Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Vit Pohanka with that report.

Reaching the end of our dedicated time and we would like to bring to your attention the fact that Pavel Haas Quartet picked up a prestigious gramophone award for the album Martinu String Quartets.

Ian Willoughby interviewed cellist Petr Jaruszek.

Years back we decided to play Martinus quartets.

But if in kind of like tsunami of recordings every year, they choose this one.

So it's really, really very satisfying.

But that's your sixth Gramophone Award, right? Well, yeah.

What does it mean for the ensemble to win such a prestigious prize as this? Practically, what does it mean for you?

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Czechia's Pavel Haas Quartet has won a Gramophone Award for its album of Bohuslav Martinů's string quartets.

And later, photographer Tomáš Němec looks back on his time photographing Václav Havel.

All this is coming up in today's program, but first, here is the news.

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Daniela Lazarová with that report.

[classical music] Last week, the Pavel Haas Quartet picked up a Gramophone Award for the album Martinu String Quartets, number two, three, five, and seven.

It is by no means the first Gramophone prize for the Prague-based classical ensemble, who BBC Music Magazine named one of the 10 greatest string quartets of all time.

In major mezzo award news, Brigitte Fassbaender will receive the lifetime achievement award from Deutscher Theaterpreis Der Faust, and Cecilia Bartoli has been named the Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards were handed out in a London ceremony last week.

San Fran Opera's recording of hall-of-famer Kaija Saariaho's Adriana Mater has won for best opera, as it should.

It also features friend of the show Nicholas Pond, by the way.

We really do look forward to what lies ahead for them.

Well, that wraps up another year of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards.

And our thanks to PrestoMusic and all our sponsors.

As I said at the beginning, you can explore our awards through, uh, an extraordinary range of content online, on social media, and most of all in our Awards Edition of the magazine, which is available to buy now.

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And if you find the music industry hard to explain... never fear a new episode of tmt will be here on monday october the 12th starring another top exec setting the room on fire and metaphorically speaking of course uh we will see you then james thanks for coming on the show and see you at gig soon i hope thank you cheers