Classic FM Gramophone Awards winners 2007

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And the winners are...

Artist of the Year
Julia Fischer

Lifetime Achievement
Montserrat Caballé

Young Artist Award
Vasily Petrenko

Classic FM Magazine Award for Audience Innovation
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Special Achievement Award
Christopher Raeburn (veteran record producer)

Label Of The Year
Deutsche Grammophon

Recording Awards:

Record of the Year (and winner of the Concerto category)
Brahms Piano Concertos - Nelson Freire; Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (Decca)

Baroque instrumental
Handel Concerti Grossi - Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)

Baroque vocal
Handel Messiah (Dublin version, 1742) - Dunedin Consort & Players / John Butt (Linn Records)

Chamber
Haas and Janácek String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon)

Choral
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem - Dorothea Röschmann; Thomas Quasthoff; Berlin Radio Choir; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (EMI)

Contemporary
Julian Anderson Alhambra Fantasy - BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen (Ondine)

DVD
Julian Bream: My Life in Music (Avie)

Early Music
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis - The Cardinall’s Music (Hyperion)

Historic archive
Wagner Götterdämmerung - Bayreuth Festival Opera / Joseph Keilberth (Testament)

Historic reissue
Moeran Symphony etc - London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia / Sir Adrian Boult (Lyrita)

Instrumental
Bach - Cello Suites, Steven Isserlis (Hyperion)

Opera
Rossini Matilde di Shabran - Conducted by Riccardo Frizza (Decca)

Orchestral
Prokofiev Complete Symphonies - London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (Philips)

Recital
Simon Keenlyside: Tales of Opera - Munich Radio Orchestra / Ulf Schirmer (Sony Classical)

Solo vocal
R.Strauss Lieder - Jonas Kaufmann; Helmut Deutsch (Harmonia Mundi)

Editor’s Choice Award
Mahler Symphony No 2 - Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics)