Long List 4/2025

Published: 5th October 2025
The German Record Critics’ Award presents the fourth long list of 2025. The currently 152 jurors have nominated a total of 260 new publications from the last quarter in 32 categories, which are eligible for the next Quarterly Critic’s Choice. The Quarterly Critic’s Choice 4/2025 will be published on the 14th of November.

Jury Orchestral Music

• Ammann: Glut a.o. orchestral music. O de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (Schweizer Fonogramm)
• Bartók, Enescu, Kodály, Martinů: Dances, Rhapsody a.o. Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic O, Carlo Tenan (Onyx)
• Chausson: Symphony B flat major a.o. Lauranne Oliva, Marie-Claude Chapppuis, David Delacroix, SO Basel, Ivor Bolton (Prospero)
• Haydn: Symphonies No. 13, 16, 36. Dmitry Smirnov, KammerO Basel, Giovanni Antonini (Alpha)
• Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony. Yuja Wang, Cécile Lartigau, Boston SO, Andris Nelsons (DG)
• Pärt: Credo. Kalle Randalu, Estonian Festival O, Paavo Järvi (Alpha)
• Potter: Symphonies Vol. 3. Mélodie Zhao, BBC National O of Wales, Howard Griffiths (cpo)
• Silvestrov: Symphony No. 8. Janusz Wawrowski, Lithuanian National SO, Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Naxos)

Jury Concertos

• Dvořák: Violin Concerto, Serenade for Strings. Antje Weithaas, Camerata Bern (CAvi)
• Händel: Harp Concerto, Organ Concertos. Xavier de Maistre, Julien Quentin, Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds (Sony)
• Martin: Concerto pour 7 instruments à vent a.o. Bartłomiej Niziol a.o., Württembergisches KammerO Heilbronn, Philippe Bach (Schweizer Fonogramm)
• Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony. Yuja Wang, Cécile Lartigau, Boston SO, Andris Nelsons (DG)
• Price: Violin Concertos No. 1 & 2 a.o. Fanny Clamagirand, Han Chen, Malmö Opera O, John Jeter (Naxos)

Jury Chamber Music I

• »Echoes of Exile« – Works by Bartók, Ben-Haim, Enescu, Ysaÿe, Zimmermann. Sueye Park (BIS)
• »Gypsy Melodies« – Works by Dvořák, Janáček, Bartók a.o. Talich Quartet (la dolce volta)
• Ginastera: String Quartets. Miró Quartet, Kiera Duffy (Pentatone)
• Haydn: String Quartets Vol. 20 (op. 20 Nos. 1-3). Leipziger Streichquartett (MDG)
• Mozart: String Quintets Nos. 1-6. spunicunifait (Alpha)
• Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets Vol. 2 (Nos. 6-12). Cuarteto Casals (harmonia mundi)

Jury Chamber Music II

• »Beyond Horizons« – Smyth, Grieg, Maier: Chamber Music. Liv Migdal, Mario Häring (hänssler CLASSIC)
• »Farasha« – Bréville, Hindemith, al Kammar: Chamber Music. Sindy Mohamed, Julien Quentin, Wassim Mukdad, Serdar Saydan (Berlin Classics)
• »Time in Flux …« – Works for Piano Trio by Ives, Mamlok, Beethoven, Bertelsmeier. Amelio Trio (Genuin)
• Beethoven: Great Fugue for Piano for four hands a.o. Silver Garburg Piano Duo, Artis Quartett (Berlin Classics)
• Dvořák: Piano Trios No. 3 & 4. Trio Orelon (cpo)
• Shostakovich, Schnittke a.o.: Cello Sonatas. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Martin Helmchen (Alpha)

