Sol Gabetta​’s and Bertrand Chamayou​’s latest collaboration, a double album released on 19 January 2024 under Sony Classical label featuring the complete works by Felix Mendelssohn for cello and piano, alongside new Songs without Words by contemporary composers, has won the Chamber Music Recording of the Year award. The album features the Variations concertantes, Chanson sans paroles, both sonatas in B‑flat major op. 45 and D major op. 58 and the rarely performed Assai tranquillo. The duo added a contemporary flair by commissioning four esteemed composers of our time to contribute their own Songs without Words for cello and piano — Heinz Holliger, Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann and Francisco Coll. Their compositions serve as poetic modern additions to Mendelssohn’s oeuvre. 

Bertrand Chamayou has also won Solo Recording Instrument of the Year for his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie, where he pays tribute to two composers: Erik Satie and John Cage.

Klaus Mäkelä has won Conductor of the Year for his recording of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and The Firebird with Orchestre de Paris. This album was his first with the orchestra since starting as Music Director in September 2021, and is the first in his exploration of Stravinsky’s pivotal ballet scores with the orchestra.

Víkingur Ólafsson won Bestseller of the Year for his album Bach: Goldberg Variations on Deutsche Grammophon. The announcement was made during the final week of his Goldberg Variations World Tour, where he has played the work 88 times around the world, across six continents. The award follows three previous Opus Klassik wins for Instrumentalist of the Year (2023) and Solo Recording, Instrumental (2019 and 2020).