Gramophone Award Winners 2012: Abbado, Calleja, Heinrich Schütz(!)
Tenor Joseph Calleja was named Artist of the Year, while éminence grise maestro Claudio Abbado received a Lifetime Achievement Award and had three different recordings win their categories. Record of the Year honors went to a sleeper candidate: Schütz's radiant Musicalisches Exequien performed by the relatively unknown (but marvelous) Belgian group Vox Luminis. Gramophone 09/27/12

Posted September 28, 2012 12:57 AM