Jury Keyboard Music I

• Bach: Goldberg Variations. Sophia Weidemann (Genuin)
• Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas. Jennifer Lim (Genuin)
• Scarlatti D: 15 Sonatas. Javier Perianes (harmonia mundi)
• Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87. Sofia Sacco (Orchid Classics)
• Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87. Yulianna Avdeeva (Pentatone)
• Schubert, Beethoven: Piano Sonatas & Variations. Can Çakmur (BIS)
• Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 664, D 960, 6 Folk Dances, 6 Waltzes. Natalia Ehwald (Prospero)
• Schumann: Fantasy op. 18, Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy D 760 a.o. Lei Meng (Coviello)
• Tchaikovsky: The Seasons op. 37b (piano version). Yunchan Lim (Decca)
• Winterberg: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-5. Jonathan Powell (EDA)

Jury Keyboard Music II

• »Mozart’s Clavichord« – Arias, Songs, Piano Works. Georg Nigl, Alexander Gergelyfi (Alpha)
• »Overseas« – Works for Harpsichord by Chambonnières, d’Anglebert a.o. Louise Acabo (Alpha)
• »Passions« – Works by Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt a.o. (organ transcriptions). Zuzana Ferjenčíková (Aeolus)
• Bach, Reubke a.o.: Music for Soprano and Organ. Gudrun Sidonie Otto, Andreas Liebig (arcantus)
• Jolas: Organ Works. Angela Metzger, WDR SO, Titus Engel (NEOS)
• Obermüller, Bröder a.o.: Contemporary Music for Artistic Harmonium & Piano. Duo Pianarmonio (NEOS)
• Reuchsel: Promenades a Provence. Tobias Horn (Ambiente Audio)

Jury Opera I

• Donizetti: Zoraida di Granata. Zuzana Marková, Cecilia Molinari a.o., O Gli Originali, Coro dell’Academia Teatro alla Scala, Alberto Zanardi, direction: Bruno Ravella (Dynamic)
• Giacomelli: Cesare in Egitto. Arianna Vendittelli, Emöke Baráth a.o., Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (Alpha)
• Graun C H: Adriano in Siria. Valer Sabadus, Bruno de Sá a.o., Federico Fiorio, Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (dhm)
• Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe. Annett Fritsch, Roberta Mameli a.o., Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Berhard Forck (harmonia mundi)
• Mozart: Idomeneo. Andrew Staples, Magdalena Kožená a.o., Chorus & BRSO, Simon Rattle (BR Klassik)
• Purcell: Dido & Aeneas. Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres a.o., Il pomo d’oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (Erato)
• Rameau: Castor et Pollux. Véronique Gens, Reinoud van Mechelen a.o., Purcell Choir, Orfeo O, György Vashegyi (Alpha)
• Wilhelmine von Bayreuth: Argenore. Magdalena Hinz, Marysol Schalit a.o., Göttingen Baroque O, Antonius Adamske (Coviello)

Jury Opera II

• Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers. Richard Suart, Dan Shelvey a.o., The O of Scottish Opera, The Chorus of the Gondoliers, Derek Clark, direction: Stuart Maunder (Opus Arte)
• Gilbert & Sullivan: Utopia. Neal Davies, Ellie Langharne a.o., The O of Scottish Opera and Chorus, Derek Clark (Opus Arte)
• Respighi: La Fiamma. Olesya Gelovneva, Gergory Vasiliev a.o., Chorus & O of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carlo Rizzi, Direction: Christof Loy (EuroArts)
• Tchaikovsky: Ouvertures: Hamlet, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet. Bavarian State Ballet & O, Mikhail Agrest, choreography: Alexey Ratmansky (Bayerische Staatsoper)
• Weinberg: The Idiot. Bogdan Volkov, Ausrine Stundyte a.o., Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic O, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, direction: Krystof Warlikowski (Unitel Edition)

