10 out of 120
The "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik e.V.", an independent association of German-speaking critics, honors high-quality recordings every year.
120 titles were put forward by the overall jury, 112 of which made it onto the longlist, all of them sound recordings that had been released on the German-speaking market in the last 18 months, from all musical genres except music film, word art and children's productions. In the end, 10 titles were awarded a prize.
The 2020 annual prizes go to:
- the Institute for Computermusic and Sound Technology, Zurich, for the double CD Les Espaces Électroacoustiques II (col legno/Naxos)
- Bob Dylan for the double album Rough And Rowdy Ways (Columbia Records/Sony)
- the mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen and the pianist Jan Philip Schulze for the Lied recital Dirty Minds (Challenge Classics/Bertus)
- the actor Rufus Beck and the German Bible Society, Stuttgart, for the unabridged reading of the Bible in the Luther translation (Der Audio Verlag)
- The Düsseldorf Düsterboys for their debut album Call me music (Staatsakt/Bertus)
- the conductor Markus Poschner and all participants in the complete recording of Jacques Offenbach's opera Maître Péronilla (Bru Zane/Note 1)
- the country rock band The Jayhawks for their eleventh album XOXO (Sham Records/Membrane)
- the filmmaker Alan Elliott for the editing and release of Pollack's concert film Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Sony)
- the pianist Dina Ugorskaja, posthumously, for her recording of late piano works by Franz Schubert (CAvi Music/harmonia mundi)
- jazz pianist and composer Carla Bley and her trio colleagues for the album Life Goes On (ECM/Universal)
The jury statements can be found at:
https://www.schallplattenkritik.de/jahrespreise
