The Opus Klassik awards are out this morning.
Unsurprisingly, the conductor of the year is the one with the most big jobs: Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Chicago.
Instrumental winners are Isabelle Faust (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) and Lang Lang (media).
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