Jury Choral Music and Vocal Ensemble

• »A Prayer for Deliverance« – Works by Holst, Shaw a.o. Tenebrae, Nigel Short (Signum)
• »Unheard-of female composers« – Works for chorus a cappella by Lang, Wahl-Stoll, Zumsteeg, Symth a.o. Ensemble Horizons, Matthias Klosinski (Genuin)
• Campra: Messe de Requiem. Gwendoline Blondeel, Bastien Rimondi a.o., Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (Pentatone)
• Handel: Alexander’s Feast. Miriam Kutrowatz, Daniel Johannsen a.o., Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini (Arcana)
• Handel: Chandos Anthems. Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (Alpha)
• Joye: Missa O Rosa Bella & Chansons. Club Mediéval, Thomas Baeté (musica ficta)
• Lassus: The Alchemist, Vol. 2: Motets. Magnificat, Philip Cave (Linn)
• Loewe: Hiob. Monika Mauch, Ulrike Malotta, Arcis-Vocalisten München, L’arpa festante, Thomas Gropper (Oehms)
• Pärt: And I heard a voice. Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (ECM)
• Poppe: Körper, Gold. Ensemble Modern, SWR Vokalensemble, Enno Poppe, Marcus Creed (Wergo)
• Vicentino: Madrigali a cinque voci libro quinto. Ensemble del Dipartimento di Musica Antica del Conservatorio di Vicenza, Stefano Lorenzetti (Dynamic)

Jury Lieder and Vocal Recital

• »Belle Époche!« – Massenet, Koechlin, Bachelet, Leroux a.o. Adèle Charvet, Florian Caroubi (Alpha)
• »Mozart’s Clavichord« – Arias, Songs, Piano Works. Georg Nigl, Alexander Gergelyfi (Alpha)
• »Remembrance« – Songs by Eisler, Stephan, Kahn, Ives. Marcel Brunner, Doriana Tchakarova (hänssler CLASSIC)
• Brahms, Wolf: Lieder. Florian Boesch, Malcolm Martineau (Linn)
• Durey: Mélodies. Holger Falk, Steffen Schleiermacher (MDG)
• Mahler: Lieder from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn« a.o. Anna Lucia Richter, Gürzenich O Köln, Jordan de Souza (myrios)
• Schubert: Winterreise. Johannes Martin Kränzle, Hilko Dumno (hänssler CLASSIC)
• Schumann: Dichterliebe, Schubert: Schwanengesang. Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch, Jan Philip Schulze (Sony)

Jury Early Music

• »A French Odyssey« – Music for 2 cellos & b.c. by Rameau, Barrière a.o. UnderStories Ensemble (Challenge)
• »Dolce concento: Les Italiens à Paris sous Louis XIV«. La Palantine, Marie Théoleyre, Guillaume Haldenwang (harmonia mundi)
• »London circa 1760« – Works by JC Bach, CF Abel a.o. La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton, Benjamin Perrot (harmonia mundi)
• »Overseas« – Works for Harpsichord by Chambonnières, d’Anglebert a.o. Louise Acabo (Alpha)
• Biber: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3, 5, 6. Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque (Channel)
• Binchois: Chansons. Ensemble Les Alizés, Clémence Comte (Et’Cetera)
• Lassus: The Alchemist, Vol. 2: Motets. Magnificat, Philip Cave (Linn)
• Merula: Concerti Spirituali. InAlto, Lambert Colson, Bernard Foccroulle (Ricercar)
• Mundy: Vox patris caelestis. Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney (Linn)
• Rolle: Symphonies, Harpsichord Concertos. Michael Borgstede, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens (cpo)
• Sweelinck: Pseaumes de David. Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes (cpo)
• Telemann: Violin Concertos Vol. 9. Julia Huber, Martin Jopp, Lucas Schurig-Breuß, L’Orfeo BarockO, Carin van Heerden (cpo)

