Quarterly Critic’s Choice
The best and most interesting new releases of the previous three months are awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic’s Choice. Evaluation criteria are artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation, and sound quality. From 2014 onward, the Long Lists are stored directly with each Quarterly Critic’s Choice.
NEW: Long List 2/2024, published on 5th April 2024
Contemporary Classical Music
Heiner Goebbels: A House Of Call
My Imaginary Notebook. 2 CD, ECM 2728/29 (Universal)
»A House of Call« can easily be understood as a distillation of the almost incongruent oeuvre of Heiner Goebbels: a collection of sound impressions that the ever-attentive composer has collected on journeys, during research, and in personal encounters. It goes through many times and spaces. Goebbels, never squeamish about the fullness of his inspiration, ennobles what he finds, increases their intensity, and overlays them with exuberant sophistication of sound, rhythmic absurdities, and puzzles. The two hours are like an audio film full of scratchy experiences, filled with contradictions, and therefore insanely modern. For the jury: Egbert Tholl
This album won in the jury Contemporary Classical Music as well as in the Jury Crossover Productions.