The Opus Klassik Award nominees have been announced and we are delighted to share that also Raab & Böhm Artists are featured. Winners will be announced in October.
Gautier Capuçon has, among others, received two nominations in the Instrumentalist of the year category (Sensations, Works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms with Yuja Wang and Andreas Ottensamer) as well a nomination in the Chamber Music category (Works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms with Yuja Wang and Andreas Ottensamer) and a nomination for the best Video Clip (Sensations.) Young violinist Maria Ioudenitch has been nominated as Emerging Artist as well as in the Chamber Music category for her debut album Songbird, released at Warner last March. In the Chamber Music category also Antoine Tamestit’s Mozart release with the Quator Ébène was nominated.
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has been nominated for her recording of Weinberg’s Symphonies 3 & 7 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the Symphonic Recording category alongside Ivor Bolton who has been nominated with his recording of Britten works with the Sinfonieorchester Basel and Semyon Bychkov who has been nominated for Best Symphonic Recording and as Conductor of the Year for his recording of Mahler’s 5th Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic. Johannes Kalitzke has also been nominated as Conductor of the Year for the recording of Winterberg’s Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto, the same album is also nominated for World Premiere Recording, among other categories. Andrea Marcon’s recording of Monteverdi’s Vespro di Natale has also been nominated as Best World Premiere Recording.
Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s recording of the Dvořák Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra has been nominated as Best Concerto Recording, alongside Xavier de Maistre, whose recording of the Glière and Mosolov Harp Concertos with Nathalie Stutzmann and the WDR Symphony Orchestra has been nominated in the same category.
Congratulations to all nominees!
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