Jury Contemporary Classical Music

• »North Waves« – Gdańsk Contemporary Music. Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf, Izabela Paszkiewicz a.o. (Odradek)
• Jolas: Organ Works. Angela Metzger, WDR SO, Titus Engel (NEOS)
• León: Horizons, Raíces, Stride, Pasajes. London Philharmonic O, Karina Canellakis, Dima Slobodeniouk (LPO)
• Lim: A Sutured World. Nicolas Altstaedt, Carin Levine, William Barton, BRSO, Franck Ollu, Edward Gardner, Christoph Poppen (BR Klassik)
• Nemtsov: Tzimtzum. Ensemble Nikel, WDR SO, Peter Rundel (bastille musique)
• Poppe: Körper, Gold. Ensemble Modern, SWR Vokalensemble, Enno Poppe, Marcus Creed (Wergo)
• Saariaho: Works for Piano and Harpsichord. Tuija Hakkila, Anssi Karttunen (Ondine)
• Vázquez: Tario. Virgo Vox Ensemble, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Duo Lallement Marques, Michael Nicolas, Taller de Música Contemporánea (Kairos)
• Wang: RE:Wilding. Sebastian Berweck, Marco Blaauw, Sophie Schafleitner, Quatuor Diotima, ensemble reflektor, Klangforum Wien, SWR SO, Bar Avni, Julien Leroy, Gregor A. Mayrhofer (Kairos)

Jury Historical Classical Recordings

• »Richter plays Brahms«. Swjatoslaw Richter, Chicago SO, Erich Leinsdorf (Alto)
• Bach, Beethoven, Dohnányi, Schubert, Ravel: Works for Violin. Albert Spalding, Ernst von Dohnányi, Anthony Kooiker (Parnassus)
• Brahms, Britten, Elgar, Sibelius: Violin Concertos. Ida Haendel, BBC SO, London SO, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Adrian Boult, Andrew Davis, Paavo Berglund (ica classics)
• John Ogdon – The Argo Years. John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas, Robert Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (Eloquence Australia)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 8, Busoni: Busoni: The Choice of Bride, Suite a.o. London SO, Jascha Horenstein a.o. (High Definition Tape Transfers)
• Malcolm Sargent – Complete Decca Recordings (Eloquence Australia)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Nielsen: Symphony No. 5. Royal Philharmonic O, New Philharmonia O, Jascha Horenstein (ica classics)
• Sir Thomas Beecham – Complete Stereo Recordings on Warner Classics 1955-1959 (Warner)
• Wagner: Tristan und Isolde. Max Lorenz, Gertrude Grob-Prandl a.o., O e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Victor De Sabata (PAN)

Jury Crossover Productions

• »Song of the Birds« – Works by de Falla, Taktakishvili a.o. Avi Avital, Between Worlds a.o. (DG)
• Chopin & Lazkano: Préludes. Maroussia Gentet, Ensemble Cairn, Guillaume Bourgogne (bastille musique)
• Christian Muthspiel & Orjazztra Vienna & the voice of Ernst Jandl: vom Jandln zum Ernst (col legno)
• Dino Saluzzi, Jacob Young, José María Saluzzi: El Viejo Caminante (ECM)
• Fabia Mantwill Orchestra: In.Sight (GroundUp Music)
• Foxl: Bodyless (Lädy Bäm)
• Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform)
• Thomas Enhco: Mozart Paradox – Mozart-Improvisationen (Masterworks)

Jury Film Music

• Cornel Wilczek: Bring her back (A24 Music)
• Dascha Dauenhauer: 22 Bahnen (Königskinder Music)
• Freya Arde: Mädchen, Mädchen! (Königskinder Music)
• Hans Zimmer: F1 The Movie (Apple Video Programming)
• Holly Amber Church: The Other (Holly Amber Church)
• IDLES & Rob Simonsen: Caught Stealing (Partisan)
• Jeff Russo: Alien Earth (Hollywood Records)
• Matthew Herbert: Hot Milk (Accidental)
• Michael Giacchino: The Fantastic Four – First Steps (Marvel Music)

