List of Opus Klassik award winners

This article contains a list of all musicians and works who have been awarded an Opus Klassik music prize since 2018 .

Audiophile multichannel recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Budapest Festival Orchestra , Cantemus Children's Choir , Iván Fischer , Gerhild Romberger & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks	Mahler : Symphony No. 3	Channel Classics Records	-
2019	Mastersingers of Nuremberg	The Mastersingers of Nuremberg	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	-

Best seller of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester & Thomas Hengelbrock	Johannes Brahms : Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4	Sony Classical / Sony Music	-
2019	Jonas Kaufmann	An Italian night live from the Waldbühne Berlin	Sony Classical / Sony Music	-

Choral work of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Renner Ensemble Regensburg & Hans Pritschet	Was no more. Male choir works on war and peace	ARS	-
2019	Calmus Ensemble Leipzig & Ensemble Amarcord	Leipzig disputation	Carus	-

Conductor of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Cornelius Master	Bohuslav Martinů : The Symphonies - Complete Recording	Capriccio / Naxos	-
2019	Paavo Järvi	Sibelius : Symphonies 1–7	RCA Records	-

Editorial achievement of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Hänssler Classic / Jascha Nemtsov	Legends - Vsevolod Zaderatsky : Piano Works	hänssler classic / profile media	-
	Sony Classical	Leonard Bernstein : The Composer	Sony Classical / Sony Music	-
2019	Friedrich Gulda	Bach - Gulda - Clavichord (The Monotapes)	Berlin Classics / Edel	-

Ensemble of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	L'Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar	Handel goes wild	rato / Warner Music	-
	ORA	Many are the wonders	harmonia mundi	Choir
2019	They were Compagney	War & Peace - 1618: 1918	German Harmonia Mundi	-

Innovative audio production of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2019	Berolina Ensemble & Maria Bengtsson	Waldemar von Bausznern	MDG	-

Innovative concert of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2019	Elina Albach , Benedikt Kristjánsson & Philipp Lamprecht	JS Bach : St. John Passion	Carus publishing house	-

Instrumentalist of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Frank Bungarten	Johann Kaspar Mertz : The last Viennese virtuoso	MDG / Naxos	guitar
	Albrecht Mayer	Tesori d'Italia. Vivaldi - Sammartini - Ristori - Elmi	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	oboe
	Mie Miki	The well-tempered accordion	BIS / Klassik Center Kassel	accordion
	Roman Patkoló	The Six Seasons	wet weather music group / fours entertainment	double bass
	Daniil Olegowitsch Trifonov	Chopin Evocations	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	piano
2019	Igor Levit	Life	Sony Classical / Sony Music	piano
	Sol Gabetta	Schumann	Sony Classical / Sony Music	cello
	Andreas Ottensamer	Blue hour	Deutsche Grammophon	clarinet

Chamber music recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Martha Argerich & Sergei Babayan	Prokofiev for Two	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	Music 20./21. century
	Capella de la Torre & Katharina Bäuml	Una Serata Venexiana	German harmonia mundi / Sony Music	Music up to and including 17./18. century
	Kuss Quartet , Hinrich Alpers , Hanno Müller-Brachmann , Nabil Shehata , Tehila Nini Goldstein , Marie-Pierre Langlamet & Agata Szymczewska	Rudi Stephan : Chamber Works and Songs	Sony Classical / Sony Music	Music 20./21. Century / mixed ensemble
	Mozart Piano Quartet , Cornelia Gartemann & Radovan Vlatković	Georg Hendrik Witte : Piano Quartet op.5 & Horn Quintet op.post.	MDG / Naxos	19th century music
	Yo-Yo Ma , Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer	Bach trios	Nonesuch / Warner	Music up to and including 17./18. century
	Tabea Zimmermann , Jörg Widmann & Dénes Várjon	Once upon a time ... One upon a time ... fairy tales	myrios classics	19th century music
2019	Tillmann Höfs / Akiko Nikami	Air	Genuine	duo
	Yubo Zhou / Bin Huang / Alexander Suleiman	An-Lun Huang	MDG	trio
	Signum Quartet	Schubert : From a distance	PentaTone	quartet
	Schumann Quartet with Anna Lucia Richter	intermezzo	Berlin Classics	quintet

