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476 8572 aria awards best classical winners The ABC Classics winners of the ARIA Classical Award 1988-2004

The ABC Classics winners of the ARIA Best Classical Album Award 2004 Teddy Tahu Rhodes The Voice 2003 Saffire Saffire The Australian Guitar Quartet 2002 Slava Grigoryan Sonatas & Fantasies 2001 Genevieve Lacey / Australian Brandenburg Orchestra / Paul Dyer Vivaldi Il flauto dolce 2000 Gerard Willems Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas 1999 Gerard Willems Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 1998 Yvonne Kenny / Australian Brandenburg Orchestra / Paul Dyer Handel Arias 1997 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra / David Porcelijn Peter Sculthorpe Sun Music 1995 Yvonne Kenny / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Kamirski Simple Gifts 1994 Sydney Symphony Orchestra / David Porcelijn / Stuart Challender Ross Edwards Orchestral Works 1992 Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Stuart Challender Carl Vine Three Symphonies 1991 Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Stuart Challender Peter Sculthorpe Orchestral Works 1990 Barbara Jane Gilby / Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players / Geoffrey Lancaster Vivaldi The Four Seasons 1988 Soloists / Australian Opera Chorus / Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Stuart Challender Richard Meale Voss 1996 Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti Peter Sculthorpe Music for Strings 2 3

ABC Classics has been awarded the prestigious Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Award for Best Classical Album 15 times since the inception of the awards in 1987. The history of the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album parallels ABC Classics own history and highlights the label s ongoing commitment to the music of Australia s composers, and to our world class soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras. ABC Classics was founded in 1987 as a means of showcasing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation s classical music recordings under its own banner. The label has since grown to a catalogue of over 500 titles and is internationally recognised as Australia s premier classical music label. Many of the recordings that have received the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album have received critical acclaim around the world in addition to widespread praise and other specialist awards within Australia. The list of ABC Classics award winners includes a number of artists who have been honoured more than once, and numerous others who have been nominated as finalists on several occasions. Music by Australian composers features prominently in the list of winners: Peter Sculthorpe s music has received the award three times, and recordings of music by Richard Meale, Carl Vine and Ross Edwards have also been honoured. Australian orchestras have also dominated the awards, with the Sydney Symphony featuring on no fewer than four award winners. Soprano Yvonne Kenny and pianist Gerard Willems have both won the award twice, Willems taking out the award in two successive years for his monumental Beethoven Piano Sonatas project. This collection offers a taste of what has been achieved so far in our ongoing engagement with quality music. ABC Classics is extremely proud to be presenting first-class Australian music and Australian performances to the world, and salutes the Australian Record Industry Association for its significant accomplishment in encouraging excellence in classical music over the past 18 years and into the future. 2004 2003 1 GEORGES BIZET 1838-1875 Votre toast (Toreador s Song) from Carmen 5 04 Teddy Tahu Rhodes baritone, Alison Morgan soprano, Jenny Duck-Chong, Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Sinfonia Australis, Antony Walker conductor from The Voice 476 2272 Wonderfully operatic in its breadth and dramatic focus an exciting performer. The Age 2 PETER MAXWELL DAVIES born 1934 arr. Jan-Olof Eriksson Farewell to Stromness 4 06 Saffire The Australian Guitar Quartet (Gareth Koch, Antony Field, Karin Schaupp, Slava Grigoryan) from Saffire The Australian Guitar Quartet 476 7012 This delightful and attractive programme, superlatively played, is a feast from first to last MusicWeb International 3 NICOLÒ PAGANINI 1782-1840 arr. Slava Grigoryan Caprice in A minor, Op. 1 No. 24 5 09 Slava Grigoryan guitar from Sonatas & Fantasies 472 2242 authority and a good sense of style. The virtuoso aspects are executed with precise articulation excellent. MusicWeb International 2002 4 5

