The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2015. Conductor Dmitrij Kitajenko, 74, is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff is Artist of the Year, young violinist Yury Revich and Belgian soprano Jodie Devos are ICMA’s Young Artists of the Year. Leipzig based Accentus Music is Label of the Year. In total eight Special Awards are listed. In the Audio and Video categories, 15 productions from 13 different labels are awarded a prize.
Jury President Remy Franck says: « We are happy that among our winners we can count again a majority of independent labels, some of them, as we know, struggling to survive in today’s difficult market. The winning labels belong to eight different countries. »
Among the artists performing on the winning audio and video releases are Philippe Jaroussky, Joyce DiDonato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jordi Savall, Michael Tilson Thomas, Marc Albrecht, Zhu Xiao-Mei, John Holloway, Evgeni Koroliov, Frank-Peter Zimmermann, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Unsuk Chin, Adam Fischer and Claudio Abbado whose two last recordings won an award.
Remy Franck says: « It is our mission to promote recordings and artists responding to our high expectation in terms of artistry and musical message. The 2015 result is international and strong, showing our determination not to pick just run-of-the-mill releases but to dig deep into the recording world in order to get a very special panel. »
The Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on 28 March at the Bilkent Hall, hosted by the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra.
SPECIAL AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dmitrij Kitajenko
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Christian Tetzlaff
YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Instrumental
Yury Revich
Vocal
Jodie Devos
LABEL OF THE YEAR
Accentus
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Panufnik Edition
Lukasz Dlugosz, Ewa Kupiec, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Sarah van der Kemp
Michael von Schönermark, Raphael Wallfisch,
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Lukasz Borowicz
cpo
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Zhu Xiao-Mei, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue (Accentus CD: ACC30308)
Goldberg Variations (Accentus DVD: ACC20313)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
CD & DVD CATEGORIES
EARLY MUSIC
Bal-Kan. Honey and Blood, Cycles of Life
Meral Azizoğlu, Irini Derebei, Gürsoy Dinçer, Lior Elmaleh,
Montserrat Figueras, Tcha Limberger, Marc Mauillon,
Amira Medunjanin, Stoimenka Outchikova-Nedyalkova,
Agi Szalóki, Zacharias Spyridakis, Hespérion XXI, Jordi Savall
Alia Vox (AVSA 9902)
BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL
Pavanes and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
Dowland – Purcell – Jenkins – Lawes – Morley – Locke
John Holloway, Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann,
Susanna Hefti, Martin Zeller
ECM (4810430)
BAROQUE VOCAL
Vivaldi: Pieta – Sacred Works for Alto
Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Arteserse
Erato (825646258109)
VOCAL RECITAL
Stella di Napoli
Pacini – Bellini – Carafa – Rossini – Mercadante – Donizetti…
Joyce DiDonato, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi
Erato (2564636562)
CHORAL WORKS
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Lucy Crowe, Jennifer Johnston, James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Soli Deo Gloria (SDG 718)
OPERA
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story
Alexandra Silber, Cheyenne Jackson, Jessica Vosk, Kevin Vortmann
Juliana Hansen, Kelly Markgraf, Julia Bullock
San Francisco Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas
SFS Media (821936-0059-2)
SOLO INSTRUMENT
Franz Schubert: Sonatas D. 894 & D. 959
Evgeni Koroliov, piano
Tacet (979)
CHAMBER MUSIC
Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichtrio op. 3 – Serenade op. 8
Frank-Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Christian Poltéra
BIS (2087)
CONCERTOS
Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Oboe Concerto
Lucas M. Navarro, Gregory Ahss, Konstantin Pfiz, Guilhaume Santana,
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
Claves (1302)
SYMPHONIC MUSIC
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Deutsche Grammophon (4793441)
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Unsuk Chin: Piano and Cello Concertos, Su for Sheng and Orchestra
Alban Gerhardt, W. Wei, S. Kim, Seoul Philharmonic,
Myung-Whun Chung
Deutsche Grammophon (481 0971)
BEST COLLECTION
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Symphonies
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer
Dacapo (8201201)
HISTORICAL RECORDING
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
The State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Melodiya (MELCD 1002170)
DVD PERFORMANCE
Nikolaï Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
Vladimir Vaneev, Maxim Aksenov, Svetlana Ignatovich,
John Daszak, Alexey Markov
Netherlands Opera Chorus, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht, conductor, Dmitri Tcherniakov, stage director
Opus Arte (OA1089D)
DVD DOCUMENTARIES
Richard Strauss and his Heroines
A Film by Thomas von Steinaecker
Brigitte Fassbaender, Renée Fleming, Gwyneth Jones, Christa Ludwig Christian Strauss, Rufus Wainwright, Franz Welser-Möst
Arthaus Musik (102181)
