The 2024 Gramophone Awards were announced on 2 October in a glittering ceremony at London’s De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms hosted by the magazine’s editor Martin Cullingford.
Conductor Jakub Hrůša took home two awards on the night. He shares the Concerto Award with Isabelle Faust, Boris Faust, Alexander Melnikov and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for their Harmonia Mundi release, Britten: Violin Concerto, Op 15a . Geraint Lewis wrote of the recording in his original review, “[Faust] is unafraid and unflinching, and vividly unleashes the passion in these pages with mesmeric power, symbiotically partnered by Jakub Hrůša.”
Hrůša’s second honour of the night was in the Opera category for Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová (Unitel Editions). The Barrie Kosky production stars soprano Corinne Winters in the title role, Evelyn Herlitzius, David Butt Philip, Jaroslav Březina, Jarmila 
Balážová, Benjamin Hulett, Jens Larsen, the Wiener Philharmoniker, and the Wiener Staatsopernchor.
Tim Ashley wrote, “Hrůša is wonderful in this work, superbly judging its mixture of lyricism and tension.”
Congratulations also to the Czech Philharmonic, of which Hrůša is Principal Guest Conductor. They were named Orchestra of the Year, an award voted for by the magazine’s readers.