Excellent publications
This year, the German Music Publishers Association (DMV) has once again honored ten outstanding publications with the "Best Edition" music edition award - for the first time a "Wild Card" winner.
The six-member jury did not make it easy for itself when assessing the 93 entries that competed for this year's prize. For the first time, it also had the opportunity to award a so-called "wild card" for the competition to publications that it considered to be particularly successful. One of these was also directly recognized with a prize: the book Sounding water: Hydropneumatic music and sound machines in European garden art by Dr. Alexander Ditsche, published by Deutscher Kunstverlag.
After much discussion, the following editions were honored for their special editorial achievements.
Best Edition award winner 2018
Bettina Strübel (ed.)
Trimum. Interreligious songbook (choral score)
Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
Silke Leopold
Claudio Monteverdi: Biography
Joint edition by Carus-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, and Reclam, Ditzingen
vegl. Review in the Swiss Music Newspaper
Dr. med. Christian Larsen, Julia Schürer and Dana Gitta Stratil
Simply sing! Developing the voice in the choir
In cooperation with Trias-Verlag, Carus-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Gunther Martin Göttsche and Martin Weyer
Small chorale preludes and accompaniments to the hymns of the Protestant hymnal
in 7 volumes
Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel
Siebe Henstra (ed.)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suites, Partitas, Sonatas
arranged for harpsichord by Gustav Leonhardt
Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel
Mike Svoboda and Michel Roth
Trombone playing technique
Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel
Solveig Schreiter and Raffaele Viglianti
Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz
Score and Critical Report
Schott Music, Mainz
Ro Gebhardt
Jazz Alphabet
AMA-Verlag, Brühl
Bernhard Richter, Matthias Echternach, Louisa Traser, Michel Burdumy and Claudia Spahn
The voice. Insights into the physiological processes involved in singing and speaking
DVD
Helbling-Verlag, Esslingen
vegl. Review in the Swiss Music Newspaper
Alexander Ditsche
Sounding water. Hydropneumatic music and sound machines in European garden art
Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin
Members of the 2018 jury (from left)
Bert Odenthal, graphic designer, Berlin (Chair)
Susanne Funk, Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann, Berlin
Michael Struck-Schloen, music journalist, author and presenter
Jan Sören Fölster, church musician, Berlin
Mario Müller, Federal Association of Independent Music Schools, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Dörte Schmidt, Berlin University of the Arts
