Bach, Handel and Vivaldi: the Baroque Instrumental shortlist

The 2012 Gramophone Awards take place this year on September 27, when we'll reveal the winning recordings in each category from which the Recording of the Year will be chosen.

Between now and the ceremony, we're publishing two Podcasts a week in which we discuss the three shortlisted discs in one of the categories with one of our critics, along with musical excerpts. In today's new Podcast, Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly and Lindsay Kemp discuss the shortlisted Baroque Instrumental recordings: Bach Orchestral Suites from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi); Handel's Concerti grossi, Op 3 from Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen (CPO); and Vivaldi's The French Connection, Vol 2, from La Serenissima and Adrian Chandler (Avie).

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