The Annual Awards 2024
The German Record Critics’ Award (PdSK) hereby announces the Annual Awards for 2024. 106 titles were proposed by the joint jury and selected for the longlist; 10 were chosen by the annual committee as awardwinners. The awards will be presented to the winners individually in the coming weeks and months. Dates and locations of the ten award ceremonies will be announced soon.
10.10.2024 – The ten Annual Awards for 2024 go to:
- Michael Spyres for »In the Shadows« (Erato/Warner)
- Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon for Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas (Vol. 1-3, CAvi/Bertus)
- Víkingur Ólafsson for Bach’s »Goldberg Variations« (Deutsche Grammophon/Universal)
- Suzi Digby and the ORA Singers for »Sanctissima« (harmonia mundi/Bertus)
- Harry Vogt and Martina Seeber for »Radio Cologne Sound« (Wolke Verlag)
- Hani Mojtahedy and Andi Toma for »Hjirok« (Altin Village & Mine/Bandcamp)
- Kronos Quartet and the Ghost Train Orchestra for »Songs and Symphoniques – The Music Of Moondog« (Cantaloupe Music/Naxos)
- The Neptune Power Federation for »Goodnight My Children« (Cruz Del Sur Music/Soulfood)
- Chan Marshall, alias Cat Power, for »Cat Power sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert» (Domino Records/Believe Digital)
- Nitai Hershkovits for »Call On The Old Wise« (ECM/Universal).
The following critics/jurors worked in the annual committee 2024 (in the photo from left to right): Ralf Dombrowski (Jury Pop), Sabrina Palm (Jury Folk and Singer/Songwriter), Carsten Niemann (Jury Early Music), Petra Rieß (Jury R&B, Soul and HipHop), Tim Caspar Boehme (Jury Club and Dance), Julia Kaiser (Jury Lieder and Vocal Recital), Kai Luehrs-Kaiser (Jury Opera I), Albrecht Thiemann (Jury Lieder and Vocal Recital) and Laura Aha (Jury Club and Dance)