The jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) of which Papageno is a member has announced the winners of the 2025 edition. 

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Remy Franck, President of the Jury, said: “Our awards have been selected from a nomination list comprising 374 releases and a wide range of artists and labels. The winners list includes established and emerging artists and no less than 17 international labels.

We have once again included the ICMA Classeek Award, which is organised in collaboration with the digital platform Classeek, and we are continuing our long-standing collaboration with the International Music Academy Liechtenstein, so that together with the Young Artist Award we can promote three young and highly promising talents.

Our awards are recognition of outstanding musical achievement. They can bring – and have brought, as many of our previous winners can attest – many benefits to the winners, artists and labels, enhancing reputation and increasing personal motivation.

We are confident that the full benefits of our awards will be felt by all our winners, in a musical
environment where revenues from streaming services, for example, are far from rewarding.”

• Violinist Gidon Kremer receives the Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Conductor Leonardo García Alarcón is named Artist of the Year.
• Cellist Benjamin Kruithof is named Young Artist of the Year and
• pianist Can Saraç receives the Discovery Award.
• Christoph Ehrenfellner wins the Composer Prize.
• BR Klassik is named Label of the Year.
• The ICMA Classical Award goes to cellist Ettore Pagano.
• Special Achievement Awards go to conductor Adam Fischer, pianist Oliver Triendl and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra.

In the audio and video categories, 17 productions were honoured, with artists including Vilde Frang, Unsuk Chin, Anna Gourari, Marin Alsop, Andreas Scholl, Samuel Hasselhorn and many more.

EARLY MUSIC

• Il Concerto Caccini
• Strozzi – Caccini – Philips – de Cavalieri – Anonymous
• Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten
• Ricercar
• RIC 463

BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6 BWV 825-830
• Martin Helmchen
• Alpha 994

BAROQUE VOCAL

• Invocazioni Mariane
• Porpora – Vinci – Anfossi – Pergolesi – Vivaldi – Ragazzi
• Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina, Alessandro Tampieri
• Naïve V5474

VOCAL MUSIC

• Urlicht
• Mahler – Zemlinsky – Humperdinck – Korngold – Pfitzner – Braunfels – Berg
• Samuel Hasselhorn, Julia Grüter
• The Poznań Nightingales Boys’ Choir,
• Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra
• Łukasz Borowicz
• Harmonia Mundi
• HMM 902384

CHORAL MUSIC

• Bruckners Welt
• Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2, Sacred works
• Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester
• Peter Dijkstra
• BR Klassik 900940

OPERA

• Richard Wagner: Parsifal
• Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Elina Garanča
• Georg Zeppenfeld, Wolfgang Koch, Stefan Cerny,
• Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
• Philippe Jordan
• Sony Classical 19439947742

SOLO INSTRUMENT

• Schubert: Piano Sonata D 840 + Hungarian Melody D 817 + Allegretto D 915
• Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 2
• Can Çakmur
• BIS 2690

CHAMBER MUSIC

• Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1-15, Quartet movement in E flat major, Two Pieces for String Quartet op. 22 & Op. 29
• Quatuor Danel
• Accentus Music
• ACC80585

CONCERTOS

• Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Carissima, The Gardens at Eastwell
• Vilde Frang, violin
• Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
• Robin Ticciati
• Warner Classic 5021732409423

SYMPHONIC MUSIC

• George Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3, Romanian Rhapsodies op. 11
• Choeur de Radio France, Orchestre National de France
• Christian Măcelaru
• Deutsche Grammophon 4865505

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

• Unsuk Chin: Violin Concerto No. 1, Cello Concerto, Le Silence des sirènes
  Rocaná, Chorós Chordón, Piano Concerto
• Christian Tetzlaff, Alban Gerhardt, Sun-Wook Kim, Barbara Hannigan
• Berliner Philharmoniker
• Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, Sakari Oramo, Simon Rattle
• Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings 230411

• Ex aequo
• John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries, Girls of the Golden West, Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
• ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
• Marin Alsop
• Naxos 8.559935

ASSORTED PROGRAMMES

• Alfred Schnittke: Piano Concerto – Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler, The Four Temperaments
• Anna Gourari, piano
• Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
• Markus Poschner
• ECM 2752

HISTORICAL RECORDINGS

• Brahms & Mozart: Geza Anda Live 1963 & 1974
• Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18
• Géza Anda, piano
• Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra
• Karl Böhm
• Prospero Classical PROSP0100

PREMIERE RECORDINGS

• Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
• Kate Aldrich, Julien Dran, Anaïs Constans,
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
• Kazuki Yamada
• Bru Zane BZ1055

VIDEO: OPERA

• Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus
• Diana Damrau, Georg Nigl, Katharina Konradi, Martin Winkler
• Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper
• Vladimir Jurowski,
• Barrie Kosky
• Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings BSOREC 1005

VIDEO: PERFORMANCE & DOCUMENTARIES

• Living Bach
• Bach players and singers around the world, Michael Maul, Anna Schmidt
• Weltkino 4061229402200

The winners will receive their ICMA trophies at the annual awards ceremony on 19 March 2025 at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf.

The evening will also include a gala concert featuring several of the winners and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adam Fischer.

The list of winners is available on the ICMA website.

Footage of the Gala Concert of the ICMA 2024 can be seen here: