The Brit Award for Classical Recording was an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.[1]
Criteria
The accolade used to be presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music.[2] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees.[3]
History
The award was first presented in 1982 as “Classical Recording” which was won by Simon Rattle. The accolade has been defunct as of 1993.
New Zealand opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa became the only female winner in 1984. Only two other women were nominated for the award; Jane Glover for her recording of Violin Concerto by Richard Strauss and another violin concerto by Christopher Headington in 1992, and Cecilia Bartoli for her recording of Heroines by Giacomo Puccini in 1993. Te Kanawa was also one of only four non-British winners, along with Australian guitarist John Williams in 1983, Indian conductor Zubin Mehta for Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert in 1991 and Hungarian-born conductor Georg Solti for his recording of Otello by Giuseppe Verdi in 1992, though Solti had been a British citizen since 1972. At least two musicians were nominated posthumously; Puccini in 1984, 60 years after his death, and Leonard Bernstein for his operetta Candide in 1992, two years after his death. The only musician nominated for two recordings in the same year was Colin Davis, who was nominated for his recordings of The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten in 1985.
Winners and nominees
Multiple nominations and awards
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Nominations by country
| Country | Nominations | First nomination | Last nomination | Artist/s |
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 United Kingdom
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40 | 1982 | 1993 | Simon Rattle, Vernon Handley, Christopher Hogwood, Julian Lloyd Webber, Neville Marriner, Michael Tippett, Trevor Pinnock, Bryden Thomson, Colin Davis, Nigel Kennedy, Georg Solti, John Rutter, Andrew Davis, Roger Norrington, Jeffrey Tate, John Eliot Gardiner, Matthew Best, Oliver Knussen, Jane Glover, John Tavener |
 United States
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6 | 1992 | James Levine, André Previn, Philip Brunelle, Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein | |
 Italy
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5 | 1984 | 1993 | Giacomo Puccini, Carlo Maria Giulini, Luciano Pavarotti, Riccardo Chailly, Cecilia Bartoli |
 Germany
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2 | 1987 | 1989 | André Previn |
 Hungary
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1986 | 1992 | Georg Solti | |
 Australia
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1 | 1983 | John Williams | |
 Austria
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1993 | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | ||
 Finland
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1992 | Osmo Vänskä | ||
 India
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1991 | Zubin Mehta | ||
 Latvia
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1987 | Mariss Jansons | ||
 New Zealand
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1984 | Kiri Te Kanawa | ||
 Poland
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1993 | Henryk Górecki | ||
 Spain
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1983 | Joaquín Rodrigo | ||
References
- ^ “About the BPI”. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Archived from the original on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ “BRIT Awards”. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ “And the nominees are…” Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ Christopher Hogwood wins Best British Classical Recording | BRIT Awards 1985
- ^ Nigel Kennedy wins Classical Recording presented by Sir George Sholty | BRIT Awards 1986
- ^ 1990 – Best British Classical Recording – Simon Rattle – BRITs on YouTube
- ^ Simply Red, Lennox top Brit Awards – Variety