Accolades
ABC Classics has been awarded the prestigious ARIA Music Award for Best Classical Album 19 times since the inception of the awards in 1987. The history of the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album parallels ABC Classics' own history and highlights the label's ongoing commitment to the music of Australia's composers, soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras.
The list of ABC Classics award winners includes a number of artists who have been honoured more than once, and numerous others who have been nominated as finalists on several occasions. Music by Australian composers features prominently in the list of winners: Peter Sculthorpe's music has received the award three times, and recordings of music by Richard Meale, Carl Vine and Ross Edwards have also been honoured. Australian orchestras have also dominated the awards, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra featuring on four award winners. Soprano Yvonne Kenny and pianist Gerard Willems have both won the award twice, Willems taking out the award in two successive years for his Beethoven Piano Sonatas project.
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