MUSIC

Pianist Murray Perahia and conductor Sir Georg Solti were among the honorees for this year’s Mumm Champagne Classical Music Awards, the second annual edition of same. Perahia jetted in from London for the New York ceremonies and received his award for his recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto. Solti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was awarded record of the year for a recording of Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” Two Hall of Fame awards went to composer Virgil Thomson and philanthropist Avery Fisher. Other winners: Music Center Opera consultant Placido Domingo and violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Artists and recordings were chosen by a panel of writers, critics and record retailers.