This year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony will take place in London on the evening of October 2 and we will be reporting on the award winners live on this website and on our social media channels (if you don't follow us yet, join our communities on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X). 

At the ceremony we will be revealing the winning albums in the recording categories as well as the winners of our special Awards: Artist and Young Artist of the Year, Orchestra of the Year, Label of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and – the most coveted Award of all – Recording of the Year. 

The Shortlist

We have now reduced our shortlist of Award nominees down to three in each recording category. You can explore the Shortlist right here on our website, where you can also read the original Gramophone reviews. 

The brilliant young pianist, Yunchan Lim, has achieved the remarkable feat of having two albums shortlisted in the same category (Piano, sponsored by Kawai), his astonishing live recording from the Cliburn Competition of Liszt's Transcendental Études and his debut studio album for Decca of Chopin's Études. The third recording shortlisted in the Piano category comes from Piotr Anderszewski and features works by Bartók, Janáček and Szymanowski.

Three other artists with two recordings (in different categories) on this year's Shortlist are violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Alexander Melnikov and conductor Jakub Hrůša. Faust and Melnikov are nominated in the Chamber category (sponsored by Wigmore Hall) for their recording of Schumann's Piano Quartet and Quintet (alongside Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit and Jean-Guihen Queyras) and in the Concerto category for Britten's Violin Concerto and chamber works with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jakub Hrůša, and Hrůša himself is also nominated for Janáček's Katya Kabanova in the Opera category (sponsored by Mascarade Opera Foundation).

Returning winners from 2023

Last year's Recording of the Year was Nielsen's Symphonies Nos 4 (‘The Inextinguishable’) and 5 by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fabio Luisi for DG. Four artists who won Awards last year are nominated again this year: soprano Véronique Gens, tenor Cyrille Dubois, pianist Tristan Raës and viola player Antoine Tamestit.

Véronique Gens, also our Artist of the Year in 2023, won for her album 'Rivales' alongside Sandrine Piau and is nominated this year for 'Paysage', a French orchestral song recital with the Munich Radio Orchestra and conductor Hervé Niquet.

Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës performed at last year's Awards ceremony and won an Award for their recording of Fauré's Complete Songs, this year they are shortlisted in the Song category for Beydts's Mélodies & Songs. 

Antoine Tamestit won in the Chamber category last year for his recording of Mozart's String Quintets Nos 3 and 4 alongside the Ébène Quartet and is nominated in the Chamber category again this year for Schumann's chamber music. 

Surprise guests

The Gramophone Awards ceremony always delivers surprises, moving acceptance speeches and outstanding live performances, so don't miss our coverage on October 2. We will also be sending out a newsletter on October 3 which will explore all of this year's winners, so make sure you are signed up for that, and don't forget to buy the special Awards issue of Gramophone, which includes reviews of hundreds of new releases, some of which may very well be in the running for next year's Awards...

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