Meilleur album classique pour Ecce Cor Meum !

McCartney scoops Classical Brit

Sir Paul McCartney has won the best album award at the Classical Brits for his fourth classical album Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart).

The former Beatle beat off competition from artists including Sting, Katherine Jenkins, Alfie Boe and Bryn Terfel.

The award was voted for by listeners of Classic FM and readers of Classic FM's magazine.

The Berlin Philharmonic and its conductor Sir Simon Rattle won the classical recording of the year award.

They received the honour for Holst's The Planets at the ceremony at the at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Thursday.

Album of the year was the only award voted for by the public, with all the other awards chosen by classical music experts and critics.

Sting had been shortlisted for his lute album Songs From the Labyrinth.

But he was beaten by Sir Paul, who began writing Ecce Cor Meum in 1997 but had to halt work after the death of his first wife Linda the following year.

The oratorio in four movements with English and Latin lyrics was recorded last year at Abbey Road Studios in London and premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in November.

But it received lukewarm reviews from classical critics. BBC Music Magazine described the work as "agreeably inoffensive but in no way sharply distinctive".

Gramophone Magazine said it was a "pseudo-classical project... the result is a creakily Victorian four-parter, both short-winded and constipated, hopping disconcertingly from one episode to the next in shades of grey".

Sir Paul's next pop album, Memory Almost Full, is out in June.

The Classical Brits ceremony was hosted by Fern Britton, with performances from several artists including nominees Jenkins, Sting and Boe.

The awards will be broadcast at on ITV1 at 11pm BST on May 13.

Wingspan a écrit:Excellente nouvelle, je l'aurais eu mauvaise si Sting l'avait emporté !!!