Annual Awards
The annual committee of the PdSK decides on the ten Annual Awards, recognizing the best productions of the past year. The committee consists of a rotating cast of ten jurors from various expert juries. Each juror of the PdSK can nominate productions for the Annual Awards. Annual awards are awarded to the winners as part of public concerts or literary readings (in the field of spoken word). From 2014 onward, the Long Lists of Annual Awards can be found on the same page as each year’s award winners.
Beethoven: String Quartets / Gewandhaus-Quartett
Ludwig van Beethoven
The complete string quartets
Gewandhaus-Quartett
Production: Klaus Feldmann
Recording: Eberhard Geiger, Maria Suschke
NCA 60139 (10 CD)
Distribution: Naxos
Cecilia Bartoli: The Salieri Album
Antonio Salieri
The Salieri Album
Cecilia Bartoli, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Adam Fischer
Production: Andrew Cornall
Recording: Arend Prohmann
Decca 457 100-2
Distribution: Universal
Bartók / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Belá Bartók
Music for für strings, percussion and celesta; Divertimento for string orchestra
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Production: Christian Leins
Recording: Friedemann Engelbrecht
RCA 82876 59326 2
Distribution: Helikon Harmonia Mundi
Ives / Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Susan Graham
Charles Ives
Piano Sonata No. 2, »Concord«; Songs
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Susan Graham, Tabea Zimmermann, Emmanuel Pahud
Production: Matthew Cosgrove
Recording: Christoph Claßen
Warner 2564 60297-2
Distribution: Warner, Hamburg
Luigi Nono / André Richard
Io, frammento da Prometeo; Das atmende Klarsein
Katia Plaschka, Petra Hoffmann, Monika Bair-Ivenz, Roberto Fabbriciani, Ciro Scarponi, Solistenchor Freiburg, Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWR, André Richard
Production: Wulf Weinmann; Armin Köhler, SWR Baden-Baden
Recording: Bernhard Mangold-Märkel
col legno 2SACD 20600 (2 SACD)
Distribution: Helikon Harmonia Mundi
Johnny Cash
Unearthed
Production: Rick Rubin
Recording: Richard Dodd, David Ferguson, Sylvia Massey, D. Sardy, David Schiffman
American Recordings 986 133-5 (5 CD)
Distribution: Universal
Ryan Adams
Love is Hell
Production: John Porter, Ryan Adams
Recording: Joe McGrath, Tom Schitck
Lost Highway/UMG Recordings 986 232-5
Distribution: Universal
Aki Takase
Plays »Fats« Waller
with Eugene Chadbourne, Nils Wogram, Rudi Mahall, Thomas Heberer, Paul Lovens
Production: Werner Aldinger
Recording: Hrôlfur Vagnsson
enja CD 9152-2
Distribution: Helikon Harmonia Mundi
Solomon & Socalled
Hiphopkhasene
with David Krakauer, Michael Alpert, Frank London, Smadj, Zev Feldman
Production: Sophie Solomon
Recording: Hartley Weinberg
Piranha CD-PIR 1789
Distribution: Indigo
Arno Schmidt
Nachrichten von Büchern und Menschen. Elf originale Radio-Essays (Announcements of books and humans. Eleven original broadcasting essays)
Production: Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1955-1961
cpo 999 986-2 (12 CD)
Distribution: jpc