Violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Isabelle Faust, cellist Julian
Steckel and the Ébène Quartet are among the winners of this year’s
Echo Klassik Awards. Organised annually by the Deutsche
Phono-Akademie association, the awards honour classical recording
artists from around the world.
At the awards ceremony on 14 October, Mutter will receive the prize
for concert recording of the year, for her performances of Wolfgang
Rihm’s Lichtes Spiel and Sebastian Currier’s Time Machines, both
with the New York Philharmonic. Faust has been named violinist of
the year for her recordings of the Beethoven and Berg violin
concertos with the Orchestra Mozart. The Ébène Quartet is
recognised for its album Mozart: Dissonances, which features the
composer’s String Quartets KV421 and 465, plus the Divertimento
KV138.
Other winners include the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra for its
recording of Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor for violin, piano
and string orchestra; cellist Maximilian Hornung and the Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra for Dvo?ák’s Cello Concerto; and the Amaryllis
Quartet for its recording of string quartets by Haydn and Webern.
Steckel, 29, will receive a ‘young talent’ award for his
performances of concertos by Korngold, Bloch and Goldschmidt,
recorded with the Rheinische Philharmonie.
Launched in 1994, the Echo Klassik Awards will this year be held at
the Konzerthaus in Berlin. German TV channel ZDF will broadcast the
ceremony on the evening of 14 October.
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