv.
Below is the the Gramophone Awards Shortlist announced Wednesday; click here for a full list of all 72 recordings that were initially nominated.
Baroque Instrumental
- Florilegium: Telemann: Ihr Völker hört. Concertos (Channel Classics)
- Gli Incogniti / Giuliano Carmignola / Amandine Beyer: Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini (Harmonia Mundi)
- La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler: ‘The Italian Job’ (Avie)
Baroque Vocal
- Iestyn Davies; Arcangelo / Jonathan Cohen: Bach: Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170 (Hyperion)
- Les Arts Florissants / Paul Agnew: Monteverdi: Madrigals, Vol 3: Venezia (Harmonia Mundi)
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir; EBS: Bach: St Matthew Passion (SDG)
Chamber
- Danish Quartet: Abrahamsen, Adès, Norgård: String Quartets (ECM)
- The Nash Ensemble: Bruch: String Octet. String Quintets (Hyperion)
- Silesian Quartet: Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets (Chandos)
Choral
- Paul McCreesh / Gabrieli Consort & Players: Haydn: The Seasons (Signum)
- Hervé Niquet / Le Concert Spirituel: Cherubini, Plantade: Requiems (Alpha)
- Masaaki Suzuki / Bach Collegium: Mozart: Mass in C minor (BIS)
Concerto
- Lisa Batiashvili; Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim: Sibelius/Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (DG)
- Danny Driver; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Rebecca Miller: Beach, Chaminade, Howells: Piano Concertos (Hyperion)
- Isabelle Faust; Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1-5 (Harmonia Mundi)
Contemporary
- London Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Adès: Adès: Orchestral Works (LSO Live)
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / George Benjamin: Benjamin, Ligeti, Murail: Orchestral Works (Neos)
- Renaud Capuçon: Dusapin, Mantovani, Rihm: Works for Violin and Orchestra (Erato)
Early Music
- The Binchois Consort: ‘Music for the 100 Years War’ (Hyperion)
- Cut Circle / Jesse Rodin: Dufay: Les messes à teneur (Musique en Wallonie)
- Phantasm: Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears (Linn)
Instrumental
- Murray Perahia: Bach: French Suites (DG)
- Beatrice Rana: Bach: Goldberg Variations (Warner Classics)
- Daniil Trifonov: Liszt: ‘Transcendental’: Etudes d'éxécution transcendante (DG)
Opera
- Glyndebourne / Leo Hussain: Britten: Rape of Lucretia (DVD) (Opus Arte)
- Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg / François Bollon: Goldmark: Die Königin von Saba (CPO)
- Zurich Opera / Fabio Luisi: Berg: Wozzeck (DVD) (Accentus)
Orchestral
- Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini: Haydn: Symphonies Nos 12, 60, 70 (Alpha)
- Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 3, 6 & 7 (BIS)
- Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard: Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 (Seattle SO)
Recital
- Joyce DiDonato with Il Pomo d’Oro / Maxim Emelyanychev: ‘In War and Peace’ (Erato)
- Anett Fritsch with Munich Rundfunk / Alessandro de Marchi: Mozart: Arias (Orfeo)
- Anna Prohaska with Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini: ‘Serpent and Fire’ (Alpha)
Solo Vocal
- Benjamin Appl & James Bailieu: Heimat (Sony Classical)
- Florian Boesch & Roger Vignoles: Krenek: Reisebuch aus den österrichischen Alpen (Hyperion)
- Matthias Goerne & Christoph Eschenbach: Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge; Songs Op 32 (Harmonia Mundi)
You might also like:
- Interview with Lisa Batiashvili: Tchaikovsky at Last
- For the Record, Op. 10: Mozart Complete Works; Isabelle Faust's Mozart Concertos
- For the Record, Op. 7: New recordings by Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon
Replies
If i may add a couple of more things.
I do not wish to appear as a ' hater '
I first heard Renaud when i was younger whilst looking for Gluck Melodie interpretations.
Too much sliding so i never looked at him since.
I didn't know his name at the time. In 2013 i got to hear him live playing brahms double concerto with his brother.
The technical passages were a bit mushy. Same as the third movement from the sibelius where he struggled with the octaves.
It was still nice.
I heard him again playing Mozart 3rd con
It was nice but the lack of conductors made the small orchestra swallow him. Couldn't hear him during the adagio.
The cadenzas were his a bit too linear lacking counterpoint. I guess Madam Hahn spoiled me with her cadenzas.
He's not a bad player. There's better and it's sad how certain players get more recognition than others.
I could link his playing to the French society and write an essay, currently working on one on studies here. But that's for another day.
The point I'm trying to make is.
Don't bother spending your money on him. Someone better will come along if you're in a well positioned city.
Apologies Laurie for turning this news post into a stream of consciousness draft.
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August 19, 2017 at 05:41 AM · I'm sorry but i have to be mean.
I live in France and I've heard capucon on several occasions live and he's not good.
just the fact that his technique is bad. The arrogance of the album title le violon roi. The King violin.
But let's be honest his brother is a much greater musician.
The truth is he's just a symptom.
Of France being unable to produce any good violinists lately. They never win these days, the conservatory set pieces are unknown in most cities. And they're very snobby.
I miss Ferras.