4 ANTONIO VIVALDI 1678-1741 First movement [Allegro] from Concerto in C for flautino and strings, RV 443 3 30 7 GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL 1685-1759 Da tempeste from Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 5 30 Yvonne Kenny soprano, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Genevieve Lacey recorder, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer director Paul Dyer director from Handel Arias 456 6892 2001 from Vivaldi Il flauto dolce 461 8282 This album is a genuinely illuminating and remarkably successful exploration of the music of Vivaldi an absolute winner. Sydney Morning Herald 1998 A lively programme that would be hard to equal for musical vitality. Brisbane Courier Mail 5 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827 Moderato cantabile molto espressivo from Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110 6 26 8 PETER SCULTHORPE born 1929 From Uluru 3 44 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn conductor Gerard Willems Stuart & Sons piano from Peter Sculthorpe Sun Music 454 5052 from Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas 465 2642 The sensitivity and thoughtfulness of Willems playing is matched by the richness and clarity of the locally made instruments he employs. The Age An essential part of any Australian collection. The Age 2000 1997 6 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Adagio sostenuto from Sonata, quasi una fantasia (Piano Sonata No. 14) in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight 6 41 9 PETER SCULTHORPE Arietta (Farewell) from Port Essington 2 38 Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti director from Peter Sculthorpe Music for Strings 454 5042 Gerard Willems Stuart & Sons piano from Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 465 0772 His playing is non-showy, but deeply thought and all the more musical for it. The Bulletin A phenomenal album... absolutely essential contemporary music. Billboard 1999 1996 6 7

0 GIACOMO PUCCINI 1858-1924 O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi 2 18 Yvonne Kenny soprano, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski conductor from Simple Gifts 442 5092 Voice, orchestra, production, packaging and annotations are magically woven into a recipe for success you never tire of its beauties. Soundscapes PETER SCULTHORPE Small Town 6 12 Guy Henderson oboe, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender conductor from Peter Sculthorpe Orchestral Works 426 4812 Exhilarating, intoxicatingly colourful The ripe recordings match the committed, finely disciplined performances. Gramophone 1995 1991! ROSS EDWARDS born 1943 Ecstatic from Maninyas Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 6 57 Dene Olding violin, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, $ ANTONIO VIVALDI Allegro non molto from Concerto in F minor, Op. 8 No. 4 (The Four Seasons Winter) 3 39 Barbara Jane Gilby violin, Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Stuart Challender conductor Geoffrey Lancaster director and harpsichord from Ross Edwards Orchestral Works 438 6102 from Vivaldi The Four Seasons. Now released as A Baroque 1994 The work of one of our most gifted composers. Sydney Morning Herald 1990 Collection 472 4242 The best yet intelligent, sensitive musicianship a magical beauty of sound The Australian @ CARL VINE born 1954 Microsymphony (Symphony No. 1) 11 43 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender conductor from Carl Vine Three Symphonies. Now released as % RICHARD MEALE born 1932 Come then... (The Departure) from Voss 4 27 Geoffrey Chard baritone, Clifford Grant bass, Anne-Maree McDonald soprano, Heather Begg mezzo-soprano, Carl Vine Complete Symphonies 1-6 476 7179 The Australian Opera Chorus, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Performances are rich and confident, sound vivid and spacious. American Record Guide Stuart Challender conductor from Richard Meale. For re-release in 2006 1992 1988 Much of Meale s music is wonderfully eloquent... Voss is masterly. Ovation Record Review 8 9

Executive Producers Robert Patterson, Lyle Chan Recordings Manager Virginia Read Editorial and Production Manager Natalie Shea Booklet Design Imagecorp Pty Ltd ABC Classics would like to thank Mark Pope, Ed St John and Stephen Peach for their assistance with this project. www.ariaawards.com.au This compilation 2005 Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2005 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Distributed in Australia by Universal Music Group, under exclusive licence. Made in Australia. All rights of the owner of copyright reserved. Any copying, renting, lending, diffusion, public performance or broadcast of this record without the authority of the copyright owner is prohibited. 10 11