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.
Vojtech Spurný & Ondřej Havelka
Giuseppe Scarlatti: Dove è amore è gelosia. Lenka Máčiková, Aleš Briscein, Kateřina Knĕžikova, Jaroslav Březina; Hoforchester Schwarzenberg, Vojtech Spurný, Stage direction: Ondřej Havelka. DVD, Opus Arte OA 1104 D / Blu-ray BD 7120 D (Naxos)
Cecilia Bartoli
Vincenzo Bellini: Norma. Cecilia Bartoli, Sumi Jo, John Osborn, Michele Pertusi, Orchestra La Scintilla, Giovanni Antonini. 2 CDs, Decca 478 3517 2 (Universal)
Julia Lezhneva
»Alleluia«. Solo Motets by Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora, Georg Friedrich Händel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Julia Lezhneva, Il Giardino Armonico, Direction: Giovanni Antonini. Decca 478 5242 (Universal)
Alfred Cortot
Anniversary Edition. 40 CDs, EMI 704907 2 5
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Paul Hindemith: Violinkonzert (1939), Sonate für Violine Solo op. 31,2, Sonate für Violine und Klavier op. 11,1, Sonate in E, Sonate in C. Frank Peter Zimmermann, Enrico Pace, RSO Frankfurt, Paavo Järvi. BIS-Records SACD-2024 (Klassik Center)
The annual award was presented on the 20th December 2013 as part of a concert in the Leipzgi Gewandhaus.
June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren
Quercus. ECM 2276/3724555 (Universal)
Peter Brötzmann
Long Story Short. 5 CDs, Trost Records 112 (office@trost.at)
Rokia Traoré
Beautiful Africa. Out Here 977722 (Indigo)
The annual award was presented on the 29th September 2013 as part of the Düsseldorf Festival.
Julia Holter
Loud City Song. Domino WIGCD306 (GoodToGo)
The annual award was presented on the 11th July 2014 at the Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof of Heidelberg.
Bob Dylan
Another Self Portrait. The Bootleg Series Vol. 10. 2 CDs, Columbia 88883734872 bzw. 4 CDs, 88883734882 (Sony)
James Joyce: Ulysses
Complete reading. With Burghart Klaußner, Axel Milberg, Corinna Kirchhoff, Hanns Zischler, Peter Matic, Frank Arnold, Anna Thalbach, Ulrich Noethen, Gerd Wameling, Edith Clever, Ulrich Matthes, Matthias Brandt, Wolfram Koch, Heiko Deutschmann et al, Direction: Ralph Schäfer. 31 CDs, Der Hörverlag ISBN 978-3867178-754
The annual award was presented on the 13th March 2014 as part of the Leipzig Book Fair.