Jury Music Film

• Becoming Led Zeppelin. A film by Bernard MacMahon (Sony Pictures)
• Jacqueline du Pré – Genius And Tragedy. A film by Matthew Percival (Arte)
• Joana Mallwitz: Momentum. A film by Günter Atteln (Accentus Music)
• Maria. A film by Pablo Larraín. Angelina Jolie performes Maria Callas (Arthaus)

Jury Jazz I

• Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
• Burkard Kunkel: Monxarella (BayLa)
• Christian Muthspiel & Orjazztra Vienna & the voice of Ernst Jandl: vom Jandln zum Ernst (col legno)
• Dino Saluzzi, Jacob Young, José María Saluzzi: El Viejo Caminante (ECM)
• Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (Blue Note)
• Karl Ratzer Trio: Vienna Red (IN+OUT)
• Magnus Mehl Tiny Brass Band: Live (nWog)
• Maria Baptist Orchestra: The Bright And The Dark (Maria Baptist Music)
• Raphael Wressnig: Committed (Pepper Cake)
• Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (Artwork)

Jury Jazz II

• Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
• Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (International Anthem)
• Burkard Kunkel: Monxarella (BayLa)
• Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
• Christian Muthspiel & Orjazztra Vienna & the voice of Ernst Jandl: vom Jandln zum Ernst (col legno)
• Conrad Bauer, Kalle Kalima: 13 Kuukautta – Pieces for Trombone & Guitar (TYXart)
• Fabia Mantwill Orchestra: In.Sight (GroundUp Music)
• Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don’t (Intakt)
• Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform)
• Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: That Wasn’t A Dream (Verve)
• Timo Vollbrecht: Bremen New York (Berthold)

Jury World Music

• Adrian Quesada: Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO/PIAS)
• Africa Express: Presents … Bahidorá (WorldCircuit/BMG)
• Duo Ruut: Ilmateade (Duo Ruut Music)
• Elena Baklava: Yorukluk (CPL-Music)
• Haris Pilton & Balkan Voodoo Orchestra: Soon in Your Village (Asphalt Tango)
• Hawa & Kassé Mady Diabaté: Toumaro (One World)
• Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood)
• Lina_ & Jules Maxwell: Terra Mãe (Atlantic Curve/Schubert Music Publishing)
• Lucia Micarelli: Anthropology (Vital)
• Phoebe Violet: Suspiros (self-publishing)
• Tania Saleh: Fragile (Association Tantune)
• Virginia Nicoli: Taramandal (Felmay)
• Votia: Vie Kaz (Ajabu!)

Jury Traditional Ethnic Music

• »Song of the Birds« – Works by de Falla, Taktakishvili a.o. Avi Avital, Between Worlds a.o. (DG)
• Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde: Al-hambra – oud and flamenco guitar (ARC Music)
• Gennadi Tumat’s Ay Kherel: Aldyn Dashka (Golden Cup) (PAN)
• Julian Kytasty: Songs of Truth (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Kadialy Kouyate: Toña (ARC Music)
• Kengo Saito Japanistan Trio: Douce Errance (Felmay)
• Mara Aranda: Sefarad – En El Corazón de Bulgaria (Bureo)
• Michalis Kouloumis: Displaced Dreams (Seyir Muzik)
• Princess Vinia: Lii Wong (The Album) (Lionz Muzik)
• Virginia Nicoli: Taramandal (Felmay)
• Votia: Vie Kaz (Ajabu!)

