More than 30 recordings featuring Askonas Holt artists have been nominated for the 2017 International Classical Music Awards, as announced last Thursday.

Recognising “creativity, imagination in choice of repertoire and artistic excellence”, the awards are judged by a jury comprising music critics from a range of European magazines and radio stations.

The winners will be revealed on 19 January 2017.

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Nominated recordings featuring Askonas Holt artists:

BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL

Yevgeny Sudbin – Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas (BIS)

Jonathan Cohen – C.P.E Bach Cello Concertos with Nicolas Altstaedt & Arcangelo (Hyperion)

BAROQUE VOCAL

Giovanni Antonini – Serpent & Fire with Anna Prohaska & Il Giardino Armonico (Alpha)

Giovanni Antonini – Handel with Julia Lezhneva & Il Giardino Armonico (Decca)

John Mark Ainsley – Handel Partenope with Il pomo d’oro & Riccardo Minasi (Erato)

VOCAL RECITAL

Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Asmik Grigorian – Songs of War, Peace, Love & Sorrow with Constantine Orbelian & State Academic Symphony of Russia (Delos)

Magdalena Kožená – Brahms Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes with various artists (Deutsche Grammophon)

Franco Fagioli – Rossini Arias with Armonia Atenea & George Petrou (Deutsche Grammophon)

John Mark Ainsley & Malcolm Martineau – French Connections (Linn)

Ian Bostridge – Shakespeare Songs with Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics)

CHORAL

Mihoko Fujimura – Dvořák Stabat Mater with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Mariss Jansons

OPERA

Etienne Dupuis – Honegger & Ibert L’Aiglon with Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano (Decca)

Christiane Karg & Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Mozart Le nozze di Figaro with Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Deutsche Grammophon)

Jonathan Lemalu & Gary Griffiths – Holst At the Boar’s Head and Vaughan Williams Riders to the Sea with Warsaw Chamber Opera Sinfonietta (Dux)

Robin Tritschler – Donizetti Le Duc d’Albe with Opera Rara & Mark Elder (Opera Rara)

SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

Cédric Tiberghien – Bartók Mikrokosmos 6 (Hyperion)

Joseph Moog – Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (Onyx)

CHAMBER MUSIC

Julien Libeer – Réminiscences with Camille Thomas (La Dolce Volta)

Lars Vogt – Brahms Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 with Christian Tetzlaff (Ondine)

CONCERTOS

Carolin Widmann – Mendelssohn & Schumann Violin Concertos with Chamber Orchestra of Europe (ECM Records)

Kristian Bezuidenhout – Mozart Concertos with Freiburger Barockorchester Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi)

Vilde Frang – Britten & Korngold Violin Concertos with Frankfurt Radio Symphony & James Gaffigan (Warner Classics)

SYMPHONIC

Giovanni Antonini – Solo e pensoso with Il Giardino Armonico (Alpha)

Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-9 with the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berliner Philharmoniker)

Daniel Barenboim – Elgar Symphony No.1 with Staatskapelle Berlin (Decca)

Michael Tilson Thomas – Debussy: Images, Jeux, La plus que lentre with San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media)

CONTEMPORARY

Joyce DiDonato – Sheffer The Conference of the Birds with Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra & Jonathan Sheffer (Navona Records)

Michael Tilson Thomas – Bates The B sides, Liquid interface with San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media)

DVD PERFORMANCE

Joyce DiDonato – Bellini I Capuleti e I Montecchi with Opernhaus Zurich & Fabio Luisi (Accentus Music)

Mihoko Fujimura – Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Leipzig Gewandhausorchester & Herbert Blomstedt (Accentus Music)

Giovanni Antonini – Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto with Il Giardino Armonico (Decca)

Joyce DiDonato – Rossini La donna del lago with the Metropolitan Opera & Michele Mariotti (Erato)

Robin Ticciati – Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Glyndebourne Opera (Opus Arte)

Ludovic Tézier – Verdi La forza del destino with Bayerische Staatsoper & A Fisch (Sony Classical)

Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Bevan & Benjamin Hulett – Handel Saul with Glyndebourne Opera (Opus Arte)