Classic for children

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Lucas & Arthur Jussen , Katja Riemann & Roger Willemsen	Camille Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	-

Classic without limits

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Benny Andersson	piano	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	-
	Bjarte Eike & Baroque Soloists	The Alehouse Sessions	Rubicon / harmonia mundi	-
	Philharmonix	The Vienna Berlin Music Club Vol. 1	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	-
2019	Rolf Lislevand & Concerto Stella Matutina	Nuove Invenzioni	Sony Classical / Sony Music	Lute
	Anneleen Lenaerts	Nino Rota : Works for Harp	Warner Classics	harp
	Bryn Terfel	Dreams and Songs	Warner Classics	singing

Composer of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2019	Jörg Widmann	ark	ECM	-

Concert recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Lisa Batiashvili , Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Chamber Orchestra of Europe	Visions of Prokofiev	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	Music 20./21. Century / violin
	Berlin Baroque Soloists & Reinhard Goebel	JS Bach : Brandenburg Concertos	Sony Classical / Sony Music	Music up to and including the 18th century
	Frank Dupree , German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate & Karl-Heinz Steffens	George Antheil : A Jazz Symphony, Piano Concerto No. 1, Capital of the World Suite, Archipelago Rhumba	Capriccio / Naxos	Music 20./21. Century / 3 pianos
	Tatjana Ruhland , Alexander Liebreich , Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR & Eckart Heiligers	Carl Reinecke : Flute Concertos & Flute Sonatas	cpo / jpc	19th century music / flute
	Alon Sariel & Ensemble Concerto Foscari	Telemandolin	Berlin Classics / Edel	Music up to and including the 18th century / mandolin
	Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Howard Shelley	Potter: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor & Piano Concerto No. 4 in E major	HYPERION / note 1	19th century music / piano
2019	Midori Seiler / Concerto Cologne	La Venezia di Anna Maria	Berlin Classics	violin
	Lucie Horsch	Baroque Journey	Decca Records	flute
	Markus Becker	Max Reger : Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 114	CAvi	piano
	Kinan Azmeh	Uneven Sky	Dreyer Gai / Grade 1	clarinet

Music DVD / Blu-ray Production of the Year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Axel Borup-Jørgensen	Marin	OUR Recordings / Naxos	-

Promotion of young talent of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Ensemble Esperanza	-	-	-
2019	Dusseldorf singing break	-	-	-

Young artist of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	4 Times Baroque	Caught in Italian Virtuosity	German harmonia mundi / Sony Music	Mixed ensemble
	Kathrin Christians	Field - Vineyard - Theodorakis	classic / profile media	flute
	Sheku Kanneh-Mason	inspiration	Decca / Deutsche Grammophon	cello
	Regula Mühlemann	Cleopatra - Baroque Arias	Sony Classical / Sony Music	singing
	Emmanuel Tjeknavorian	solo	Sony Classical / Sony Music	violin
2019	Emőke Baráth	Voglio Cantar	Warner Classics	singing
	Nadine Sierra	There's a place for us	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	singing
	Christoph Sietzen	Incantations	Sony Classical / Sony Music	Marimba
	Konstantin Reinfeld	Debut	ARS production / grade 1	harmonica

Opera recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Joshua Bloom , Bernarda Fink , Gerald Finley , Christian Gerhaher , Elias Mädler , Franz-Josef Selig , Simon Halsey , London Symphony Chorus , London Symphony Orchestra , Simon Rattle , Magdalena Kožená	Debussy : Pelléas et Mélisande	LSO Live / note 1	Opera 20./21. century
	Joyce DiDonato , Michael Spyres & Marie-Nicole Lemieux	Berlioz : Les Troyens	Erato / Warner	Opera 19th century
	Ensemble Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon	Stravaganza d'amore	harmonia mundi	Opera up to and including 17./18. century
2019	Huelgas Ensemble & Paul van Nevel	Caccini : La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina	DHM	Opera until the 18th century
	Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Mark Elder	Rossini : Semiramide	Opera Rara	Opera until the 19th century
	BBC Symphony Orchestra	John Adams : Doctor Atomic	Nonesuch / Warner Music	Opera 20./21. century