Jury German language Singer/Songwriters

• Die Grenzgänger: Wessen Welt ist die Welt? (Müller-Lüdenscheidt)
• Dota: Springbrunnen (Kleingeldprinzessin)
• Karl die Große: Aufgehoben (Blackseat)
• Manfred Maurenbrecher: Vielleicht Vielleichter (Reptiphon)
• Marie Fleurie: Les fleurs sur mon chemin (self-publishing)
• Paul Bartsch & Band: Gemeinsame Sache (self-publishing)

Jury Folk and Singer/Songwriters

• Adax Dörsam: 25 (Timezone)
• Cole Quest and The City Pickers: Homegrown (Jalopy)
• Die Grenzgänger: Wessen Welt ist die Welt? (Müller-Lüdenscheidt)
• Estonian Voices: Kallimale (o-tone music)
• Hekate: Evigheten Forestår (Heilo)
• Lucia Micarelli: Anthropology (Vital)
• Plønk: Bridge of Glass (Cetra)
• Sarah Weiß: Back to Surface (White Bird)
• Spöket I Köket: Grannlåt (GO! Danish Folkmusic / Gammalthea)
• Ward Dhoore: It Was All Heart (Trad Records)

Jury Pop

• BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation (Bella Union)
• Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD)
• Curtis Harding: Departures & Arrivals: Adventures Of Captain Curt (Anti)
• David Byrne: Who Is The Sky? (Matador)
• Dijon: Baby (Warner)
• James Yorkston & Friends: Songs For Nina & Johanna (Domino)
• Lorde: Virgin (Universal)

Jury Rock

• Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD)
• Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars: Dreams (Loose Music)
• Bruce Springsteen: Tracks II: The Lost Albums (Columbia)
• Haim: I Quit (Vertigo)
• Paul Weller: Find El Dorado (Parlophone Label Group)
• Pulp: More (Rough Trade/Beggars)
• The Wood Brothers: Puff Of Smoke (Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers)
• Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (RCA)
• Van Morrison: Remembering Now (Virgin)
• Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino)

Jury Hard and Heavy

• A-Z: A2Z² (Metal Blade)
• Gaupa: Fyr (Magnetic Eye)
• Green Carnation: A Dark Poem, Part 1: The Shores Of Melancholia (Season Of Mist)
• Halestorm: Everest (Atlantic)
• Heaven Shall Burn: Heimat (Century Media)
• Helloween: Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix Music)
• Imha Tarikat: Confessing Darkness (Prophecy)
• Phantom Spell: Heather & Hearth (Cruz Del Sur)
• Sinsaenum: In Devastation (earMusic)
• Slime: 3!+7¹ (Slime)
• Volbeat: God Of Angels Trust (Vertigo)
• Wucan: Axioms (Long Branch)

Jury Alternative

• CMAT: Euro-Country (Cmatbaby)
• Drangsal: Aus keiner meiner Brücken die in Asche liegen ist je ein Phönix emporgestiegen (Virgin)
• Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain)
• Haim: I Quit (Vertigo)
• Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon (Third Man)
• Patrick Wolf: Crying The Neck (PIAS)
• Pulp: More (Rough Trade/Beggars)
• Saint Etienne: International (Heavenly/PIAS)
• Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino)

Jury Club and Dance

• DJ Haram: Beside Myself (Hyperdub)
• Nick Léon: A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax)
• Sound Bath: Coatshek (Dark Entries)

Jury Electronic and Experimental

• Félicia Atkinson: Promenades (Shelter Press / Mute Song)
• Gerda Iguchi: Wesendonck.Synthetisch (self-publishing)
• Guedra Guedra: Mutant (Smugglers Way/Domino)
• Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (International Anthem)
• Matmos: Metallic Life Review (Thrill Jockey)
• Mayo: Rebirth (Intercept)
• Patricia Wolf: Hrafnamynd (Balmat)
• Rival Consoles: Landscape From Memory (Erased Tapes)
• Sankt Otten: Tote Winkel (Denovali)
• Sick Man Of Europe: The Sick Man Of Europe (The Leaf Label)
• Slikback: Attrition (Planet Mu)
• Sophie Tassignon: A Slender Thread (Nemu)
• Stephen O’Malley: But Remember What You Have Had (Portraits GRM)
• Ströhm: Socially Relevant Artistic (Stroehm Musik)

