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Two Dacapo releases nominated for ICMA Awards 2023

Two Dacapo releases nominated for ICMA Awards 2023

Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee and Bent Sørensen's The Island in the City have just been nominated for theInternational Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2023, both in the category Contemporary Music.

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16 November 2022

We are very happy to announce that two of this year's Dacapo releases have been nominated for the prestigious ICMA Awards 2023, awarded annually by a jury consisting of international music critics and radio stations to the best classical releases.

The Dacapo releases, Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee and Bent Sørensen's The Island in the City, are both nominated in the category Contemporary Music.

The Island in the City

The album The Island in the City was released in August and presents two new works by Bent Sørensen, recorded by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Trio con Brio Copenhagen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste: the moving triple concerto L'Isola della Città, written for Trio con Brio Copenhagen, as well as Sørensen's dramatic Second Symphony. The works on the album are clear examples of Bent Sørensen's ability to write evocative, timeless orchestral music.

Listen to the album via this link. 

Schnee

The new recording of Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra and conductor John Storgårds was released in February. The work is an instrumental cycle consisting of 10 canons mirroring each other and unfolding a multidimensional, weightless, snow-covered world. The recording has already received great praise in the international press, especially for the clear rendering of Abrahamsen's fragile, feathery universe, and was earlier this year nominated for a Gramophone Award.

Listen to the album via this link.

The finalists will be known by 12 December. The winners of the ICMA Awards will be revealed on 18 January 2023. See all the nominated albums here: https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-391-releases-for-the-2023-awards/ 

  • Hans Abrahamsen

    Schnee

  • Bent Sørensen

    The Island in the City