Talking of awards (sort of), it was the BBC Music Magazine Awards this week, which isn't an awards event for music magazines staged by the BBC, but the annual awards bash of the Beeb's classical music mag, BBC Music Magazine. Got that? Good. And here's the winners:
Jury Voted Awards
Disc Of The Year: Soile Isokoski & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra - Lunnotar, Orchestral Songs
Premiere Recording: Charles Koechlin - Vocal Works With Orchestra
Technical Excellence In Recording: Capriccio Record Label
Newcomer Of The Year: Pavel Haas String Quartet
DVD Of The Year: Giulio Cesare - Handel, Opus Arte
Public Voted Awards
Vocal Award: Soile Isokoski
Orchestral Award: Mariss Jansons
Opera Award: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Choral Award: Sir Colin Davies
Chamber Award: Smetana Trio
Instrumental Award: Luiza Borac
Normally I'd pretend to know something about classical music and make some comment, but I'm running very late today, so won't bother. (Actually, team CMU knows quite a lot about classical music, but unfortunately most of it lies with Caro, who is currently in a tunnel somewhere between London and Brighton, so unable to share it with you, but I'm sure you'll all survive without it, just this once).