Jury Blues

• Al Jones: Still In Charge (Solid Pack)
• Bad Temper Joe: The Acoustic Blues Guitar Revue (Timezone)
• Buddy Guy: Ain’t Done With The Blues (RCA)
• Bywater Call: Sunshine (Teenage Head Music)
• D.K. Harrell: Talkin’ Heavy (Alligator)
• Joe Bonamassa: Breakthrough (J&R Anventures/Mascot)
• Jones & The Crew: Soulmates (Berlin Blue Records)
• Leif de Leeuw Band: A Mighty Fine Live Album (Coast To Coast)
• Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues Of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue)
• North Mississippi Allstars: Still Shakin’ (New West)
• Raphael Wressnig: Committed (Pepper Cake)
• Walter Trout: Sign Of The Times (Mascot/Provogue)

Jury R&B, Soul and Hip-Hop

• Adrian Sherwood: The Collapse Of Everything (On-U Sound)
• Brittany Davis: Black Thunder (Loose Groove)
• Ché Noir & The Other Guys: No Validation (HiPNOTT Records)
• Jim Legxacy: Black British Music 2025 (XL)
• Knxwledge.: VGM.39 (self-publishing)
• Meduulla & Ethan Hill: Tabula Rasa (self-publishing)
• Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (drink sum wtr)

Jury Verbal Art

• Armin Smailovi, Branko Šimić: Srebrenica. Jens Harzer, Vernesa Berbo a.o., music: Damir Avdić, songs: Vernesa Berbo (Stream, DLF Kultur)
• Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Ungebetene Gäste. Milena Karas (argon Hörbuch)
• Ben Shattuck: Die Geschichte des Klangs. Reinhard Kuhnert, Tessa Mittelstaedt (Hörbuch Hamburg)
• Heinz Strunk: Kein Geld Kein Glück Kein Sprit. author reading (tacheles!)
• Jacinta Nandi: Single Mom Supper Club. Britta Steffenhagen (argon Hörbuch)
• Joachim Meyerhoff: Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen. author reading (argon Hörbuch)
• Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl. Lea van Acken, Matti Krause a.o., editing and direction: Matthias Kapoh (Stream, DLF Kultur)
• Rainer Maria Rilke: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Gert Westphal (DAV)
• Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit. Vincent zur Linden, Henriette Nagel a.o., composition: Ulrike Haage, direction: Katja Langenbach (Stream BR)
• Thomas Mann Box. Thomas Sarbacher, Gerd Wameling a.o. (Argon Edition)

Jury Recordings for Children and Youth

• Barbara O’Connor: Mein größter Wunsch. Monika Oschek (DAV)
• Christine Werner, Gamze Kubasik, Semiya Şimşek: Unser Schmerz ist unsere Kraft. G. Kubaşık, S. Şimşek, Pegah Ferydoni, Aysima Ergün, Elisabeth Günther (argon Hörbuch)
• Frank Schwieger: Ich, Captain Hook, und die verfluchte Schatzinsel. Pia-Rhona Saxe, Arndt Schmöle (Igel)
• Franziska Gehm: Der Tote im Dorfteich. Louis Held (derDiwan Hörbuchverlag)
• Johan Rundberg: Mika Mysteries. Der Ruf des Nachtraben. Julia Nachtmann (Hörbuch Hamburg)
• Judith Rossel: Midwatch. Schule der unerwünschten Mädchen. Merete Brettschneider, Maria Hartmann (der Hörverlag)
• Karsten Teich: Jim Salabim. Zwei zauberhafte Abenteuer. Martin Reinl, music: Balkan wind (DAV)
• Liza Szabo: Marie Bot – Ein Kindermädchen zum Aufladen. Lina Beckmann (Silberfisch)
• Michael Engler: Die größte Freundschaftsgeschichte der Welt. Elias Emken (Lauscherlounge)
• Tijan Sila & Lena Schneider: Lila Leuchtfeuer 2: Auf zur Schaurigen Schachtel! Birte Schnöink (DAV)