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MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL
Recordings Of The Year 2022
This is the twentieth year that Musicweb International has asked its reviewing team to nominate their recordings of the year. Reviewers are not restricted to discs they had reviewed, but the choices must have been reviewed on MWI in the last 12 months (December 2021-November 2022).
The
105 selections have come from
23 members of the team
and 52 different labels, the choices this year reflecting as usual, the great diversity of music and sources.
Of the selections, just one received three nominations: • the
second volume of the orchestral music of Ruth Gipps on Chandos
and ten have received two: • Berlioz's Grand messe from Sir
Antonio Pappano on RCO Live • Ian Venables's Requiem on
Delphian • Mao Fujita’s complete Mozart sonatas on Sony •
Verdi's Falstaff from Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Dynamic •
The complete piano works of Daniel Jones on Lyrita • Hans
Abrahamsen’s Schnee on Dacapo • Lisette
Oropesa's recital of French bel canto arias on Pentatone • Brahms'
Fourth Symphony from Pittsburgh on Reference Recordings •
symphonies by Tālivaldis Ķeniņš on Ondine •
British piano concertos on Lyrita
Of the labels,
Chandos headed the field with
ten nominations, well ahead of the others.
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MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Choosing one recording from over 1700 reviews we
published in the last twelve months is always challenging. In some years,
there is a significant composer anniversary which produces an
outstanding release that makes for a suitable choice. In this
case, the obvious candidate was that of the 150th
birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams. While there were many releases
celebrating this (five were nominated), especially from the RVW
Society's label Albion Records, no one release stood out.
This meant the selection would have to be a recording which
garnered the most nominations.
Ruth Gipps
Orchestral Works Vol. 2 - Juliana Koch (oboe) BBC Philharmonic/Rumon
Gamba rec. 2019/22 CHANDOS
CHAN20161
Given that Chandos secured twice as many nominations as any
other label, it is appropriate that the overall choice comes
from that source. Likewise, if a Vaughan Williams release was
not to be chosen for this, award, then it is pleasing to be able
to do so for one of his students. One of our reviewers described
the music and the label thus: "rare but valuable repertoire
performed with skill and insight by the finest artists superbly
recorded and produced".
