HarrisonParrott Artists Win in six categories at the 2024 Opus Klassik Awards
24/6/2024
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Congratulations to our HarrisonParrott artists for winning multiple awards at the 2024 Opus Klassik Awards
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.
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Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, of which Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director for 20 years, has won Orchestra of the Year for their recording of the Haydn London Symphonies Nos 101 and 103. Paavo Järvi was awarded the Opus Klassik Award as Conductor of the Year in 2019.
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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.
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Gautier Capuçon’s new release Destination Paris for Warner Erato has won Instrumentalist of the Year. The album includes popular film melodies to French chansons to classical pieces — recorded with pianist Jérôme Ducros, the Maîtrise de Radio France, and Orchestre de chambre de Paris under conductor Lionel Bringuier. The album includes a new song by Jean Jacques Goldman, one of France’s most popular songwriters and composers, Pense à nous, for cello, children’s choir and orchestra and a special arrangement of Envole-moi.
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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).
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