The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.
The Diapason d'Or de l'Année (French: [djapasɔ̃d‿ɔʁdəl‿ane] ; English: "Golden Tuning Fork of the Year") is a more prestigious award, decided by a jury comprising critics from Diapason and broadcasters from France Musique, [1] and is comparable to the United Kingdom's Gramophone Awards, associated with the Gramophone magazine. [2]
Trevor David Pinnock is a British harpsichordist and conductor.
Hendrik "Henk" Bouman is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th and 18th century.
Philippe Manoury is a French composer.
Claude Helffer was a French pianist.
Christophe Rousset is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries and is the founder of the French music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques.
Pablo Heras-Casado is a Spanish conductor.
The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are music awards first awarded 6 April 2011. ICMA replace the Cannes Classical Awards formerly awarded at MIDEM. The jury consists of music critics of magazines Andante, Crescendo, Fono Forum, Gramofon, Kultura, Musica, Musik & Theater, Opera, Pizzicato, Rondo Classic, Scherzo, with radio stations MDR Kultur (Germany), Orpheus Radio 99.2FM (Russia), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), the International Music and Media Centre (IMZ) (Austria), website Resmusica.com (France) and radio Classic (Finland).
Jean François Toussaint Rogister was a Belgian virtuoso violist, teacher and composer.
Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich is a French organist and composer.
Guillaume Connesson is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Stéphan Aubé is a French Music video director for classical music and pianist.
Henri Demarquette is a French contemporary classical cellist.
Brice Pauset is a French composer living in Germany.
Alice Piérot is a French Baroque violinist.
Maude Gratton is a French classical musician. She is pursuing a career of soloist, mastering the pipe organ, the piano-forte and the harpsichord.
Les Siècles is a French symphony orchestra founded in 2003 by François-Xavier Roth, with ambition to put works from the 17th to 21st centuries into today's perspective. The musicians of the orchestra play each repertoire on the historical instruments appropriate to the time of its creation.
Claire Guimond is a Canadian flute player, founding member and former Artistic Director of Arion Baroque Orchestra.
Arion Baroque Orchestra, founded in 1981, is a Canadian baroque orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, specializing in music of the 18th century performed on period instruments.
Depuis plus de quinze ans, les 'Diapason d'or' de l'année se sont imposés comme la récompense la plus prisée en matière d'enregistrement discographique. Ils couronnent les plus beaux CD et DVD classiques parus au cours des douze derniers mois. Les 'Diapason d'or' de l'année sont désormais décernés par un jury comportant des critiques du magazine Diapason et des producteurs de France Musique.