Gramophone Magazine Reveals Shortlist for 2024 Classical Music Awards

66 recordings have been shortlisted across 11 categories

Launched in 1977, the Gramophone Classical Music Awards constitute one of the most prominent prizes for recording in the classical music industry. They are often characterized as being classical music's version of the Oscars.

66 recordings across 11 categories have made it onto the shortlist for the 2024 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. In October, this shortlist will be reduced from six recordings per category down to three, and the winning recordings will later be revealed at the Gramophone Music Awards ceremony.

Below is a selection of categories from the shortlist.

Chamber

• Antje Weithaas and Dénés Várjon: Beethoven Violin Sonatas
• Gabriel Le Magadure, Frank Braley, Quatuor Agate: Chausson/Lekeu
• Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou: Mendelssohn
• Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov: Schumann
• Timothy Ridout: A Lionel Tertis Celebration
• Barbara Hannigan, Bertrand Chamayou, Emerson String Quartet: Infinite Voyage

Choral

• Sir Mark Elder/Bergen Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra: Delius's A Mass of Life
• Paul McCreesh/Gabrieli: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
• Raphaël Pichon/Pygmalion: Monteverdi's Vespro della beata Vergine
• William Vann/Crouch End Festival Chorus: Scenes from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
• Martyn Brabbins/University of Birmingham Voices: Stanford's Requiem
• Sir Andrew Davis/BBC Symphony and Chorus: Tippett's A Child of Our Time

Concerto

• Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß: Bacewicz's Concerti for 1 & 2 Pianos
• Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Bartók's Piano Concerti
• Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff: Brahms Double Concerto and Viotti Violin Concerto No. 22
• Isabelle Faust: Britten's Violin Concerto
• Yuja Wang: Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto
• Wen-Sinn Yang and Tassilo Probst: works by Weinberg

Contemporary

• Luke Bedford: in the Voices of the Living
• Unsuk Chin: Orchestral Works
• Emily Howard: Torus
• John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times
• Seppo Pohjola: String Quartets Nos 5-7
• Kaija Saariaho: Maan Varjot, Chateau de l'Ame, True Fire, Offrande

Early Music

• Cinquecento: Daser's Missa Pater Noster
• Cut Circle/Jesse Rodin: Josquin Motets and Chansons
• Magnificat/Philip Cave: Lassus's The Alchemist
• Cappella Pratensis/Stratton Bull: Jacob Obrecht's Missa Maria Zart
• Les Arts Florissants/Paul Agnew: Schütz's Italian madrigals
• Resurgam/The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble/Mark Duley: Gentleman Extraordinary (Thomas Weelkes)

To view the full shortlist, click here.