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Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble Or Soloist(s) with Large
Ensemble Accompaniment

The JUNO Award-winning combination of the much-lauded CBC Radio Orchestra, pianist André Laplante, and principal conductor Mario Bernardi is put to excellent use once more with the dynamic and sensitive reading they give to the work of innovative contemporary composer Jacques Hétu.

Pianist Alain Lefevre has a wide-ranging discography that includes two CDs that won Felix Awards for Best Classical Album. He has performed with The Royal Philharmonic and Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras, and at numerous major international festivals. Classica recently described him as “a new personality that truly stands out from the typical trends and artifices.”

The Toronto-based Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra have written one of the brightest success stories in Canadian classical music. Since forming in 1979, they have earned a glowing reputation internationally, drawing praise from BBC Magazine for “the vitality and finesse of their playing.” These multiple JUNO winners have released over 60 recordings, and in 1996 they received Germany’s Echo Klassik Award as Best Orchestra of the Year. Tafelmusik specialize in period instruments, as can be heard on Bach’s Orchestral Suites Nos. 1, 3 and 4.

The Toronto-based Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra have written one of the brightest success stories in Canadian classical music. Since forming in 1979, they have earned a glowing reputation internationally, drawing praise from BBC Magazine for “the vitality and finesse of their playing.” These multiple JUNO winners have released over 60 recordings, and in 1996 they received Germany’s Echo Klassik Award as Best Orchestra of the Year. Tafelmusik specialize in period instruments, as can be heard on Bach’s Orchestral Suites Nos. 1, 3 and 4.

Young conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin was declared Discovery of the Year at the 1999 Opus Awards. He has quickly lived up to that promise, conducting with The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Les Grands Ballets. He co-founded La Chapelle de Montreal, a fine baroque choral and chamber ensemble. On La Strada, he leads the superb Orchestre Métropolitain Du Grand Montreal through the work of noted Italian film composer Nino Rota The Orchestre was founded in 1981 by graduates of faculties and conservatories of Music in Quebec