Brit Award for Classical Recording

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Brit Award for Classical Recording
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1993 Winner Nigel Kennedy
Awarded forAchievement in Excellent Classical Recording
Country United Kingdom (UK)
Presented by British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
First award1982
Final award1993
Currently held by Nigel Kennedy (1993)
Most awards Simon Rattle (6)
Most nominations Julian Lloyd Webber (3) Nigel Kennedy and Simon Rattle (2)
Website www.brits.co.uk

The Brit Award for Classical Recording was an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom. [1]

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Criteria

The accolade used to be presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music. [2] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees. [3]

History

The award was first presented in 1982 as "Classical Recording" which was won by Simon Rattle. The accolade has been defunct as of 1993.

New Zealand opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa became the only female winner in 1984. Only two other women were nominated for the award; Jane Glover for her recording of Violin Concerto by Richard Strauss and another violin concerto by Christopher Headington in 1992, and Cecilia Bartoli for her recording of Heroines by Giacomo Puccini in 1993. Te Kanawa was also one of only four non-British winners, along with Australian guitarist John Williams in 1983, Indian conductor Zubin Mehta for Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert in 1991 and Hungarian-born conductor Georg Solti for his recording of Otello by Giuseppe Verdi, though Solti had been a British citizen since 1972. At least two musicians were nominated posthumously; Puccini in 1984, 60 years after his death, and Leonard Bernstein for his operetta Candide in 1992, two years after his death. The only musician nominated for two recordings in the same year was Colin Davis, who was nominated for his recordings of The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten in 1985.

Winners and nominees

Inaugural 1982 winner Simon Rattle Rattle BPH-Rittershaus2- Wikipedia.jpg
Inaugural 1982 winner Simon Rattle
Two-time winner Nigel Kennedy Nigel Kennedy (3).jpg
Two-time winner Nigel Kennedy
Kiri Te Kanawa was the only woman to win the award Kiri Te Kanawa 80th birthday (cropped).jpg
Kiri Te Kanawa was the only woman to win the award
YearRecipientNominees
1982 Flag of England.svg Simon Rattle
1983 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Williams
1984 Flag of New Zealand.svg Kiri Te Kanawa
1985 Flag of England.svg Christopher Hogwood – The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) [4]
1986 Flag of England.svg Nigel Kennedy - Violin Concerto (Elgar) [5]
1987 Flag of England.svg Julian Lloyd Webber - Elgar Cello Concerto
1988 Flag of England.svg Vernon Handley -Symphony No. 5 (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
1989 Flag of England.svg Trevor Pinnock -Messiah (Handel)
1990 Flag of England.svg Simon Rattle - Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin)
1991 Flag of India.svg Zubin Mehta - Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert (various)
1992 Flag of Hungary.svg / Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Georg Solti - Otello (Verdi)
1993 Flag of England.svg Nigel Kennedy - Violin Concerto (Beethoven) [7]

Multiple nominations and awards

References

  1. ↑ "About the BPI". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Archived from the original on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "BRIT Awards". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "And the nominees are..." Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Christopher Hogwood wins Best British Classical Recording | BRIT Awards 1985
  5. ↑ Nigel Kennedy wins Classical Recording presented by Sir George Sholty | BRIT Awards 1986
  6. ↑ 1990 - Best British Classical Recording - Simon Rattle - BRITs on YouTube
  7. ↑ Simply Red, Lennox top Brit Awards - Variety
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