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BBC SSO wins Gramophone Award
iano Concerto, Diversions for left-hand piano and orchestra cover
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has been awarded the 2009 Gramophone Award for Best Concerto Recording, for its performances of Britten’s complete works for piano & orchestra with pianist Steven Osborne.
The winning recording, conducted by the orchestra’s former Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov, features Britten’s Piano Concerto, Diversions for left-hand piano and orchestra, and Young Apollo . The three compositions which comprise Britten’s music for solo piano and orchestra constitute a unique, yet still little explored, part of his output.
Steven Osborne’s performance of Britten’s Concerto with the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov at the BBC Proms in 2007, laid down a modern benchmark with regards to performance of this music. The final recording also featured the original third movement which Britten discarded in his 1945 revision.
Presented today, 2 October, at the Dorchester Hotel in London, the Classic Fm Gramophone Awards are regarded as the world’s most influential classical music prize, and are now in their 31st Year.
This is the fourth Gramophone Award presented to the BBC SSO and its second consecutive prize; in 2008 it won the best Contemporary Recording Prize for its performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Body Mandala; in 1992, the orchestra took the award for Best Concerto Recording, with pianist Nikolai Demidenko, and in 1993 won best Contemporary Recording for James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. The orchestra was also nominated twice in the concerto category at the 2008 awards.
Director of the BBC SSO, Gavin Reid, said, "This award is a wonderful testament to the achievements of Steven Osborne, Ilan Volkov our friends and colleagues at Hyperion records and of course, the incredible musicians of the BBC SSO."
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