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French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has won Recording of the Year at the 2026 Gramophone Classical Music Awards for his expansive project devoted to the music of Louis Couperin. The Erato box set also received the Instrumental Award.
Announced in London on 7 October, the awards thus honour a long-term project released to mark the 400th anniversary of Louis Couperin’s birth. Rondeau brings together the composer’s complete known works, supplemented by pieces by his teachers and pupils, performed on a range of historic harpsichords and organs across Europe. The box set comprises ten albums and a documentary DVD filmed in part at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar.
Early music is also well represented among the other winners. Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano receive the Early Music Award for Stravagante pensiero: Gesualdo & Napoli, devoted to seventeenth-century Neapolitan madrigals, while Johanna Soller and Capella Sollertia take the Choral Award for their world-premiere recording of Johann Ludwig Bach’s Leipzig Cantatas, released by Ricercar.
Finally, Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi receive the Song Award for their album Belle époque! on Alpha, while Erato, Jean Rondeau’s label, is named Label of the Year.
Official website: https://www.gramophone.co.uk
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