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Welcome to the third annual BBC Music Magazine
Awards 2008. Last year’s most outstanding 18 recordings
have been chosen by the jury and it’s now up to you to vote for the winners.

When you click on the nomination categories below, you’ll be able to listen to streaming clips from all 18 nominated discs in the six categories before deciding which to vote for.

Plus don’t forget to subscribe to your free, exclusive awards podcast, presented by Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny. Each week, from 19 December he’ll be talking you through the categories, playing short extracts from the nominees.

Voting closes on 28th February 2008. The Awards ceremony will take place in London on the 9th April and we'll officially announce the winners in our May issue of BBC Music magazine, on sale 10th April 2008.

As a thank you for voting, you’ll be entered into a draw to win a £5,000 Arcam hi-fi with Monitor speakers.

Of course, you can purchase all of the nominated recordings by visiting any one of our retail partners – just click the on the logos listed on the right hand-side of the individual disc nomination pages.

THE 2008 AWARD NOMINEES - CLICK BELOW TO LISTEN TO EXTRACTS

Click below for more details and to listen to each of the nominees.

Orchestral Nominees

1 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.1
2 Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
3 Schumann: Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Choral nominees

4 The Road to Paradise
5 Bolivian Baroque: Music from the Missions and La Plata
6 JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 22

Chamber nominees

7 Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet; Clarinet Quintet
8 Shostakovich: String Quartets
Nos 6, 8 & 11
9 Marais: Suitte d'un Goût Etranger

Vocal nominees

10 Terezin/Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie von Otter
11 Handel: As Steals the Morn
12 R Strauss: Complete Songs, Vol. 2

Instrumental nominees

13 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 28 & 29
14 JS Bach: Cello Suites
15 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux,
Opp. 33 & 39

Opera nominees

16 Bellini: La Sonnambula
17 Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo del Disinganno
18 Janáček: Katya Kabanova