Orchestra of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Gewandhaus Orchestra	Bruckner : Symphony No. 3 - Wagner : Tannhauser Overture	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	-
2019	They were Compagney	War & Peace - 1618: 1918	Dhm / Sony Music	Ensemble / Orchestra of the Year

Singer of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Juan Diego Flórez	Mozart	Sony Classical / Sony Music	-
2019	Christian Gerhaher	Schumann : Question	Sony Classical / Sony Music	-

Singer of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Diana Damrau	Meyerbeer : Grand Opera	Erato / Warner Music	-
2019	Joyce DiDonato	Songplay	Erato / Warner Music	-

Symphonic recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , Marin Alsop , Jennifer Johnson Cano & Jean-Yves Thibaudet	Bernstein : Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2	Naxos / Boosey & Hawkes	Music 20./21. century
	Capricornus Consort Basel & Peter Barczi	Franz Xaver Richter : Symphonias, Sonatas & Oboe Concerto	CHRISTOPHORUS / note 1	Music up to and including the 18th century
	German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen & Paavo Järvi	Brahms : Symphony No. 2, Tragic overture, Academic festival overture	RCA Red Seal / Sony	19th century music
2019	Dogma Chamber Orchestra	Mozart / Schubert	MDG	Music up to and including the 18th century
	Düsseldorfer Symphoniker with Ádám Fischer	Mahler : Symphony No. 3 in D minor	CAvi	19th century music
	Vienna Philharmonic with Franz Welser-Möst	From One : Philadelphia Symphony	Orfeo	Music 20./21. century

Solo recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Boris Giltburg , Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Carlos Miguel Prieto	Rachmaninov : Piano Concerto No. 2 & Études-tableaux op.33	Naxos	Music 20./21. Century / piano
	Barbara Hannigan & Ludwig Orchestra	Crazy Girl Crazy	Alpha Classics / Outhere	Song of the year (oratorios / concert / song)
	Julija Michailowna Leschnewa , Michail Jurjewitsch Antonenko & Concerto Cologne	Carl Heinrich Graun : Opera Arias	Decca / Deutsche Grammophon	Song of the Year (Opera)
	George Li	Live at the Mariinsky	Warner Classics	19th century music / piano
	Olga Peretyatko , Ural Philharmonic Orchestra & Dmitry Liss	Russian Light	Sony Classical / Sony Music	Song of the Year (Opera)
	Jean Rondeau	Vertigo	Erato / Warner	Music up to and including the 18th century / harpsichord
2019	Jakub Józef Orliński	Anima Sacra - Sacred Barocque Arias	Erato / Warner	Song of the Year (Opera)
	Andrè Schuen	Schubert : Wanderer (songs)	Cavi-Music / Harmonia Mundi	Song of the year (song)
	Emmanuel Pahud	solo	Warner Classics	flute
	Víkingur Ólafsson	Johann Sebastian Bach	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	piano
	Ben van Oosten	César Franck - The organ work	MDG	organ
	Kim Kashkashian	JS Bach : Six Suites for Viola Solo (BWV 1007-1012)	ECM New Series	viola

Video clip of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2019	Long long	Beethoven : Bagatelle No. 25 in a Minor, WoO 59 “Für Elise” - Piano Book	Deutsche Grammophon / Universal	-

World premiere recording of the year

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	EntArteOpera Choir , Andreas Jankowitsch , Christa Ratzenböck , Martin Sieghart , Joachim Goltz , Marc Horus , Hans Peter Scheidegger , Israel Chamber Orchestra	Walter Braunfels : Ulenspiegel	Capriccio / Naxos	-
2019	Evelinde Trenkner & Sontraud Speidel	Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5	MDG	-

Appreciation of the life's work

year	Award winners	plant	Music label / distribution	branch
2018	Christa Ludwig	-	-	-
2019	Mariss Jansons	-	-	-

See also

• List of Echo Klassik award winners

Web links

• Web presence of the Opus Klassik