Best CD's of 2001: Classical

To finish the lists for "Best CD's of 2001", here is the list of the top classical releases (by category) listed in Gramophone magazine's "Special Issue" just published:

Record of the Year: Vaughan Williams "A London Symphony" )Chandos CHAN 9902)

Early Music:
Winner: Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 4, La Venexiana (Glossa GCD20907)
Runners-up:
1. Byrd: Three Masses "The Cardinal's Musick" (ASV)
2. "The Earliest Songbook in England", with Gothic Voices (Hyperion)
3. Morales: Missa Sin Bona Suscepimus - The Tallis Scholars (Gimell)
4. Josquin Desprez: Motets - Orland Consort (Archiv)

Baroque Instrumental:
Winner: Bach: Six Partitas, with Trevor Pinnock (Hanssler Classic 92 115)
Runners-up:
1. Bach: Vioin Sonatas - Podger; Pinnock (Channel Classics)
2. Geminiani: Concerti Grossi - Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi)
3. Lawes: Concorts in 4 & 5 Parts - Phantasm (Channel Classics)
4. Telemann: String Concertos - MAK (Archiv)
5. Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin - Yates (Chandos)

Chamber:
Winner: Vaughan Williams: String Quartets #1 and #2 - Phantasy Quintet (Naxos 8 555300)
Runners-Up:
1. Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 - The Lindsays (ASV)
2. Enescu: String Quartets #1 and #2 - Quatuor Ad Libitum (Naxos)
3. Haydn: Stgring Quartets, Op. 76 - Quatuor Mosaiques (Astree)
4. Beethoven: Sring Quartets, Op. 18 - The Lindsays (ASV)
5. Elgar, Walton: Violin Sonatas - Hope/Mulligan (Nimbus)

Choral:
Winner: Britten: Sacred and Profane - Polyphony/Layton (Hyperion)
Runners-up:
1. Rubbra: Inscape - ASMF Chor & Hickox (Chandos)
2. Tavener: Christmas Proclamation - St. John's/Robinson (Naxos)
3. Sibelius: Kullervo Symphony - Helsinki Univ. Choir (BIS)
4. Rubbra: Choral Music - St. John's/Cambridge (Naxos)
5. Verdi: Messa solenne - Guiseppi Verdi SO & Chorus (Decca)

Concertos:
Winner: Schoenberg Piano Concerto - Mitsuko Uchida & Cleveland Orch w/ Boulez (Phillips 468 033-2PH)
Runners-up:
1. Bach: Keyboard Concertos - ASMF/Perahia (Sony Classical)
2. Stanford: Violin Concerto - Marwood/BBC SSO (Hyperion)
3. Mozart: Piano Concertos #19 and #27 - Orpheus Chamber Orch w/ Goode (Nonesuch)
4. Rawsthorne: Oboe & Cello Concertos - Rancourt, Baillie/RSNO (Naxos)
5. Howells: Piano Concertos #1 and #2 - Shelley/BBC SO w/ Hickox (Chandos)

Contemporary:
Winner: Boulez: Anthemes 2: Messagesquisse; Sur Incises - Ensemble InterContemporain w/ Boulez (DG 20/21)
Runners-up:
1. Lindberg: Aura - BBC SO (DG)
2. Henze: Six Songs From the Arabian - Bostridge (EMI)
3. Andriessen: Rosa - de Leeuw (Nonesuch)
4. Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale - Schonwandt (DaCapo)
5. Tavener: Total Eclipse - AAM/Goodwin (Harmonia Mundi)

Instrumental:
Winner: Goldberg Variation - Murray Perahia (Sony SK89243)
Runners-up:
1. Schubert: Piano Sonatas #9, 18, 20, 21 - Alfred Brendl (Phillips)
2. Beethoven: Diabelli Variations - Anderszewski (Virgin)
3. Bach: Italian Concerto, French Overture - Hewitt (Hyperion)
4. Schubert: Piano Sonatas #14 & 17 - Uchida (Phillips)
5. Clementi: Sonatas - Staier (Teldec)

Opera:
Winner: Massenet: Manon - Chorus and SO of La Monnaie (EMI)
Runners-up:
1. Janacek: Sarka - Mackerras (Supraphon)
2. Albeniz: Merlin - De Eusebio (Decca)
3. Massenet: Thais - Abel (Decca)
4. Verdi: Falstaff - Gardiner (Phillips)
5. Keiser: Crosesus - Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi)

Orchestral:
Winner: Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (see Record of the Year)
Runners-up:
1. Vaughan Williams: Symphonies #8 and #9 - LPO, w/ Haitink (EMI)
2. Bruckner: Symphony #8 - VPO w/ Boulez (DG)
3. Copland: The Populist - SFSO w/ Tilson-Thomas (RCA)
4. Bruckner: Symphony #5 - Staatskapelle Dresden w/ Sinopoli (DG)
5. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites - CBSO w/ Oramo (Erato)

Vocal:
Winner: Love Songs - Magdalena Kozena - (DG 463 472-2GH)
Runners-up:
1. Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin - Gura (Harmonia Mundi)
2. Vaughan Williams: Songs - Ainsley; Nash Ensemble (Hyperion)
3. "On This Island" - Dawson; Martineau (Hyperion)
4. Kosma: Les Feuilles Mortes - Le Roux (Decca)
5. Chausson: Songs - Soloists / Chilingirian Qtt (Hyperion)

Editors's Choice:
Winner: Handel: Rinaldo - AAM (Decca L'Oiseau Lyre 467 087-20H03)

Music DVD:
Winner: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (ArtHaus Musik)
Runners-up:
1. Scubert: Winterreise - Bostridge (NVC Arts)
2. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (ArtHaus Musik)
3. The Art of Violin (NVC Arts)
4. Offenbach: La belle Helene - Harnoncourt (ArtHaus Musik)
5. Poulenc: Les dialogues des Carmelites - Latham-Konig (ArtHaus Musik)

Good listening to everyone!