The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2014. Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, 78, is honored with our Lifetime Achievement Award. One of the most eminent fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, is ‘Artist of the Year’, the young French viola player Adrien Boisseau is ICMA’s ‘Young Artist of the Year ». In total seven Special Awards are listed, among them the one for the ‘SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg’. « With this award the Jury members express their strong support for this orchestra, undeniably one of the best in Germany, as it is condemned to disappear in a merger with the radio station’s orchestra in Stuttgart. We only can hope that this incomprehensible decision will soon be reversed », says Jury President Remy Franck.
In the CD and DVD categories, 16 productions from 15 different labels are awarded a prize. Remy Franck: « We are particularly happy that again a majority of independent labels are among the winners, the different countries they are coming from emphasizing the international character of our Jury, with media representatives from 13 countries. »
Among the artists performing on the winning CDs are conductors Sergiu Celibidache, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Peter Eötvös, Paavo Järvi, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Penderecki and Jordi Savall, singers like Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne, Philippe Jaroussky, Angelika Kirchschlager, Julia Lezhneva, Anne-Sofie von Otter, violinists Daniel Hope, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Frank Peter Zimmermann, pianists Andrea Bacchetti, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Joseph Moog, the latter having been ‘ICMA Young Artist of the Year’ in 2012. « By winning ex-aequo with Grande Dame Elisabeth Leonskaja in the Solo Instrument category Joseph shows that he has fulfilled the hope that we expressed when we choose him as ‘Young Artist of the Year’ in 2012, » says Remy Franck.
Being part of this year’s Beethoven Easter Festival, the Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on April 12th at the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw.
SPECIAL AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Charles Dutoit
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Andreas Staier
YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adrien Boisseau
LABEL OF THE YEAR
Glossa
CLASSICAL WEBSITE AWARD
Metropolitan Opera Archives
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Ludwig van Beethoven Association, Kraków (Poland)
CD & DVD CATEGORIES
EARLY MUSIC
Erasmus van Rotterdam: In Praise of Folly
Louise Moaty, Marc Mauillon, René Zosso, La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall
Alia Vox AVSA 9895
BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL
The Scarlatti Restored Manuscript; Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Soler: Sonatas
Andrea Bacchetti, piano
RCA Red Seal 88765417242
BAROQUE VOCAL
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Laudate Pueri, Confitebor tibi Domine
Philippe Jaroussky, Julia Lezhneva, Coro della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Erato 5099931914727
VOCAL RECITAL
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
Matthias Goerne, baritone & Andreas Haefliger, piano
Harmonia Mundi HMC 902141
CHORAL WORKS
Berlioz: Grande messe des morts, Op. 5
Barry Banks, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
LSO Live LSO0729
OPERA
Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Christopher Purves, Susan Gritton, Peter Coleman-Wright, Claire Booth, Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Erato 5099960267221
SOLO INSTRUMENT
Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales – George Enescu: Sonata op. 24/1 – Claude Debussy: 4 Préludes
Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
eaSonus EAS 29237
SOLO INSTRUMENT
Scarlatti Illuminated (Scarlatti – Scarlatti/Tausig – Scarlatti/Friedman)
Joseph Moog, piano
Onyx 4106
CHAMBER MUSIC
Béla Bartok: String Quartet No. 3 – Alban Berg: String Quartet op. 3 – Alfred Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3
Signum Quartett
Capriccio C5163
CONCERTOS
Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112 – Peter Eötvös: Seven – György
Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Peter Eötvös
Naïve V5285
SYMPHONIC MUSIC
Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Tragische Ouvertüre, Haydn-Variationen, Liebeslieder-Walzer etc.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
Decca 4785344
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Krzysztof Penderecki: The Complete Symphonies
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki
Dux 947
BEST COLLECTION
Paul Hindemith: Violin Concerto – Violin Sonatas
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin, Enrico Pace, piano, Paavo Järvi, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
BIS 2024
HISTORICAL RECORDING
Celibidache – The Berlin Recordings, 1945-1957
Hans Bottermund, Helmut Heller, Lilia d’Albore, Erna Berger, Margarete Klose, Gustav Scheck, Gerhard Puchelt, Tibor de Machula, Raoul Koczalski, Hans Peter Schmitz, Helmut Schlövogt, Karl Rucht, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sergiu Celibidache
Audite 21.423
DVD PERFORMANCE
Sergey Prokofiev: The Gambler
Sergei Aleksashkin, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Vladimir Galuzin, Larissa Dyadkova, Nikolai Gassiev, Alexander Gergalov, Nadezhda Serdyuk, Andrei Popov, Oleg Sychev, Andrei Spekhov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev; Laurent Gentot, film director
Mariinsky MAR0536
DVD DOCUMENTARIES
Refuge in Music – Terezin
A Film by Dorothee Binding and Benedict Mirow, with Anne-Sofie von Otter, Daniel Hope, Christian Gerhaher, Bengt Forsberg, Bebe Risenfors, Alice Herz-Sommer, Coco Schumann
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6546 2
