Pianist Nelson Friere and conductor Riccardo Chailly took Record of the Year honors for their recording of Brahms's Piano Concertos with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. The Young Artist of the Year award went to 31-year-old Vasily Petrenko, the chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic — which won the Classic FM Magazine Award for Audience Innovation for such imaginiative initiatives as the "virtual concert" the orchestra recently gave on the online network Second Life. Deutsche Grammophon was named Label of the Year. Soprano legend Montserrat Caball_, 74 years old and still performing, received the annual Lifetime Achievement award.

Dynamic young conductor Gustavo Dudamel and his longtime band, the Sim‹n Bol‹var Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, won the second annual WQXR Gramophone Special Recognition Award, presented by the magazine and New York radio station 96.3 WQXR-FM. The citation states that Dudamel and the Bol‹var Youth Orchestra "were chosen for their outstanding contribution to the world of classical music and the example they give of what music can do to transform people's lives."

A complete list of winners is below.

2007 CLASSIC FM GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNERS

Artist of the Year

• Julia Fischer, violinist

Lifetime Achievement

• Montserrat Caball_, soprano

Young Artist Award

• Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Classic FM Magazine Award for Audience Innovation

• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Special Achievement Award

• Christopher Raeburn, record producer

Label of the Year

• Deutsche Grammophon

WQXR Gramophone Special Recognition Award

• Gustavo Dudamel and the Sim‹n Bol‹var Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

Record of the Year

• Brahms: Piano Concertos
  Nelson Freire, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (Decca Classics)

Editor's Choice Award

• Mahler: Symphony No, 2,
  Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics)

Baroque instrumental

• Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3
  Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)

Baroque vocal

• Handel: Messiah (1742 version)
  Dunedin Consort & Players / John Butt (Linn)

Chamber

• Haas, Janšcek: String Quartets
  Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon)

Choral

• Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
  R‹schmann, Quasthoff, Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic / Simon Rattle (EMI Classics)

Concerto

• Brahms: Piano Concertos
  Nelson Freire, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (Decca Classics)

Contemporary

• J. Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy
  BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen (Ondine)

DVD

• "My Life in Music"
  Julian Bream (Avie)

Early Music

• Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis
  The Cardinall's Musick (Hyperion)

Historic archive

• Wagner: G‹tterd‹mmerung
  Varnay, Windgassen, Ilosvay, Greindl, Uhde, Neidlinger /
  Bayreuth Festival Opera / Joseph Keilberth (Testament)

Historic reissue

• Moeran: Symphony in G minor, Sinfonietta, Overture for a Masque
  London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Boult (Lyrita)

Instrumental

• Bach: Suites for unaccompanied cello
  Steven Isserlis (Hyperion)

Opera

• Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
  Annick Massis, Juan Diego Fl‹rez /
  Orquesta sinf‹nica de Galicia / Riccardo Frizza (Decca Classics)

Orchestral

• Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies
  London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (Philips)

Recital

• "Tales of Opera"
  Simon Keenlyside, M‹nchner Rundfunkorchester / Ulf Schirmer (Sony Classical)

Solo vocal

• R. Strauss: Lieder
  Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch (Harmonia Mundi)