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1996 Gramophone Awards The 1996 Gramophone Awards were presented on October 10, 1996 at London's Savoy Hotel and were published in the November 1996 issue of the magazine. | Concerto (Record of the Year) | Sauer, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E minor and Scharwenka, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in F minor, Op.82, Stephen Hough; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster (Hyperion) | | Baroque Non-Vocal | Vivaldi, Il Proteo — Double and Triple Concertos,Christophe Coin; Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini (Teldec Das Alte Werk) | | Baroque Vocal | Vivaldi, Stabat Mater, Andreas Scholl; Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi) | | Chamber | Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 33 — nos. 5,3 and 2, Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidis Astrée) | | Choral | Grainger, Londonderry Air — Songs and Dancing Ballads, Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner Orchestra / John Eliot Gardiner (Philips) | | Contemporary | Birtwistle, Gawain, Marie Angel, Anne Howells, Richard Greager, Penelope Walmsley-Clark, Omar Ebrahim, Alan Ewing, John Marsden, François Le Roux, Kevin Smith, John Tomlinson, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Elgar Howarth (Collins Classics) | | Early Music | Dunstable, Sacred Choral Works, Orlando Consort (Metronome) | | Early Opera | Handel, Ariodante, Lorraine Hunt, Juliana Gondek, Lisa Saffer, Jennifer Lane, Rufus Müller, Lurcanio; Nicolas Cavallier, Jörn Lindemann, Wilhelmshaven Vocal Ensemble, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan (Harmonia Mundi) | | Engineering | Sibelius, Symphony No. 5 in E-flat (original 1915 version), En Saga, Op. 9 (original 1892 version), Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (BIS) | | Historic Non-Vocal | Debussy, Complete Piano Works, Walter Gieseking (EMI mono) | | Historic Vocal | Lucrezia Bori, Opera and Operetta Arias, volumes 1 and 2 (The Complete Victor Recordings, 1925–1937), Lucrezia Bori with various artists (Romophone) | | Instrumental | D. Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas, Mikhail Pletnev (Virgin Classics) | | Music Theater | Gershwin, Oh, Kay!, Dawn Upshaw, Kurt Ollmann, Adam Arkin, Patrick Cassidy, Robert Westenberg, Liz Larsen, Stacey Logan, Susan Lucci, Fritz Weaver, chorus, Orchestra of St. Luke's / Eric Stern (Nonesuch) | | Opera | Prokofiev, The Fiery Angel, Galina Gorchakova, Sergei Leiferkus, Vladimir Galusin, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Sergei Alexashkin, Vladimir Ognovanko, Evgeni Boitsov, Valery Lebed, Yuri Laptev, Mikhail Kit, Evgenia Perlasova, Larissa Diadkova, Olga Markova-Mikhailenko, Yevgeny Fedotov, Mikhail Chernozhukov, Andrei Karabanov, Gennadi Bezzubenkov, Tatiana Kravtsova, Tatiana Filimoniva, Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera / Valery Gergiev (Philips) | | Orchestral | Schmidt, Symphony No. 4 in C, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (EMI) | | Solo Vocal | Schubert, Lieder, Volume 25. Die schöne Müllerin, D795, with a reading of six poems not set by Schubert, Ian Bostridge, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Graham Johnson (Hyperion) | | Video | Yehudi Menuhin — The Violin of the Century, Bruno Monsaingeon, director (EMI) | | Best-selling Record | Lesley Garrett, Soprano in Red, Lesley Garrett; Crouch End Festival Chorus; Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra / James Holmes (Silva Screen Classics) | | Artist of the Year | Anne Sofie von Otter | | Young Artist of the Year | David Pyatt | | Lifetime Achievement | Yehudi Menuhin |
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